Anvil Al #59168 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Some good ones listed for sure. And the gal in the OP is good also. But I got to throw a vote for Martina McBride. That gal can flat out sing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjTO5eAbZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic-YfB9zw8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Think my vote would go to Helen O'Connell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 But then. I like Beth Hart also. Then throw in Joe playing. It's hard to beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLR_bSzPTiY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgetop Rich - SASS#42606 Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Word was to get in the proper mood to sing the song In Your Room she insisted on recording it in a particular state. (difficult to get that out of your mind when listening to it) She is a very good example of a voice that can be "pretty," yet technically have what some consider problems, as it tends to be breathy and has an immature quality, at least in the Bangles' heyday. I've always enjoyed listening to her with the Bangles, particularly their early stuff, before getting caught up in the contractual pop stuff. She was, and is, also easy on the eyes. A friend saw her a couple of years back and said she has matured into "the world's hottest soccer mom." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Also on the list would be Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Martina McBride……….so many more…………... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Irish Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Judy Collins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Anne Murray if you want pure female vocal beauty. The finest voice of a female singer belongs to Anne Wilson of HEART! I don't think there is a note she can't hit and do it with power in all of the accepted female range and then some!! The woman with the most range was probably Julie Andrews before she became unable to sing. She could do all or part of six or seven octaves at one time. That is 40 plus white keys on the piano. That is also all of soprano, all of alto, all of tenor, and at least half of baritone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 No Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Karen Carpenter Tied for first place with Cass Elliot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGT. QUINCANNON, SASS #32999 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Linda Ronstadt always tugged my heartstrings when she sang- or when she just stood there lookin' lovely. Big brown eyes to die for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I miss the BIG BANDS https://youtu.be/m7wqCXURQUA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Some good names put up here. Karen and Cass, gone too soon. Linda, a shame that disease has silenced that voice. Rancocas, I miss the Big Bands,too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Eilen Jewell, "Queen of the Minor Key": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vKe_Q6FC0U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 my Wifes and my favorite waltz by Mandy Barnetthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-WQz5p3_E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Gun For Hire Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 This girl has talent, and I wish her well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hey Rancocas and Four Eyed Buck, how's this???? If you ain't tappin' yer foot to this well………….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossfire Brown Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I cannot pick just one, I barely can pick only three but they are: Patsy Cline, Martina McBride and Adele. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I stand with your dad, Backwater. I had an awful crush on her when I was a young squirt. Yes, Rich, I listened to the recording at the top. One of the best female voices, I thought, was a gal that got in trouble over some religious views and I believe it was Minute Made that cancelled her contract. She faded from view rather quickly but had a great voice. It is hard to limit any one thing to the best or greatest over all else. There are so many factors that enter into the equatsion. Each of us judge from a different perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgetop Rich - SASS#42606 Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 I guess its kind of like guns, you need one for every occasion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 My favorite female country singer, by far, is Shania Twain; "https://www.youtube.com/embed/-MdEg1ApQOk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnrrREV9_w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I miss the BIG BANDS https://youtu.be/m7wqCXURQUA ME TOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Our Father Daughter dance at her wedding reception was to Joan Jett Crimson and Clover. That was to special for me to be objective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgetop Rich - SASS#42606 Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Our Father Daughter dance at her wedding reception was to Joan Jett Crimson and Clover. That was to special for me to be objective. Sounds like you've got a pretty cool daughter Bugs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Kathy Mattea is at the top of my list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 All great choices except for Joplin no one I know ever called her voice pretty. I was unfortunate in college to see her in concert because my girl friend wanted to see her and I wanted ..... She was a mess so drunk she could barely stand and couldn't remember the words to the songs she was slurring. That was scarce money that was hard to earn for a poor college student Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Rye, Ella sure could Scat! As far as Linda goes, the wife and I wore out two copies of her Heart Like A Wheel album. My wife used to sing harmony with it. Emmylou was on that one as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Sounds like you've got a pretty cool daughter Bugs! I'm sure all fathers are proud of their daughters and I really do think mine is special. When she was born I was in the delivery room and they handed her to me, Awesome feeling. When I left the hospital and got in the car I turned it on and the radio came on playing the Tommy James version and it just seemed to fit. I don't hardly know her but I think I could love her, Crimson and Clover over and over. I told her about it once and years later she picked it as our dance. Today she works for Children's Miracle Network and has a little girl of her own. I'd say it worked out pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt John Dunbar Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Karen Carpenter Bingo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hoss Carpenter, SASS Life 7843 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Lots of great ones here; but even though I despise her politics, I dearly loved Joan Baez when I was in College in the early 60s! Some Days are Diamonds, some are Coal, and The Night They Drove Ole Dixie down! Emmy Lou Harris is my second choice. Cheers, Hoss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Then of course there's Reba Mcentire. Another is Becky Hobbs. But one that blew my away, is Gretchen Wilson singing "When I Think About Cheatin'." The first time I heard it, I was reading, with a Country Music video show on for background. Whet she started singing, I sat straight up and thought, "Oh my God!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Pepper Kid, SASS #60463 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Patsy Cline! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8 Here is Suzy Bogguss singing my favorite song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Sarah Brightman. She was married to Andrew Lloyd Weber, and he wrote many musicals for her voice for Broadway. Her CDs usually have some classical, some pop, some new age and some folk songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 All great choices except for Joplin no one I know ever called her voice pretty. I was unfortunate in college to see her in concert because my girl friend wanted to see her and I wanted ..... She was a mess so drunk she could barely stand and couldn't remember the words to the songs she was slurring. That was scarce money that was hard to earn for a poor college student I missed that one! I have to agree, not what I would call a pretty voice by a long shot, nor technically good. Soulful, but that is a different quality entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Another favorite is Julie Rogers singing "The Wedding" about 1965. Marvelous pipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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