Dusty Springfield on BBC2 and other great female singers.

Devil#20

Now that I've watched the abridged version of MotD, I've started watching DS on 2. Bit before my time but what a great voice. It was Dionne Warwick last week but Dusty knocks her into a cocked hat. There's been some good female vocalists in the last 20 years but few and far between. Most sound like the same generic pap that you get on one of those talent shows of Simon Cowell's. Listen to our entry for the Eurovison for a good example. 

So who's your faves?

 For me; Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Anne Wilson, Alison Goldfrapp, Kate Bush (lower register), Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Grace Slick, Maggie Bell, Carole King. 

BluesLover

You should be watching "women who rock" on sky arts channel.

scrumhalf

Sandy Denny. Who Knows Where The Time Goes is utterly fantastic.

MrTee

Bjork, Skin, Winehouse, Fiona Apple, Pink, PJ Harvey 

thecolourbox

I'll nominate (from last twenty years only)

Amy Winehouse

Laura Marling

Billie Eilish

Norah Jones

Joss Stone

scrumhalf

Linda Ronstadt. There was a documentary about her a couple of weeks ago, I'd forgotten how amazing her voice was. 

Jonathangus

Debbie Harry
Floor Jansen
Dolores O'Riordan
Joan Jett

munckee

The Soderburg sisters from First Aid Kit, Harriet Wheeler from the Sundays and Dolores O Riordan from the Cranberries all spring to mind. 

Kilgore

scrumhalf said:

Sandy Denny. Who Knows Where The Time Goes is utterly fantastic.

Sandy gets my vote. She doesn't have the vocal power of other vocalists. But her voice has a beguiling ethereal quality. If Sirens were real they would sound like Sandy Denny.

Funkfingers

Annie Lennox
Eddi Reader
Christine Collister
Judith Owen
"Mad" Lizzie Fraser
Joni Mitchell
Ella Fitzgerald

Nitefly

Madeleine Peyroux.

Kilgore

Patsy Cline
Janis Ian
Katie Melua

SidNewton

PJ Harvey
Bjork
Skin
St Vincent
Nina Persson

bertie

in addition to a lot that have already been mentioned

BonnieRaitt
Mrs Derek Trucks 


Mrs bert  was very very good at Dusty and Gladys Knight songs,  not bad at Annie Lennox and (alas) Tina Turner

blobb

Without doubt ......  Eileen Pratt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOQz5qeDfo 

Philly_Q

In the order they popped into my head:

Sandi Saraya
Thea Gilmore
Nina Gordon
Taylor Momsen
Amy Lee
Mary Magill
P J Harvey
Diana Leah
Grace Slick