# Duets between two male singers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 19, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878 "2005-06-19T03:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/1 "2005-06-19T03:52:58Z")
It seems like when a duet is sung, in pop music, it’s almost always between a man and a woman. The contrast of high and low voices has led to this being the norm, I guess, plus the fact that most duets tend to be romantic love songs. Besides that song between Peter Cetera and Terry Kath by Chicago (can’t remember what it’s called,) are there any other male-male duets? ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/2 "2005-06-19T04:01:21Z")
David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing “Little Drummer Boy” on Bing’s Christmas special. Their performance is cool on many levels. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/3 "2005-06-19T04:09:50Z")
> [@Leroy Brown](#): > > Their performance is cool on many levels. You misspelled “oh-so-wrong”… 😃 For that matter, David Bowie and Mick Jagger (snerk) on the late-80s remake of “Dancin’ in the Streets”. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/4 "2005-06-19T04:11:14Z")
Jimmy Buffet and Frank Sinatra did the best version of Mack the Knife out there. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/5 "2005-06-19T04:13:17Z")
Better than Bobby Darin? Frank did a bunch of duets with rock stars like Bono in the early 1990s. His voice was gone by then. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/6 "2005-06-19T04:32:28Z")
My fantasy duet would be Donald Fagin of Steely Dan with a young, high-voiced singer like Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. Not sure what song they would do, but that contrast of voices would be amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/7 "2005-06-19T04:37:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > You misspelled “oh-so-wrong”… 😃 That’s the beauty of it! It’s the only Christmas video I like because of the “WTF?” factor, and it’s not a bad song to boot. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/8 "2005-06-19T04:39:22Z")
Are we including musical theatre? If so, I’ll throw in Agony from Into the Woods, just to start. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/9 "2005-06-19T04:48:41Z")
There’s this Montreal band that’s bouncing around the indie scene now called The Unicorns. On their album “Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone”, they have several male duets that are kind of tongue-in-cheek. One of the catchier ones is “I Was Born A Unicorn” which has a hilarious back-and-forth between their two lead singers. [The video](http://www.alien8recordings.com/iwasborn.php3) ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/10 "2005-06-19T04:51:14Z")
Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson did “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/11 "2005-06-19T05:02:18Z")
“Ebony and Ivory” Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder “The Girl is Mine” McCartney and Michael Jackson And there aren’t many female duets either, the only one I can think of is Barbra Streisand and Donna Summers “No More Tears.” ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/12 "2005-06-19T05:12:18Z")
> [@Soylent Gene](#): > > Better than Bobby Darin? > > Frank did a bunch of duets with rock stars like Bono in the early 1990s. His voice was gone by then. 1994, this one. I’ve always preferred his older voice. Less range, less power, but a lot more control. You heard _Angel Eyes_ on the 80th birthday album? > [@Leroy Brown](#): > > That’s the beauty of it! It’s the only Christmas video I like because of the “WTF?” factor, and it’s not a bad song to boot. I saw a version of Little Drummer Boy with _Clay freaking Aiken_ greenscreened and mixed with Bing. That moment I swore off American Idol. Forever. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/13 "2005-06-19T05:24:38Z")
Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” alternates lines sung by Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton. Elvis Costello’s “From a Whisper to a Scream” is a nifty duet with Glenn Tillbrook. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/14 "2005-06-19T05:29:18Z")
Philip Bailey and Phil Collins had a hit with _Easy Lover_. Micheal Jackson and Stevie Wonder did _Just Good Friends_ and another song I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/15 "2005-06-19T05:30:52Z")
> [@Pashnish Ewing](#): > > Micheal Jackson and Stevie Wonder did _Just Good Friends_. I really shouldn’t find that so amusing (if only for Stevie’s sake) considering the recent…unpleasantness… ---
**Author:** ![boofuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@boofuu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofuu)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/16 "2005-06-19T05:44:06Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > … > “The Girl is Mine” McCartney and Michael Jackson I thought the OP asked for MALE duets. One could reasonably argue against this pairing. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/17 "2005-06-19T06:53:17Z")
> [@boofuu](#): > > I thought the OP asked for MALE duets. One could reasonably argue against this pairing. And one could reasonably argue that making one more “Michael Jackson is effiminate” joke is so far beneath the standards of this board that the person making it ought to resign in shame right now. But I digress. _Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart_ by Elton John and Ru Paul. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/18 "2005-06-19T06:56:38Z")
Willy Nelson and Toby Keith - Beer for my Horses ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/19 "2005-06-19T07:05:53Z")
Jackson & McCartney ( **boofuu** ’s protest notwithstanding) later had another duet, “Say Say Say”. David Bowie also turns up in “Under Pressure” with Queen (with Freddie Mercury, of course…that counts, doesn’t it?). There’s also “Don’t Fight It” with Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry (of Journey). I just have to also include the cover of the Scorpions’ “Blackout” by Six Feet Under with John Bush (of Anthrax). D ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/20 "2005-06-19T07:10:16Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > And one could reasonably argue that making one more “Michael Jackson is effiminate” joke is so far beneath the standards of this board that the person making it ought to resign in shame right now. But I digress. I think I love you, **Otto**. As for the OP, Ozzy has done songs with Lemmy Kilmister, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, and Peter Steele. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878.md?page=2)