Dead And Deadly Singers

Fabulous Dead Pop Singers

Elvis Presley Gram Parsons Jimi Hendrix Richard Fariña Janis Joplin Jim Morrison Buddy Holly Jimmy Reed Faron Young Sandy Denny Roy Orbison Kate Wolf Ray Charles John Lennon Tim Buckley Rick Nelson Johnnie Ray Otis Redding Billie Holiday Cass Elliott Eddy Arnold Jim Reeves Patsy Cline Johnny Cash Dinah Washington Edith Piaf Bessie Smith Minnie Ripperton Nicolette Larson James Brown Nat King Cole Marvin Gaye Sam Cooke Jimi Hendrix Richie Valens Hank Williams, Sr. (We can only wish it for junior.) If I left out any good ones, feel free to list your own and I might add them to the list. If I don't like them very much, though, it won't matter to me how famous they were. I notice I didn't list many blues singers--although I may like some of them very much, I am not conscious of thinking about the dead buggers as great singers.

p.s. OK, so I left out Frank Sinatra, but I despise that Las Vegas scuz and his lame efforts to speak like the black musicians he worked with.