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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho is your favorite woman singer? You can have more then one. Mine is Joni Mitchell.
MaryMagdaline
(7,570 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)brewens
(14,972 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,704 posts)Here she is in 1973. That last note!
debm55
(30,810 posts)spooky3
(35,582 posts)Though Im becoming a fan of the Childless Cat Lady for her strength and moral fiber.
debm55
(30,810 posts)spooky3
(35,582 posts)RoadRunner
(4,572 posts)But for me right now its Lainey Wilson.
debm55
(30,810 posts)WheelWalker
(9,138 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)WheelWalker
(9,138 posts)What was I thinking, sis? Opera is her gig.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Whitney Houston.
debm55
(30,810 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)little Monsters.
debm55
(30,810 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)dem4decades
(11,724 posts)Joni
debm55
(30,810 posts)Orrex
(63,746 posts)My "favorite" changes all the time, but Carole stays near the top of the list.
debm55
(30,810 posts)johnp3907
(3,817 posts)For emotional content Nicole Dollanganger
debm55
(30,810 posts)DBoon
(22,900 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,651 posts)She was wonderful. And sober she is a superb person.
Wolf
debm55
(30,810 posts)DBoon
(22,900 posts)hlthe2b
(104,971 posts)Thats a pretty good start.
debm55
(30,810 posts)AltairIV
(586 posts)1)Kate Bush
2)Annie Haslam
3)IU (Korean singer, actress)
4)Melanie
5)Annie Lennox
...and I forgot Barbra Keith she did an incredible version of All Along the Watchtower.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Cartoonist
(7,437 posts)She was in the Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, and a solo career
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,540 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)rurallib
(62,941 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,553 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,553 posts)Have a nice day!!
msongs
(69,409 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(307 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,540 posts)Someone mentioned Sandy Denny.
Love Ann Wilson, Grace Slick,
Here's a favorite....Merry Clayton
debm55
(30,810 posts)applegrove
(121,626 posts)ariadne0614
(1,834 posts)Of course, there are others.
applegrove
(121,626 posts)debm55
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CTyankee
(64,520 posts)I love listening to her voice. She makes me feel calm.
applegrove
(121,626 posts)I love it when she knocks it out of the ballpark.
CTyankee
(64,520 posts)I wore out my album of Tapestry when it first came out. "So Far Away" made me cry and cry.....
applegrove
(121,626 posts)8 track tape when I was 11 and I used to dance to Carole King's "The Earth Moves Under My Feet" all the time.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,649 posts)Tracy Nelson (she's from my home town and I actually know her)
Judy Collins
Moya Brennan
Linda Ronstadt
Loreena McKennitt
Candice Night
Aretha Franklin
Mahalia Jackson
Buffy Sainte-Marie
debm55
(30,810 posts)Lunabell
(6,516 posts)And also, Ann Wilson. I love her music style.
debm55
(30,810 posts)texasfiddler
(2,145 posts)debm55
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Midnight Writer
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My "favorite" could change a dozen times during the course of a day. There are so many wonderful singers out there.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Ocelot II
(119,240 posts)Bobstandard
(1,562 posts)debm55
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(30,810 posts)lkinwi
(1,511 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Tom Dyer
(52 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)brush
(56,331 posts)Dinah was great. I also love Sarah Vaughan, the Devine One, as she was called, and Ella Fitzgerald of course, she of the pure as a bell voice.
Tom Dyer
(52 posts)Her voice was pure glory.
debm55
(30,810 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,113 posts)movie music - Shutter Island
Dinah Washington - This Bitter Earth
not a zippy song.
not a cheery song.
dark, dark, dark music.
the bow on the strings pulls you along with it.
a song with deep feeling.
-------------------------------
She had the same song, earlier version.
Almost peppy by comparison.
The slower version is much more meaningful.
brush
(56,331 posts)And also the ones with Brook Benton.
Haggard Celine
(16,970 posts)I like lots of others, but also high on the list are Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. And then there's Dolly Parton. There are so many! These are just a few. I'm forgetting a lot of them, which is what I do. Oh, and I also have to mention Irma Thomas!
debm55
(30,810 posts)enid602
(8,864 posts)Laura Nyro
Theres smoke in the kitchen,
shrimps curled.
The sun on black velvet
And high stars at the bottom of the world.
Esther Satterfield
How I love when my thoughts run
To the land of Make-believe.
Where everything is fun
forever.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Pinback
(12,685 posts)Im sorry I never got to see her live. Blackpatch is a desert island track for me, for sure.
Masterpiece.
