Posted on 06/10/2017 7:03:58 PM PDT by MNDude
A few weeks ago we had a thread with a subject of who the greatest male vocalist ever were. There were many great comments on that thread. So for tonight, I am asking who do you think are the three greatest female vocalists ever?
Sonja Kristina of Curved Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnjMI81vAA
Curved Air is probably better known as the band Stewart Copeland was in before joining The Police.
One of my little guys, a 3rd grader w/ autism, knows the words to all popular music. He will just burst into song sometimes. He & I would sing Adele’s “Hello” together. He is going to the intermediate next year & he is so loving & with such a great sense of humor that I will miss him like crazy.
The DailyMail certainly does:
Care home residents sing for Dame Vera Lynn´s 100th birthday
Video: Dame Vera Lynn thinks back over 'how slim I was'
Video part 2: Dame Vera Lynn reminisces over her famous 'we'll meet again'
Singer Vera Lynn, voice of hope in wartime Britain, turns 100
She's 100! Britain marks singer Vera Lynn's landmark day
Enjoy!!!
Veraaaahhh, Veraaaahhhh....what has become of you?
Now we know...
Whitney Houston
Joni Mitchell
Steven Tyler (Heh)
My top two.
Then Annie Lennox
Good choice.
Strangely sexy too.
I loved her early work so very, very much. When I was younger and my voice had range, I sang her songs over and over throughout the 70s, and staged some of them. She told stories. But the woman has a soul sickness that has never gone away, and after awhile I could no longer listen to the yearning, mourning, suffering and so on, regardless of the musical virtuosity which was and is unrivalled in the auteur category. But I must admit, when I heard her reprise rendition of "Both Sides Now" in the 2003 film Love Actually, her years-later voice deepened and roughened by decades of cigarette smoking, I was destroyed to sobbing. It was the background music in the scene where Emma Thompson, playing a happy mom, discovers that her husband played by Alan Rickman was cheating on her. It is Christmas Eve, so she wipes her tears and puts on a brave face for the children. Devastating; and would not have been nearly so if not for Joni's ragged voice and my memory of how it used to be. Hit me like a truck.
Yeah, to me her voice sounds like a smile, and just pleasant to listen to.
I never got Annie Lennox but a lot of people do. Wasn’t a Eurythmics fan which probably influenced my thoughts on her voice.
I’ve always thought that when God created the female singing voice, He was thinking of Patsy Cline.
The cast was Andrews as Guenevere, Richard Burton as King Arthur, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot. All these decades later, I've never gotten over being in the same room with three such incredible talents in one place at the same time.
Pardon me; I hadn’t read the whole thread yet and did not see that you were already hip to Minnie being Maya’s mother.
That’s a wonderful story! Good luck to him, and to you! Auties are special in so many ways. Maximize and optimize!
You’ve read Temple Grandin, right?
First two are easy — Ella and Aretha.
For number three I’ll say Candi Staton because of how she KILLS the bridge of this song:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=txOo9T1jn5Y
Just watched a few recent video videos on YouTube. She’s not the same singer, but she had a 40+ year career.
I'm glad I never heard that. I probably would have been devastated too. But then, these frail bodies aren't immortal.
None of us are what we once were. It's hard for me to listen to my own studio recordings from thirty years ago.
Karen Carpenter
What a sad story.
I read Rita Hayworth’s life story in various articles. Also sad.
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