Did Sam Cooke have the most perfect voice ever?

[IWunD3r]

Johnny Gill

Sam was cool.
Ronald Isley tho
Dudes voice is one of kind.

Ronald voice is like Silk...

 

[keond]

You forgot about Joe Thomas & Brian McKnight top 5 DOA

Never was a huge Joe fan to be honest. He is obviously talented but he never really moved me like that. McKnight is one glaring omission along with Marvin. I kind of made my list off the dome, but how i forget Marvin?

 

[D.C Young]

Also, did nobody even post "You Send Me" in here?

That's prob Sam Cooke's SMOOTHEST song.

too smooth....he's floating on the track

I love it when he hits the high notes like at the :19 and :59 second part

 

[mamba]

If you like Sam Cooke you gotta go to the sources.

RH Harris doesn't get enough credit. He literally changed music as we know it.

 

[mamba]

 

[mamba]

To me, Sam Cooke had a potential goldmine on his label with a guy named Jimmy Outler. He had a fantastic voice which he used to covey emotion, effortlessly. Similar to Sam's voice in many ways, but raspier.







Sam was killed, the label fell apart and Jimmy was murdered by his own brother a few years later.

His voice would have been perfect for early soul music. His voice would have been Sam's match for David Ruffin's on Motown and Wilson Pickett's on Stax.

 

[Remo]

sing that shyt ron

 

[D.C Young]

wow man his voice

its just too perfect

 

[mamba]

wow man his voice

its just too perfect

I like the chatter they included on the SAR compilation. You get to hear him working with his artists. He was very hands on.



Johnnie Taylor sounded just like Sam in his early years.

 

[SuikodenII]

Otis Redding...

 

[H. Selassie]

Sam voice was raspy and smooth at the same time, his belts had the right amount of grit and clarity.

Word. Great assessment

 

[mamba]

Otis Redding...

I like Otis, but he was no Sam Cooke in terms of vocals.

Had Sam Cooke been a cac, he'd be revered like Sinatra or Elvis.

Cooke was the #2 selling artist on RCA behind Elvis. This was without the skin color advantage of that time and the huge marketing machine Elvis had behind him.

Both cacs and Black people liked Sam Cooke.

It was the voice. He couldn't dance. He wasn't in movies, in print ads, etc.

Not only was Sam the GOAT soul singer, he is arguably one of the Top 10 gospel singers of all time!

 

[SuikodenII]

I like Otis, but he was no Sam Cooke in terms of vocals.

Had Sam Cooke been a cac, he'd be revered like Sinatra or Elvis.

Cooke was the #2 selling artist on RCA behind Elvis. This was without the skin color advantage of that time and the huge marketing machine Elvis had behind him.

Both cacs and Black people liked Sam Cooke.

It was the voice. He couldn't dance. He wasn't in movies, in print ads, etc.

Not only was Sam the GOAT soul singer, he is arguably one of the Top 10 gospel singers of all time!

That's cool, but Otis's voice had more emotion to it IMO

 

[SCJoe]

Sam Cooke was so good even his white stan( Steve Perry) became legendary.

 

[Texico niggo]

Johnnie Taylor was on they asses

And that nikka was a pimp