For her Frank Sinatra cover album Let's Be Frank, Yearwood used the same Telefunken U47 Sinatra did.

For the album, Yearwood recorded the timeless tracks live with an orchestra at the iconic Capitol Records building in Hollywood using Sinatra’s microphone and sitting on the same stool where he sat while recording the originals.

Used on "Time of the Season", as mentioned in this February 2016 Sound on Sound article.

For the vocal on ‘Time Of The Season’, Blunstone used a Telefunken U47.

In an Instagram post by @dpowtermusic, Daniel Powter is depicted using the Telefunken U47 microphone during a night studio session in Los Angeles, highlighting its role in his vocal recordings.

"At one point, instead of being in a vocal booth, she came out and stood right there with the orchestra, à la Frank Sinatra. She was amazing. I used a Neumann U67 on her voice, along with just 2dB of a Summit limiter and a Neve 1073 preamp. I like the 67 a lot, it seems to work well on vocals, and with her it worked really well. When her father recorded 'Unforgettable', he used a 47, and the 67 matched up pretty well with that."

— Al Schmitt on the recording of Natalie Cole's cover of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable", in this Sound On Sound article

The U47 is also visible in this photo.

The leakage on Heartbreaker is good leakage, 'cause it was a nice room,” he stresses. "It was a [Neumann] 67 on the guitar and a 47 on his voice, and two 67s on the drums and a [AKG] D12 on the bass drum. But most of the drum sound you're hearing — probably about 70 percent — is coming through the guitar and the vocal.

Used as a drum overhead on Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century, as recounted by sound engineer "Bones" Howe in this February 2004 Sound on Sound interview.

"I set them up in a square, one in each corner of an imaginary room in the studio, close together, all facing the centre of the square. I had set up the microphones before they got there: I had an RCA 77 on Ornette's alto sax — the white plastic one he was notorious for playing — and a 77 on Don Cherry's pocket trumpet, a Telefunken U47 on Charlie's bass, and the drums were miked with a U47 as an overhead and a 77 over the hat and snare. We were recording live to mono and two-track at the same time. I liked this setup so much that I made sure I wrote it down, and I still have that setup sheet to this day. I would use it to record a lot of albums."

Cristiano Malgioglio is seen performing "Chi lo sa" at the Radio Subasio offices using a Telefunken U47 microphone, which enhances the richness and presence of his vocal tone, as evidenced by the video shared on Facebook.

Used on Just the Blues, as mentioned in this Sound on Sound interview with producer Bruce Swedien.

Telefunken U47

"I still have one of the two U47s that I bought new in 1953, and will still frequently be first choice on lead vocal. This is a mic that can be used on a ballad or on a very aggressive rock track. It has a slight peak in its frequency response at around 7kHz, which gives it a feeling of natural presence. It also has a slight peak in the low end around 100Hz. This gives it a warm, rich sound. For Joe Williams, another mic would never have worked as well. I figured out that it was the mic for him when I heard him speak. After you've been doing this for as long as I have, you begin to have instinctive sonic reactions, and it saves a lot of time!”

Hear it on... Joe Williams in the Count Basie Band's Just The Blues

A Capitol Records Telefunken U47 is visible in this photo of MacFarlane. It is depicted in the artwork for Music Is Better Than Words and In Full Swing.

Used for Staples' vocals on Gorillaz's "Let Me Out", among other songs, as mentioned by recording engineer Stephen Sedgwick in this July 2017 Sound on Sound interview about the production of Humanz.

When we recorded Mavis Staples at CRC in Chicago I asked what mic they like to use on her, and it’s a Telefunken U47, so that’s what I used.

Used for the vocals on “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“All the vocals we recorded with the Telefunken U47 through the VLC tube preamp into the Pultec EQ and finished off with the Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A. Too many tubes? Take a listen to the results and you tell me.”