Posted on 06/19/2015 5:55:09 PM PDT by Zeneta
While I have a handful or more favorites, I am curious who my fellow freepers elevate to the top of their list?
My list starts with;
Annie Lennox
Kate Bush
Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl)
And oddly enough
Cindi Lauper
There's soo many more.
Dolly Parton is right up there.
There you go. I’ll mention Mirielle Mathieu, I do like her “Marseillaise.”
Has Doris Day been mentioned?
And Chrissy Amphlett for prurient reasons.
Iris Dement (love her) and I love Grace Slick and Joplin too. I love Patti Smith too but I don’t really think of her as a “singer”
LOL, that’s excellent. Australia has the best place names...
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No, I regret nothing) (1961)
None of them can hang with rob hellford. Series
The B-52s chicks were hot, and they ROCKED. Love Shack, Quiche Lorraine and Rock Lobster are classics. Nobody made music like them before or since. It’s a unique sound.
Another one of those interesting might have been stories.
“Ella Fitzgerald.”
Good one, Ella rules!
Mary Chapin Carpenter!!!!!!
Christina Amphlett, Shirley Bassey, Astrid Gilberto, Dusty Springfield
And when I really needed to RELAX it was the Cocteau Twins. WAY underrated band!
Carolyn's fingers - Cocteau twins
Cocteau Twins- Love's Easy Tears Restored
Cocteau Twins CD's are a treasure.
Roberta Flack
Love it.
I was going to do a video with “Killing me Softly” that is overlaid with 0bama’s inauguration speech in 2013.
I went with this in the meantime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXjMgokqHxE
Or Peggy Lee.
Or Vicki Carr.
Or, for a different style, Nanci Griffith.
Beverly Bivens of WE FIVE and Beverly Bremers were both iconic vocalists of the sixties - seventies era. Robin Lamont of the Godspell cast was another strong voice of that time. All three could be derided as one-hit wonders but many talented vocalists never have any hit.
Wow! We need some of these in between reading about the brutal assaults on our liberty.
It’s cool seeing FReepers’ favorite female singer :)
So varied.
Cowboy Junkies?
Sweet Jane
The ability to not only listen, but to understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o
When I Get Low, I Get High--Chick Webb & His Orchestra, with Ella Fitzgerald (1936)
I’m stunned that no one has mentioned Coco Malaika of Quadron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5yuVKv2BM
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