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Thread started 04/03/05 11:25am

ccollin88

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who sings a better falsetto?

Prince or smokey robinson?
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Reply #1 posted 04/03/05 11:29am

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How about AL Green, man i love his voice..that would be harder to pick

my answer =Prince!
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Reply #2 posted 04/03/05 11:41am

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eddie kendricks of the temptations was pretty good too
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Reply #3 posted 04/03/05 12:07pm

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ThaCat said:

How about AL Green, man i love his voice..that would be harder to pick

my answer =Prince!



that's true...al is the best all time
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Reply #4 posted 04/03/05 12:26pm

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Prince.
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Reply #5 posted 04/03/05 12:26pm

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Curtis.
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Reply #6 posted 04/03/05 1:00pm

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minneapolisgenius said:

Curtis.

Along with...

Ronald Isley
William Hart - The Delfonics
Russell Thompkins - The Sylistics
Ted Mills - Blue Magic

...among others not coming to mind at the moment.


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Reply #7 posted 04/03/05 1:13pm

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theAudience said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Curtis.

Along with...

Ronald Isley
William Hart - The Delfonics
Russell Thompkins - The Sylistics
Ted Mills - Blue Magic

...among others not coming to mind at the moment.


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Hey, I'm watching Jimi at Woodstock right now. I thought of you. biggrin



And now returning to your regularly scheduled better falsetto thread....
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Reply #8 posted 04/03/05 1:34pm

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minneapolisgenius said:

Hey, I'm watching Jimi at Woodstock right now. I thought of you. biggrin

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And now returning to your regularly scheduled better falsetto thread....again!

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Reply #9 posted 04/03/05 1:38pm

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Smokey.

He doesn't have to strain like Prince.

And it's a rolling warble, not a screech.

As he ages, that voice hasn't changed a bit. He still sings like a bird.
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Reply #10 posted 04/03/05 2:23pm

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Prince's falsetto is better than Smokey's but Philip Bailey could give Prince a run for his money.
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Reply #11 posted 04/03/05 4:17pm

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Mariah Carey nod nod
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Reply #12 posted 04/03/05 4:21pm

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I do. smile
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Reply #13 posted 04/03/05 5:01pm

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vainandy said:

Prince's falsetto is better than Smokey's



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Prince's sounds much more strained than Smokey's. I think Smokey's sounds so natural and so smooth. Even though he's almost 30 years older than Prince, I still think he's falsetto sounds smoother.

Prince has more vocal range overall, but Smokey kills him on that falsetto.

Smokey has the 2nd best falsetto of all-time. Number one: Ron muthafuckin' Isley. Like Smokey, the man is old as dirt, and still manages to let that thing just pour out so silky smooth. The voice has been untouched by age.

And number 3 is Curtis Mayfield. I was watching a Curtis concert on VH-1 Classic, recently. I believe it was from sometime in the late 80s before he became paralyzed. Amazing how effortlessly he sang.

Prince is farther down, but still in the top 10 somewhere.

Mick Jagger's falsetto is very slept on. "Fool to Cry" and "Worried About You"? Shit, he tore it up.

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Reply #14 posted 04/03/05 9:25pm

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Wayne Cooper from Cameo was a bad boy too. I think he could have given Prince a run for his money.

Maxwell is not another one
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Reply #15 posted 04/03/05 9:34pm

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Also El Deabrge is and extremely underated vocalist with an almost natural un forced falsetto. Other than El, Maxwell, and the late Wayne Cooper NOBODY in my opinion can touch Prince's falsetto
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Reply #16 posted 04/03/05 10:05pm

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"Get Down" Billy Brown of Ray Goodman and Brown (aka the Moments) still has the best damn falsetto out there...even at 50-sumthin, he still sounds like silk on "Love on a Two Way Street" and Sunday, take a listen to How Can Love So Right Be So Wrong, or My Prayer...Russell Thompkins was the man back in the day, but he can barely register those notes now...Harold "Eban" Brown, his replacement in the Stylistics, can hit all of Thompkins notes on cue...Phillip Bailey USED to have a great falsetto, but that shit sounds like a dirty cat at a VD clinic now...he should stop trying cuz it's like watching an overweight gymnast on the balance beams
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Reply #17 posted 04/03/05 11:09pm

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D'Angelo's falsetto is cool - O'Bryan's too. Also, Bobby Debarge from Switch.
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theAudience said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Hey, I'm watching Jimi at Woodstock right now. I thought of you. biggrin

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"You can leave if you want, we're just jamming, that's all."

headbang


And now returning to your regularly scheduled better falsetto thread....again!

