whatever happened to the Great American Crooners?

nooshinjohn
nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
edited August 2009 in The Clubhouse
I am sitting here tonight listening to the great Johnny Mathis and am amazed at how good he truly was... for me the equal of legends as Crosby and Sinatra.
What has happened to the "crooner" style of music with the velvet smooth voice and melodies that dripped with a certain sexy vibe without resorting to overt inuendo... This was/is music.:cool:
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited August 2009
    They're dying off and so are the people who listen to them.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited August 2009
    Talk about being brutally honest haahaa.
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited August 2009
    There are a few that are doing really well. Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Harry Connick Jr. and even John Mayer to some degree are really wowing the females.

    A few female crooners as well, I like Diana Krall:

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    Carl

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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited August 2009
    seems most of it has gone to the R&B genre.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited August 2009
    They died...of old age!:eek::D
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I am sitting here tonight listening to the great Johnny Mathis and am amazed at how good he truly was... for me the equal of legends as Crosby and SinatraQUOTE]
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited August 2009
    Knucklehead wrote: »
    seems most of it has gone to the R&B genre.

    And they hardly get any airplay....like Brian McKnight. Luther Vandross was one of the great R&B "crooners" but he passed away too young.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,684
    edited August 2009
    schwarcw wrote: »
    There are a few that are doing really well. Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Harry Connick Jr. and even John Mayer to some degree are really wowing the females.

    A few female crooners as well, I like Diana Krall:

    I'd like Diana Krall's singing even if she were mute. :o
    Sal Palooza
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