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Who had the best voice of all time? That’s a tough question to ask, and a little unfair! Because we know that music has hundreds of genres and it’s hard to compare one voice from one genre to another voice from another genre.
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Who had the best voice of all time? That’s a tough question to ask, and a little unfair! Because we know that music has hundreds of genres and it’s hard to compare one voice from one genre to another voice from another genre.
#Music #GoldenVoice #MaleSinger
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00:00Hi, everybody, welcome to another episode of Rap, Rock and All That Jazz here at the
00:10Gulf News Studios in Dubai.
00:12And as usual, I'm joined by my colleague, the ever-smiling Nusra Zaki.
00:16Hello, Nusra.
00:17Hi.
00:18Hi, everyone.
00:19How are you today?
00:20I'm good.
00:21How are you?
00:22I'm good.
00:23Guys, I'm going to let you into a little secret.
00:24We've got a really interesting show ahead of us today.
00:27In fact, the choice of subject was suggested by the big boss, editor-in-chief, Mr. Abdul
00:33Hamid, who's pretty much a music aficionado, and he wanted us to talk about golden voices.
00:40Yes.
00:41And if the boss asks for it, we have to do it.
00:44So let's get it right, Nusra.
00:46So I need all your support as we go along.
00:48I mean, listen, voices, this is very subjective.
00:52What I consider a good voice may not be a good voice for Nusra.
00:56So we're going to try and do our best to keep you entertained, keep you informed, and keep
01:01the boss happy.
01:02Win-win.
01:03So tell me, why can't I pick somebody like Adam Levine or The Weeknd to be a golden voice?
01:12That's a good question to start the show with, because basically you get a golden voice usually
01:17decades after you've performed.
01:20And Adam's still very relevant.
01:22He's a current singer.
01:23So he's a singer.
01:25He doesn't have a golden voice.
01:26He's got a great voice.
01:27He reaches out to young people.
01:29Sorry, Adam.
01:30Sorry, Adam, as well.
01:33But we're talking about people with astounding voices, people like Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin
01:40Gaye.
01:41Many people out here, young people, may not know about these bands, but they are absolutely
01:45iconic singers.
01:47When you talk of a voice that's golden, instantly these names come up.
01:52So what do you think about that, Nusra?
01:54I mean, I don't know.
01:57I know Marvin Gaye, but I don't know the other guys.
02:00My golden voice would probably be Andrea Bocelli.
02:03You're absolutely right.
02:04If we're talking about someone with a crazy good voice, maybe.
02:08What about that other guy, the Josh...
02:10What's his name?
02:13Don't worry about him.
02:15We'll come back to Josh later.
02:17But yeah, there's so many lovely, and I agree with you, Bocelli is right up there with the
02:22top ten voices of all time.
02:24But if you're going to put your neck on the line, or I have to do it this time, I would
02:29have to say that perhaps one of the smoothest voices of all time has to be a singer called
02:34Lou Rawls.
02:35And I'm not saying this because he's the editor's favorite, but he really has got an astounding
02:41voice.
02:42When he sings, it just rolls off his tongue.
02:44Lou Rawls.
02:45You've got to, guys, go and listen to him, Google it or look for him on your Spotify,
02:50as you sure would do.
02:51Me, I'd go to my iPod.
02:52I've got a lot of albums of Lou Rawls on it.
02:55Nice.
02:56But does the name sound good to you, at least?
02:59Yeah.
03:00I don't recognize it, but I will definitely check it out as soon as we wrap this up.
03:08So why?
03:09Why is his voice so amazing?
03:10How long has he been singing?
03:12Do tell.
03:13Yeah, Lou Rawls and people like Al Green, Billy Paul, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack,
03:21Al Jarreau, these are elite voices.
03:23These guys have been there for donkey's years, you know.
03:26And they've had such a seminal influence on music that, you know, people, even people
03:33today like to imitate them or, you know, take notes from how they sang.
03:39You know, they've had such a massive influence.
03:41There's no denying the effect they've had on popular music, Yusra.
03:46Amazing.
03:47OK, so what would your favorite be?
03:51I mean, I don't know if I mean, you've mentioned a few, but like you're sticking your neck
03:55out.
03:56Who would it be kind of as a definitive voice?
03:59Yeah.
04:01Oh, that's even a pretty tough call for me, but because quite often the songs influence
04:05the way you define a good voice.
04:08But there's a guy called Al Green.
04:10OK.
04:11Yes.
04:12Let's stay together.
04:13That song's pretty seen in so many movies, you know.
04:15I must know it then.
04:17You've got to know it, Yusra.
04:18I think so, maybe.
04:19I'm not going to try and sing it.
04:20You can try and sing it a little bit.
04:22Let's stay together.
04:23No, I'm not going to.
04:24I'm not going to.
