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goreds2
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| dbarth wrote: | Right on, Thomps!  |
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teflonsteve
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| New Country doesn't have any "unique voices" like the older stuff did. It all seems to be borderline pop music these days. |
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XM in Dallas
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| Thomps2525 wrote: | I'm going to play devil's advocate here. (It's fun---you should try it sometime!)
In the 1950s-60s, most country artists had very distinctive individual styles: Johnny Cash, Webb Pierce, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold, Kitty Wells, Marty Robbins, Sonny James, Jim Reeves, Bill Anderson, Loretta Lynn, et al.
In the 1990s we had Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Mark Chesnutt, Doug Stone, Lee Roy Parnell, Clay Walker, Sammy Kershaw, Tracy Byrd, Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, Ty Herndon, John Michael Montgomery...and I could seldom tell one from another! They all sounded similar. In other words, I don't agree that the '90s was the best decade for country music. Thank you and good night. |
Did you omit George Strait and Garth Brooks on purpose? Also, you seem to be focused on a lot of less-popular artists, other than Chesney, McGraw, and Montgomery, all of whom I can recognize immediately.
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greg_m
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Thomps2525 wrote: | | In the 1990s we had Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Mark Chesnutt, Doug Stone, Lee Roy Parnell, Clay Walker, Sammy Kershaw, Tracy Byrd, Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, Ty Herndon, John Michael Montgomery...and I could seldom tell one from another! |
In the 60s we had Wayne Newton and Peggy Lee and I could seldom tell one from the other! |
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AZjoe
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| greg_m wrote: | | Thomps2525 wrote: | | In the 1990s we had Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Mark Chesnutt, Doug Stone, Lee Roy Parnell, Clay Walker, Sammy Kershaw, Tracy Byrd, Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, Ty Herndon, John Michael Montgomery...and I could seldom tell one from another! |
In the 60s we had Wayne Newton and Peggy Lee and I could seldom tell one from the other! |
Peggy Lee had a bit deeper voice! 
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Richie
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| AZjoe wrote: | | greg_m wrote: |
In the 60s we had Wayne Newton and Peggy Lee and I could seldom tell one from the other! |
Peggy Lee had a bit deeper voice! |
AZJoe is correct. It was Margaret Whiting, not Miss Peggy Lee, who Wayne sounded like. In fact, back in the '60s, I heard a DJ demonstrate this by playing a Magaret Whiting record right after a Wayne Newton record. There was absolutely no difference in the voices.
I have also learned that Margaret Whiting was Thomps' favorite distaff singer until Lady Gaga came along!
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Thomps2525
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Actually, I've always been partial to Alma Gluck, Ruth Etting and Connee Boswell.
And yes, Mister Dallas, I omitted Garth Brooks and George Strait. They each have a distinctive voice that I can distinguish from the voices of the other '90s male artists.
If Wayne Newton sounded like Margaret Whiting, then what do we say about Neil Sedaka's Laughter In The Rain? The first time my sister heard the song, she told me she liked it but didn't get the name of the singer; she said it was by "some girl." (Her name withheld to avoid embarrassing her. What a nice brother I am!) |
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