Particularly blown away by Eddie Kendricks, Horace Andy and George Allison… (links attached to names).
Suggestions welcome…
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Ted Mills from Blue Magic:
Russell Thompkins from The Stylistics. Interesting clip because you hear his speaking voice at the start and then he sings lead at around 1.30
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Stepper classic from Leo Sayer…
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This leapt to mind:
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Soft soul falsettos sound even better with a slight lisp. Lead on this is the wonderfully-named Vince Unto:
One of my all-time favourites. The falsetto is mainly in the backing.
I really hope they had a dance routine that acted out putting on their winter clobber.
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Prince
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Another stepper/rare-groove classic, and catchy as hell…
Sweet Charles was bassist with the JB’s iirc.
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No apologies for the obviousness of this choice, I simply love this track and am happy for any opportunity to play it.
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A really lovely and rather sparse version of ‘I Love You For All Seasons’ by East of Underground. I really like the vocal delivery on this. The original was by female trio The Fuzz, and the guys here really surpass the original vocals.
The diggers amongst you will probably know the story behind this recording, but in case you don’t… East of Underground were a band comprised of members of the US Army special forces during the Vietnam war. In 1971 they recorded a bunch of tracks for an X-Factor-style US Forces radio competition, came second, then faded into obscurity until some enterprising digger came across a US Army DJ copy of the recordings and flogged it to the guys at Wax Poetics - and the rest, as they say, is history.
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I love Sweet Charles’ whisper-y version of Soul Man. Much better than the stompy original.
I saw him at the James Brown’s Funky People Revue at the Kentish Town Forum back in 1988. He may have even been wearing the same hat. I’ve still got the die-cut flyer somewhere.
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Love it! His delivery sounds quite a lot like Superfly-era Curtis Mayfield.
Here’s another classic stepper…
A very restrained performance by Freddie. And, mercifully, no guitar nonsense from Brian 
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Here’s a lovely sinuous and soulful version of the cock-rock anthem by AC/DC(!). It came out one of those Rewind comps of unusual cover versions that Ubiquity used to release.
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Kenny Bobien & Byron Stingily gotta get a mention.
Here’s another that has really grown on me>>>
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I was all ready to post some house singers that weren’t Byron Stingily or Kenny Bobien.
From New Jersey: David Tobin AKA Phoenix. He just does the sung parts here, and yes, he’s not that good but I like the rough edges:
From Chicago: Mikkhiel.
And in the third corner, from Redcar in Yorkshire. The next big thing … of 1990.
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I know that I’m a master of the blindingly obvious, but I feel that this thread wouldn’t be complete without at least one track from the falsetto masters that were the brothers Gibb.
Maybe not the best track from SNF (They’re probably the tracks without Bee Gees involvement), but this still sounds pretty good imho.
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Lets have some more Gibb then, theres this Luke Una fav:
I’ve always liked this Bee-Gees rework too:
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Barry’s little ditty as he reloads
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I know Sylvester is the obvious choice, but always like an excuse to post one of my favourite songs of his:
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