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Post by zigzagwanderer on Sept 22, 2010 22:42:00 GMT
Watched a thing on Sky arts tonight about Dusty Springfield:
My God that girl could sing..what a voice.
So, shall we have a list or what?
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Post by penny on Sept 23, 2010 0:05:20 GMT
I will get it in the neck again no doubt, but to me k.d. lang has a superb voice.
Cant put any links from youtube because I wouldn't know how to.
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Post by Ginnie on Sept 23, 2010 1:00:40 GMT
List? I wouldn't go there... might upset the Missus... Growing up in the sixties, I always like Dionne Warwick believe it or not! Do you know the way to San Jose...... but through the years these are some of my favourites - Janis Joplin, Maggie Bell, Nico, Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane period only please), The Wilson Sisters (of Heart)... some more recent - Liz Phair, Joan Osborne Nico's works are haunting and unforgettable. If you're not familiar with her, she used to sing with the Velvet Underground and went on to make many solo albums. Once considered the most beautiful woman in the world, she ended up tragically dieing of a drug overdose. ...with the Velvet Underground: And solo: [youtube] www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4O-pFehRs&feature=fvst [/youtube] |
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Post by Catherine on Sept 23, 2010 6:56:44 GMT
KD Lang; Heather Duby (only on one track on a Tim Buckley compilation/tribute album Sing a Song for You)
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Sept 23, 2010 17:09:38 GMT
annie lennox an fay fife........good homegrown talent
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Post by penny on Sept 23, 2010 18:49:16 GMT
annie lennox an fay fife........good homegrown talent We've got Charlotte Church.   |
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Post by Mrs Foster on Sept 23, 2010 20:00:32 GMT
Sharleen Spitteri, what a pair of lungs on her ;D
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Post by zigzagwanderer on Sept 23, 2010 20:26:17 GMT
Ginnie;
I'm a fan of those you mention. Grace Slick(as you say, Jefferson Airplane period) , Janis Joplin and Maggie Bell in particular.
Joan Armatrading is also well worth a mention.
Big Mama Thornton anybody?:-
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Post by penny on Sept 23, 2010 20:33:42 GMT
Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday........and now Big Momma Thornton.....WOW!! Thanks for this ZZW!
Must tell my youngest Sarah about BMT, she will love her.
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Post by Ginnie on Sept 23, 2010 21:00:51 GMT
I forgot about some of the great singers like Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thorton, Etta James....
and listen to this!
Koko Taylor
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Post by stuart on Sept 27, 2010 18:59:55 GMT
Duffy Bishop
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Post by zigzagwanderer on Sept 27, 2010 21:43:40 GMT
Listening to The SAHB Story (radio Scotland) and they were talking to Lulu about watching Alex performing shout when she was a kid so I thought I'd post this:-
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Post by Ginnie on Sept 27, 2010 22:19:33 GMT
Geesh, so many people have done that song, I didn't know Lulu did too.
Actually I love it in the movie "To Sir With Love" when Lulu sings that song.
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Post by zigzagwanderer on Sept 28, 2010 19:04:43 GMT
The remarkable PJ Harvey:-
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Post by Catherine on Sept 28, 2010 19:12:45 GMT
Sheesh!! I'd forgotten about Dusty Springfield and Maggie Bell - I don't care if never hear or see Marie MacDonald Lawrie again - a poor ambassador for Glasgow 
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Post by zigzagwanderer on Sept 28, 2010 19:22:32 GMT
'Twas only the reference to Alex that caused me to put Lulu on the thread Catherine.
A confession..I had to google Marie MacDonald Lawrie..I had no idea that was Lulu's name.
Where's the dunce emoticon?
Have you tubed the opening post for 'Dusty' It only seems right that she's present as it were!
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Post by Catherine on Sept 29, 2010 10:10:08 GMT
'Twas only the reference to Alex that caused me to put Lulu on the thread Catherine. A confession..I had to google Marie MacDonald Lawrie..I had no idea that was Lulu's name. Where's the dunce emoticon? Have you tubed the opening post for 'Dusty' It only seems right that she's present as it were! ARF!! Sorry ZeeZee!!! They tried SO hard to make Lulu sound as if she was from some kind of uppercrust background, they insisted on using her mother's maiden name AND her father's surname AND pronouncing the "Marie" as "Maaaarry" (rhyme with Barry) a la Gaelic - that did it for me!!!!!! Dusty was always sensational - well her vocals and eye make up were |
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Post by caveman on Oct 28, 2010 11:05:28 GMT
Fontella Bass, Rescue Me, absolute classic, Bonnie Raitt singing anything, Joan Baez singing Joe Hill at Woodstock still makes the hair on the back of my neck rise. Alanis Morisette, troubled but good, can't leave out Madge, global superstar and for me the original Sugababes, quirky, original and talented as opposed to the "diet" sugababes that are now quite rightly disappearing down the plughole!!!
As for Lulu, heard a wee story about her a few years ago, it seems she is a bit of a diva and loves to make every buggers life a misery when she's on TV/stage etc, well she was alledgedly being nasty to all in the studio and seems to like nothing better than reducing someone to tears, so she was gonna be interviewed and then sing, so she was all "miked up" for the interview part and was being nasty to all and sundry and then had to go answer a call of nature, now suffice to say it wasn't a pee, and she had quite a lot of wind coz she still had her radio mike on and the sound guy played it through the speakers in the studio much to the amusement of all who the aforementioned Lulu had been giving a hard time, well it lifted the mood of all and Lulu was getting really ratty coz no-one was upset, they just laughed and walked away, i was told this by the lighting guy that was on the set that day, is it true, dunno, i hope so!!!
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Post by Catherine on Nov 5, 2010 20:36:44 GMT
Maggie Bell
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Post by caveman on Nov 12, 2010 16:36:47 GMT
Lady Gaga. oh shit wrong thread!!!!
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Post by ian on Nov 14, 2010 15:08:38 GMT
Saw this chick 'nail' a cover of Stairway to Heaven on a BBC webcast I was watching some weeks back.
Don't really know much about her but started watching a few Youtoob vids and must admit I'm quite impressed.
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Post by zigzagwanderer on Dec 27, 2010 18:37:07 GMT
Following my post on the what ya listening to thread:-
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Post by Catherine on Jan 1, 2011 10:40:53 GMT
Alison Moyet, on Jools' Hootenanny last night/this morning...........she is HALF the woman she was - and I'm afraid didn't sound quite as good as she used to - but she's thin!!!
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Post by ian on Apr 30, 2011 21:15:09 GMT
With a nod to previous mentions of Grace Slick... Here's another Grace... quite amazing in fact |
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Post by Mrs Foster on May 1, 2011 17:55:26 GMT
Sensational voice
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