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Talk:Famous American artists (view source)
Revision as of 00:39, November 24, 2008
, 00:39, November 24, 2008→Standards for Inclusion?
:::: Bis heute nur 20,554, affenschande! --[[User:Joaquín Martínez]], [[User talk:Joaquín Martínez|talk]] 17:59, 23 November 2008 (EST)
:::: Bis heute nur 20,554, affenschande! --[[User:Joaquín Martínez]], [[User talk:Joaquín Martínez|talk]] 17:59, 23 November 2008 (EST)
Yes, he was...for a little while. He was one of the thousands of artists who came and went. He hasn't had a particularly high profile in recent decades. But he is not immortal like so many are that are '''not''' included in the list. Where are the singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, the classical singers like Jesse Norman, Robert Merrill, Marion Anderson, the band leaders, the conductors, the greats of jazz (now ''there'' is America for you, Joaquín - jazz! And remember; "the real American folksong is a ''rag''...so said (I think) Ira Gershwin.)? Where's Charlie Parker? If the criterion is "fame" - especially lasting fame - then Steve Lawrence doesn't really qualify. (I have been desperately singing Nat King Cole songs this morning to rid my mind of ''Go away Little girl''...now there is an ''immortal''! Replace Steve with Nat King Cole. It may have been the late great Isaac Hayes who said: "Nat was cooool before it was cooool to be cooool."
:And I've just realised you left out possibly the most influential and ''famous'' all-round musician of the twentieth century...bar none. Leonard Bernstein. He was a conductor, pianist, classical composer, Broadway composer, song writer, educator, writer and so on. He would have to go on the top of any list.
::As for contribution tallies - check out [[Opera]]. It took me two whole edits. Cheers [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 19:39, 23 November 2008 (EST)