Who Has The Dreamiest Voice Of All Time?

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A voice that sends you over the moon. A voice that makes you go "ahhhhhhhh". A voice that really hits the spot. A swoon-worthy voice. A voice that can tuck you in at night and give you nice dreams. You get the picture. Okay, it doesn't have to be "Of All Time", just a personal fave will do. I have lots of faves. From bossa nova babes to goth metal kings. But someone who hits my pleasure center every time is Keely Smith. Yeah, Keely Smith, of Louis Prima & Keely Smith fame! I only listen to her old solo records though. Louis I don't need that much of. Anyway, she is one. I bask in her warm glow. And you?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate Bush

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Nina Simone.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvin Gaye.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz Fraser

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the ukrainian woman who recorded the phrase "sofiska ploscha" (st sophia's square) on a ukrainian-language cd-rom i was testing.

other than that, maybe roy orbison.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Male: Curtis Mayfield.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker can sing any old crap (and frequently has) and I'll still listen to it.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker Nico Chet Baker

they take turns for the title . . .

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Peggy Lee

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

chet baker, yes. also: roy orbison and the tindersticks guy.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

male: David Bowie in his lower register (ala "See these eyes so red....")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, peggy and chet. the 50's was truly dreamtime. anita o'day can make me swoon too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

JOHNNY HARTMAN

Also, Thom Yorke (seriously).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricky Nelson on _Lonesome Town_
and of course Elvis on _Blue Moon_

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Smokey Robinson

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely Dusty.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, Johnny Hartman!
and Dusty Springfield...
(i'll stop here)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Marilyn McCoo of the Fifth Dimension
The guy from the Platters

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Margo Guryan

― supercub, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary Margaret O'Hara, specifically on 'Body In Trouble'.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Curtis Mayfield, 'The Makings of You.'

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

harriet wheeler

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

billie holiday
she more than anyone else ever

― rockstar, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

charlie rich

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It will come to me later, again.

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

sam cooke!

― drew, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

chan marshall

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Roy Orbison, people!!!!

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Debbie fucking Harry

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Chet Baker, Jimmy Scott, Stina Nordenstam, Superpitcher!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil Anselmo

― harold65, Friday, 24 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ella Fitzgerald or Elizabeth Schwartzkopf

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Al motherfuckin Green

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope Sundoval

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Suzy Mangion

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornell Campbell

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ted hawkins

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chrisyeager.com/pics/mark_s1.jpg

― dark horse = winner (nickalicious), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A voice that can tuck you in at night and give you nice dreams.

^Louis Armstrong

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the bitch in zero 7

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

mr sandman

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah Cracknell. When I die, I want to be listening to "Late Morning" from Sound of Water.

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

david sylvian - maybe not *the* dreamiest, but surely up there in the running

― tricky disco (disco stu), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricky Nelson on _Lonesome Town_
and of course Elvis on _Blue Moon_

Absofuckinlutely.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Sinéad O'Connor and Kate Pierson. and Sam Cooke too.

― danh (danh), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And Al Green. I didn't see him yet. Not so much anymore but it was pretty dreamy.

― danh (danh), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh "Al motherfuckin Green" yeah, thats who I meant

― danh (danh), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricky Nelson on _Lonesome Town_
and of course Elvis on _Blue Moon_

yes! and add Conway Twitty's "Lonely Blue Boy" for more of same dreaminess

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Second-tier vote: Denny Doherty.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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Ned Raggett

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalicious do your dreams involve phlegm and gravel?
-- amateur!!st

amateur!!st why the heck you hatin' on phlegm and gravel wtf?!?

okeh, a-hem-khm, who was i thinking of again?
well yeah,

Richard Bona
Kirsty MacColl

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ac jobim

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Shooby taylor

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Colin Blunstone's pretty dreamy as the vox goes...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Roland TB 303

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan just reminded me: Vocoder.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

oh!
also - Milton Nascimento!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

~~geddy lee!~~

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Britta Phillips then.

