Blogging

It's true that I have posted 20 different YouTube films of Cecilia Bartoli since I began blogging 6 years ago. In my own defense I have also posted films of over 100 different singers. This includes 10 of Netrebko and 9 of Kaufmann.

This list includes 40 entries of singers who may be considered old-timers:

Agnes Baltsa, mezzo
Anja Silja, dramatic soprano
Barbara Bonney, light lyric
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Beverly Sills, coloratura
Birgit Nilsson, dramatic soprano
Boris Christoff, bass
Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo
Christa Ludwig, mezzo
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone [no one is more shocked than I]
Eileen Farrell, dramatic soprano
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
Grace Bumbry, mezzo
Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Hans Hotter, bass
Janet Baker, mezzo
Jessye Norman, soprano
Joan Sutherland, coloratura
Judith Blegen, light lyric
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Kathleen Battle, light lyric
Kathleen Ferrier, mezzo
Kiri Te Kanawa, lyric soprano
Kirsten Flagstad, dramatic soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Leontyne Price, soprano
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Lucia Popp, lyric
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Marilyn Horne, coloratura mezzo
Mario Del Monaco, tenor
Mario Lanza, tenor
Maureen Forrester, mezzo
Mirella Freni, soprano
Montserrat Caballe, coloratura
Peter Hoffmann, tenor
Regina Resnik, mezzo
Regine Crespin, soprano
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Richard Tucker, tenor
Rise Stevens, mezzo
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Sena Jurinac, soprano
Shirley Verrett, mezzo
Tatiana Troyanos, mezzo
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano

This includes everyone I listened to in my youth and some I didn't.

There are also 10 mostly American pop singers:

Barbra Streisand
Christine Ebersole
David Cook
Doris Day
Gisela May
Jennifer Hudson
Josephine Baker
Judy Garland
Mahalia Jackson
Nina Simone

I notice there is no Alison Krauss, Linda Ronstadt or Dolly Parton. The biggest mental stretch for me has been learning to like Jennifer Hudson. Nobody sang like that when I was young. I had never heard of Josephine Baker when I was young.