Your top crooners

[anotheoldgit]

The top ten crooners past & present according to the Virgin Web Page are:

Ronan Keating
Frank Sinatra
Robbie Williams
Sammy Davis Jr.
Will Young
Barry Manilow
Seal
Frankie Valli
Dean Martin
Jamie Lidell

Do you agree? I think that Bing Crosby the original crooner should have had a place. Also some of these:

Andy Williams
Matt Monroe
Perry como
Vic Damone
Mel Torme
Harry Connick Jr.

[THAIBUS]

Rod Stewart
Cliff Richard
Matt Monro
Frank Sinatra
Peter Grant

[VHG]

Well if you read the web site below about what a crooner actualy IS then there are a few that should not even BE on that list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooner

Not sure how Ronan Keating got to the top, unless yet again the only people who voted were under 25.

For me it has to be either Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby.

Dean Martin was real crooner, as that was all he seemed to be able to do (at least Frank and Bing could vary their styles)

Matt Monro was a great crooner, and Andy Wlliams.

I am afraid I would not include Rod Stewart on any list of crooners.

Robbie Wiliams did a wonderful job on his album of oldies, he really sounded as though he had been singing like that for years. He should do another one.

[wallacia]

my favourite was nat king cole,the most natural voice ever

[VHG]

One person not mentioned so far is Bobby Darin who was a wonderful crooner / easy listening singer.

He did turn his hand to other styles (pop, folk etc) but he could croon and swing almost as good as Frank Sinatra.

Watch these two performances

Mack the Knife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qrjtr_uFac

Beyond the Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQvQm-K5cT8

And listen to him sing "A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square" one of my favorite songs by him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQP3l-i3MPg

[wallacia]

VHG,superb,you are right Bobby Darrin was a star.

[VHG]

If you listen to Bobby Darin singing "Berkely" above you could almost think it was Frank Sinatra if you did not know who it was.

See also his moving version of "Come rain or come shine" below. Sends tingles down your spine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRuvIvuPOME

And here listen to Bobby Darin doing "Fly me to the moon" as a really slow pleading ballad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDw2edBKeK0

[weecalf]

Dessie O Connor

[VHG]

Sorry about this, but found another great performance from Bobby Darin of a song that is not that well known.

The song is "The other half of me" a fine ballad from the musicall "I had a ball".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKFGJnmFduk&fea ture=PlayList&p=6CFCADABBEBF2914&playnext=1&pl aynext_from=PL&index=81

Bit about musical here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Had_a_Ball

[anotheoldgit]

What great interesting answers, I was sorry to see no one mentioned Frankie Laine or Guy Mitchell, two of my favourites.

All though both continued to have songs in the top ten list for week after week, they don't seem to be very popular.

Guy Mitchell died rather young, but Frankie Laine was still going strong in his eighties. When he died the other year in his nineties, he hardly got a mention in the media.

Incidentally Frankie did much for charity, and he was instrumental in making black artists acceptable to white audiences.

[no-knowledge]

by crooner do you mean a singer that is likely to put you into a coma?

[Tweed]

What? No Tony Bennett on the list.

Ronan Keeting??? He shouldn't be there

[zzxxee]

my nan used to love matt monroe all together now BORRRRRRRRRN FREEEEEEEEE AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOOOOWS

[tamborine]

wot about our own Engelbert Humperdink - aka George Dorsey from London via Madras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROkFbJVp_vQ&fea ture=related

[tamborine]

no compitition no.k - your jealous 'cause these men really know how to woo women ;o)

[lunarcaravan]

1. matt monro.
2. andy williams.
3. gene pitney.
4. dean martin.
5. nat king cole.
6. lou rawls
7.frank sinatra.
8. sammy davis jnr.
9. johnnie ray.
10. joe dolan.

[anotheoldgit]

lunarcaravan Good list, but I don't remember lou rawls or joe dolan. am I missing out?



1. matt monro.
2. andy williams.
3. gene pitney.
4. dean martin.
5. nat king cole.
6. lou rawls
7.frank sinatra.
8. sammy davis jnr.
9. johnnie ray.
10. joe dolan.

[anotheoldgit]

lunarcaravan Good list, but I don't remember lou rawls or joe dolan. am I missing out?