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I'm from this era. Some of us (of these guys) look pretty good. Some of us (including me) don't look so good. Old age is no one's friend. Jon BonJovi, you lucky bastard.

Firstly, the greatest singer never to win American Idol. Lambert was second. Secondly, the best female singer of this current generation of singers, male or female. What you can't get a good feel for here is here ability to project, meaning the shear power of her voice. Whitney's greatest qual...

@jburidan Interesting. Because Ms. O'Day (who does use vibrato) has a poor vibrato in comparison, it's ludicrous to compare two jazz singers singing the same song. Okay, even though your response is illogical, how about purity of timbre, pitch control, range, scat ability, breathe control or an...

The greatest performance of one of the greatest songs ever written (by a very young 20 something year old Billy Strayhorn). Yes marchowlegs. Yes MegaGiggzy. Yes funkman0811. Yes.

@AnimalAbuseIsUgly Oh. so you're just another dilettante flinging erroneous and wrongheaded comments against the wall seeing what sticks to agitate and annoy. Got it. Sounds like your typical holocaust apologizer; I include most or all holocausts in that statement. So animal abuse is pretty?

Sam was a great singer, and he's in my top ten all time. But when it comes to singing ability there's Jackie Wilson and then there's everyone else.

@Dudette00216 Well, Marcus' version doesn't suck, it's just second rate compared to the explosiveness, control, and range of Jackie's version. I much prefer Si Cranstoun's to Marcus' version. Jackie will always be the litmus test for all great pop singers.

@danivanutti Honestly, most people are going to prefer the version they heard first no matter the objective quality. That said, Mariah is the better and more versatile singer, and brings her vocal power to this song. She remains one of my favorite female singers. However, to me, for pure emoti...

@goodfellacarlos89 You're right. I stand corrected. Good to talk to another music lover.

@tomrevitt Thankfully we live in a country in a country where we can agree to disagree without penalty. Glad to talk to music lovers.

@MrCheerfulPerson An amendment. After Bieber comes toe clippings.

@parvezjakson Thanx to all appreciators and to those who may, unlike I, have had a personal relationship with this master of pop. Unfortunately I see here where the live performance has been removed. I hope you have all downloaded that performance for it was a rare classic.

@Hoopapotomus Yes, and obviously it doesn't take good musicianship, good singing or any musical talent. Just a matching POV. Yawn.

One of, if not the best singer on the show. As good a pure singer as Pia Toscano. Thanx, Simon. Without this mea culpa I would have completely given up on this show. As for Drew -no personally, no stage presence, sings falsetto on the high notes, and her voice won't project passed the microph...

@peoplenevernotice For this song? Yes. Personified.

Electronic disco. At least (as opposed to most music today not called Pop), this and disco were gender, political, and sexual orientation inclusive.

Yawn.

What's negative to say about this? A fine example of the folk/blues/bluegrass tradition - with a touch of Erin.

So many of today's singers eschew singing the lyric for vocal pyrotechnics. The art of understanding the lyric, and in a relaxed manner singing to you personally has been lost. Nat King Cole was the master of this. Others like Frank and Andy were also excellent, among some others. What happen...

@diegosantiago1996 Well...Some people still consider Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, some of Bartok's music, and all of John Cage's music to be noise. Others consider these masters to be geniuses. Who's right? Frankly it has always come down to if you like it, its good. If you don't, its bad. G...

@joeytwosubs Now, if you can bother to take the time to read these comments, you would see that I had already said pretty much those selfsame comments that you espouse: African-Americans are not and cannot be the only purveyors of this music, or this music will die. The threads of music unite u...

@aaallleeexxx62 Wow you're funny. Do you have one? Maybe they should have called it the Big Black1. Would that please you Sir Overvowel failstamp.

What a funny ass movie.

Who's Superbad, and who cares? This song belongs to the Guess Who and no one else.

@Towelfalafel Props taserbait. My friend and I laughed at my mother getting better clientele. For once. Now, I think your camel needs some of that special souvlaki sauce you've been feeding it. Also, I think that NAMBLA conga line you've been leading needs more boywater, Gunga Din.