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Reply #19 posted 04/04/05 5:33am

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vainandy said:

Prince's falsetto is better than Smokey's but Philip Bailey could give Prince a run for his money.

you took the words right out of my mouth...
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Reply #20 posted 04/04/05 7:19am

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Smokey, for sure. Smokey has my favorite male voice, ever.

And he's so sexy with his light eyes.... siiiiigh horny
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Reply #21 posted 04/04/05 8:12am

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daingermouz2020 said:

Wayne Cooper from Cameo was a bad boy too. I think he could have given Prince a run for his money.

Maxwell is not another one

woot! Man, I love his voice on Shake Your Pants, when he's singing, "feel it..." and then takes it to church, right when the horns come blaring in.

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Reply #22 posted 04/04/05 4:28pm

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daingermouz2020 said:

Also El Deabrge is and extremely underated vocalist with an almost natural un forced falsetto. Other than El, Maxwell, and the late Wayne Cooper NOBODY in my opinion can touch Prince's falsetto



You are right about El. There are some points in All This Love and Time Will Reveal that I won't even try to hit when I'm alone in the shower -- too high for anyone but El.
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Reply #23 posted 04/04/05 6:34pm

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meltwithu said:

"Get Down" Billy Brown of Ray Goodman and Brown (aka the Moments) still has the best damn falsetto out there...even at 50-sumthin, he still sounds like silk on "Love on a Two Way Street" and Sunday, take a listen to How Can Love So Right Be So Wrong, or My Prayer...Russell Thompkins was the man back in the day, but he can barely register those notes now...Harold "Eban" Brown, his replacement in the Stylistics, can hit all of Thompkins notes on cue...Phillip Bailey USED to have a great falsetto, but that shit sounds like a dirty cat at a VD clinic now...he should stop trying cuz it's like watching an overweight gymnast on the balance beams
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Actually, that was Mr. Harry Ray singing falsetto with Ray, Goodman & Brown. He passed away a few years ago after a stroke. You are spot on with everything you said. nod
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Reply #24 posted 04/04/05 9:06pm

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TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

meltwithu said:

"Get Down" Billy Brown of Ray Goodman and Brown (aka the Moments) still has the best damn falsetto out there...even at 50-sumthin, he still sounds like silk on "Love on a Two Way Street" and Sunday, take a listen to How Can Love So Right Be So Wrong, or My Prayer...Russell Thompkins was the man back in the day, but he can barely register those notes now...Harold "Eban" Brown, his replacement in the Stylistics, can hit all of Thompkins notes on cue...Phillip Bailey USED to have a great falsetto, but that shit sounds like a dirty cat at a VD clinic now...he should stop trying cuz it's like watching an overweight gymnast on the balance beams
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Actually, that was Mr. Harry Ray singing falsetto with Ray, Goodman & Brown. He passed away a few years ago after a stroke. You are spot on with everything you said. nod


i'm pretty sure that was Brown on love on a two way street and sunday, might have been harry ray on the late RGB cuts, but i 've seen them in concert twice in the last 2 years with Brown singing the lead and he has been fabulous
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Reply #25 posted 04/04/05 9:24pm

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JACKAL said

Prince has more vocal range overall, but Smokey kills him on that falsetto.


I know this is a Prince website and believe me, I'm far from one to be biased towards Prince, but when it comes to falsettos, Prince's is my favorite. It's hard to explain but Prince's falsetto just has a certain sassiness about it that no one else can match except maybe Ebonee Webb. I haven't seen anyone else that can scream like Prince either.
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Reply #26 posted 04/04/05 9:27pm

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Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #27 posted 04/04/05 9:31pm

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[quote]Adisa said:[quote]

daingermouz2020 said:

Wayne Cooper from Cameo was a bad boy too. I think he could have given Prince a run for his money.

Man, I love his voice on Shake Your Pants, when he's singing, "feel it..."


Wayne Cooper was another great one. When I first bought "Cameosis", I kept looking for a woman in the middle of all those men. Wayne could turn it out.
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Reply #28 posted 04/04/05 9:45pm

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vainandy said:[quote][quote]

Adisa said:

daingermouz2020 said:

Wayne Cooper from Cameo was a bad boy too. I think he could have given Prince a run for his money.

Man, I love his voice on Shake Your Pants, when he's singing, "feel it..."


Wayne Cooper was another great one. When I first bought "Cameosis", I kept looking for a woman in the middle of all those men. Wayne could turn it out.

nod You can deny that fact especially when you hear cuts like Sparkle.
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Reply #29 posted 04/05/05 4:58am

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I love Prince's falsetto, even if sometimes he forces too much on it...
I think his falsetto sounds better on slow jam, but sucks on up tempo beat...

This is why I hate so much songs like I wanna be your lover or his early songs... He forces too much...

On slow jams instead (like Crazy you) he sounds great, like a female sometimes, I love it...
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