# Who will be our living musical legend now that Ray Charles & Johnny Cash are gone?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 10, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720 "2004-06-10T21:59:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720/61 "2004-06-11T22:20:01Z")

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Worth mentioning: Dick Dale, father of the “surf guitar”.

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**Author:** ![VirginiaPlain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/2bfe46/32.png) [@VirginiaPlain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VirginiaPlain)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720/62 "2004-06-11T22:25:10Z")

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Burt Bacharach

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720/63 "2004-06-12T00:13:36Z")

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Ricky Martin- the man singlehandedly revolutionized… Ricky Martin.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720/64 "2004-06-12T00:49:59Z")

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Why hasn’t anybody mentioned Michael Jackson?

Oh, wait . . .

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**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-our-living-musical-legend-now-that-ray-charles-johnny-cash-are-gone/249720/65 "2004-06-12T02:09:54Z")

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Chubby Checker

Fats Domino

Jerry Jeff Walker

Frankie Valli

Bobby Vinton  
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