Cirsium
(296 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)surfered
(1,945 posts)But my list would include
Best musician/song writers:
Joni Mitchell &
Carole King
Best singers:
Billie Holiday
Diana Ross
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Barbara Streisand
Whitney Houston
Best human being:
Dolly Parton
debm55
(30,810 posts)a kennedy
(31,401 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,802 posts)The first one that comes to mind is Nina Simone.
Then... Bette Midler, Edith Piaf, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Shirley Bassey... the list goes on!
debm55
(30,810 posts)WestMichRad
(1,559 posts)
of Renaissance.
and Sally Rogers, a folk singer.
LisaM
(28,290 posts)I remember her.
debm55
(30,810 posts)debm55
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(30,810 posts)Hekate
(93,551 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)FM123
(10,094 posts)Her rendition of "Fields of Gold" gets me every time......
Hekate
(93,551 posts)Sis said shed heard it many times on her car radio & had nodifficulty learning. Turns out it was covered by Sting and when I got the CD it turned out he had a straight driving beat So yes
All of Evas renditions are so elegant and complex
MyOwnPeace
(17,191 posts)explains why Eva isnt listed by many people - theyve not heard of her!
Spend some time on YouTube - you too will be sorry that she died so young!
MichMan
(12,600 posts)Love her solo career with songs like Stand Back, I Can't Wait, and Rooms on Fire
Carole King would be second
debm55
(30,810 posts)Gaytano70
(768 posts)Noone rocks quite like Lzzy Hale...
Tina Turner was a performer par excellence...
Annie Lennox has the greatest range and genre crossover...
Alanis Morrissette can sing all the notes, and she crafts unique songs...
But my all time favorite female singer is actually Audra McDonald. She is primarily a musical theatre star, so listen to her passion and range in every song she sings.
debm55
(30,810 posts)LakeArenal
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(30,810 posts)LiberalLoner
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(30,810 posts)LoisB
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(30,810 posts)LakeVermilion
(1,147 posts)keithbvadu2
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(30,810 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(2,053 posts)BOSSHOG
(38,900 posts)debm55
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Aristus
(67,613 posts)Ive seen her four times in concert. Three times with Blonde and once as a solo act.
Just an incredibly powerful, raging, strong force of nature, and a gifted performer. Unshakably dedicated to progressive causes. It was a rare performance between 2001 and 2008 where she didnt call out from the stage: Fuck George W. Bush and his fucking war!
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)Aristus
(67,613 posts)Love the video for Heal It Up.
Once upon a time, Johnette Napolitano was a hot young thing
I saw her at the Show Box in Seattle once. She wore a little black dress and black patent leather pumps. Drop-dead gorgeous, and she absolutely killed it that night.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)was on Deirdre O'Donoghue's radio show "Snap" on KCRW in Santa Monica in 1986, just after the first album was issued. She played "Dance Along the Edge." I've loved that song and the band (and their solo and other works) ever since. I've been able to see them a few times in various places, but the last time was in 2001 in Honolulu (I think it was World Café). They were so good they absolutely ripped up that room. Johnette was still gorgeous, as I presume she still is. I'm not, nor have I ever been, so nothing to be done there.
Aristus
(67,613 posts)We were out in the field on a maneuver exercise. We were between two of the bigger training operations of the exercise, and had little to do but pull boring guard shifts at night. One night, I came off my guard shift, and one of my best buddies came up to me and handed me the cassette of Blonde's "Bloodletting" which had just been released not long before. He said "You've GOT to listen to this!"
Instead of hitting the rack to get some sleep, I dug out my Walkman (remember those?), and listened to the whole thing from beginning to end. In order not to disturb the guys trying to sleep, with that tinny side-tone a Walkman made, I wandered around outside. It was (you should excuse the expression) a dark and stormy night. No rain, but plenty of thunder and lightning; a perfect atmosphere for a first listen to that dark, spooky, hard-rocking album.
I'll never forget the experience.
debm55
(30,810 posts)rsdsharp
(9,830 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Elessar Zappa
(15,141 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)YorkRd
(341 posts)I vastly prefer women singers over men . Joni, Ronstadt, Raitt, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Rhiannon Giddens ,
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(30,810 posts)yourout
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(30,810 posts)3catwoman3
(25,020 posts)Carly Simon
Linda Ronstadt - her last couple of notes in Blue Bayou give me goose bumps every time
Carole King
Jane Olivor (I havent listened to her is way too long)
Cass Elliott
Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez
I appear to be stuck in the 1970s, which makes sense. I finished high school in 1969 and nursing school in 1973.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Lochloosa
(16,304 posts)Elise Legrow
Kaz Hawkins.
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Delarage
(2,305 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)dai13sy
(445 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)There are much bigger hits by both. Just a taste to encourge the exploration of their extensive body of work.
debm55
(30,810 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)choie
(4,382 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)DBoon
(22,900 posts)Sleater Kinney.
debm55
(30,810 posts)disappearingboy
(21 posts)Especially her and her band's more recent work of the past few years.
debm55
(30,810 posts)patphil
(6,751 posts)Three great singers, with three very distinct styles.
debm55
(30,810 posts)calguy
(5,691 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Jeebo
(2,177 posts)Linda Ronstadt could sing anything. She could sing opera. And did. She performed in The Pirates of Penzance and sang some of it when she was a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. She also sang the part of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata -- I think. Anyway, that woman had an incredible voice. I'm speaking of her in the past tense and I want to make it clear that she's not dead, but her voice is gone and she can't sing any more. Except in her mind, to herself.
Honorable Mention: Karen Carpenter.
-- Ron
debm55
(30,810 posts)Mexican songs which were part of her culture. I go back to her Stone Ponies days. One heck of a singer.
Runningdawg
(4,557 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Figarosmom
(721 posts)Ann Wilson from heart, pat benatar, Tracy Chapman, Aretha, Elaine McFarlin from spanky and our gang, Gracie slick and so many others
sunnybrook
(1,213 posts)But Midnight at the Oasis was Maria Muldaur
Figarosmom
(721 posts)So add Maria Muldaur to the list
debm55
(30,810 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Alephy
(18 posts)Cesária Évora (from Cape Verde)
Patsy Cline
debm55
(30,810 posts)if..fish..had..wings
(748 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)chowder66
(9,645 posts)Bjork, Joni, Kate Bush, Dionne Warwick, Lauryn Hill .
debm55
(30,810 posts)Charlie Chapulin
(270 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)moniss
(5,015 posts)Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary Travers, Judy Durham, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Cole, Sandy Denny, Dolores O'Riordan, Cilla Black, all of the "girl groups" of the '60's, Carole King, Judy Collins, Nina Simone, Melanie Safka, all of the great women who sang backing vocals for recordings through the many years, Nanci Griffith, all of the wonderful women who sang for the "big bands" through those decades and my list goes on with a few I probably forgot.
yonder
(9,894 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,113 posts)Many have done a great job, but she owns it.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Wiz Imp
(421 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)niyad
(118,030 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)niyad
(118,030 posts)madness I have ever heard!
CanonRay
(14,686 posts)Hands down.
debm55
(30,810 posts)rocketdem1964
(28 posts)Most powerful, beautiful, expressive voice, male or female.
I agree with you about Barbra and also love many other favorites posted above and below, especially Judy Garland and Karen Carpenter.
debm55
(30,810 posts)chowmama
(463 posts)Joni Mitchell. Stevie Nicks. Georgia Brown. Tracy Chapman. Dorothy Loudon.
I could go on. And on.
debm55
(30,810 posts)murielm99
(31,209 posts)Susan Tedeschi and Linda Ronstadt.
debm55
(30,810 posts)HeartsCanHope
(486 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)TommieMommy
(631 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(825 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(825 posts)BTW: My top three male voices: Barry White, David Bowie, Glenn Campbell.
"Galveston" is about a scared Texas recruit sent to Vietnam circa 1969.
The video will play if you press the underlined warning.
samplegirl
(11,907 posts)Carol King Diana Krall
debm55
(30,810 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,727 posts)I listen to her albums all the time, along with Barbra Streisand, if I don't have the classical music station playing on the radio.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Emile
(27,692 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)WmChris
(190 posts)MN2theMax
(1,636 posts)Bonnie is the boss!
debm55
(30,810 posts)iamateacher
(1,099 posts)And many others...
debm55
(30,810 posts)CMYK
(110 posts)Y'all have done a great job, I concur with many entries.....and I want to add Basia to this fine list!
debm55
(30,810 posts)mwf
(29 posts)and Ella Fitzgerald
debm55
(30,810 posts)Wiz Imp
(421 posts)Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is one of the greatest Rock n Roll records ever
FuzzyRabbit
(2,053 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,857 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)LisaM
(28,290 posts)Both of them have lovely voices. Also Mary Black and Dolores Keane, Irish singers.
debm55
(30,810 posts)AloeVera
(1,577 posts)Along with the other greats, but no one has mentioned her and she shouldn't be left out.
One of my fave songs of all time:
I might like this even more:
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debm55
(30,810 posts)my heart.
