Submitted by litetravelr t3_11hbpyz in Music
Forget Rolling Stone Magazine top 500 lists; forget the Beatles and the Stones; forget Nas, Bey, Miles and Elvis. Don't let decades of high-brow revisionist music criticism distort the truth. We all know that thrift store music bins are the true barometer of the actual musical tastes of the American Public of yesteryear. For who is Captain Beefheart compared to Captain & Tennille? Who is Bob Dylan but the guy clinging to the coattails of the Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary and Judy Collins?
And so, as curated by your local Goodwill store, here are the top 20 greatest popular music artists of all time.
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- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
- Lawrence Welk
- Mitch Miller
- Roger Williams
- Barbara Streisand
- Roy Conniff
- Mantovani
- Glen Campbell
- Chuck Mangione
- Robert Goulet
- Barry Manilow
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Acker Bilk
- Ferrante & Teicher
- Neil Diamond
- Kenny Rogers
- Andy Williams
- Helen Reddy
- Hall and Oates
- Anne Murray
Long live the silent majority!