There are many guy singers that I like, so I have put some of them together here on this page.
When I was a kid, I remember my mother talking about Eddie Fisher, but I didn’t have a clue about who he was. About ten years ago I read the book by Debbie Reynolds, and found out a lot about him. I was surprised to find he was the father of the princess in Star Wars. Last year I heard him singing this song on the radio, and liked his voice, his style, and his music. “I’m walking behind you.”
When I was a teenager, this guy’s song “Blue Train (of the heartbreak line)” was a hit, and I remember singing this song on a tape for my uncle, that got me a chance to do my first show. Memories!
“San Francisco” was a big hit when I was at survey college in Salisbury, Rhodesia. I think it was to do with the hippie flower movement. We didn’t have those sort of movements in Africa, but it seemed very exciting.
“Thank heaven for little girls.” When I worked at a printing place in Bulawayo, I heard this song many times on the radio. I didn’t know the name of the singer until I searched for it on the net, but I remember this guy’s weird accent.
“Singing the Blues” was a bit hit when I was a kid, and the world of singing and music seemed so exciting to me. However, when I have sung this song, it doesn’t give me the same joy, because it is so sad. That is why, when I sing, I like to sing songs that help to lift me up.
“Honeycomb” brings special memories for me. When I was a little boy, it was a favorite love song, and I remember going with my big brother on our bicycles, peddling a long way to downtown Salisbury to listen to this song. It was at an ice cream shop, and we would order a scoop of ice cream each, with some sweet sauce on it, and put money in the jukebox to hear this sing. All that trouble and energy to hear one song, but the memories are sweet. This song has a double memory too, because this was the song I sang on TV in Bulawayo when the evangelist came on the show, and I had to come on right after him singing: “Honeycomb won’t you be my Baby?” That experience caused a big change in my life.
Many of the songs I link to on the YouTube seem to get removed. Maybe they were pirate copies, or maybe they were stolen by the Pirates of the Caribbean. If any of you see Johnny Depp, ask him if he has seen the songs.