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?
Eva was an original artist who worked primarily as a "plant propagator" in a plant nursery, not as a singer.
Makes you wonder just how good you have to be to make it in the singing business.
Mildred Bailey.
Winifred Shaw.
Cecilia Loftus.
Pure voice: Beverly Sills, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dion Warwick.
Style: Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne, Judy Garland
Overall Entertainer: I do not like her politics, but it has to be Streisand. She has been awarded with at least one of every type of award a singer, stage actress, movie actress, song writer, director, or producer can get. And no one has been honored as much by groups, to name a few, the Kennedy Center, the AFI Lifetime achievement with four songs written or performed by her in the top one hundred in history........There’s a lot more. I do not agree with her politics or her apparent lack of information about her public stances, but she’s the best entertainer I’ve ever seen and right up there even surpassing Sinatra.
rwood
I heard Barbara live in the late '60s and her voice made the hair on my arm stand up and gave me chills. I will never forget. This is what those fortunate enough to also hear Ella live experienced too.
Does that surprise you?
No one has/had pipes like Anne Wilson in ‘Crazy on you’. The other names mentioned on this thread don’t come close.
Anne Haslam
Sandy Denny
Ronnie Spector
Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline and Nina Simone.
That’s AgNetha, with an N!
Sandy Denny, she’s the one who sang on Zep’s “The Battle of Evermore”, right?
When the moon comes over the mountain....
I see now she’s just a mixed up kid (or was) that video was from the nineties. Despite that, her debut album, Tidal, written when Apple was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single “Criminal”. I just watched it with the sound off (Wifey snoring next to me). Check out her vocals in Across the Universe. Just thought I’d toss her into the mix. Don’t know a whole lot about her personal life.
FINALLY! After200 plus posts someone gets it. Barbara as a pure voice stands there with Ella and Aretha. Thank you!
Suzanne Vega.
She did a wonderful duet with Pat DiNizio on the Smithereens’ “In a Lonely Place.”
Stunning! Thanks for posting it.
Lots of replies but guess I’ll add my two cents worth.
This is the official list! (Not counting opera singers who are in a class of their own.)
1. Barbra Streisand
2. Judy Garland (and Liza Minnelli in her prime)
3. Aretha Franklin & Bernadette Peters (tie)
Honorable Mention: Whitney Houston & Melissa Manchester
(Additional side note: Crossover voices such as Sarah Brightman and Charlotte Church are not included as they are in the operatic class group.)
My pleasure. Too few know of her. She died much too young.
Speaking of Melissa Manchester, that’s her singing on National Lampoon’s Deteriorata (”You are a fluke of the universe....”)
Hippy hippy chicks list
Melanie Safka
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin
Sarah MacLachlan.
“When She Loved Me” from ‘Toy Story 2’, makes me weep every time.
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