Favorite Girl Singer

[Art]

Well, certainly one of my favorites, the late great Donna Summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Glgzy_q2Zc

This is Summer in her later years.

There are some younger people we've unofficially adopted. One is a young lady who once had aspirations of a singing career. We showed her this video and she said "that is tight." I haven't heard anybody say "tight" in 50 years and then mostly from west coast guys I knew in the army but in this case it fits.

After she died Rush Limbaugh on his show said he'd met her when she sat next to him on a flight. Limbaugh said she was a lovely and gracious lady. She also had a great voice and could really sell a song.

[Allen]

She was my brothers favorite singer at the time.

Like the Bee Gee's though (and others) she turned to Disco which was an immediate turn off for me.

Everyone's music taste is different so I'm not being critical. For me I always liked a soft, feminine sound in girl singers like Olivia Newton John and Mary Hopkins though she sounds like a Disney chipmunk.

[bruce]

Linda Rhondstat. Never a bad note from her, much less a bad song. Annie Lennox. Just a superb vocalist in every respect. Also Joan Osborn. Really like her take on "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted." Sincerely. bruce.

[Tenboremag]

Patsy Cline.

[Phloating Phlasher]

From my time in France back in the 70's
Mirrielle Matthieu.

[5thDragoons]

Belinda Carlisle! SW

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[Doc Sharptail]

A tough question for me- I have a lot of faves.

For dynamic range (yes, that's a real thing) toss up between Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.

Somebody already mentioned Linda Rondstadt who not only sang her own, but was backing vocals on heck of a lot of other peoples records~ often uncredited. Solid work ethic there.

Of course Tina Turner, especially with some of her later material.

Wife and I had a greatest of Patsy Cline on cassette tape that got played an awful lot on long highway trips.

There's tons more worth mentioning...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Vern Humphrey]

My favorite is my daughter, Dr. Carolyn Humphrey.

[dogtag]

Julie London.

I like to remember these young Ladies as they were in their prime.
I don't need to see them in their nineties.
Give them the respect they earned.

[Johnny P]

Like a lot of them, but hard to beat this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anqjYUD0D0

[lyman]

Belinda Carlisle! SW

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they opened (Go Go's) for the Police, Ghost in the Machine tour

winter, snowed, we were late, so I only saw maybe 3 songs,

they were fantastic,,,,

[lyman]

lots of good or great women singers,

lots,


this one is the best, hands down,

and of course, that is simply my opinion,

been a fan since high school (class of 81)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKg5zXNjsI

[lyman]

another favorite, been listening to her (actually her band) for maybe 10 or 15 yrs,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZZOIBD0wA

[JimF]

Not necessarily my favorite, but . . . .
Who could forget Whitney Houston’s National Anthem rendition at a Super Bowl?

[bruce]

Re: Whitney Houston. Simply a remarkable vocalist. IIRC her range was about four octaves! Without a doubt few have or ever will match her. Sincerely. bruce.