you already Know the King of Music Michael Jackson is the 1.

thinking about it Kenny "Babyface" Edmunds dominated middle part of the 80's and early 90's and has put his music into every style and been successful in all phases of entertainment.

matter of fact in Indiana there is Highway named after him.

Face did it all. the Brother kept the WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Babyface has done music, film and tv composed in diffrent genries and counted for a long long time.

very few of babyface's are.

>very few of babyface's are.
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perhaps i overstated.

obviously, babyface has a very long list of hit songs.

still

at his best, i don't think he's in cole porter's league.

I can't name 1 let alone 5 Cole Porter songs off the top of my head.

let's do it, let's fall in love
night and day
love for sale
i get a kick out of you
too darn hot
don't fence me in
what is this thing called love?

just for starters

you may not know them as cole porter's work, but he wrote musicals featuring these songs that went on to become standards as performed by miles davis, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, frank sinatra, rosemary clooney.. really, a host of talent.

my opinion is that porter's songs are better lyrically AND melodically.

the fact that a great many of his songs have become standards speaks to cole porter's importance.

I firmly believe it's almost impossible to make that song unenjoyable, it's one of those songs where it's all about the skeleton of it. You can throw any sort of skin and tissue on top to make it come alive but the basic blueprint is always going to shine through and carry it.



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Face got bigger hits as well Boyz 11 Men ain't singing no Scarecrow or COntrol to eat every night.

Mofo's sleep on the power of Babyface.

We had to pull up his wiki page to prove to people how much he ran that era







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and turkeys in denial until you go back and hear he did that song and he did that song and then so on and so fourth.

Babyface got Hits like Wilt Chamberlin Hit Bed Sprangs but turkeys ain't trying to hear that.

the last 80s and the early 90s, the competition was between babyface and jam & lewis.

both were hit-making machines, with probably teddy riley a distant third.