Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    G'Day,
    
    	Depends on the mood.  If I want nice relaxing female music then
    Barbara Streisand is the way to go.  If I want something with a little
    more blast then it's pretty hard to beat Tina Turner.
    
    David.
    

    Jean Redpath, hands down.  Plus she sings the right songs :-)
    
    ('course, I believe I could listen to our own Justine Sullivan for a
    week or so, too :-)
    

    Linda Ronstadt - who can sing *anything* and make it work

    Janis Joplin - "Down on Me" is still one of the hottest tunes ever
    
    Melissa Etheridge - my first impression was 'the next Springsteen'.
    			(Yah, I know, weird.) So much energy, so much 
                        lyrical genius. 

    D. Warwick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
    
    REK

    
    Triona ni Dhomhnaill - an Irish singer, has sung with various groups
    such as the Bothy Band and most recently, Relativity.
    
    D.

    The person who sings lead for 10,000 maniacs....
    
    REK

>    The person who sings lead for 10,000 maniacs....
    
    	Natalie Merchant (sp?)

I love both Bonnie Raitt's and Joni Mitchell's voices and music.

john

    Suzanne Vega, Belinda Carlisle, Joni Mitchell, Melissa Etheridge, The
    lead singers from Brazil 66, The Indigo Girls, Deborah Harry...
    
    
    -Jody
    

    Sarah Vaughan
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Dinah Washington
    Carmen McRae
    Betty Carter
    Ernestine Anderson
    Nancy Wilson
    Dianne Reeves
    Cassandra Wilson
    
    							-mr. bill

    Stevie Nicks - love her voice, lyrics, music, and looks, love her
                   concerts
    Chrissie Hynes of the Pretenders - love her voice and songs
    Joan Jett -  great live act, lots of energy
    Heart - whichever Wilson sister has the great voice :-)
    Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) - great voice & energy
    Pat Benatar - really like some of her songs
    Aretha Franklin - fantastic voice
    Linda Ronstadt  - pretty voice
    Joan Baez       -  "      "
    Judy Collins    -  "      "
    Sinead O'Connor - growing on me
    
    Love all of the above but Stevie and Chrissie are *way* ahead of the
    rest!
    
    Lorna
    

Sin�ad O'Conner - I absolutely love her music, her attitude, her outlook, 
her philosophies, her politics, her style ...

Melissa Etheridge - What passion!  Can't wait to see her show next month.

Carla

    Annie Haslam was the lead singer for Renaissance - what a lilt she
    could summon!  What strength!
    
    -Jody
    

  Yeah -- All of those in 286.* plus...

    o Carly Simon
    o Billie Holiday (sp?)
    o Mary Travers   (along with her buddies Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey)
    o Annie <whats-her-name>, the "Renaissance" lead singer

                                   Atlant

    Jane Morgan
    Liza Minelli
    Billie Holliday
    
    E Grace

>    Annie Haslam was the lead singer for Renaissance - what a lilt she
>    could summon!  What strength!
 
Ditto.

Also

Annie Lennox (my heroine!)   
Melissa Ethridge
Arethra Franklin

Pat Benatar is great is concert.

D!

    
    Does anyone know the name of a new Brazilian singer who recently performed
    in Cambridge? I heard her on the radio but didn't get her name. I think
    both her first and last names begin with M. Sort of a combination of
    folk and rock music I think.
    
    D.

    
    Joke -> Chris Cornell (Ray might get this one)
    
    Real -> Well, I don't know too many but believe it or drop dead, I'd
    	    have to peg it as Enya.
    
    Lisa

    
    Etta James is my favorite by far.
    Others include;
    
           Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)
           Janis Joplin
           Ricki Lee Jones
           Bonnie Raitt
    
    Theses are just a few that drive me wild! ;-)
    
    -Joe
    

    	Lots of those mentioned previously, plus I have to add Kate
    Bush.  What a vocal range on that woman!

    	amy

    
    	Barbra Streisand - one of my favorite albums is the one of 
    				all the Broadway musicals.
    	Ann Wilson - such a powerful voice.
    	Alannah Myles - not one song on her album that I don't like.	
    			Beautiful, strong voice..the raspy kind.
    	Madonna - not as a person but I do like her voice.
    	Gloria Estafan - love her voice, her versatility in her music
    				and her strength for fighting so hard
    				to come back from her accident.
    	Cher - again not as a person but her voice.
    	
