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PrintableMickyDolenz said:
Jackie Wilson, Sammy Davis Jr., Sam Cooke, Johnny Mathis, Paul Robeson, Jerry Butler, Wilson Pickett, Little Richard, James Brown, Korla Pandit, Otis Redding, & Marvin Gaye were around before all 3 of them. Screamin' Jay Hawkins was doing in the 1950s what Alice Cooper became famous for in the 1970s. i was talking about Mr Pendergrass in terms of immediately and chronologically before Prince, in the mid to late 70s... i wasnt going back to slavery, bro... but thanks for the history... im fully aware of all them cats | |
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Even going by the same time period, there was Al Green, Bobby Womack, George Benson, Isaac "Black Moses" Hayes, Tyrone Davis, Donny Hathaway, & Barry White. 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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dude, youre entirely missing the point...none of those people except maybe Al Creen, were as big internationally as Teddy Pendergrass aka Black Elvis .. but go ahead and just throw out names im cool | |
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So many omissions and PRINCE at 53? Its like the person compiling this forgot about him and then said "Oh Prince", but even with some of the latter day people how do you miss Chris Cornell who easily is the best male rock vocalist of the 90's and 00's all the way till his death this guy could sing the shit out of any genre. So lists are always nonsense. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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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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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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Barry White made beautiful and great music, but he was not as great a SINGER as Teddy Pendergrass...most of the credit for Barry White's music goes to his songwriting,and the amazing Love Unlimited Orchestra, and rightfully so | |
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to prove that point, his wife and her sister led Love Unlimited on songs that didnt miss a step without Barry's voice... a live Teddy Pendergrass show would blow away a Barry White show, on any stage any where... Barry White was a great songwriter/musician...Teddy Pendergrass was a great singer/performer | |
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RJOrion said:
dude, youre entirely missing the point...none of those people except maybe Al Creen, were as big internationally as Teddy Pendergrass aka Black Elvis .. but go ahead and just throw out names im cool Loool! What a response | |
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