Diana Ross.

Sade

Ella Fitzgerald

i shall just post this link, love this song sung by her.

natasha atlas

Dinah Washington

how the hell did barry white get in here?

perv,lol.

Alison Moyet

Pink

Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

Gladys Knight
Dianne Reeves
Phoebe Snow
Dinah Washington
Ella Fitzgerald
Julie London
Peggy Lee
Nina Simone
Bettye Lavette
Ann Nesby
Anita Baker
Jill Scott
Lizz Wright
Mavis Staples
Jocelyn Brown
Sharon Jones

Edit: Marion Montgomery & k d lang

at the risk of spamming you all. Have a cup of tea and listen to this...sooo nice

natasha atlas Adams lullaby

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Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

hmm, not doing it for me, maybe it's the technology.

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Originally posted by Gypsie:
at the risk of spamming you all. Have a cup of tea and listen to this...sooo nice

natasha atlas Adams lullaby

liking her.

quote:

Originally posted by JacksonB:

quote:

Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

hmm, not doing it for me, maybe it's the technology.

Really? It moved me to tears!

Anita Baker
Gladys Knight
Jennifer Holliday
Barbra Streisand
Ricki Lee Jones
Pink
Amy Winehouse
Chaka Khan
Fergie (not the princess )
Bjork

much the same effect on me and next door's cat....

quote:

Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

Fecking hell

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Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

I don`t know how rich she was but I gather she used her own money to make records and put on concerts.
People still dispute whether she was trying and failing or whether the whole thing was a joke.

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Originally posted by JacksonB:
much the same effect on me and next door's cat....

Believe it or not she made a fortune singing(?) like that!

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Originally posted by squiggle:
Going back a bit but speaking voices....

I like Lauren Bacall's speaking voice.

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Originally posted by brisket:

quote:

Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

I don`t know how rich she was but I gather she used her own money to make records and put on concerts.
People still dispute whether she was trying and failing or whether the whole thing was a joke.

I don't know much about her, Brisket, but listening to her made me chuckle. There was a West End play made about her life a year or so ago and with Maureen Lipman (I think) playing Florence

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Originally posted by brisket:

quote:

Originally posted by squiggle:
Going back a bit but speaking voices....

I like Lauren Bacall's speaking voice.

I'd quite like to speak like Joanna Lumley

quote:

Originally posted by Dame_Ann_Average:

quote:

Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

Fecking hell

see that was my initial reaction, then i thought oooer maybe avalon really likes her....

i chickened out and went all diplomatic.

quote:

Originally posted by JacksonB:

quote:

Originally posted by Dame_Ann_Average:

quote:

Originally posted by Avalon Moonlight:
Florence Foster Jenkins takes some beating

Listen and prepare to be enchanted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0ly2WTSlw

Fecking hell

see that was my initial reaction, then i thought oooer maybe avalon really likes her....

i chickened out and went all diplomatic.

I put it on there for folk to have a chuckle

i know everyne thinks the definitive version of this song belongs to mama cass, but can't touch doris.

dream a little dream of me.

A lot have already been mentioned

Macy Gray

I Try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6kY_I7rUiE

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Originally posted by JacksonB:
i know everyne thinks the definitive version of this song belongs to mama cass, but can't touch doris.

dream a little dream of me.

There's a beautiful clarity to her voice.

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Originally posted by squiggle:
Going back a bit but speaking voices, Glynis Johns, have never heard a voice like hers. She was in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And Fenella Fielding who was sound to have a voice like melted chocolate.

Have you never been to Wales Squiggle? Glynis' voice is not that unusual, but it is nice ...a bit reminiscent of Cerys Matthews - another interesting singing voice

I looooved Fenella Fielding's voice...she was great when she was doing all that comedy flirty stuff

Chrissie Hynde

Dusty

I love the lady blues singers, and the rest
Madelaine Peroux
Billy Holiday
Norah Jones
KD Lang
Alison Moyet
Amy Winehouse
Judy Garland
Bette Midler
Alice Faye ( When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up and be her)
Dusty
This list is for starters 'cos there are more I love.

Annie Lennox
Dusty Springfield
Mama Cass

Maggie

Martine Girault

shirley manson

I have to say that travelling back from Mahon on the local service bus last Thursday was 1980's deja vu - and the children just would NOT let me sing. **sulks**

Anyway ... the local radio station played a Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer song from the 80's - Enough is Enough. Bloody hellfire those two could hang on to a note like a Scotsman in the January sales....no immediate offence to any Scots members intended. I've already noted the remark about Glynis Johns.

Which also brings me to Miss Gloria Gaynor.

Now if we're talking speaking voices then Lauren Bacall and Honor Blackman have to be in the top ten.

Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' about a Revolution

Alanis Morisette - Thank U

Chrissie Hynde - Creep

Aretha Franklin - Say a little prayer

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Originally posted by DanceSettee:

quote:

Originally posted by squiggle:
Going back a bit but speaking voices, Glynis Johns, have never heard a voice like hers. She was in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And Fenella Fielding who was sound to have a voice like melted chocolate.

Have you never been to Wales Squiggle? Glynis' voice is not that unusual, but it is nice ...a bit reminiscent of Cerys Matthews - another interesting singing voice

I looooved Fenella Fielding's voice...she was great when she was doing all that comedy flirty stuff

Ooer I'm puzzled now, 'cos Glynis Johns didn't have a Welsh accent?

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Originally posted by Hypermnesia:
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' about a Revolution

Alanis Morisette - Thank U

Chrissie Hynde - Creep

Aretha Franklin - Say a little prayer

Would have to agree with you on all the above (but have to include Karen Carpenter too)

ooohhh! Some great singers in this thread!

Ella Fitzgerald
Ricki Lee Jones
Astrud Gilberto
Aretha for sure!
ermm..
Skin .. that woman can sing.
Janis Joplin
and Cleo Laine when she's not shooopbbedooowowing ( which isn't often)

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Originally posted by Tiaylis:

Would have to agree with you on all the above (but have to include Karen Carpenter too)

I would have added her too but had to go out

Here you go...We've only just begun

quote:

Originally posted by squiggle:


Ooer I'm puzzled now, 'cos Glynis Johns didn't have a Welsh accent?

yes she did, depends what film you saw her in as to how strong it was, it was just poshed up for an English film audience, like Anthony Hopkins and Burton did