OT: Best Singer/Songwriter

[Forty_Sixand2]

Best Frontman (stage presence and just pure image with talent): Freddie Mercury

Best Singer: MJK, Lajohn Witherspoon

Best Songwriter: Roy Orbison

just my two cents.....

 

[beantownmaniac]

McCartney/Lennon

Too many to list, but those two are two of my all time favs as the Beatles are my fav band

 

[Darkstone42]

Best band combining singer/songwriters: The Traveling Wilburys. George Harrison (who I think was a better songwriter than either Lennon or McCartney), Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. They were fantastic.

 

[forty_three]

I think Ed Kowalcyzk from the band Live was quite underrated for his writing ability.

John Lennon was the best ever.

 

[Darkstone42]

Also, I feel it's important to mention Jim Croce and Gordon Lightfoot, since no one else has yet.

 

[puckhead]

Best band combining singer/songwriters: The Traveling Wilburys. George Harrison (who I think was a better songwriter than either Lennon or McCartney), Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. They were fantastic.

I wish he had been more prolific with the Beatles.
my two favourite Beatles tunes were by him.
- while my guitar gently weeps,
- here comes the sun

 

[Darkstone42]

I wish he had been more prolific with the Beatles.
my two favourite Beatles tunes were by him.
- while my guitar gently weeps,
- here comes the sun

He also wrote "Something," which I believe Frank Sinatra called 'the greatest love song ever written." He was a fantastic songwriter, and really seemed to get lost in the shuffle with the Beatles.

 

[Automattic]

Marshall Mathers.

 

[Jimmy_the_Tongue]

Marshall Mathers.

Is that the Vanilla Ice guy?....

 

[SLY]

Marshall Mathers.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Also, I feel it's important to mention Jim Croce and Gordon Lightfoot, since no one else has yet.

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was a great, great song. Rep on the way.

 

[dash]

Jim Croce and Gordon Lightfoot...Excellent additions.

May I also submit Harry Chapin?

 

[Darkstone42]

Jim Croce and Gordon Lightfoot...Excellent additions.

May I also submit Harry Chapin?

You may. I can't believe I forgot him.

 

[Urkie]

John Lennon and Pete Townshend. Not from my time but awesome none the less.