Crooners/ the big O.
 

I'm listening to Max Bygraves doing a song that I know better from Mr Orbison's version (I can't stop loving you). So I thought I'd canvass some thoughts on crooners. Who's your favourite crooner? Is Morrisey a crooner? Paul Robeson or Peter Dawson? Can you have a female crooner? French or English? Is crooning the heir to chanson/ lieder?

Ok, those are my questions - maybe you have your own? Maybe I'll make a poll.

FRED LANE.

I'M DOWNLOADING IT NOW

But you know full well that's not what I'm talking about, you insolent shrimp.

He is credited with "Stripmine Crooning" in THE FREAKING LINER NOTES.
Crooner!

Moz has become a crooner, sure. I can't even find my own testicles at the moment, so I'll just say that Glen Campbell is double cool for being cool and having been covered by Myspacemen 3.

I think the word crooner was originally used as a derogatory term to describe a singer of ballads. I suppose somebody like Bing Crosby is the archetypal crooner.

I don't know about crooners too much, but Mr. Orbison was the/still is the shit. Elvis Pressley was a crooner. I'd say K.D. Lang from what I've heard of her is the closest to a female crooner we got.

I was thinking of Edith Piaf with the female crooner bit. Bing I haven't spent any time listening to, maybe I should...

frank or deano for me.

Arthur Tracey
Peter Dawson
Paul Robeson Skip to 2:00 minutes - the dialogue is pretty annoying.
It is phsically impossible to dislike this song
More Frank. Love those fag adverts
Cry like a man, why don't you?
Something for the Latin crooner lovers
Something for those over the pond With subtitles in some Scandinavian language.

So, someone tell me about crooners from non-English speaking countries.

Frank Sinatra
Scott Walker (his singing is strongly influenced by crooners)

When it all goes wrong
Although he's not beyond redemption
He is though. This is a brilliant song as well. Arsewipe.

Perhaps not crooning, but literally my second favourite song of ever. Which it is literally impossible to do a shit version of. See?. Yeah.

Jacques Brel told Serge Gainsbourg he was great in songs in which he sang like a crooner, I think he was right (cf Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais, La javanaise or La chanson de Prévert).