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Best Answer: "Old Man River" http://www./watch?v=eh9WayN7R... The typical published key is C major--which may a bit high for you. However, if you try a digital source for sheet music, you can always transpose it down to really show off your low notes and still ring out on the "high" notes. However, don't transpose down just for the sake of transposing it down--it still needs to sounds musical! If you aren't Black, don't worry about it too much. Frank Sinatra didn't, but his cover was kind of cringingly bad (What was the studio THINKING? What's with all the white?). I keep thinking Frank is trying hard not to laugh. http://www./watch?v=xTnw_MmVp... Here is Judy Garland--wrong sex, wrong voice type, but the right spirit-- http://www./watch?v=Cv_Ryrj6x... Other bass songs-- "Hurt" Nine-Inch Nails, Johnny Cash version http://www./watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related "16 tons" Tennesee Ernie Ford http://www./watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw "Ghost Riders in the Sky" http://www./watch?v=zyDNnQbbkSQ&feature=related Anything Barry White songs including this: http://www./watch?v=M-XKt483vzY&feature=related "O Isis und Osiris" from the opera "Die Zauberflote" (The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart http://www./watch?v=K_IaJDqz2Zo&feature=related (English language versions are out there) "Largo al Factotum" (Figaro) --From Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (requires a good "top"--often also sung by baritones--this is a Russian bass) http://www./watch?v=K1u3Ozi0Dkw&feature=related Here he is doing a typical Russian bass thing--you always a kick-*** bass part in Russian choral music http://www./watch?v=ZO2V4PEMBYI&feature=related If you google, you can come up with all sorts of music. There seems to be the most bass music in country and classical genres--don't ask why. Trace Adkins--Honkytonk Badonkadonk You don't say why you want these songs--if you plan to perform them for a particular function or audience, that goes into your song choice. You can feel free to transpose down any music you like to fit your own voice---except for actual opera arias and a few other classical works. However even "art songs"--classical songs composed as stand alone works (or part of a "cycle") can be transposed for high or low voices.    |
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