― danh (danh), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

for once i have to agree with the other alex. liz fraser is the dream voice.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

alexes be agreein

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, I like Keely Smith and Anita O'Day a lot, too! What do you think about Rosemary Clooney?

― chuck, Friday, 24 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never really listened to Rosemary that much. I've never owned any of her records either. Most of the stuff I've heard by her has been on oldies stations and in old movies/tv specials. She was a powerhouse.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Fiona Apple
Mark Lanegan

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Holiday. Joni Mitchell. Ned Raggett.

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll agree with Mato's choice of Dean Wareham - if only because I want to add Ed Kuepper. So it's more about singers who ended up developing dreamy/narcoleptic voices.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking "dreamy" quite literally, I'd say Bob Marley. Not only could he sing well, but there was a passion and hope in his voice that was wonderful.

― Chris O., Friday, 24 September 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone say Nat King Cole yet?

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks. Really? Oh well then, Karen Carpenter or Judy Collins then.
Maybe Judy Garland, possibly Jo Stafford.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy.

Minnie Riperton.

(Steve Albini will do as well.)

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz Fraser.

I can't understand how this thread isn't all Liz.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(...this is where I admit I was waiting for someone to mention me -- twice now!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Caetano Veloso (even if you don't love his music, you have to admit he's just gotten better as a singer); Gilberto Gil; Virginia Rodrigues.

Mory Kante; Youssou N'Dour; Baaba Maal.

Jackie Wilson; David Ruffin; Ray Charles.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Roy Orbison completely owns this thread.

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I second the Kate Bush and David Sylvian mentions on this thread.

I won't even mention you-know-who from you-know-them because everyone will want to kill me from an overdose of fandom. Though when I listen to that voice + that sound, I feel like I'm at home, no matter where I am.

Chrissie Hynde (yes, her) and Tony Bennett (yes, him) also both make me swoon.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Patsy Cline.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

And Julie London, too.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Bilinda Butcher?
anyone sounds "dreamy" with all those effects

-- amateur!!st (-...), September 24th, 2004.

but she's got such a nice voice on that ecstasy and wine stuff!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Since someone took all my answers already (Liz Fraser, Harriet Wheeler, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Dusty), I'll have to go for Margo Timmins.

I kind of want to say Sophie Ellis Bextor as well, but she does the wrong kind of song to be considered dreamy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Cory Daye

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Vinicius Cantuaria.
King Diamond.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

debbie harry, just when she says 'atomic'

― squirrelbait (squirrelbait), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ute Lemper. You can ask about my dreams if y'all want.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

they involve a whip?

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

if dreamy means sexy, then = al green (again), shania twain (!!)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

shania twain!!!!! ams i love her, but...

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Al Green and Carl Wilson

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Latecia Sadier qualifies as both Dreariest and Dreamiest.
Does this make her the Drearmiest?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

we forgot hope sandoval, jennifer charles and lisa germano. dreamy in a sexy way those three.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope Sundoval

-- oops (don'temailmenicelad...) (webmail), September 24th, 2004 1:18 PM.

The only thing I forgot about Hope was how to spell her name properly.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Marc Bolan

― anode (anode), Sunday, 26 September 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ute Lemper. You can ask about my dreams if y'all want.
-- cs appleby (tekblaze...), September 26th, 2004.

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they involve a whip?
-- gaz (mullygrubbe...), September 26th,

ah shucks!!!

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Everly Brothers together were pretty dreamy.

Bjork is dreamy like weird dreams.

Bryan Ferry ca. Avalon.

Francoise Hardy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 27 September 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bryan Ferry ca. Avalon.

Oh. Fuck. Yeah.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 27 September 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the everly brothers !!!

― reo, Monday, 27 September 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I repeat: Colin Blunstone. Listen to "Caroline Goodbye" and tell me (or Aimee Mann, for that matter) otherwise.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever said Scott Walker was obviously right.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone say sandy denny? cuz she does it for me too. big time.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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