    		JJ
    
    	

and the winners are:

	- June Tabor (both solo and with Maddy Prior as Silly Sisters)
	- Bonnie Raitt (as much for her guitar as her voice)
	- Cindy Kallet (ditto)
	- Triona ni Dhomhnaill (pronounced "treena nee donnell", I believe)
	- Barbra Streisand (don't like the SONGS she sings, but that's a VOICE)

honorable mention:

	- Emmylou Harris
	- Paulette Carlson (of Highway 101)
	- Michael Steele (of the Bangles)
	- Tanita Tikaram (winning the "How to make Leonard Cohen's lyrics
			  seems to make sense by comparison" award)

    
    kiri te kanawa
    

Bonnie Raitt (fabulous concert last night :-) )
Carly Simon
Stevie Nicks

Jenna

    A second on Etta James, torchy blues, Seven Year Itch is a *grand*
    album. All the songs are great.

    Billie Holiday, what can I say? Her voice is liquid velvet. "Strange
    Fruit" is a haunting and terrifying song. She goes from light and easy
    to deadly serious in the range of what she could sing.

    Joan Biaz (sp?) her songs led a generation to protest injustice.

    Grace Slick, she lead us through the acid nights. Feed your head.

    Koko Taylor, "I'd Rather Go Blind".  Another great blues voice.

    Plus many of the others already mentioned. liesl

    Cleo Laine
    Billie Holiday
    Alberta Hunter
    Sarah Vaughn
    Bessie Smith
    
    Ron

    
    Joan Baez!  --- a definite favorite of mine
    
    plus just about everyone that you all mentioned.  
    
    I'd also add:
    
    Meg Christian
    
    Holly Near
    
    Judy Collins (if no one else mentioned her)
                                      
    KD Lang
    
    Mary Black
    
    Shawn Colvin
    
    Catie Curtis  -- local, up and coming folksinger
    
    Kathy Phipps  --  "       "        "      "
    
    I'll stop there, but I'm sure I'll think of more as soon as I get in
    my car and turn on the stereo.  There are lots of singers whose voices
    I like, but who really knock my socks off with one or two of their
    songs.  Like, Sandy Denny with "Who knows where the time goes"
    or Faith Nolan with her cover of "Shake Sugaree."

    Mentioned before:
    
    	Triona ni Dhomnaill
    	Annie Lennox
    	Annie Haslam
    	The Indigo Girls (both of them)
    	Mary Travers
    	Koko Taylor
    
    Not mentioned before:
    
    	M�ire N� Bhraon�in (Brennan) - Clannad
    	Eithne N� Bhraon�in - a.k.a. Enya
    	Maddy Prior - Steeleye Span
    	Jacqui McShee - Pentangle
    	Priscilla Herdman
    	Karen Matheson - Capercaille
    	
    --- jerry�

    
    RE .31  
    
    Ahhha... those Celtic singers just make me melt!  My fav is 
    Mary Black.  That reminds me, I'll be doing the Celtic show this 
    weekend. ;-)
    
    Others;  
    
    	Grace Jones
    	Jane Siebery (from canada)
    	Laurie Anderson
    	Ofra Haza
    	Donna Summer
    	Wee Papa Girls
    
    							Kelly
    

    Re. 25
    
    Kiri te Kanawa
    
    Have you ever seen her personally ?
    
    I saw her in 1983 in COSI FAN TUTTE in Munich and I have a lot
    of recordings with her. Would like to correspond with you about
    her and Opera perhaps.
    
    Interested ?
    
    Write to RTOEU::CKOEV or Carina Koev at RTO
    
    So long
    
    Carina

    
    k.d. lang
    
    Virginia
    

    Look, I *know* my musical tastes are weird to most of this group, but
    what the heck......
    
    Reba MacIntyre
    
    Alison

    Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer

Re: < Note 286.19 by GEMVAX::KOTTLER >

>    Does anyone know the name of a new Brazilian singer who recently performed
>    in Cambridge? 

