Rolling Stone Reveals Individual Ballots for Greatest Singers

Rolling Stone has released a few of the ballots submitted for their Greatest Singers of Rock poll. They reveal the depth of understanding of the rock and R&B heritage by a number of the greats of music.

Below are just a few of those ballots, some with surprises, including Keith Richard putting his own name on the ballot, but not Mick Jagger's, B.B. King's admiration for pop vocalists and Solomon Burke's acknowledgment of modern singers. To see a gallery of 25 of the ballots (in the artists own handwriting), go to Rolling Stone's website.

Bruce Springsteen

1. Ray Charles
2. Sam Cooke
3. Bob Dylan
4. John Lennon
5. Aretha Franklin
6. Little Richard
7. Jerry Lee Lewis
8. Mick Jagger
9. Van Morrison
10. Roy Orbison
11. Johnny Rotten
12. Hank Williams
13. Elvis Presley
14. Darlene Love
15. James Brown
16. Sam Moore
17. Brian Wilson
18. Smokey Robinson
19. Howlin' Wolf
20. Joe Strummer
    

B.B. King

1. Sammy Davis, Jr.
2. Frank Sinatra
3. Sarah Vaughn
4. Ella Fitzgerald
5. Howlin' Wolf
6. Lonnie Johnson
7. Bobby Bland
8. Johnny Adams
9. Sam Cooke
10. Luther Vandross
11. Nat King Cole
12. Bonnie Raitt
13. Willie Nelson
14. Ray Charles
15. Dinah Washington
16. Aretha Franklin
17. Whitney Houston
18. Etta James
19. Gladys Knight
20. Barry White
    

Keith Richard

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Jimmy Cliff
3. Sam Cooke
4. Buddy Holly
5. George Jones
6. Willie Nelson
7. Toots Hibbert
8. Aaron Neville
9. Muddy Waters
10. Gram Parsons
11. Ronnie Spector
12. Mavis Staples
13. Otis Redding
14. Smokey Robinson
15. Tom Waits
16. Little Richard
17. Warren Zevon
18. Bonnie Raitt
19. Elvis Presley
20. Keith Richard

Alice Cooper

1. Paul McCartney
2. Ray Charles
3. Mick Jagger
4. Brian Wilson
5. John Lennon
6. Freddie Mercury
7. Elvis Presley
8. Bob Dylan
9. Smokey Robinson
10. Steven Tyler
11. Stevie Wonder
12. Paul Simon
13. Laura Nyro
14. Chuck Berry
15. Joe Cocker
16. Levon Helm
17. Frankie Valli
18. Dionne Warwick
19. Jim Morrison
20. Van Morrison

Solomon Burke

1. Sam Cooke
2. Aretha Franklin
3. Ruth Brown
4. Jackie Wilson
5. Little Richard
6. Christina Aguilera
7. Donny Hathaway
8. Nina Simone
9. James Taylor
10. Alicia Keys
11. Bette Midler
12. Roy Orbison
13. Irma Thomas
14. Patti LaBelle
15. Mick Jagger
16. Beyonce
17. India.Arie
18. Patsy Cline
19. Tammy Wynette
20. Celine Dion
    

Merle Haggard

1. Lefty Frizzell
2. Jimmy Rodgers
3. Chuck Berry
4. Jerry Lee Lewis
5. Elvis Presley
6. Carl Perkins
7. Bob Dylan
8. Conway Twitty
9. Buddy Holly
10. Fats Domino
11. Little Richard
12. Jimmy Reed
13. Roy Orbison
14. Beatles
15. Johnny Cash
16. Hank Williams
17. Louis Armstrong
18. Nat King Cole
19. B.B. King
20. Bob Wills