Singers that in your opinion have made so many good songs.
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Alex321
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But one of "so many"? as the title asks for.
Drago
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Benny Hill.
raleighnut
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Peter Green, Black Magic Woman*, Love That Burns, Need Your Love So Bad and that's just off the top of my head. Peter had a great voice but many of the songs were sung by the 2 other guitarists/singers/songwriters in the band..............Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan both very capable 'frontmen' in their own right in fact they took to being their own support act called 'Earl Vince & The Valiants' wearing Gold Lame jackets and fronted by Jeremy, playing without all the stage lights (as support bands often do) it wasn't until they came to their last song that the spotlights were switched on and the audience realised that they were Fleetwood Mac playing old 'Rock & Roll' songs
* Incidentally I went to see the Splinter Group at the DeMontfort Hall in Leicester and after their set (Double header with John Mayall) overheard a woman asking her friend in the bar during the interval "Why did they play a Santana song" I was about to say something when her friend replied "Peter wrote Black Magic Woman and it was after Carlos heard it he decided to do a cover version"
raleighnut
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Nah the best were the Japanese built ones although as someone famously said " You can buy a Fender made in Mexico or one made in Corona California by Mexicans"
All I can say is my Squier 'Telecaster' was nicer to play than my Corona Fender 'Telecaster' that the insurance partly paid for but the Fender one is selling for @£1,400 these days being a 2000 version 50th anniversary model in a one year only colour called 'Hot Rod Red'
Drago
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Black Magic Woman is superb, but to be fair Carlos Santana's version is the one that hits the spot.
I was in love with Kathy Kirby (curvy Kathy as she was known)
I saw Frankie Lane live many years ago, a wonderful singer.
Wonderful singer and a sex god as well. You dont often get that.
Drago
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And such a well mannered and clean living chap.
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raleighnut
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Nah sorry, good cover version but it is Peter's original version for me
raleighnut
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I've got 4 distinctly different versions, Santana on Abraxas and Moonflower and Fleetwood Mac on 'The Pious Bird Of Good Omen' and live on the Boston Box (first 3 on Vinyl then the 4th on CD) TBH the Fleetwood Mac original is my favourite with the live version having an extended ending with Peter and Danny trading 'licks' on guitars for a while (Too long IMHO)
I don't think I've seen Bob Marley mentioned and I think he should be.
I've got a soft spot for Bob ever since my first proper job. A Jamaican guy received and logged all the goods coming in or out of the warehouse from inside his little wooden box, where he sat in a haze of cigarette smoke (which may or may not have been Golden Virginia...) whilst listening to Bob Marley cassettes on full volume. One of the most laid back characters I have ever met. When life was simple
I've got a soft spot for Bob ever since my first proper job. A Jamaican guy received and logged all the goods coming in or out of the warehouse from inside his little wooden box, where he sat in a haze of cigarette smoke (which may or may not have been Golden Virginia...) whilst listening to Bob Marley cassettes on full volume. One of the most laid back characters I have ever met. When life was simple
