In its current issue Rolling Stone magazine has published a list ranking the 100 Best Singers of All Time, based on a survey of 179 musicians, producers, Rolling Stone editors, and other music-industry insiders. Voters included Metallica frontman James Hetfield, folk singers David Crosby and Yusuf Islam, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, punk rock veteran Iggy Pop and English pop star James Blunt. They each submitted their top 20 choices, and an accounting firm tabulated the results.
Although the list is billed as a ranking of the greatest of all time and it does include singers from a wide range of genres-- R&B is well represented and there are a few country artists-- it is more representative of singers that recorded during the rock era (since 1955) since traditional pop crooners like Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Bing Crosby are no where to be found.
There are two Canadians on the list—Neil Young at # 37 and Joni Mitchell at #42.
The Top 10 were:
1 Aretha Franklin
2 Ray Charles
3 Elvis Presley
4 Sam Cooke
5 John Lennon .
6 Marvin Gaye
7 Bob Dylan
8 Otis Redding,
9 Stevie Wonder
10 James Brown
Among the vocalists that appear (IMHO) to have been under-valued and deserving of higher rankings are:
Mick Jagger (#16), Tina Turner (#17), Smokey Robinson (#20), Prince(#30),Bruce Springsteen (#36), Elton John (#38), Chuck Berry (#41), Patsy Cline (#46), Jim Morrison (#47), Buddy Holly (#48), Donny Hathaway (#49), Bonnie Raitt (#50), Gladys Knight (#52), Luther Vandross (#54), Rod Stewart (#59), John Fogerty (#72), James Taylor (#74), Frankie Valli (#80), Annie Lennox (#93) and Karen Carpenter (#94), 95 Patti Labelle (#95), Joe Cocker (#97) and Mary J Blige (#100)
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