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Can you name a singer from the 60s that you think would have won on 'American Idol' if it had aired in that decade?

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Posted - May 27, 2020

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  • 5391
    Had that era NOT been in the throes of a civil rights movement:
    Aretha Franklin

    Given the social environment of that decade:
    Roy Orbison

      May 27, 2020 5:05 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    Elvis Presley
      May 27, 2020 5:25 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    The King occurred to me too. But Elvis was already crazy rich and world famous before 1960. 
      May 27, 2020 5:31 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    True.  He was the only heartthrob I had growing up.  To this day, when I hear him on the radio, I melt.
      May 27, 2020 5:48 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Still the King. 
      May 27, 2020 6:03 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    Always will be. :)
      May 27, 2020 9:35 PM MDT
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  • 2327
    Janis Joplin. 
      May 27, 2020 5:28 PM MDT
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  • 44604
    I'm not a fan.
      May 28, 2020 4:52 PM MDT
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  • 2327
    Correct! 

    This is a fan:



      May 28, 2020 7:54 PM MDT
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  • 23576

    Patsy Cline



     
      May 27, 2020 6:05 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Hi Welby~
    I came here first because it was the first place I could find you.
    Today is the day!!
    I looked up The Night of the Living Dead on Netflix.
    Netflix has removed nine titles, including Night of the Living Dead, to comply with government requests.Feb 7, 2020.
    I"m going to Amazon and WILL find a way!
    Today is the day I am bound and determined.
    Don has even taken the afternoon  off!

    This will happen.
    :) :)

    In all due respect to the question....
    I agree.
    I think Patsy Cline could sing a soundtrack to any movie and be picked to the day on American Idol.
    ;) :) 

      May 29, 2020 2:44 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    I FOUND It on Youtube!!!
    Talk to ya soon!!!!!!
    MWAHHHHH!
    I'm closing the blinds, Don's hoping in the shower, I'm making popcorn, and we're on our way!!!!

    YIPPPPEEEE!!!!
    :) :)
    :)
    :)
    !!
      May 29, 2020 2:52 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    I hope you enjoy!! Yay!!!
    :)
    :)
    :)
      May 29, 2020 6:09 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    I Did!  I loved it!!  And so did Don!

    Happy! Happy!
    Please check your messages!!
    :) :)!!
      May 30, 2020 12:50 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    And I did check your message! :)

    And check yours, too, in case you haven'y since May 30.
    :)
      June 1, 2020 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 53505

     

      Is Don hoping in the shower or hopping in the shower?  There’s a big difference, you know. 

     


    ~

      May 29, 2020 11:39 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    You never let me down, Randy D.  Smiles always follow a comment from you!!
    Even though there were hopes of me hopping in with him, he had to hop in all by his lonesome self. 
    He did ask me to tell you thanks for looking out for his cleanliness and wanted you to know...
    I was able to wash his back later last evening.  I did a VERY good job if I do say so, myself.
    ;) :)!!
      May 30, 2020 11:35 AM MDT
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  • 53505


     

    I searched and searched for a gif of a blonde with a shower brush, but I got tired of swiping left a zillion times, so this is the best you’re going to get. 


    ~

      May 30, 2020 12:28 PM MDT
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  • 17593
      May 27, 2020 6:34 PM MDT
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  • 44604
    I hated the song 'Brown-eyed Girl'. That's all they ever played.
      May 28, 2020 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    I wasn't too fond of that song either being that I have blue eyes but I DO like Van Morrison!!
    ;) :)
      May 29, 2020 2:53 PM MDT
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  • 16764
    I sing that to my granddaughter, she's a brown-eyed girl. She sings along with the "sha-la-la" bit, off-key but with a big smile on her adorable face. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at May 30, 2020 1:07 AM MDT
      May 29, 2020 3:41 PM MDT
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  • 17593
    I didn't love it either at the time, but I find it to be a favorite sing-along now.  Of course I am....a brown eyed girl. 
      May 29, 2020 5:22 PM MDT
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  • 16764
    The Big O. The only other singer in my lifetime with a comparable range was Freddie. 

    I'd only watch Idol if these guys were the judges ...

      May 29, 2020 3:33 PM MDT
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