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Post by tarobe on Apr 27, 2012 20:15:04 GMT -5
Michael McDonald IS bad singing. A monotone voice which always sounds the same.
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Post by trmjraz on Apr 28, 2012 6:52:01 GMT -5
My vote goes to Donny Osmond, on "Puppy Love" from '72. Whenever he sang on Osmond records or other solo songs he wasn't terrible, but on "Puppy Love", when he speak-sings, puberty hits. Hard. Whiny and obnoxiously.
Honorable mention for me: Sweet, on "Ballroom Blitz". Parts of it near the chorus sound like a mix of Ed Wynn and Mayor McCheese.
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Post by albe on Apr 28, 2012 11:25:49 GMT -5
Melanie's Brand New Key was just God Awful Horrible!!!!
Sounded worst than a cat in heat. This song made no sense and should have never been recorded...
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Post by chrislc on Apr 28, 2012 12:39:24 GMT -5
When "Torn..." hit #1 Casey told a story about how MacGregor, early in her career, led a band where she would scream and shout out hard rock and blues songs, similarly to Janis Joplin. This eventually ravaged her voice to the point of needing surgery and extensive rest, so when she resumed singing she had to do so softly. Wow, I thought Mary MacGregor's voice was normal because it to me sounded like a northern accent! (She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.) I'll bet when she sang "lovin' both of you is breakin' all the rules" she was singing about two different kinds of "covered dishes". Or maybe it was about her loving both the Bears and the Packers.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 28, 2012 12:41:12 GMT -5
Wait, I thought we were actually talking about *bad* singing? "I hate ______'s voice" is not the same thing. Plenty of annoying vocalists can actually, y'know... sing. I nominate "Stay Awhile" by the Bells -- truly a dreadful, off-key vocal. Fingernails-on-a-blackboard. Something I just noticed this week when hearing that song - the very beginning - the first couple of seconds - sounds a lot like Alone Again Naturally. Or maybe it was just that tiny laptop speaker.
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Post by vince on Apr 28, 2012 14:31:37 GMT -5
IMO "Heartbeat - It's A Love Beat" by the De Franco Family is the worst vocal performance on a top 10 song in the 70s. "Puppy Love" by Donny Osmond is a strong contender for 2nd worst vocal performance.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 28, 2012 17:08:15 GMT -5
Well, I keep waiting for someone to mention David Geddes.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Apr 28, 2012 17:14:00 GMT -5
Well, I keep waiting for someone to mention David Geddes. . I think you just did.
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Post by 80sfan on Apr 28, 2012 23:39:15 GMT -5
Melanie's Brand New Key was just God Awful Horrible!!!! Sounded worst than a cat in heat. This song made no sense and should have never been recorded... Alicia Bridges' I Love The Night Life is pretty similar: 'On the disco I-AYE-AYE bogie-e-e' ;D
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 29, 2012 3:21:22 GMT -5
The really odd thing about Minnie Ripertons Lovin You is that it was written for her newly born daughter, Mya Rudolph (best known from Saturday Night Live). The end of the song where she says Mya Mya Mya makes sense but the rest of it seems odd to be about your infant daughter. "and every time that we .....i'm more in love with you"...we, of course, know what the gap or blank space in the vocal means..."
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 29, 2012 3:23:17 GMT -5
IMO "Heartbeat - It's A Love Beat" by the De Franco Family is the worst vocal performance on a top 10 song in the 70s. "Puppy Love" by Donny Osmond is a strong contender for 2nd worst vocal performance. I was just thinking the same thing re: Heartbeat. Fortunately Donny stayed in the spotlight and was able to grow out of that adenoidal voice; I have not a clue where Tony Defranco has been the last 40 years.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 29, 2012 13:06:43 GMT -5
Another for me is Mockingbird by James & Carly. Sounds like they had 2 ideas on how to sing it, couldn't compromise so they tried to outdo the other. Its dizzying!
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Post by mstgator on Apr 30, 2012 19:51:31 GMT -5
Well, I keep waiting for someone to mention David Geddes. Ha... I don't think it was so much his voice as the crap he sang.
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