Musicians that should never have touched the mic
m_dejean
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Making weenie bossa covers of The Beatles was bad enough,but adding that tenous mumbling on top of it didn't exactly help.You could at least have gotten some Brazilian exiles to do the damn sabadabada.
I guess Leon Thomas was out of town, eh Joe?
Stick to slapz and producing, Marcus.Or do like Herbie and patch everything through the vocoder.Add on...
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bob dylan
allen ginsberg
wlliam shatner
lenard nemoy
my votes go to Gary Bartz and Roy Ayers- brilliant musicians, not good singers. i know there's other too...
Great song writer & can play the guitar. I love his LP but the songs where he's trying to sing.....
Roy Ayers' singing is OK in my book. I'm on the fence when it comes to Gary Bartz. I was going to put "Singerella" up there with the others, but I think Gary's voice fits the mood somehow, even though it is off-key and not that strong.
Yeah, her voice can be a bit intrusive. But she was strictly a singer, so that doesn't really count. I was thinking more along the lines of musicians who first gained notoriety playing a certain instrument and then tried their hand at singing.
Actors-turned-singers don't count either.
Ditch "everybody loves the sunshine"?
SACRILEGE!
naw man, i was just listening to Roy last night, and he actually sounds OK, but it's like, what if he had hired a real, trained singer to sing some of those parts? could've taken it to another level.
But yeah you're right, Roy sounds aight on the mic. Bartz, though, i can barely listen to some of that stuff with him singing. There's other cats like this too from the same era, i'm just blanking on names
In a similar late 70's-early 80's session cat vein:
Greg Phillinganes
Is it Gary Bartz singing on "I've known Rivers"? cause if it is i wouldnt trade that voice for any other on that song, its so perfect.