[78-L] Help NPR pick 50 TOP Voices

[Randy Skretvedt]

Tom Waits is on this list but Paul McCartney isn't?  

I know, for some of you who disdain all rock 'n' roll, you may think all that Macca did was "Yeah, yeah, yeah," but really his ability to beautifully sing many different kinds of music is remarkable.  In the early days he could shift from "Yesterday" to "Long Tall Sally" and back again.  Maybe that's not so mean a feat for someone who's 22.  However, I saw him in concert when he was 64, and he did a three and a half-hour show, no intermission, going from ballads to full-out rockers, singing them in the same key he'd used 20 or 30 or 40 years before, and his voice had no loss of power or range or purity whatsoever.  Just astonishing.

Guess I'll have to go vegetarian.  I'd like to be as thin and energetic as he is now at 67, and I'm only 51.

--Randy Skretvedt