From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #258 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Tuesday, December 9 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 258 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Your top 10 singers ["Cassy" ] Magic night (long) [] Re: Your top 10 singers [Jerry Notaro ] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC [Dave Blackburn ] Re: Magic Night (long) ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Magic night (long) [Michael Paz ] Re: Your top 10 singers [Victor Johnson ] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC [Kate Johnson ] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC [Jerry Notaro ] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC [Kate Johnson ] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Favorite singers [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: Your top 10 singers SJC ["Mark Angelo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 00:16:41 -0800 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers This was a very hard list to compile. There are so many excellent singers and my tastes are pretty eclectic. Willy Porter - Cold Wind, Boab Tree, Joni Mitchell - Black Crow Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year Tim & Jeff Buckley (cheating a bit with father/son) - Tim: Sweet Surrender Jeff: Hallelujah Maynard James Keenan - lead singer for Tool and A Perfect Circle - Tool: The Pot, Aenema APC: Fiddle and the Drum (almost the perfect vocals), The Nurse Who Loved Me Sarah McLachlan - Into the Fire, the whole of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Martin Sexton - Oh My! You just HAVE to listen to "There Go I" from Seeds ( I will upload it for anyone interested because I feel so strongly about this song). Martin is right up at the top of my favorite singers list/ Brian Ferry - The entire Bjte Noire Disc Dave Matthews - Everything he's ever done particularly Satellite and Typical Situation Seal - I absolutely love Seal's voice - I like almost all of his vocals I had to stop at 10 because that's what you asked for but I had a bunch of honorably almost made its and could still keep going. Bonnie Raitt Madeleine Peyroux Elton John Susan Tedeschi Natalie Merchant India Arie Beth Orton John Mellencamp (who also has an excellent web site) Paula Cole we might as well add Holly Cole too Marvin Gaye Chaka Kahn Nina Simone Peter Gabriel Sade Elvis Costello Shawn Colvin Warmly, Cassy NP: Martin Sexton - There Go I - see you all got me thinking I hadn't heard this song in a while and I'm completely and hopelessly addicted to it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 00:27:41 -0800 From: Subject: Magic night (long) Hi Michael, Glad to hear you are on the mend and back on the streets of the neighborhood again! Hope you are back to 100% soon. Argh - I had been tracking the Jimmy Webb N.O. songwriters events for awhile and was wishfully hoping somehow I could make it there. I'm so glad you could go and give us such a wonderful review! It sounded just amazing. Next time, I hope! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:57:51 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers Great list, Randy. My top singers, with no order or particular song attached would be: Aretha Franklin, ESPECIALLY the Columbia sides Jimmy Scott, one of the 20th century's most overlooked geniuses Joni Mitchell, even if all she ever would have done but sing Betty Buckley, who can sing anything, but especially lead female musical theater Billie Holiday, probably the greatest of them all Judy Garland, just her name says it Maureen McGovern, who made the greatest transition from singles pop wonder to master singer Rosemary Clooney, especially her Concord Jazz sides Barbara Cook, who is still thrilling audiences with her live concerts Jeff Buckley, Oh what more there was to come. Jerry > From: Randy Remote > Reply-To: Randy Remote > Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:09:39 -0800 > To: Joni List > Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers > > Hard to limit it to 10. No order since they're all great. > > Billie Holiday-Billie's Blues > Joni Mitchell-California > Fiona Apple-On The Bound > John Lennon-Yer Blues, Girl, Remember, Woman > Stevie Wonder-For Once In My Life > Mary Hopkin-Ocean Song > Paul McCartney-Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band > Bob Dylan-Days of 49 > Greg Lake-Living Sin > Memphis Slim-Youth Wants To Know > > Also Frank Sinatra/Aretha/Ray Charles/Maryanne Price/Maria > Muldaur/Roger Daltry/Robert Plant/Mick Jagger/CSN&Y/ > Anne Wilson/Crissy Hynde/Stevie Nicks/Xtina Aguilera/Steve > Winwood!/Roy Orbison/Jimi Hendrix/Curtis Mayfield/Shelby > Lynne/The Bangles/Bill Champlin/Lydia Pense/Cab Calloway/ > Joe Cocker/Simon & Garfarkle/Johnny Cash/Dave Gilmour/ > Eagles/Emmylou Harris/Carrie Underwood/Dolly Parton/ > kd Lang/Sheryl Crow/George Harrison/Astrud or Bebel Gilberto/ > Alicia Keys/Jack White/Whitney Houston/Norah Jones/Sarah > McLaughlin/Judy Collins/Peter Rowan/Elephits Gerald/ > The Roches/Sheila Chandra/Janis Joplin!/Jon Anderson/Rickie > Lee Jones/Norton Buffalo/Boz Scaggs/Patsy Cline/Pointer Sisters... > > What they all have in common is the ability to really sell a song. > And hopefully impart some kind of humanity you can relate to. > Asked the Mrs "who are the greatest singers in the world?" & > she said "Joni Mitchell" and couldn't think of anyone else! > RR > >> singers. I won't say make it the top 10 greatest (in ability) >> -Monika ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:55:31 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC Whoo hoo....another Captain Beefheart fan! On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:00 AM, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:32:17 -0500 > From: "Blair Fraipont" > Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC > > In no particular hierarchy: > > 1. Tabu Ley Rochereau - Christine > 2. Esma Redzepova - Nakelavishe > 3. Saban Bajramovic - Sandala > 4. Aretha Franklin - Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool for your love) > 5. Keith Richards - Little T&A > 6. David Bowie - Teenage Wildlife, Ashes to Ashes > 7. Joni Mitchell - the frailty of *Blue*; the reassured *Court & > Spark*; the > husky and stinging *Turbulent Indigo *(though "how do you stop the > ripening > corn" always makes me laugh); the *Mingus* era - it was the balance > between > the higher register and the encroaching lower 'smokiness' singing > jazz that > turned me on so much. > 8. Little Richard - Slippin' and Slidin' > 9. Frank Zappa - the *Sheik Yerbouti *era where he recorded his > vocals so > seemingly close to the microphone. > 10. Nina Simone - Anything. (Except when she sang in French.) > 11. Bryan Ferry - *Avalon, Taxi, As Time Goes By > *12. Lotte Lenya - September Song > 13. Laura Nyro - *New York Tendaberry *- She sounds like a wailing > cat! > 14. Curtis Mayfield - Only You Babe, I'm So Proud > 15. Caetano Veloso - *Bicho* - especially O Lecozinho. Araga Azul > 16. Captain Beefheart - Anything & Everything. > 17. Bob Dylan - 1st: *Nashville Skyline. *2nd: *Slow Train Coming > *to *Down > in the Groove era. 3. *The Man in Me. > 18. Wilson Pickett - I Found a True Love. > 19. Stephin Merritt - California Girls, Love is like a bottle of Gin > 20. Al Green - *Call Me* > > Blair ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:36:00 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Magic Night (long) Awesome! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:01:35 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Magic night (long) Hi Kakki That would have been fun to have you there. I heard Roger McGuinn played in L.A. over the weekend. Paz Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:27 AM, wrote: Hi Michael, Glad to hear you are on the mend and back on the streets of the neighborhood again! Hope you are back to 100% soon. Argh - I had been tracking the Jimmy Webb N.O. songwriters events for awhile and was wishfully hoping somehow I could make it there. I'm so glad you could go and give us such a wonderful review! It sounded just amazing. Next time, I hope! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:03:23 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers Top 10 singers (in no particular order) 1. Joni Mitchell Amelia 2. Stevie Wonder Superwoman(Where Were You When I Needed You) 3. Van Morrison Beside You 4. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah 5. Geddy Lee The Camera Eye 6. David Sylvian Orpheus 7. Neil Young After the Gold Rush 8. Tom Waits On the Nickel 9. Johnny Hartman Lush Life 10. Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife On Dec 7, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Monika Bogdanowicz wrote: > Well RS made their own list of the 100 greatest singers which we > discussed a > bit here. I want to give you a chance to make your own list of top 10 > singers. I won't say make it the top 10 greatest (in ability) or > top 10 > favorite (as there can be a difference) just the top 10. Interpret > it as you > wish. Make the list as you wish. You don't have to put them in > order if you > can't. I am just curious of your opinion. > Also, to justify your choice, pick a song in which that singer > displays a > spectacular vocal performance and you can even say what about him or > her puts > them on your list (if you want). For example, if I picked Joni > Mitchell > (which I would for a top 10), I would pick perhaps "River" (just off > the top > of my head here) because she exudes such passion, pain, and sadness > in her > voice that you yourself can feel it. > -Monika ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:27:19 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC I'm surprised no one has listed Eva Cassidy. That gal had a voice and a delivery that rocks my world every time I listen to her sing. I don't have more than one or two of her albums, and don't recall her covering one of Joni's tunes, but she must have. I bet it was dynamite. Kate of the North, in a balmy 17C below this morning 'course, that's in the white world outside my office windows in here it's fire-toasty Stubblejumpers Cafi http://stubblejumperscafe.pnn.com/6853-the-front-page ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:52:01 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC She was my number 11 :) Jerry > From: Kate Johnson > Reply-To: Kate Johnson > Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:27:19 -0600 > To: Dave Blackburn > Cc: Joni List > Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC > > I'm surprised no one has listed Eva Cassidy. > That gal had a voice and a delivery that rocks my world every time I > listen to her sing. > I don't have more than one or two of her albums, and don't recall her > covering one of Joni's tunes, but she must have. > I bet it was dynamite. > > Kate of the North, > in a balmy 17C below this morning > 'course, that's in the white world outside my office windows > in here it's fire-toasty > > Stubblejumpers Cafi > http://stubblejumperscafe.pnn.com/6853-the-front-page ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:06:19 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC Mustabin posted before I started reading carefully. :) Kate On 8-Dec-08, at 10:52 AM, Jerry Notaro wrote: She was my number 11 :) Jerry > From: Kate Johnson > > > I'm surprised no one has listed Eva Cassidy. Stubblejumpers Cafi http://stubblejumperscafe.pnn.com/6853-the-front-page ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:02:36 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Your top 10 singers SJC Woodstock - and yes, like every song she wrapped that voice around, it is killer. Bob NP: Elvis Costello, "The World & His Wife" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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Some other favorites of mine that I haven't seen mentioned: Sarah Vaughan Dinah Washington Al Jarreau - before they tried to make him the Johnny Mathis of the 80's Robert Smith of The Cure - I guess you either love him or hate him and I have always loved his voice Jack White of The White Stripes & The Raconteurs - sings like he plays, with total reckless emotional abandon Stan Ridgway - the perfect voice for his quirky story-telling songs Bob NP: The Rolling Stones, "Hold On To Your Hat" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. 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I want to give you a chance to make your own list of top 10 > singers. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #258 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe