http://www.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=67&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rssTop Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody OnlinePop Standardsen720Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:39:21 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=67&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2923&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:50 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2923 art.2923 Frank Sinatra art.2923 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2923&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2923&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61479&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:14:29 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61479 art.61479 Michael Buble art.61479 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61479&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61479&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Swing. After being featured as a nightclub singer in the movie Totally Blonde (2001), Buble signed to Reprise Records -- the label started by Sinatra - and released his self-titled disc in 2003. Touring and TV appearances spotlighted Buble's stage presence and his "I don't need studio trickery" talent and resulted in the album hitting the charts a number of different times. Buble's skills as a live performer were highlighted on the strong seller Come Fly With Me, which was followed by It's Time (2005), which shot to No. 1 in Canada and topped the U.S. jazz charts. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61768&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Classic R&B Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:37 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61768 art.61768 Ray Charles art.61768 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61768&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61768&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1449&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:23 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.1449 art.1449 Nat King Cole art.1449 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1449&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1449&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.67351&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:19 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.67351 art.67351 Dean Martin art.67351 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.67351&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.67351&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5199&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:56 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5199 art.5199 Ella Fitzgerald art.5199 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5199&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5199&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62135&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:48 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.62135 art.62135 Billie Holiday art.62135 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62135&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62135&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4516&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:50 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4516 art.4516 Nina Simone art.4516 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4516&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4516&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss
Simone began singing in church and taught herself piano and organ by the time she was seven. She took classical keyboard lessons and attended New York's Juilliard School of Music, then began playing East Coast clubs and concerts. Her first hit was a 1959 gold record of Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy."

In the '60s she moved toward R&B, recording Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (a subsequent hit for the Animals). This led to sizable popularity in England, where she had hits with "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" (from Hair) in 1968 and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" in 1969.

By then she had become a black-power activist (her first protest song, "Mississippi Goddam," mourned the death of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers), and politically oriented tracks like "Four Women" (on an out-of-print Philips album) alienated her white audience. She became even more intense and unpredictable in concert, and despite continuing critical acclaim, she gradually lost her commercial standing. Financially, she fell upon hard times, and she divorced her manager/husband (her first marriage had also failed). In 1974 Simone quit the music business. Leaving the States, Simone took up residence in Switzerland, Liberia, Barbados, France, and the U.K. in the mid-'70s. By 1978, however, she had returned to music, releasing Baltimore and touring the U.S. again. While the early '80s were a fallow period, Simone experienced a comeback in 1987 when a television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume used her early recording "My Baby Just Cares for Me." Her candid 1991 autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, and an appearance on Pete Townshend's Iron Man boosted her revival. In 1993, with her music featured in the film Point of No Return and with a new studio album, A Single Woman, Simone gained a new audience for her fiercely elegant fare. In 1995 Simone was ordered to pay a $4,600 fine for shooting at two teenaged boys whom she maintained were disturbing her peace while she was gardening; that year also, she was fined $5,000 for leaving the scene of a car accident that had occurred in 1993. The '90s concluded, however, on a happier note, as her music was presented again in a number of well-crafted anthologies. In 2003, Simone died at age 70 after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62012&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Traditional Jazz/Dixieland Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:22 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.62012 art.62012 Louis Armstrong art.62012 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62012&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62012&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3922&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:52 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.3922 art.3922 Tony Bennett art.3922 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3922&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3922&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Columbia hit machine of the '50s and '60s and he had to fight Mitch Miller tooth and nail to do the jazz albums and classy material he loved. He toured extensively with Duke Ellington and become the first white star to record with Count Basie. The cream of this era is collected on the exceptional Jazz, a compilation which also features Art Blakey, Stan Getz, and Bennett's main ivory tinkler, Ralph Sharon. A few years after "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Bennett got knocked down during the acid rock wave of the late '60s but he answered back with his own label, Improv and cut two great albums with Bill Evans. Always a warm and good-humored singer, age and experience took the brassy edge off Bennett's voice and he decided to stick with jazz accompaniment. In the late '80s he recorded with Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie and George Benson, and slowly rebuilt his base. The '90s MTV generation took to Bennett's music and his unruffled cool personality in a very big way. His music is timeless. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65269&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop-Jazz Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:24:19 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.65269 art.65269 Harry Connick, Jr. art.65269 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65269&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65269&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss is big -- both as an performer and actor. A native of New Orleans, he was a child prodigy who fell in love with jazz piano, and the rich musical legacy of his hometown has always informed his work. After moving to New York City, the handsome and charismatic Connick took a friend's advice and threw on some retro duds, he quickly landed a major recording contract. Connick's first two albums were jazz piano affairs, but when his pseudo-soundtrack for When Harry Met Sally (done in Frank Sinatra's patented 1950s Swingin' Lovers style) became a surprise smash hit that stayed atop the jazz charts for years, Connick kept the Sinatra thing going for a while. Then came an ill-advised but heartfelt New Orleans R&B detour. His old school R&B wasn't embarrassing, but since he'd always incorporated the feel of the city into much of his work, it did feel a bit redundant. When Connick returned to jazz-based pop music with 1997's To See You, one could hear his renewed enthusiasm - in fact, his recordings from this point on are often better and more exciting than some of his earlier, better-selling releases. Many critics have failed to see (or hear) how much Connick's singing, songwriting and piano playing have matured over the years. His single greatest development may be in the unheralded field of arrangements; his imaginative band charts on albums such as Come By Me and Songs I Heard show an originality and spark that would earn him acclaim in the jazz world if he weren't a pop star. At the same time, Connick take pains to strip all the other instruments away and show off his uncompromising jazz piano playing, often on Branford Marsalis' label. In 2007, he returned to New Orleans for Oh, My Nola, an album that contains all the verve and fire that his earlier efforts in the style sometimes lacked. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56835&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Brill Building Pop Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:23 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.56835 art.56835 Bobby Darin art.56835 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56835&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56835&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62120&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:56 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.62120 art.62120 Bing Crosby art.62120 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62120&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.62120&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2106&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:33 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2106 art.2106 Sarah Vaughan art.2106 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2106&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2106&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61239&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:23 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61239 art.61239 Peggy Lee art.61239 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61239&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61239&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61145&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:52 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61145 art.61145 Rosemary Clooney art.61145 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61145&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61145&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Blue Rose is amazing), Clooney also recorded with such heavyweights as Benny Goodman, Harry James and (her secret love) Nelson Riddle. After a complete breakdown, Clooney resurfaced to great critical acclaim in the mid-'70s on the Concorde jazz label -- accent on the jazz. Now Clooney is free to concentrate on great standards instead of silly tunes and crossover material. While her once pure, perfect voice has aged, Clooney's sense of swing, nuance, and emotion has only grown richer over the years. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4856&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Good Old Days Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:53 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4856 art.4856 Perry Como art.4856 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4856&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4856&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Perry Como With the Fontaine Sisters and the first couple discs in the box set Yesterday & Today: A Celebration in Song. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3930&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:02 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.3930 art.3930 Dinah Washington art.3930 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3930&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3930&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69335&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:55 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.69335 art.69335 Nancy Wilson art.69335 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69335&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69335&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss The Swinging's Mutual) and the other with Cannonball Adderley). Catapulted to the pop stratosphere, Wilson was the bestselling artist on Capitol Records' roster (beating out everyone from Nat King Cole to the Beach Boys) until the Beatles crossed the pond and eclipsed everything and everybody in their culture-changing wake. Other fine albums from this '60s period include Yesterday's Love Songs, Today's Blues and But Beautiful, a jazz ballad set led by pianist Hank Jones. In the '70s and '80s, Nancy Wilson slowly made the transition from pop star to adult contemporary soul singer. From the 1990s to the present day, Wilson returned to alternating jazz standards, quiet storm and adult contemporary ballads, while putting on a sensational jazz show in concert. The longevity of Wilson's career and the continuing strength of her voice are almost unheard of in modern pop music, though her career -- and her affinity with jazz, blues and soul -- shares many parallels with one-time Capitol labelmate Lou Rawls. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2663&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Soul Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:56 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2663 art.2663 Lou Rawls art.2663 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2663&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2663&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Live!, which contained his famed pre-song "raps" which helped set the stage for Isaac Hayes, Gil Scott-Heron and Barry White. Rawls classics at the time included "Black and Blue" and "Dead End Street" which helped define the civil rights movement but as Rawls got increasingly popular he helped light up dance floors and bedrooms with some of the tastiest Philly Soul of the 1970s. In 1989 Rawls returned to recording top shelf blues and jazz material, first with Blue Note, then with his own label. While his albums can contain uneven material, Rawls is justly famous for his searing live show and his older material is newly popular with British youth. Rawls passed away from cancer in 2006. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5541&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:37 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5541 art.5541 Doris Day art.5541 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5541&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5541&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34686&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:31 -0700 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.34686 art.34686 Jane Monheit art.34686 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34686&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34686&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Never Never Land, in 2000, kicking off the set with the self-deprecating "Please Be Kind." Monheit needn't have worried, since the CD was a big hit, shooting up to the No. 2 spot in the jazz charts and reaching No. 3 in the then-new Internet sales chart. Her 2001 follow-up did even better, going to the top spot in the jazz charts and featuring a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" that shows that Monheit could've easily entered the Sarah McLachlan pop realm if she had wished to. In the Sun, released in 2002, grafted lush string arrangements onto a small-group jazz palette, while the next year's Live at the Rainbow surprisingly had more of an old-fashioned, Streisand-in-the-1960s vocal feel to it than her studio albums. Monheit signed to Sony in 2004 and released Taking a Chance On Love, a run-through of the standards originally written for MGM films. Another mix of small-group and orchestral numbers, the album returned Monheit to No. 1 in the jazz charts and showcased her strengths as both a jazz and classic pop vocalist. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.42891&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:56 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.42891 art.42891 Robbie Williams art.42891 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.42891&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.42891&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7125&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal-Pop Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:54 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.7125 art.7125 Andy Williams art.7125 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7125&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7125&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.52710&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:57 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.52710 art.52710 Steve Tyrell art.52710 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.52710&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.52710&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9491&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:20 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.9491 art.9491 Julie London art.9491 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9491&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9491&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61241&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Cabaret Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:56 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61241 art.61241 Judy Garland art.61241 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61241&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61241&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3118&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Musicals Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:33 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.3118 art.3118 Cole Porter art.3118 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3118&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3118&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68163&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:40 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.68163 art.68163 Cassandra Wilson art.68163 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68163&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68163&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Blue Light Till Dawn in 1993. The album lived up to its title by combining her serious jazz chops with a bluesy, nocturnal feeling on ancient tunes and modern pop classics that don't usually appear on vocal albums (only the lead off track, "You Don't Know What Love Is," can be considered a standard). Blue Light established Wilson as a star, sailed to the No. 1 spot on the jazz charts, and stayed in the top 20 for two years. Her follow-up album, 1995's New Moon Daughter, was even more successful and won a Grammy for best jazz vocal. Promoting these smashes may well have slowed Wilson's recording of more solo projects; in the interim, the more traditional Diana Krall replaced her as the nation's young jazz singer of choice. But that break seems to have done Wilson well: her subsequent albums have contained even greater strains of country blues, experimental rock and world music, and they've all hit the No. 2 spot on the jazz charts (behind Krall or Norah Jones). - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2994&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Brill Building Pop Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:24 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2994 art.2994 Connie Francis art.2994 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2994&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2994&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Where the Boys Are, and her most enduring hit -- a lightly R&B-ish reading of "Who's Sorry Now" -- still gets considerable airplay on oldies stations. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55039&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:57 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.55039 art.55039 Mel Torme art.55039 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55039&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55039&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Night Court and Sienfeld. Jazz fans know Mel Torme as the singer who best exemplified the Cool West Coast sound. A child prodigy, Torme entered show biz at the age of three. A short stint as a big band drummer left him with a firm grasp of complex rhythms and he enjoyed a brief period as a crooning teen idol in the 1940s (film roles included). During the 1950s, Torme began a collaboration with arranger/pianist Marty Paich, and together they brought the Miles Davis/Gerry Mulligan "Birth of the Cool" sound to popular music on a series of classic albums. These remain his finest recordings, but Torme was popular during the '80s, where sold-out concert crowds were dazzled by his high-flying scat abilities and razor wit. Torme also wrote many songs, including the standard "Stranger in Town," penned when he was fifteen years old, as well as "The Christmas Song" ("...chestnuts roasting on an open fire"). - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55034&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:12 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.55034 art.55034 Carmen McRae art.55034 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55034&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55034&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38095&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:55 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.38095 art.38095 Karrin Allyson art.38095 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38095&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38095&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss From Rio to Paris, Allyson shows that she doesn't even have to sing in English to get at the heart of a song, though it was Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (2001) that finally broke this talent to most jazz audiences. With a hit album under her belt, Allyson looks like someone who could actually receive the kind of reception with the general public that Diana Krall enjoys. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68609&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal-Pop Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:12 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.68609 art.68609 Shirley Bassey art.68609 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68609&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.68609&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39683&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:31 -0700 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.39683 art.39683 Susannah McCorkle art.39683 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39683&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39683&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies (1999) may just be her finest release. Tragically, McCorkle was a longtime sufferer of deep depression. She committed suicide in 2001. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5666&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:14:07 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5666 art.5666 Anita O'Day art.5666 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5666&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5666&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61144&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:28 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61144 art.61144 Lena Horne art.61144 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61144&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61144&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7527450&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:45:27 -0700 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.7527450 art.7527450 Sophie Milman art.7527450 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7527450&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7527450&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1698&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:31:02 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.1698 art.1698 Shirley Horn art.1698 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1698&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1698&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss You Won't Forget Me, resulting in her first No. 1 jazz album. Davis died before the two could cut an entire album together, but Horn would continue racking up No. 1 jazz poll positions and Grammy awards for Verve. While originally Horn had to fight to be able to accompany herself on piano, her finest album may be Here's to Life (1991), an orchestral set she recorded with master arranger/composer Johnny Mandel. Though Shirley Horn could do up-tempo swingers with the best of them, the ballad "Quietly There," from Here's to Life, may best sum up her approach. Shirley Horn valiantly kept performing and recording even as her body was being attacked by diabetes and cancer. Severe illness kept her from playing the piano for her final album, May the Music Never End (2003), a powerful but typically clear-eyed look at love, regret and mortality. Horn passed away in 2005, but not before influencing such followers as Roberta Flack, Diana Krall and Norah Jones, giving her far greater impact on modern music than name recognition would imply. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5294334&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Adult Contemporary Wed, 20 May 2009 11:55:18 -0700 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5294334 art.5294334 Renee Olstead art.5294334 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5294334&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5294334&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Still Standing or the lighthearted movie hit 13 Going On 30. Since she's only a teenager, perhaps her acting skills explain Olstead's uncanny ability to sound just like greats such as Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald. Or maybe she's a live antenna to the spirit world, channeling ghosts of music history. - Eric Shea]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2201&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:23 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2201 art.2201 June Christy art.2201 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2201&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2201&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss the label for jazz singers in the 1950s. She recorded Something Cool, her brilliant debut L.P, in 1953 with her old Kenton cohort Pete Rugolo and a host of the West Coast's best cool jazz musicians (including her husband, saxophonist Bob Cooper). Something Cool was a major success and instantly became one the biggest sellers of its time. At once accessible and challenging, the album became a benchmark for the rest of her career. It showcased her knack for finding offbeat and often bleak tunes (the famed title track, for instance, is about a lonely, deluded woman who scares away a potential pick-up at a bar). After that artistic and commercial high-water mark, Christy was given free rein at Capitol and split her time between orchestral albums with Rugolo and small group jazz sessions, often with her husband. Even though she was a popular concert draw, Christy never enjoyed touring; when rock supplanted classic pop in the album charts in the mid-'60s, she called it a day, coming out of retirement occasionally to sing with the old cool jazz crowd until her death in 1990. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2229&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:24:23 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2229 art.2229 Johnny Hartman art.2229 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2229&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2229&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Songs From the Heart (1955), I Just Dropped By to Say Hello and John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (both 1963) easily rank alongside the greatest jazz albums ever, vocals or no vocals. Esquire magazine even chose his collaboration with Coltrane as the greatest album ever made, and while rock fans would argue that point, the masterpiece is certainly one of the most exquisitely beautiful ever recorded. Although a select group of loyal fans and (especially) jazz musicians loved these albums, by the late-1960s Hartman was working primarily in Japan and Australia (where he even starred in his own TV specials). By the late-'70s Hartman was working back in the States, where he earned a Grammy nomination in 1980. Then, just as his career was taking off again, he developed cancer and died in 1983. In the mid-'90s, longtime fan Clint Eastwood included a handful of Hartman tracks in his darkly romantic adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County. The film introduced Hartman to a whole new generation of listeners, and the resulting soundtrack CD, as well as two re-issued Hartman albums, quickly sold more than any of his work had during his lifetime. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44025&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Musicals Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:47 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.44025 art.44025 Fred Astaire art.44025 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44025&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44025&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1120&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:39 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.1120 art.1120 Vic Damone art.1120 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1120&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1120&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss This Game of Love (1959) featuring a small jazz group, and his easy-going manner meshes perfectly with hard-swinging big bands. The world needs beautiful love songs now more than ever -- and Vic Damone is just the man to deliver them. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69238&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Good Old Days Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:55 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.69238 art.69238 Patti Page art.69238 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69238&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69238&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39912&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:55 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.39912 art.39912 Dinah Shore art.39912 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39912&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39912&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65348&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:53:12 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.65348 art.65348 Peter Cincotti art.65348 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65348&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65348&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss On the Moon (2004). Time will tell if Cincotti will cross over to the pop world the way that Norah Jones and Jamie Cullum have. - Nick Dedina]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2415&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Standards Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:41 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2415 art.2415 Jo Stafford art.2415 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2415&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2415&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.60158&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Vocal Jazz Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:42 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.60158 art.60158 Joe Williams art.60158 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.60158&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.60158&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6967&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Musicals Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:27 -0800 Top Pop Standards Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6967 art.6967 Frank Loesser art.6967 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6967&variant=play&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6967&variant=data&rws=%2Fvocal-easy-listening%2Fvocal%2Fpop-standards%2Fartist-chart.rss Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. - Nick Dedina]]>