  Is this perhaps Olga Rom�n?  We saw The Olga Rom�n Group at the Regatta 
  Bar (Charles Hotel) in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago.  She's a great
  vocalist and the group's music had a lot more meat to it than most of
  the Brazilian pop stuff around.

  And what about Joan Armatrading, Phoebe Snow, and the Roche sisters?

  JP

    Debbie Harry
    Dyan Diamond - One record in the mid 70's
    Chrissie Hynde - of the Pretenders
    Genya Ravan
    Esther Satterfield
    Julie Andrews
    Bernadette Peters
    Brix Smith - Adult Net, and The Fall (???)
    Belinda Carlisle - before she went solo
    Linda Rhonstadt
    Carly Simon
    Cindy Lee Berryhill
    Lene Lovich
    Minnie Ripperton
    Deborah Iyall - Romeo Void
    Hope Nicholls - Fetchin' Bones
    Cristina Amphlett - The Divinyls
    Patti Smith
    Sally Hood - The Mekons
    
    Tony

    
    
      ditto on:
    
          Annie Lennox
          Bonnie Raitt
          Ricky Lee Jones
    
     and also:
    
          Maria Mckee
          the lead singer for Highway 101
    
      ....makes me wish I had some musical talent...
    
    

    One new singer that knocks me out is Mariah Carey, with the single
    "Vision of Love"; a phenomenal voice.
    
    Miki Howard
    Dihann Reeves
    k.d. lang
     
    and the greats
    Billie Holliday
    Aretha Franklin
    
    -roger
    

    I sort of like Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde.  For those who
    are interested in what she does outside of Concrete Blonde, you can
    check her out singing a duet with Steve Wynn on the song "Conspiracy of
    the Heart", on Wynn's "Kerosine Man" album.

    kd lang
    Kathy Mattea
    Kathy Bailey (of Bailey and the Boys)
    Patty Loveless
    

	Carole King.

	=Debi
    

    Whitney Houston in "The Greatest Love"

    Bernice Reagan 
    Bonnie Rait
    Joan Armatrading
    Phoebe Snow
    Janis Joplin
    Bessie Smith
    
      all of em women with a BIG voice

    
    
    
    Janis Joplin
    Bonnie Raitt
    Jane Oliver
    Bette Middler
    Reba Mcintyre
    Patsy Cline
    Cher (when she does RB)
    
    

    
    Has anyone mentioned Ginny Reilly, of Reilly and Maloney?  She has a
    wonderful voice.

    Linda Rhondstat.  SHE can even sing the national anthem!

    Linda Rondstat - She even sings the commercial for Mexico nicely
    
    NANCI GRIFFITH*****  by far my all time fav'
    
    Barbra Streisand  - nice voice
    
    kd lang  -  spunky!!
    
    Chrissie Hynes
    
    Stevie Nicks  
    
    Melissa Ethridge

    Amy Mann -- Lead singer/composer of 'Til Tuesday
    others already mentioned...

    
    - Alison Moyet
    
    - Annie Lennox
    
    - Carole King
    
    - Chrissie Hynde
    
    

    Momma Cass Elliot
    Patsy Cline
    Gail Garnet
    Connie Francis
    Dusty Springfield
    LuLu
    Brenda Lee
    Linda Rhonstadt
    the girl who sang "West of the Wall"
    the girl who sang "Downtown"
    
    /jack

    
    The best by far was Patsy Cline.  I could listen to any of her
    songs all day long.
    
    Joe

    Linda Ronstadt
    
    Joni Mitchell
    
    Carole King

    >The best by far was Patsy Cline.
    
    I rate it as a toss up, between Momma Cass and Patsy Cline.
    
    /jack
    

    m. muldare - midnight at the oais
    melanie    - brand new roller skates.

    re: .57
    
    >I rate it as a toss up, between Momma Cass and Patsy Cline.
    
    Jack you may be right they where both very good.
    
    Joe

    
    Ann Murray
    
    Jeannie Kendall
    
    
    - wes
    

    Annie Lenox....Eurithmics
    Maddona..
    Balinda Carlile

    
    	Established:
    
    	Chaka Kahn
    	Jody Whatley
    	Tina Marie
    
    	Recent:
    
    	Tyler Collins - 'Girls night out'
    	Lead singer En Vouge hit - 'Hold on'
    
    
    	Rich...
    
