Mark O

LOL Donna!........yes, Bobby's songs were rather sacharrin weren't they!

I don't like anything whatsoever by Take That, I don't dislike him but Cliff Richard's repertoire is a bit bland also

Mark

donna

much to polite there marky , Im off now . bye.

aphra

Betty Hutton singing The Sewing Machine.

bhowells

Anything by Gracie Fields. I remember Peter Cook put Gracie in Room 101.

Purple People Eater
Itsy wisy yellow polka dot Bikini
Your Beautiful or whatever its called by James Blunt(fetch the bucket)

bhowells

That awful version of Supertramps,"Logical Song." sung with speeded up Pinky and Perky.

Jackdaw

John, I trust you're aware that you're dissing the UK's 1959 Eurovision entry?
And it came second!! And it reached the UK charts!!
Another plank in my argument, if one were needed, that Eurovision has always been Danny (Dyer).

Jackdaw

The connection between those two singers is the record producer Mitch Miller.
He was also Frank Sinatra's A&R man and the former didn't have a good word for him.
Having said that, Miller was a highly innovative producer who did not just turn up and record the artiste as is, but put his own stamp on the recording.
In that way he can be seen as an important forerunner to the record producer as we know him today.
I quite liked his French horn and flute arrangements on Guy Mitchell numbers, and unlike you, I'm very fond of some of the Rosemary Clooney numbers - particularly Come On A My House, opening credits to Intimate Relations, with its tremendous harpsichord solo.
Finally, everyone likes Mitch's version of Yellow Rose of Texas................don't they?

billy bentley

The entire recorded works of The Police, Sting and Steely Dan. I suspect there's some musical link between them and it doesn't agree with me at all !

Jackdaw

This frilly singing technique is known as melisma, (sounds like a malignancy), and is as old as the hills.
It refers to the singing of a syllable using changes of pitch.
Possibly a very poor pub singer could use melisma to avoid holding a difficult note, but the singers you refer to are very accomplished and use it to achieve a certain style - a style, it must be said, that can become rather wearing after a while.
In addition, when used inappropriately in a song like Happy Birthday, it becomes totally ludicrous.
Probably the most famous general example of melisma, is in Gloria in Excelsis Deo, in which, according to my counting using fingers, the first syllable of Gloria contains thirty one notes.

donna

oh dear between willies getting mixed up and gay commis whats next, having an early morning giggle here, ..brilliant. Im noticiing a lot more fun now.

donna

hubby loves Pink Floyd but their stuff does my head in , cant stand them. all of it.

Steve Crook

I prefer the idea that they can't really read music and aren't sure which note to sing. So they use a scatter-gun approach and hope that the right note is in there somewhere

I think the worst exponents of this style are when people sing The Star Spangled Banner at the start of American sports events. It seems to take half an hour for every syllable

Steve

john audley

THAT is another I would have come up with and Betty Hutton singing anything!

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

amina

Lou Bega - Mambo number five
Los Del Rio - Macarena

Worse songs ever made

john audley

So the more times change they stay the same

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!