What is your favourite female vocal?

Great post. I look forward to hearing peoples favourites. Im stuck between two so sorry for cheating!! It would be either

Aretha Franklin on 'The House That Jack Built' or

Liz Frazer with This Mortal Coil on 'Song to the Siren' (Tim Buckley cover)

bretty:

Personally, I find female vocals more emotive and involving than male, in general (of course there are exceptions. Jeff Buckley, anyone?)

Picking one female track is more difficult than the male for me. However, I think it's gonna have to be

Jewel - 'Foolish Games'

 

Wow, that's a very difficult one. I will go with Sam Brown, "Stop!", and Amy Winehouse, I've just started getting into Elvis's wife, Diana Krall - amazing voice. I could listen to Alicia Keys all day. Play Dead by Bjork.

Gerrardasnails:

bretty:

Personally, I find female vocals more emotive and involving than male, in general (of course there are exceptions. Jeff Buckley, anyone?)

Picking one female track is more difficult than the male for me. However, I think it's gonna have to be

Jewel - 'Foolish Games'

 

Wow, that's a very difficult one. I will go with Sam Brown, "Stop!", and Amy Winehouse, I've just started getting into Elvis's wife, Diana Krall - amazing voice. I could listen to Alicia Keys all day. Play Dead by Bjork.

 Some good shouts there, mate.

'Play dead' was on my short list. Alicia keys' 'Butterflies' from 'Songs in A minor' is great too. 

Renee Fleming singing 'Russalka's Song To The Moon' from Dvorak's opera 'Russalka'. Divine singing.

Also, Joni Mitchell's 'Tin Angel' from the album 'Clouds' and Nina Simone singing 'Wild Is The Wind'.

"The Difficult Kind" by Sheryl Crow

Ball and Chain  Janis Joplin

Duffy and Mercy............................................

                            

anything karen carpenter ever sang,barbra steisand evergreen,liz fraser is a fantastic shout, any cocteau twins tune,miss aguilera beautiful,,amy lee broken ,haley williams when it rains,oh dear this is hard!

Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I wish I was your lover
Bjork - Venus as a boy
Margo Timmins - Misguided Angel

I am particularly fond of a well recorded Female Vocal, have loads no specific favorites but Natalie Merchant does spring to mind.

ooooh, so MANY! Probably my top five are:

Ella Fitzgerald

Nina Simone

Julie London

Aretha Franklin

Dusty Springfield

..and that's without Diana Krall, Eva Cassidy, Dinah Washington, Madeleine Peyroux, Keely Smith, Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse, Nancy Sinatra,  Tori Amos, Carole King, Carly Simon, Mama Cass, Suzanne Vega, Michelle Shocked,  KD Lang and more i've probably forgotten! 

 

 

idc:

Duffy and Mercy............................................

                            

 

personally i'd rather be fired from a cannon into a wall.

karen carpenter for me.

bretty:

Personally, I find female vocals more emotive and involving than male, in general (of course there are exceptions. Jeff Buckley, anyone?)

Picking one female track is more difficult than the male for me. However, I think it's gonna have to be

Jewel - 'Foolish Games'

 

Now you've done it ! You do realise everyone will now be scouring their record collections

I agree female vocalists are much more emotive and as such it's more difficult to pin down. Two that instantly spring to mind are Aretha Franklin - Say A Little Prayer and Ruby Andrews - Just Loving You.

Clare Newsome:

ooooh, so MANY! Probably my top five are:

Ella Fitzgerald

Nina Simone

Julie London

Aretha Franklin

Dusty Springfield

..and that's without Diana Krall, Eva Cassidy, Dinah Washington, Madeleine Peyroux, Keely Smith, Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse, Nancy Sinatra,  Tori Amos, Carole King, Carly Simon, Mama Cass, Suzanne Vega, Michelle Shocked,  KD Lang and more i've probably forgotten! 

 

 

Now come on, Mrs(?) Newsome, the threads called 'Favourite female vocal'! You can't just name all the women you like, you've got to narrow it down a wee bit! It's tricky, isn't it?

By the way, did you see Madeleine Peyroux on Jools, last night? First i'd heard of her, but the girl can sing.

Spacehopper:

bretty:

Personally, I find female vocals more emotive and involving than male, in general (of course there are exceptions. Jeff Buckley, anyone?)

Picking one female track is more difficult than the male for me. However, I think it's gonna have to be

Jewel - 'Foolish Games'

 

Now you've done it ! You do realise everyone will now be scouring their record collections

I agree female vocalists are much more emotive and as such it's more difficult to pin down. Two that instantly spring to mind are Aretha Franklin - Say A Little Prayer and Ruby Andrews - Just Loving You.

I know, Hopefully this thread will unearth some gems. It's good to get the ol' cogs turning every now and again!