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I was choosing ones I thought they'd pass up. They are not going to pass up Orbison. Robin Zander [Who should make it] won't be on there. I bet they don't put Petty on there either. Aside from those two...everyone on Eric's list will be there. Looking back at my list, they'll put Valli and Green and Pickett on. The others...no way, not Rolling Stone.

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Hollies65 - Mark Volman? My guess is he's primarily known as Kaylan's backup vocalist, even though he did sing quite a few co-leads in The Turtles, and yeah, you're right, he won't make it.

If Petty makes it, will Roger McGuinn (whom Petty basically copied in his earliest releases) also make the list?

Other deserving singers who likely won't make it -

James Carr

Frankie Miller

Chris Farlowe

Don Covay (if anyone wants to hear who Jagger was trying to sound like....)

Phil Lynott

Glen Danzig

Lemmy (just kidding!........)

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"Sorry,sorry,sorry! I meant KAYLAN!! Of course! [i know you know that's who I meant...heh]."

Actually, I thought you might have presumed that Howard K. would make it (very doubtful)....and Mark WAS/IS a way-underappreciated singer himself.....

Could be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Jackie Wilson make that list....

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I would presume that the Top 100 list, which comes out Friday, will have quite a few women on it. We already know that Aretha's #1 and Tina Turner's at #17. I'm guessing the list could include any of the following: Ronnie Spector, Dusty Springfield, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Darlene Love, Karen Carpenter, Bettye LaVette, etc.

Here, BTW, is MOJO's list of the Top 100 singers, from a 1998 issue of the magazine:

(It's a Brit magazine, and they've gone back prior to the rock & roll era, which the Rolling Stone list does not....) There are 28 women in this list below -

1 - Aretha Franklin

2 - Frank Sinatra

3 - Ray Charles

4 - John Lennon

5 - Billie Holiday

6 - Marvin Gaye

7 - Elvis Presley

8 - Stevie Wonder

9 - Sam Cooke

10 - Otis Redding

11 - Bob Dylan

12 - Nat King Cole

13 - Paul McCartney

14 - Ella Fitzgerald

15 - Van Morrison

16 - Hank Williams

17 - Nina Simone

18 - George Jones

19 - Joni Mitchell

20 - Roy Orbison

21 - Little Richard

22 - Jackie Wilson

23 - James Brown

24 - Al Green

25 - Patsy Cline

26 - Mick Jagger

27 - Dusty Springfield

28 - Everly Brothers

29 - Bjork

30 - Little Willie John

31 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

32 - Tony Bennett

33 - Dinah Washington

34 - Jeff Buckley

35 - Karen Carpenter

36 - Peggy Lee

37 - Sarah Vaughan

38 - Tina Turner

39 - David Bowie

40 - Gladys Knight

41 - Tim Buckley

42 - Dionne Warwick

43 - Mahalia Jackson

44 - Bonnie Raitt

45 - Luciano Pavarotti

46 - Iggy Pop

47 - Brian Wilson

48 - Muddy Waters

49 - Howlin’ Wolf

50 - Bing Crosby

51 - Rod Stewart

52 - Johnny Mathis

53 - Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland

54 - Chet Baker

55 - Carl Wilson

56 - Donny Hathaway

57 - Bono

58 - Paul Rodgers

59 - David Ruffin

60 - Elizabeth Fraser

61 - Chrissie Hynde

62 - John Lydon

63 - Maria Callas

64 - Mavis Staples

65 - Ray Davies

66 - Bob Marley

67 - Smokie Robinson

68 - Stevie Winwood

69 - Thom Yorke

70 -Louis Armstrong

71 - Robert Johnson

72 - Neil Young

73 - Nick Drake

74 - Scott Walker

75 - Glen Campbell

76 - Janis Joplin

77 - Ronnie Spector

78 - John Lee Hooker

79 - Jim Morrison

80 - Etta James

81 - Kate Bush

82 - Lefty Frizzell

83 - Levi Stubbs

84 - Luther Vandross

85 - Merle Haggard

86 - Nick Cave

87 - The Gibb Brothers

88 - Edith Piaf

89 - Dean Martin

90 - Jimi Hendrix

91 - Judy Garland

92 - Tom Jones

93 - Liam Gallagher

94 - Chuck Berry

95 - Kurt Cobain

96 - Robert Plant

97 - Steve Marriott

98 - Betty Carter

99 - Bruce Springsteen

100 - K.D. Lang

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"....I was kinda referring to the people in this thread, that no women were mentioned...."

But Daisy, that could be a good thing...the lists most of us were posting were our lists of singers whom we felt Rolling Stone would probably ignore or leave off of their list!

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