Miss Joanna Newsom!
She swears it's not an affectation, she just sings like that. In case the harpischord is too distracting, you can try this.
Going over the list, we have one novelty act (Tiny Tim), one Beatle (hi Ringo!), and five songwriting geniuses/near-geniuses/evil geniuses (you may categorize according to your own preferences and tolerances). I guess the lesson to take from this is that if you are a genius songwriter you don't have to actually be able to sing to make your fortune as a singer.
This gets us into the question of whether the Beatles did a disservice to popular music by fixing the idea of the "singer/songwriter" in the music-listening public's consciousness. But we'll reserve that for another time.
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