# 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:** 2
**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, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/21 "2005-06-19T07:11:57Z")
> [@Dahnlor](#): > > (with Freddie Mercury, of course…that counts, doesn’t it?) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/22 "2005-06-19T07:20:37Z")
Jimmy Somerville(formerly of Bronski Beat and later the Communards) did a duet with Marc Almond(of Soft Cell) on a cover of **I Feel Love/Johnny Remember Me**. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/23 "2005-06-19T07:22:54Z")
_The Weeping Song_ - Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/24 "2005-06-19T07:24:03Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > :rolleyes: I think you’re jumping to conclusions. He could have meant that he questioned the male duet status as it was David Bowie with Queen, not David Bowie with Freddie Mercury and Queen. While it is two men singing, is it a duet if it is an outside performer singing with the band and their lead singer? I think that’s nebulous. Though didn’t David Bowie duet with Marilyn Manson on **I’m Afraid of Americans**? ---
**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, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/25 "2005-06-19T07:25:04Z")
You could very well be right, and if I so, I promptly apologize to **Dahnlor**. ---
**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, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/26 "2005-06-19T07:32:46Z")
Oh, and thank you for pointing that out, **Mockingbird**. I need to give myself one of these: :rolleyes: Back to the OP, Eminem and Elton John did a duet of “Stan.” ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/27 "2005-06-19T07:40:26Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > You could very well be right, and if I so, I promptly apologize to **Dahnlor**. Of course, if I’m wrong I’ll be suffering similar occular damage. ---
**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, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/28 "2005-06-19T07:45:19Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > Oh, and thank you for pointing that out, **Mockingbird**. I need to give myself one of these: :rolleyes: > > Back to the OP, Eminem and Elton John did a duet of “Stan.” Does it sound as awful as it sounds? (heh.) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/29 "2005-06-19T10:10:02Z")
Chef and Elton John singing “Love Gravy”. Actually, a few years back Jules Shear did an entire album, called [Between Us](http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/210813/julesshear?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1), of songs that he specifically wrote to be duets. (In the liner notes he complains that most duets could just be one singer songs, as there isn’t really any difference in perspective in the two parts- the lyrics are just arbitrarily split between the two singers. He wanted to write songs in which the singers could sing back and forth to each other each with a different point of view.) There are some great guest vocalists on this album, about third of them are male. One of the highlights of the album is a song called “Revenge”, a duet between Jules Shear and Freedy Johnston. The song is a conversation between two guy friends when one has just been hurt by a woman. It’s a pretty intense emotional song. > [@](#): > > She hurts you and > In Revenge > You kill a fifth. > But that only works in old movies > You know it’s just a myth His guy/guy duets with Ron Sexsmith and Curtis Stigers are also excellent. ---
**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, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/30 "2005-06-19T10:14:58Z")
> [@Stark Raven Mad](#): > > Does it sound as awful as it sounds? (heh.) Depends if you like rap, I guess? I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/31 "2005-06-19T10:17:32Z")
Ray and Dave Davies, ‘Hatred: A Duet.’ ---
**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, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/32 "2005-06-19T12:06:07Z")
Oh, I suppose if you wanted to get esoteric about it, you could include _Hey There_ from “The Pajama Game,” in which John Raitt duets with a Dictaphone recording of himself. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/33 "2005-06-19T12:24:05Z")
Tom Jones and Robbie Williams, ‘Are you gonna to go my way’ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/34 "2005-06-19T12:32:05Z")
“Perhaps Love” by Placido Domingo and John Denver should have killed the subgenre, but failed. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/35 "2005-06-19T12:33:30Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > Willy Nelson and Toby Keith - Beer for my Horses How about Willie and Ray Charles doing **Georgia On My Mind** if for no other reason than that their individual versions set the standard for how this song is to be done. Are we permitted to list those “two guy acts” like The Righteous Brothers? There’s got to be at least a dozen of them. Two that spring to mind as examples of the other extreme would be Sandler and Young. Man, could they murder music! ---
**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, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/36 "2005-06-19T13:16:11Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > As for the OP, Ozzy has done songs with Lemmy Kilmister, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, and Peter Steele. Not Frank. Perhaps you meant Dweezil Zappa. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/37 "2005-06-19T13:21:28Z")
Linkin Park has two singers. And Rob Zombie has done some duets, including _Brick House_ with Lionel Richie. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/38 "2005-06-19T13:39:44Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > And there aren’t many female duets either, the only one I can think of is Barbra Streisand and Donna Summers “No More Tears.” Streisand also did a duet with Celine Dion “Tell Him”. Hey, what about Bono and Sinatra doing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin?” ---
**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, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/39 "2005-06-19T13:43:52Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Not Frank. Perhaps you meant Dweezil Zappa. Yes, Dweezil! Thank you for correcting me. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878/40 "2005-06-19T13:45:08Z")
Elton John and George Michael did the ‘dont let the sun go down on me’ song. I’m not sure what the title is, although that is probably it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-between-two-male-singers/308878.md?page=3)