What do you guys think of Donny Osmond as a crooner?

[mikeratan00]

http://cdn.sparkart.net/donny/content/photos/1242951353.16912.Donny18.jpg

[tommyg]

I actually liked his voice on Jeff Beck's "Ambitious". Thought it was great! Never heard him as a "crooner"...is he covering old standards now?

[Telecaster62]

Good voice but way too white bread to be a good crooner. You gotta have a broken heart and a whiskey soaked voice to be a good crooner. He should stick to Broadway musicals and he'll do just fine.

[Jahn]

He's a little bit rock and roll. As much as George Michael is a crooner, that's where I'd put Donny.

[teleman1]

He could have fronted a lot of rock band of the past and been an improvement. Whats freaky is he can play bad ass rock guitar.

[GuitarsFromMars]

I don't think he's covering a whole lot of new ground doing it.

[Scott Auld]

Good voice but way too white bread to be a good crooner. You gotta have a broken heart and a whiskey soaked voice to be a good crooner.

I don't think so. Sinatra, Dean Martin, white boys with voices of gold.

Go Donny, whatever you want to do don't listen to the naysayers.

[derekd]

Is this a trick question?

I got a little queasy looking at that photo. But hey, if Rod Stewart can do it, Donny certainly can. I think Rod's Great American Songbook series made him a pile of cash.

[Telecaster62]

I didn't say he couldn't croon because he was white, I said he couldn't croon because he's too white bread. No heartache, no vengeful ex-wives, no bourbon soaked parties with the rat pack. He's an O.K. singer in the broadway vein but he's no Sinatra, Bennett or Cole. You gotta feel it to sing it and I don't think he's ever "felt" anything.

[ROKY]

I didn't say he couldn't croon because he was white, I said he couldn't croon because he's too white bread. No heartache, no vengeful ex-wives, no bourbon soaked parties with the rat pack. He's an O.K. singer in the broadway vein but he's no Sinatra, Bennett or Cole. You gotta feel it to sing it and I don't think he's ever "felt" anything.

Donny went thru a rough patch via family business deals gone sour,
and indifferent treatment from the music biz when he first came of
age and was typecast(sound familiar?;)) as, umm ...... whitebread.

I think, no ... I'm sure he's tasted some bad times, and "felt" some
negative vibrations .

Now, would I buy the album ?

HELL, no !

[roomservice]

my sister liked Donny the most

[Mark Robinson]

I may be pretty much ambivalent to "crooning" and Donnie in equal measure. Hopefully he's touring it and employing some musicians though.?

[mikeratan00]

Last info I pulled up was him and sis performing in Vegashttp://cdn.sparkart.net/donny/content/photos/1240599437.70129.DSC_0572.jpg

[Luke]

http://www.guitarworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=62183&p=733100

[5E3]

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