Best male vocalist?

Freddie

Nat King Cole

Bieber

Luther Vandross

Carl Wilson

Melissa Ethridge.

LIST SO WHITE.

Luther slays all of em

Ludacris

Ben Platt

I still don't see what was so good about Sinatra. I'm old, but never saw what people used to say that he was a master of phrasing. To me, he had a mediocre voice, but was popular because people were afraid of saying anything bad about him. The Trump of singers.

Joey Lawrence.

Katie Lang

Roy Orbison

Patrick Fiori

Kenny Loggins

James Ingram

Jeff Buckley

Pierce Brosnan

Josh Groban, Bieber, Chris Brown, and any number of other male pop singers. None of the listed were that special. Frank's eyes were his lucky charm. He was so pretty in his prime.

Johnny Mathis

Among those, Tony Bennett by a mile. Sinatra was a celebrity but never really a great singer.

Where's Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Peabo Bryson and Luther Vandross on your list OP?

nat king cole, the leader singer of "the platters", david gates, art garfunkel, steve perry, countless great singers out there from the decades....

Brian Connolly

Jordy

Johnny Mathis

Luciano Pavarotti

Fuck you OP and this cookie cutter white washed list.

Elvis Presley

Ben Platt

Tough one. Probably Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops for me.

Prince who is probably my favorite artist could not sing better than Michael Jackson. He among many is a glaring omission from this list.

Freddie Mercury, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Don Henley, Elton John????

George Michael.

Al Jolson, OP? I know we’re all old here, but damn.

Sinatra

Bobby Hatfield (Righteous Brothers/Unchained Melody guy)

What an odd assortment. But since you have several jazz/standard singers listed, you should add Nat King Cole, Bobby Darrin and the Velvet Fog, Mel Torme.

Luis Miguel!!!!

Judy Garland is basically doing Al Jolson, al Jolson

Steve Perry

Paul McCartney

Perry Como

Johnny Mathis

Denny Doherty (The Mamas and the Papas)

Morten Harket (A-ha)

Nat King Cole. Paul Robeson.

George Michael belongs on here before Prince and Clay fucking Aiken!

Another White to add to your list OP. Barry White

Gino Vanelli, Clint Holmes, Donny Hathaway, Tom Jones, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Rick Astley...

Is Freddie mercury considered white?

Bing Crosby

Little Jimmy Scott

Luther Vandross

Josh Groban

Gary Puckett

Clay Aiken? Da fuq???

Brian McKnight is crazy good.

Josh Groban.

Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Where the fuck is Freddie?

I like Chris Isaak.

Lionel Richie, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Freddie Mercury, and Michael Crawford. Don McLean, Donovan, Michael Jackson. Engelbert Humperdinck. Sammy Davis Jr. Elvis Presley.

Frank Stallone.

and Dean Martin. How could I forget him?

What R22 said. Even Sinatra said Bennett was the best. He was certainly the most consistent.

Sinatra lost his voice from about 1950-1953 or so, then again in the late 60's, then retired in '71, unfortunately came back 2 years later and had a hit with "My Way" in 1980. He was toast by 1984 or so, but his name kept bringing in the suckers until 1990 or so.

Meanwhile, during all those decades, Tony Bennett kept his voice -- until about 5-10 years ago or so.

Sinatra could NEVER sing like this...

Ye..

Bennett, especially original “Fly Me To the Moon” & “San Francisco”.

Mathis -anything/everything

Mario Lanza.

Luther Vandros for the win.

Luciano Pavarotti, Sinatra, Antonio Benedetto.

William Hung

[quote] Even Sinatra said Bennett was the best.

Sinatra said Jack Jones was the best.

Donny Hathaway, for sure.

George Michael

Ronnie Dyson

Sinatra said Barry was next, so there!

Matt Monro.

"Born Free . . ."

The song of course got the Oscar but his singing did the winning.

We sang Born Free in so many chorus concerts when I was a boy.

R31, I love Levi Stubbs

Where's Stevie and Marvin?

Another vote for both Nat King Cole and Sam Cooke. Absolute masters of phrasing and interpretation as well.

Something about the vocalizations of the very best of the best: They just get burned into your memory, forever.

"Strangers in the night . . ."

"Smile, though your heart is aching . . ."

"Hello-o-o Dolly . . ."

Jackie Wilson was incredible

Robert Goulet

Sam Cooke, Roy Orbison and George Michael in his earlier years before heavy smoking messed up his voice

I'm not a country fan but have always loved the voice of Johnny Cash.

Michael Buble is popular and he does quite well on tours. I think Groban is technically the best, but Buble has the style that made the Rat Pack popular.

Sinatra hands down.

Josh Groban is disgusting. I didn’t know men listened to him even gay ones.

I don’t feel you’re an amazing vocalist if only a small audience can tolerate you.

R79, whether you like him or not, he's sold a lot of albums.

Why isn’t Freddie Mercury or Brendon Urie on this list?

Smooth as silk -

Mike Patton

I like Peabo Bryson

Is Kenny Loggins too frau?! Because I really like his 70s/early 80s stuff.

I loathe Tony Bennett. Ugh. Unlistenable.

Raul Malo

Josh Groban. He sings like an angel.

Link to prove he sings like an angel. ^^

Elvis and Dino had the kind of silvery voices that just glided out of their mouths all smooth and honeyed and seductive. BION, Clay had this vocal ease in his 2003 prime.

Freddie, Steve Perry, and Adam Lambert had/have the kind of big-range powerful voices that easily soar from soft to bombastic.

Pavarotti had the full-lung profound voice that gave incredible depth to any note.

Frankie Valli, Smokey, David Ruffin, and Bobby Hatfield had/have the impossible sweet high notes that thrill in their androgyny.

And the great Levi Stubbs had the soul.

Chris Cornell

Steve "Fist Me" Grande. Voice for the ages.

Bobby Rydell

If we can talk opera then we have to talk Ezio Pinza.

OP, did you vote for Dewey or Truman?

R95 Can we admit it? To most of the older crowd here, those names from the past 20 years draw a blank.

Brendon Urie

I would say to the older crowd names from the last 80 years would draw a blank. Dementia.

Oh, r98, you ARE clever! We centenarians like clever.

Like buttah...

R100, Julius La Rosa was mediocre even BEFORE I fired him!