[78-L] Help NPR pick 50 TOP Voices .............

[Ken "Silver Showcase"]

Jeff Lichtman wrote:
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>> Steve
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> A problem I have with this poll is that they don't define their 
> criteria. Are they looking for great entertainers? Influence? 
> Technical mastery? Creativity? How am I supposed to compare someone 
> like Bob Dylan, who wrote some great songs but who often sounds like 
> an unoiled hinge, with someone like Ella Fitzgerald, whose voice was 
> nearly perfect technically but who never wrote a thing?
>   

Exactly.  Its a classic apples and oranges situation.  They're all 
singers and made great contributions in their own way.  How can you 
compare someone like Marian Anderson with someone like Bob Dylan?  And 
why would you want to?

-- Ken