Okay. Let's Settle This Once & For All Times!!!

[FAX]

Which one doesn't belong and why?

Just kidding.

Here's the real question, oh ye little marshmallow sugary Easter birds. Which one of the above had the greatest impact on popular music? Vote your conscience and no cheating, if you please.

Poll forthcoming.

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Disclaimers: Sorry if repost.

EDIT: (APOH)

[Fairplay]

The beatles are coming out with a new CD.

One that has their music through the years type of CD.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by stevieray

ya compared to a midnight show where he is laughing during a song. that is one version out of sixty.

not too hard.

Dude,you know how much I love music,I posted the first one that came up,if there's better then post it please,I'd like to hear it.

I will say without hearing it though that no way ANYONE does that song better than the original.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Dude,you know how much I love music,I posted the first one that came up,if there's better then post it please,I'd like to hear it.

I will say without hearing it though that no way ANYONE does that song better than the original.

I really don't care which one of us thinks which version is better...that wasn't the question

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by stevieray

I really don't care which one of us thinks which version is better...that wasn't the question

Since you're such a stickler about the question, I asked for people to youtube embed links to the songs. After learning that there are many versions out there of these tracks, I want to hear the King at his best. I trust people other than myself to find the proper versions for me.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Since you're such a stickler about the question, I asked for people to youtube embed links to the songs. After learning that there are many versions out there of these tracks, I want to hear the King at his best. I trust people other than myself to find the proper versions for me.

If I Can Dream

[KC Dan]

Originally Posted by stevieray

The Beatles..it's not even close.

fyp.

Love Elvis and he was the trend starter. But, for influence over the entire spectrum of all music, The Beatles far surpassed Elvis.

One example: What is the most recorded song in history there FDE?

Hint: it's not an Elvis song... Also, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are the record sale kings in the United States, having sold 170,000,000 units. Elvis comes in third behind Garth Brooks, with 118.5 million units.

[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by H5N1

it's kinda sad. I can't really think of any artists from 1900-1945 other than robert johnson and a few blues and/or a few jazz guys.

I can't believe no one said Bing.

One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. Widely recognized as one of the most popular musical acts in history, Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers of the era that followed him, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby

[Jenson71]

I don; tknow enough about music or music history to have a confident say in which had a greater impact -- but the Beatles had an amazing musical talent that doubles the combined efforts of Jackson and Elvis, imo.

[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by RJ

Dude, Elvis had 38 songs that made Billboard Top 10, according to this.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/disco...61282&pid=5444


It's kind of hard to omit the hits when there's that many of them.

Also, define "holds up", please.

It was a different time, but still, wow:

Although the Billboard charts operated under a different methodology for the bulk of Crosby's career, his numbers remain astonishing: 1,700 recordings, 383 of those in the top 30, and of those, 41 hit #1.

[Mr. Krab]

"Kentucky Rain" was a 1970 hit song for Elvis Presley. Featuring then-unknown pianist Ronnie Milsap and written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard, the single peaked at number 16 on the pop charts.

Released as a single on January 29, 1970, "Kentucky Rain" was not included on an album until the compilation package Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol. 1 (LPM-6401); while the track does appear on the 2000 re-release of From Elvis in Memphis, it was not included on the original 1969 album. During Elvis' February 1970 engagement he performed this at every show, introducing it as a new song "out about a week". Live versions are available on the box sets Elvis Aaron Presley and Live in Las Vegas.

[KC Dan]

Originally Posted by MagicHef

I can't believe no one said Bing.

Bing Crosby was something, that is true especially for his generation. However, the question was "Which one of the above had the greatest impact on popular music?" I sincerely doubt Bing and his music had a massive influence on popular music going forward. I would go so far as to say that his music brand died in the mid-late fifties except with his generation.

[FAX]

It's really too bad about her granny and all.

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[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by KC Dan

Bing Crosby was something, that is true especially for his generation. However, the question was "Which one of the above had the greatest impact on popular music?" I sincerely doubt Bing and his music had a massive influence on popular music going forward. I would go so far as to say that his music brand died in the mid-late fifties except with his generation.

Just because his exact style of music is not among the most popular right now does not mean that he didn't have an impact on popular music going forward. I don't think you can argue that music would be the same today without his influence.

With Crosby, as Henry Pleasants noted in The Great American Popular Singers, something new had entered American music, something that might be called "singing in American," with conversational ease. The oddity of this new sound led to the epithet "crooner."

Crosby perfected an idea that Al Jolson had hinted at, that the popular performer did not have to limit himself to a mere series of shticks but could be a genuine artist — in this case, a musician. Before Crosby, art was art and pop was pop; opera singers worried about staying in tune and reaching the upper balcony, vaudevillians concerned themselves with their costumes and facial expressions.
Crosby rendered the difference between the two irrelevant. Where earlier recording artists had displayed strictly one-dimensional attitudes, Crosby not only perfected the fully rounded persona, but brought with it the technical ability of a true concert artist. Crosby projected with a majestic sense of intonation that afforded Tin Pan Alley the musical stature of European classics and a jazz influenced time that made him the dominant voice of both the Jazz age and the Swing era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby

Or, in terms of performance, you could go with Al Jolson:

According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "Jolson was to jazz, blues, and ragtime what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll." Being the first popular singer to make a spectacular "event" out of singing a song, he became a “rock star” before the dawn of rock music. His specialty was building stage runways extending out into the audience. He would run up and down the runway and across the stage, "teasing, cajoling, and thrilling the audience," often stopping to sing to individual members, all the while the "perspiration would be pouring from his face, and the entire audience would get caught up in the ecstasy of his performance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by MagicHef

Just because his exact style of music is not among the most popular right now does not mean that he didn't have an impact on popular music going forward. I don't think you can argue that music would be the same today without his influence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby

Or, in terms of performance, you could go with Al Jolson:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson

I'm getting a dark feeling, like you're pissed off.

[Brock]

Without Bing Crosby, there would have been no Perry Como.