04:25We want the show to continue, don't we?
04:27That was great, though.
04:28We don't want somebody to come back.
04:30Yeah.
04:31But yeah, so it's lovely to talk about good voices.
04:34And guys, of course, we're going to be talking about in a broader way about good singers.
04:38We're going to talk about Adam Levine, Ed Sheeran in the shows to come.
04:43But for now, this is the golden era.
04:45And so Elvis Presley would definitely be there.
04:48Oh, he'd be a golden voice?
04:49He would be a golden voice.
04:50So we're not talking about people who have, like, huge vocal range or can hit notes that
04:57no one else can hit.
04:58You're just talking about golden in terms of, like, always going to be remembered.
05:02The quality, the texture.
05:03OK.
05:04You know, the texture.
05:05I mean, this is about male voices.
05:07We're going to do another show on female voices.
05:10Sure.
05:11You know, we do Celine Dion and we do, you know, Rachel Flankin, Arthur Kitt.
05:15There's so many out there.
05:16But for now, we're sticking to the guys.
05:18Yes.
05:19In this case, wouldn't someone like Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra be considered?
05:26You're absolutely right.
05:27Yeah.
05:28OK.
05:29They're from the Brat Pack.
05:30Finally, people I know.
05:31Sorry about that.
05:32Brat Pack.
05:33The Brat Pack.
05:34Brat?
05:35The Brat Pack.
05:36Yeah.
05:37So they were Dean Martin.
05:38OK.
05:39Elaborate.
05:40There's so many of them.
05:41Dean Martin, Pat Boone.
05:42OK.
05:43They're lovely, lovely singers out there.
05:44And they all remembered, not just for the songs they wrote, for the appeal they had,
05:49but for actually the texture of their voice, the timber that they brought to their singing.
05:54And if you go to remastered songs, because those days they didn't have eight-track studio
05:59recordings and all that.
06:01So it didn't really benefit their voices.
06:03It didn't do much for their voices, for the quality of voice that they had.
06:07But a lot of them have been remastered now.
06:09And you're going to find a lot of these songs available, perhaps even on Spotify.
06:13Yeah, I'm sure.
06:15Remastered versions?
06:16I've come across them on Spotify.
06:17And I guess to the trained ear, you can hear the difference.
06:20I personally don't think I've heard the pre-remastered songs.
06:24Yeah.
06:25Me, I'm not really a big fan of remastered stuff, because quite often, when an album
06:30was made, you got to listen to it in its original form.
06:34You know, it's the same thing you could say about movies as well, because they do colorization
06:39and they do tweak it a bit.
06:41But I like the way it was originally recorded.
06:43It was intended to be on four-stack or just two-stack, the early Beatles recordings and
06:47all that.
06:48They've all been re-recorded.
06:50But I prefer the original recording some ways.
06:54Like I like vinyl, I like the sound of the thump of that stylus as it hits the disc and
06:59it goes, all the scratching sounds.
07:02So you know you're listening to something that was made a long time ago.
07:05And you got to appreciate for what it is.
07:07I mean, technology has really made rapid, rapid strides.
07:11But it's a bit too pure for me.
07:14I like the rough edges that the original music had.
07:17What do you think?
07:18See, a lot of people would agree with you, rough, you know, sounds and stuff.
07:25I think I'm more of like pure.
07:27Like I like listening to clean records, I think.
07:31And I mean, I do think that digital recording definitely is a lot more affordable than having
07:38to go through tape.
07:40Because I saw that scene in Bohemian Rhapsody where they just went over and over and over
07:45and kept finishing all that tape to write Bohemian Rhapsody, to record it, actually.
07:50And maybe I think that's where we differ a bit.
07:52I mean, I like a remastered version because I want to hear the clear sounds of like everything.
07:57I agree with you.
07:59I mean, being a journalist, I remember the early days when we wanted to research information.
08:04All we had were the Britannica encyclopedias.
08:07And now we have a fellow out there called Google.
08:10So how easy is that?
08:11So having said that about music, I started off with RPM records, which are just 78.
08:17That's one song played on what they call a gramophone.
08:21And then you had vinyl.
08:22And then you went to those little cassette tapes and the Walkmans.
08:25I was born during cassette tape ages.
08:27All right, that's lovely.
08:29So I had a Walkman.
08:31You know, I think everything has a charm of its own.
08:3378 RPM records with the microphone sticking out and the dog's picture over there.
08:39HMB were the famous pioneers of vinyl records and all that.
08:43So music has come a long way.
08:44It's progressed very nicely.
08:46And there's a charm in every era of music, the recording styles, the techniques and all that.
08:53And believe it or not, I believe cassettes are making a big comeback.
08:57They're making a big comeback in the Far East, in Korea.
09:01You know, the Walkmans that we used to carry around, it's all coming back.
