Top Lounge Crooners

Who is your favorite? You may name Engelbert Humperdinck, Bobby Darrin, Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Solomon Burke, Barry Manilow, etc. (I really hate some of those.)

Burt Bacharach

frankie, bobby, deano. are all ok by me. now what the heck does rod stewart think he is doing in his amerian songbook series. absolute tosh. of course a big seller for mothers' day. for me he just can't carry those songs.

Does David Gahan count?

cant beat a bit of Les Dawson

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Who is your favorite? You may name Engelbert Humperdinck, Bobby Darrin, Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Solomon Burke, Barry Manilow, etc. (I really hate some of those.)

That's a good list.

For me to poop on!!!

Digital Mike wrote: Burt Bacharach

i don't believe he ever sang, just wrote great tunes for others.

bobby darin, without a doubt. 'beyond the sea' is one of my favourite songs of all time.

although i don't want to be sleeping with the fishes in the hudson for not saying the chairman of the board, so he's a close second.

The Chairman of the Board was a wanker.

Ohh, look at the pretty fishes.

:D

Richard Cheese. His lounge against the machine album is pure class :)

Ronald Kirsch wrote: frankie, bobby, deano. are all ok by me. now what the heck does rod stewart think he is doing in his amerian songbook series. absolute tosh. of course a big seller for mothers' day. for me he just can't carry those songs.

What do you think of Bryan Ferry's As Time Goes By?

BRYAN FERRY

Oh and Charles Asnavour

Ian Mcculloch and Deano for me

duroc wrote: Richard Cheese. His lounge against the machine album is pure class :)

Thank you for reminding me of him, our local radio station doesn't play his tunes anymore, and I couldn't remember his name.

Dean Martin for me.

in 'dressed to kill,' eddie izzard does a great bit about how englebert humperdinck got his name. has me in tears every time i watch it (and not only because of that part).

Bobby Darrin. Definitely.

BLUE VELVET was a great single,and all crooners are dead.

actually there was this mad swiss man we used to know here who claimed he went to boarding school with englebert humperdinck; before he was famous obviously.

*BLUE VELVET was a great single,and all crooners are dead.*the present belong to the digital music and the future will be a perfect disaster

Always been a fan of Darin, who I think is tragically forgotten by the passing tastes (though Michael Bubble or whatever his name is should send the Darins every check he gets, because he's reaming poor Bobby's style for all it's worth). I've warmed up to Sinatra through hearing some of his songs that aren't "My Way"

Taboo # 7 wrote: I've warmed up to Sinatra through hearing some of his songs that aren't "My Way"

Yeah, the likes of "What Now My Love", "Somethin' Stupid", "It Was A Good Year"...

Ronald Kirsch wrote: frankie, bobby, deano. are all ok by me. now what the heck does rod stewart think he is doing in his amerian songbook series. absolute tosh. of course a big seller for mothers' day. for me he just can't carry those songs.

Ronald, yes! I cringed when my mother asked for them (there's THREE of them, mind), and then when I got curious as to what he sounded on them... I wished he'd contract a permanent case of voicelessness. Grating on the ears.

I have unending love of the Rat Pack and of Bobby Darin. Richard Cheese is pretty hilarious, and anyone else who can belt out standards without sounding utterly stupid gets my hat off to them.

Frank Sinatra - The voice, definitely

1. Bobby Darin

2. Dean Martin

3. Frank Sinatra

I'm surprised so many people appreciated Bobby Darrin of whom I know nothing but one song Beyond The Sea...

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there's guy on local radio who has an amazing old lp collection who just loves to play Bobby, but i'll be buggered if i remember all those song titles.

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You've never heard Mack the Knife?

Shocking!

Oh, forgot about the suave, debonair Tony Clifton!!!!!

Dan Delgado wrote:

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: I'm surprised so many people appreciated Bobby Darrin of whom I know nothing but one song Beyond The Sea...

You've never heard Mack the Knife?

Shocking!

makie messer. i believe it comes from berthold brecht's dreigroschen oper, or in in english the three penny opera.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

Dan Delgado wrote:

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: I'm surprised so many people appreciated Bobby Darrin of whom I know nothing but one song Beyond The Sea...

You've never heard Mack the Knife?

Shocking!

makie messer. i believe it comes from berthold brecht's dreigroschen oper, or in in english the three penny opera.

You're right