:lol: Inspired by the Nana Mouskouri thread!
I love easy listening, really... I do.

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getoff!

:o you are, sir, obviously joking!!!

I'd have gone for a bit of James Last, me, if only for his version of 'Silver Machine'. But failing that, some bachelor pad music from Esquivel.

Esquivel is amazing, but I'm leaving him and Last to my "Easy Band Leaders" poll :)

I'm very relieved to see this isn't a poll about the Eagles

I saw her first!

Perry Como grew up not having a lot of money and he became a barber. Singing was always a sideline for him until he was making so much money he put away the clippers for good. Do you know, he paid his annual dues to the Barbers Union until the union folded not too long before he passed away.
He liked being a union barber but was happy to make tons of money singing in that effortless manner of his but never forgot what it was like to have almost none of the green. By all accounts, a nice guy and easy to work with.

ah! mmm... she is one worth fighting over for sure.
(a joke about tossing her Greek salad is not appropriate either)

Ok I concede. She is yours.

Wot , no Andy Williams??

Or Al Bowlly?

Which leaves you with Barbra Streisand :sick:

I thought the former was a bit to rock and roll :lol:
and I'm not sure who the other chap is!

Carpenters?

To much sex and drugs to be easy.

It has to be Glen Campbell for his masterful interpretation of Jimmy Webb's material and plenty of other great tracks, but I really think Neil Sedaka should be ranked right up there with the best. he has an amazing way of wrapping himself around a song and wringing every last bit of emotion out of it without ever resorting to melodrama, witness this peerless interpretation of Solitaire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2kD1j8Ibs

For me, he is up there with Ray Davies, Mark E Smith, Bob Dylan and very few others in his ability to communicate vocally. :wub:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYrXcQj4JI#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSx4C3MdmLA&NR=1#

Anyone got the album by this old soak? I bet its fookin ACE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su3JdzUUuH4#

I have both A Tramp Shining and The Yard Went On Forever and they are mostly wonderful but My Boy, released a few years later, is the best of the three. There are quite a few Jimmy Webb songs on those albums and they have been collected together on an anthology which was easily available last time I looked.

Buy any, or all of these and you won't be disappointed.

(On Edit) The Jimmy Webb anthology is called The Webb Sessions. Just found my copy now :)

Al Bowlly rules.

Voted Matt Munro, simply for singing the theme to "From Russia, With Love." Top Hole. B)

Oi! Where's Don Ho? :grrr: :rant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXgc8wzfC4

Chris Montez
Klaus Wunderlich

both :thumbsup:

Roger Whittaker from that list - he could be the modern Nick Cave's dad, musically speaking.

voted for James Taylor.

"you just call out my name.." etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FnS_T_Ci8w

Daniel O'Donnell is rubbish, and I've never seen the appeal of Barbra Streisand, but all the others have things to recommend them.

After I got tinnitus post-skull fracture, one of the two things I could no longer tolerate was Barbra Streisand's voice - no great loss I thought.

Neal Cassady, have you read a book called Elevator Music by Joseph Lanza? Thoroughly recommended, if only for the beauty of his justification: It is not the duty of all music to remind us we are not robots.

I prefer Chris Montez's earlier rock'n'roll period, ala' "Let's Dance" to his later easy-listening "Call Me" period. Although I love Call Me.

Sometimes I do a Call Me medly when I sing the Blondie Call Me lyric to the Chris Montez Call Me tune, and then vice-versa. It's fun.

But I agree with DJAsh, you need Andy Williams up there. I would add Rosemary Clooney too.

Not read it, but having just "read about it" will indeed buy a copy - looks like he has got some good ideas going on into what "easy listening" actually is and how its developed over time. Cheers!