09:04The 90s are coming back in more ways in terms of like fashion and music and stuff like that.
09:09So you're going to be wearing bell-bottoms soon?
09:11No.
09:12Tie and dye T-shirts?
09:14No.
09:17Anyways, back to Golden Voices, who would you think is the most recent Golden Voice?
09:26Not in terms of popular musicians or singers, but like someone I would know.
09:30Sam Smith.
09:31Oh, OK.
09:32So you would consider...
09:33I would think Sam Smith has a really good voice.
09:34You think at some point he's going to be...
09:36I would think so.
09:37OK.
09:38Let's get this right, Ed Sheeran is a great, great artist.
09:43He's got a gift for making brilliant music.
09:46He's a producer.
09:47He's, you know, he's an influencer.
09:49But in terms of quality of voice, I think Sam Smith really stands out.
09:54And I'm sure Michael Bublé, he would also be considered...
09:57People will remember him for a long time.
09:58People will remember these people with these kind of voices.
10:01There aren't too many out there because there's a lot of emphasis on boy bands and collaborations
10:07and, you know, stuff like that.
10:08But if you go back in time, I could just mention hundreds and hundreds of names of shows and
10:13big enough to mention all these great singers, Al Jarreau and Stevie Wonder and all that.
10:18But yeah, so it was a nice show to reflect on the brilliance of recording artists and
10:28guys with gifted voices.
10:29You know, they sang from deep within.
10:31Yeah, I mean, even people who have these golden voices are still relevant today.
10:38Like, like I mentioned earlier on in the show, Andrea Bocelli was recently in in the UAE
10:44and he did a show.
10:45That's right.
10:46And apparently it was like unbelievable.
10:47He's he's an unbelievable, unbelievable performer, really, honestly.
10:50I mean, he could he could pull at your heartstrings.
10:53Your hair stands up.
10:54You know, he does so many things with your senses when he's out there performing.
10:58And we could also talk about, you know, throwing Pavarotti's name for that.
11:02Yeah.
11:03I mean, look at this guy.
11:04People call Andrea Bocelli sort of the lesser version of Pavarotti.
11:07But I kind of prefer Andrea Bocelli's a little more understated.
11:12Yes.
11:13Pavarotti's like, whoa, whoa, very over the top.
11:16Yeah.
11:17So he really popularized opera singing, operatic style of singing, which we've even had a band
11:22like El Divo find success.
11:24You know, Simon Cowell, he put this band together, four good looking guys who could sing.
11:29What about the Canadian tenors?
11:31You should know them, the Canadian tenors.
11:34They're really good.
11:35Let me see your passport, Yusra.
11:37I am a Canadian citizen, but I'm Egyptian, just so we're clear.
11:43Yeah.
11:44I mean, I don't know them, but I'm sure they're amazing.
11:46What about Tim Hortons?
11:48Yes.
11:49OK.
11:50You got.
11:51Yeah.
11:52I don't know Tim Hortons.
11:53They better be paying for this little one.
11:56No, JK, we love you, Timmy.
11:59So I mean, yeah, I mean, these guys are like chill inducing, lovely voices.
12:06But like you said, I think nowadays musicians depend a lot on sort of, you know, like big
12:13hair and big hair is like the metaphor for like, they depend on all this, the instruments
12:19and like effects and how they look a little bit more than vocals.
12:24Yeah, I think it was perhaps it was inevitable that music would involve into a very image
12:31conscious kind of thing.
12:32So you've got to look good.
12:33Yeah.
12:34You've got to have attitude.
12:35I mean, the quality of song and music is not that important anymore.
12:41But if you could hit a right, right key, you get a, you know, get a right hook into your
12:45song.
12:46And that's what matters.
12:47I mean, there's so much of the volume of music being produced is so much that you can't waste
12:52time thinking about what you're going to do next.
12:54You've got to produce something that you never know could be a hit or could be a miss, you
12:59know.
13:00And a lot of collaborations, Shawn Mendes has a good voice amongst the guys and he's
13:04collaborated recently.
13:05And it's I think it's the number one hit with his latest album.
13:08Oh, Camila Cabello.
13:09Camila Cabello.
13:10Yeah, they're like dating in real life now as well.
13:13So I guess he got two things out of that collaboration.
13:15Oh, that's lovely.
13:17I love I love it when, you know, you get two people with a similar, yeah.
13:23So that's it for another episode for rap, rock and all that jazz.
13:28And we welcome you guys to send in your suggestions on any topics that you'd like us to talk about.
13:35Yusra has a couple of nice ideas, which you're going to be discussing as we go from here.
13:40And we'll see you soon with another exciting show.
13:43Yes, we will.
13:44Thanks for tuning in.
13:45Bye for now, guys.
13:46I'll wait a little while more.
13:50This I said before.
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