Not having seen this thread, I put on a T-shirt today with this man's photo:

Solomon Burke, a Sam Cooke contemporary. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love":

Greatest singer of all time?

Aretha Franklin, "Natural Woman," at Kennedy Center Honors for Carole King, at a time in her life when Aretha was kind of like Mitch McConnell these days.

But then this:

Great voices:

Fred Neil, "Little Bit of Rain":

15.

"Hooray for Love," Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand (she was so hot at this age, IMO; just incredibly confident and proud to be where she is at that moment). This was just before she became a star.

And my first girlfriend could sing like her. Crossed eyes and everything.

You'll also note in that video that Streisand, apparently an animal in the rack, does not cross her legs in a ladylike fashion.

14. Felix Pappalardi on bass, John Sebastian on harmonica, by the way.

Johnny Maestro, Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst That Could Happen."

Wanda Jackson, "Hard-Headed Woman":

Ella Fitzgerald and the incomparable Joe Pass. "One Note Samba":

Big Mama Thornton and Buddy Guy, "Ball and Chain":

Saw the Roches just as their first album came out. Delightful.

We are Maggie and Terre and Suzzy
Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche
We don't give out our ages,
and we don't give out our phone numbers
[Give out our phone numbers],
Sometimes our voices give out,
But not our ages or our phone numbers."

The Roches, "We":

28. Same club where I saw Fahey, John Hartford, David Bromberg, Norman Blake, and many more. Some friends and I rented a house in Atlanta in the early 80s, and six months after we did so a music venue opened across the street. We always were able to be first in line and go back to the house ... as necessary.

Always had front-row seats. Your lust was shared by many.

Saw She and Him in Asheville once. Zooey Deschanel came out in a flowery spring dress, and four hundred men's hearts broke.

I read an AP article once about singers and songs they'd never want to have to sing. Zooey Deschanel offered John Cale, "Paris 1919":