Part 2 - Poll - Vocalists That Reach Out and Into You, Vote for up to three.*

Van
Otis
Ray

 

Lots of strong singers on the list but the only ones that fulfill the OP's opening statement for me are:

Tom Petty
Sandy Denny

 

Can't believe folks voted for Elton bomb.

 

Which ones ?

 

The incredible Otis Redding , live performance.

 

Since I haven;'t seen the older poll, I won't complain about the lack of singers considered good from the prog world, save Gabriel. If they were included I would have voted for Greg Lake.

 

Van the Man at the Last Waltz.

 

Morrison, Winwood, and Charles. Although, if Daltrey and Townshend were available, I'd probably vote for them.

 

E.P.
Tom
Bowie

Very hard to leave Roy and Otis out..

 

Gram
Elvis
Jerry

 

Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Etta James

 

Not sure if the choices were designed to be genre specific, but Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Tony Bennett for me.

 

thanks for the poll ~ I was able to balance with the other poll (in which I chose 3 female vocalists) with 3 male vocalists from this list. I don't have any sort of innate tendency to prefer singers of one biological sex, but I am happy to acknowledge artists in each group - not in an any sort of attempt to ameliorate the status quo of gender roles - but rather as an appreciation of variety as relates to different individual styles of social interaction as expressed through art.

Sam Cooke
Van Morrison
Otis Redding

 

Peter G.
Elton
Elvis

 

I went with Freddie and Kate.

Still not listed: the only voice that reaches into my soul and rips it out: Ian Curtis.

 

Well I suppose 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

 

For these choices I voted Peter Gabriel, Freddie Mercury, Jerry Garcia(Sing Me Back Home from Sunshine my favorite-kills me).
I’d have voted for Emmylou Harris also.