{"id":2071,"date":"2009-03-20T14:31:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:20:42","slug":"best-rock-vocalist-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-rock-vocalist-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Rock Vocalist Poll Provides Unexpected Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hwDuipYrUqE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nCleveland&#8217;s Classic Rock station polled its listeners to choose the 10 top rock vocalists, and I was shocked by the results.  It&#8217;s not like I was expecting a list <em>I<\/em> would like from fans of this type of radio station, but nonetheless, I was amazed that <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong>, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>, and <strong>Janis Joplin<\/strong> didn&#8217;t make the list at all, and I never in a million years would have guessed #1.  (When they got to #2 yesterday, and the above-mentioned four were not on the list, I assumed that Jagger would easily be #1.  A coworker and I were discussing who had not shown up yet, and <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> never once crossed either of our minds.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the list.<\/p>\n<p>Would anyone else have guessed #1?  Or #3 or #5, for that matter?<\/p>\n<p>1. Freddie Mercury (Queen)<br \/>\n2. Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin &amp; Solo)<br \/>\n3. Paul Rodgers (Bad Company, Free &amp; Solo)<br \/>\n4. Roger Daltrey (Who)<br \/>\n5. Ann Wilson (Heart)<br \/>\n6. Bob Seger<br \/>\n7. Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac &amp; Solo)<br \/>\n8. Jim Morrison (Doors)<br \/>\n9. Steve Perry (Journey)<br \/>\n10. Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland&#8217;s Classic Rock station polled its listeners to choose the 10 top rock vocalists, and I was shocked by the results. It&#8217;s not like I was expecting a list I would like from fans of this type of radio station, but nonetheless, I was amazed that Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Janis Joplin <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-rock-vocalist-poll\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}