When I was going to school, I used to walk to the library every week and read Billboard. I also listened to Top 40 all the time and watched MTV, so I knew what was popular by how often it got played. There was also the Casey Kasem Top 10 show on TV. There was another chart magazine called Cashbox, but it is not in business anymore. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Yes! She refused to water-down her voice to sound less threatening to Pop audiences. She kept the "church" on all of her albums. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates | |
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i used to love casey kasem, it's a bitch what they did with his corpse itn's it? | |
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What did "they" do? "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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the family and the wife fought over it: http://www.latimes.com/en...story.html | |
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Elvis Presley #SOCIETYDEFINESU | |
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MickyDolenz said: It's a bad joke to mention Lil Wayne and Nicki Minage in the same paragraph with Aretha Franklin #SOCIETYDEFINESU | |
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Seems the only way to find a comparison is by comparing sections, when you look at her in her totality there's no comparison. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
This moment is all there is... | |
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No comparison really but I would say James Brown | |
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alphastreet said: No comparison really but I would say James Brown As a musical innovator, I would agree with James Brown. As for greatness and versatility as vocalist, I would say Elvis Presley, and perhaps Ray Charles. #SOCIETYDEFINESU | |
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Marvin Gaye | |
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I think you are right! "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Smokey? FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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As far as being a pure vocalist goes, I don't see how anyone other than Marvin is the answer. Aretha was an incomparable figure but for the sake of this topic, Marvin is my answer. | |
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probably the best answer honestly. | |
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James Brown | |
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