    

    re: .52 /jack
    
    LuLu
    
    There used to be a woman in San Francisco who called herself Lulu.  She
    had a backup band called The Lloyds.  Is this who you're refering to?
    
    Tony

    
    Well, she's not my favorite (obviously, I can't remember her name!) but
    she's got a great voice  and it's driving me crazy that I can't
    remember her name -- argh, I hate to do this -- who is the wife of Airto 
    Moreira?
    
    Ah!  Flora Purim! 

    
    My favorites are:
    
    	Diana Ross
    	Sade
    	Dianne Warwick
    	Aretha Franklin
    	Tina Turner
    
    
    Tuula
    

    .25,
    
    Yea, she is quite good, but I think Kathleen Battle is a lot better.
    
    Alf

    sinead o'connor
    enya
    julie cruise
    
    unfortunately, the radio in my head is playing the buzzcocks,
    so i can't come up with any more names....
    

	Ella Fitzgerald
	Ronnie Gilbert
	Cleo Laine
	Barbara Streisand
	Annie Lenox
	Emma Kirkby
	Kathleen Battle
	Basia
	Jennifer Warnes


					clb

    Lea Salonga, who currently plays the lead in MISS SAIGON.
    I thought she was in fine voice on the Original Cast album,
    but to hear her live was is virtually indescribable. Such
    passion in her singing!
    
    --- jerry

    
    Some of my favs...
    
    Janet Jackson
    Paula Abdul
    Maddona
    Sheena Easton
    Oliva Newton-John
    Barbara Streisand
    Stevie Nicks
    
    -dwight

    I vote for Barbara Striesand
    Betty

    Carly Simon
    
    Carol

    Kate Bush
    Sinead O'Connor
    
    
    
    Lorna
    

Anita Baker

-Hamp

    kathy mattea

    1. My best friend Doreen.
    
    2. Sinead O'Connor
    
    3. Annie Lennox

    
    Gloria Estavon....woof!

    
    	My three absolute pop favorites *still* are...
    
    		1. Sinead O'Connor
    
    		2. Kate Bush
    
    		3. Tracy Chapman
    
    	Runners up would be...
    
    		4. Enya
                              
    		5. The woman Mike Oldfield often features in his works
    		   (esp. in the "Five Miles Out" album)
    
    	-Erik

    re:.80
    
    Mike Oldfield has featured a number of female backup vocalists on
    his albums. I don't know if she's on FIVE MILES OUT, but the one
    he's featured most often, I believe, is his sister Sally. She's
    an equally talented musician, who has a number of her own albums.
    Unfortunately, she never hit it big in the US, and only her first
    album was ever released here. She seems to be big in Germany,
    however, and a little less so in the UK, and I've got about a dozen
    UK or German import CD's of hers. She and brother Mike also put out
    an album together in the late 60's under the name "Sallyangie".
    
    --- jerry

    re: last
    
    	Thanks. I had forgotten that his sister Sally worked with him too.
    	I don't think she was the one on Five Miles Out though. Maybe. I've
    	only seen three MO albums here in the States. I was shocked (and
    	completely thrilled) when I was CD shopping in Germany and found
    	over 15 of his albums I never knew existed, on sale. Woof! My charge
    	card was red hot that day. :-)
    
    	-Erik 

    Joan Jett
    Debbie Harry
    Ann Wilson    (Heart)
    Janet Gardner (Vixen)
    Janis Joplin
    Melissa Etheridge
    Madonna
    
    Grant

    
    Mitchell, Joplin & Nyro
    
    
                    

  Kirsty McColl has a voice that sort of makes my hair stand on end.  That
  might not sound complimentary but I'd like to hear some more of it.  I've
  only heard her on two cuts, both times singing with the Pogues.  One was
  in "Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things" on the Red, Hot and Blue
  album� and the other was one of the songs on the Pogues "If I Should Fall
  From Grace With God."  Can some one point me at more of her work?

  JP

  �This is the tribute to Cole Porter mentioned by Sinead O'Connor at her
   grammy (?) speech.  Her version of "You Do Something To Me" has had a
   lot of air play but there are also great vocals by women such as 
   kd lang ("So In Love With You") and Annie Lenox ("Every Time We Say 
   Goodbye").  I think it is a great album but be warned that there are 
   some cuts that probably cause Cole Porter to spin in his grave (e.g., 
   Tom Waits on "It's Alright With Me").

    re:.85
    
    Kirsty has a solo album out called KITE. Incidentally, she comes
    from a great musical tradition -- her father is the late, great
    Ewan MacColl.
    
    --- jerry

    Ella Fitzgerald (singing Cole Porter)
    
    Maria McKee
    Sinead O'Connor
    Melissa Etheridge
    Annie Lennox
    Cyndi Lauper

    Linda Ronstadt - and I wouldn't care if she couldn't sing.
    
    Melanie Safka - Whatever happened to her anyway?
    

    
    Mariah Carey- what a range!
    
    Anne Murray- brings back memories
    
    Olivia Newton-John- Need I say more?
    
    Cher- excitement in every song
    
    k.d lang- but I don't like "normal" country!
    
    Gloria Estafan- puts her heart into everything she does
    
    
    
    'Debbi
    

    
    Does anyone know what the music-making entity called "2 Nice Girls" is
    all about?  I like their name but I'm trying to resist buying yet
    another unknown...
    
    CQ

    This is really pulling things out of the back of my mind, but I think
    they're a couple of women who put out an album of all cover tunes and
    one original, with the original called "I Spent my Last 10 Dollars on
    Beer and Condoms" or something similar.  Music was definitely guitar
    based, although I can't remember whether it was more folk or rock
    oriented.
    
    The "Beer and Condoms" song was mildly popular at WMBR, but then again
    I might have the wrong band.
    
    Lisa

    Dinah Washington

    re.91  you have the right band, lisa.
    
    i wish i could add to your comment about 2 nice girls, but i really
    don't remember much specifically about their music.  they played at a
    festival i attended last year.
    
    ~r

I have a 2 Nice Girls tape - I like it.

The quote previously mentioned is "I spent my last ten dollars on birth
control and beer/life was much easier when I was sober and queer."  The
quote alone is worth the price of the tape.  :-)

2 Nice Girls also won some award or other recently from some group or other
along the lines of Gay and Lesbian Anti-defamation League.  aren't you glad
you asked?  :-)

D!

    I'll second D!'s opinion of Two Nice Girls album, 2 Nice Girls.  I like
    it!  Nice vocals and lyrics.  I don't know who to compare them to. 
    They're in a class by themselves.
    
    At one time I thought I'd type in the lyrics to "I Spent My Last $10"
    but then...nah!
    
    Nancy

I'm pretty sure that 2 Nice Girls are playing at Nightstage? in April.
Check the Globe's calendar section on Thursday.

-Patti

    _i spent my last $10_ starts like this...imagine a twangy hurtin' song
    in 3/4 time...
    
    	when i was a young girl like normal girls do
    	i looked to a woman's love to help get me through
    	i never needed any more than a feminine touch
    	i hated the thought of kissing a man
    	it really was too much
    
    	i did not drink; i did not smoke
    	i did not say `god damn'
    	i was polite; i was sensitive
    	before i loved a man
    	my family were proud of me
    	proud of what i am
    	and then along came lester
    	and my tale of woe began...
    
    they have an album (_2 nice girls_, mostly originals), and an ep (_like a
    version_, mostly covers). the high point of _like a version_ is their
    astonishing version of _i feel love_...
    
    enjoy!
    
    ...laura

    
    Wow!  Thanks for clueing me into them!  
    
    I love notes,
    
    CQ

            OK, Dan D'E, do your thing...   Cheers, Dan D'K.
    
         We can't leave poor Dan at .x00us interruptus, can we!!???
    
                          Get to it, all!!!
    
                                 :-)

    I don't have this opportunity often...
    
    And btw my favorite female vocalist is Whitney Houston.

    
    I'm amazed!!
    
    One hundred notes and no mention of my favorite singer!
    
    (drum roll)
    
    Julia Fordham
    
    Obviously, she's not yet well known.  An amazing vocalist from Britain,
    she can go from High C down to my range (pretty flat baritone), and she
    writes all her own songs as well!  Check out her three releases (the
    third is brand new; may not be in stores yet):
    
    Julia Fordham
    Porcelain
    Swept