The top women artists solo EVER

Phil.K

[Jakarta ex-pat]

OK. So which female artists NOT associated with duo, group etc would make your top 10. Here's mine..in no particular order

[BibChr]

Joni Mitchell

[dfwgator]

Oh I left out Basia.

[CSM]

Finally. I was beginning to doubt my fellow FReepers.

[greyfoxx39]

I like your list, particularly Diana Krall, but I would add Norah Jones to it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Joan Baez (hate the politics/love the music)

Ditto...and ditto.

Joni Mitchell

I was never a huge fan of her performing style but,as a songwriter,she was an absolute genius.

[scory]

Marion Anderson

Ella Fitzgerald

[dfwgator]

I liked Joni’s “Shadows and Light” because her band included a very young Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and the late, great Jaco.

[posterchild]

I first heard Palya Bea while travelling last year. Wish i would have brought back a CD.

[irishtenor]

Sarah Brightman, then my wife.

[Kandy Atz]

Thank you for Norah. I was going to add both her and Dido. I enjoy both their voices and can listen to their music all day.

[Fiji Hill]

Some of my favorites (with representative recordings):

1. Vera Lynn (We'll Meet Again, 1939)

2. Anne Shelton (Blues in the Night, 1942)

3. Ruth Etting (Mean to Me, 1929)

4. Marion Harris (I'm Funny That Way, 1930)

5. Vaughn De Leath (I Want to be Loved By You, 1928)

6. Jo Stafford (No Other Love, 1950)

7. Laverne Baker (Voodoo, Voodoo, 1958)

8. Dorothy Collins (My Boy, Flat Top, 1955)

9. Katherine Smith(Stay as Sweet as You Are, 1934)

10. Ann Cole (In the Chapel, 1956)

[absolootezer0]

i’d start with judy garland, aretha franklin, ella fitzgerald, sarah vaughn..

carpenter’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[mad_as_he$$]

Pre Bobby.

[CSM]

Is Vera Lynn mentioned in one of Pink Floyd’s tracks from “The Wall?” I could never figure out what that was about, but if my suspicion is true then I feel a light bulb turning on.....

[posterchild]

ditto on Dido.

[stainlessbanner]

Love Big Momma’s music...Hounddog is perfect

[fieldmarshaldj]

Miss Dionne Warwick. ‘nuff said.

[irishtenor]

For those of you who are not familiar with Sarah Brightman, she was the original voice for Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
As for my wife, she last sang at Carnegie Hall.

[Fiji Hill]

Laura Nyro’s “Wedding Bell Blues” was a hit in Southern California in December of 1966, but doesn’t seem to have caught fire anywhere else. Her version is superior to the Fifth Dimension’s, which came out about three years later and went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

[stainlessbanner]

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn.