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Originally posted by Jesse -Joe:
Do you have a favo(u)rite female signer songwriter, that you feel deserves mentioning.
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I initially thought of three chanteuses
1 the very underrated UK ex-backing singer/songwriter
Lindsay Duncan
http://lesleyduncan.tripod.com/
(she wrote the beautiful "Love song" and is on the recording of it by Elton John on his early (1970) third LP "Tumbleweed Connection")
see:-
http://www.eltonography.com/songs/love_song.html
I have 2 CDs Of Lesleys
Both are completely wonderful
I have the original vinyl of Earth Mother which IMHO has possibly the finest sleeve artwork I have ever seen
which is probably why I chose to buy it
(I now have the CD)
there are clips of all 11 tracks on amazon's site:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Q630/qid=11... Last christmas I added her album "Sing Children Sing" to my collection
and again there are clips of its 11 tracks at:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000050IJF/ref=pd... including the first 30 seconds of Love Song
I subscribe to a moderately active Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lesleyduncan4scorner/
which just as with our Lightfoot groups often ellicits admissions from new members that they thought they were alone in rhe world in being huge fans of a relatively obscure artist
the group's member list includes both Lindsey herself who has posted messages there and her one time husband and recording producer Jimmy Horrowitz
2.
Juice Newton
I was first struck by this lady when I heard her cover of Merrilee Ruch/Rush's hit "Angel of the Morning"which was written I see by Chip Taylor, who is the younger brother of actor Jon Voight, and uncle of Angelina Jolie
there is a clip of Juice's version at:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000001B7/sr=8-4... (I just saw that that song was also covered by the Pretenders so I can now add a fourth female favo(u)rite: Chrissie Hynde
3.
Stevie Nicks
who breathed new life into Fleetwood Mac back in 1977 when Rumours was released incorporating her and Lindsay Buckinham's sound to great affect
Many superb songs
example clip of "Dreams" at:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002KGT/qid=11... I still have a rare copy of the 1973 Buckingham-Nicks album
that served as their "audition" prior to joining up with the then existing Mac group
4.
Chrissie Hynde
her cover of "Stand By You "
captivated me last year when I acquired a video of it
hear a clip at:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002MQ4/103-55... and I have just though of yet another favourite female
5.
Marty Webb
who I saw on the stage in London in the 60's in Anthony Newley's fine musical "Stop The World I Want To Get Off,and later did a bravura solo performance in Lloyd-Webber's 1980 televised musical
"Tell Me On A Sunday"
which digression leads me to another fairly unknown singer with a similar name:-
6.
Marnie Nixon who? I hear many of you asking
I bet most of you are very familiar with her voice being as how it was her lungs that provided the sound dubbed onto the soundtracks of at least three famous musicals as described on this page:-
http://answerpool.com/groupee/forums...1/r/4331099931
"Marnie Nixon's was the voice used in several films to dub a star who could not sing well enough. The oddest example of her work is where she was hired to sing just one line in a song of Marilyn Monroe's , the rest of which was genuinely sung by Marilyn Monroe It's the line 'These rocks don't lose their shape' in 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ).She also sang as the voice of Deborah Kerr ( The King and I ),Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady ) and Natalie Wood (West Side Story ).
and I just discovered
"Marnie Nixon actually gets an appearance in the film version of The Sound of Music – as Sister Sophia"
John Fowles
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[ July 10, 2006, 13:04: Message edited by: johnfowles ]