AloeVera
(1,577 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,650 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,508 posts)A bit of range in these picks...
debm55
(30,810 posts)LiberalArkie
(16,029 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)kimbutgar
(22,480 posts)I always start singing along when I hear one of her songs. She had nice a sing songy voice.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Diraven
(879 posts)Gone too soon
debm55
(30,810 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,504 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Bayard
(23,560 posts)She can belt out a song like nobody else. Linda Ronstadt, a very close second. I like powerful voices.
Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Maines, and Paula Cole.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Different Drummer
(8,230 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)BlueKota
(3,007 posts)and Karen Carpenter
debm55
(30,810 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,719 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)catbyte
(35,326 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Picaro
(1,679 posts)Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Carole King, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick
to name a few.
Linda Ronstadt is probably the most talented singer. Joni Mitchell is the absolute best lyricist/songwriter of this group. But she is not the best singer.
The music of our era was so good and so varied that its impossible to choose.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Sedona
(3,801 posts)What an amazing performance by the whole choir and band. A treasure.
Robert Plant seemed touched to his soul by this great tribute!
debm55
(30,810 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,251 posts)Celine is personally annoying but beautiful voice. Whitney same.
da svenster
(31 posts)i don't listen to much new stuff - kinda stopped absorbing new music 10-15 years ago.
i don't listen to a lot of music - i'm mostly a podcast consumer these days. but if you're going just off listening frequency:
tori amos
alanis morissette (under rug swept is probably my most listened to album)
kate bush (glad she's re-entered the pop culture thanks to stranger things)
kasey chambers if i'm feeling a little country-ish (for a given value of country)
ani difranco or aimee mann for when i need something a bit deeper
debm55
(30,810 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,541 posts)Only need one. Roberta Flack.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Harker
(14,605 posts)with frequent diversions to Maria Callas.
Chrissie Hynde for modern music.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Zambero
(9,427 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Imalittleteapot
(3,383 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)ProfessorGAC
(68,412 posts)There are others, but those 3 are the ones that popped into my head immediately.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Clouds Passing
(1,039 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)waldnorm
(171 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)electric_blue68
(16,854 posts)When Kate & Cindy duet on Roam; I want to swoop through the sky with ecstatic joy! It reminds me of the best parts of my trips across the USA, and feeling joyful walking around on gorgeous Spring & Summer days where you feel like you're walking on air!
Not even second choses; more like 1 1/4 - 1 1/2! 😄
KD Lang, Aretha, Britney Howard, Grace Slick.
Laura Nyro for "Save The Country"
"There's a King by the glory river" (MLK)
"Keep the dream of the two young brothers" (President JFK, Sen RFK)
[her best song, imho, but what a voice, and gone way too soon!]
Patti Smith is raw, and powerful, but she has a sweet side "Mother Rose", "Dream of Life" is powerful, and deep sweetness.
debm55
(30,810 posts)electric_blue68
(16,854 posts)jrthin
(4,900 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)RandySF
(66,508 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)Pinback
(12,685 posts)DeeDee Bridgewater, Cassandra Wilson, Anita ODay, Billie Holiday (yeah, Im a jazz fan), June Tabor, Joni Mitchell, many more Im not thinking of at the moment.
debm55
(30,810 posts)Pinback
(12,685 posts)Dianne Reeves, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horn, Eliane Elias, Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, and Annie Ross.
All fantastic and worth a listen! For example:
debm55
(30,810 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,979 posts)She is inimitable, with remarkable range.
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debm55
(30,810 posts)mvd
(65,352 posts)While I love classic rock which has a good number of male singers, I find I like more female singers among the newer artists. Here are some of my favorites:
Patsy Cline
Dolly Parton
Aretha Franklin
Stevie Nicks
Dusty Springfield
Billie Holiday
Joni Mitchell
Diana Ross
Cyndi Lauper
Annie Lennox
Madonna
Patty Loveless
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Indigo Girls (both Amy Ray and Emily Saliers)
Taylor Swift
Alison Sudol
Alicia Keys
Andrea Corr
Beyoncé
Brandi Carlile
Natalie Maines
Kacey Musgraves
Ill stop there but could go on.
debm55
(30,810 posts)TlalocW
(15,561 posts)One of my majors was Spanish and the summer between my freshman and sophmore year in 92, I felt like I should go buy some Latin music. There was slim pickings at Camelot in the mall, and I knew nothing about any of the artists, but I found a cassette of Selena's "Entre a Mi Mundo," and being the typical late teen dude, I thought, "Well, at least she's very pretty." Played the hell out of that cassette, and then Mom's cable package got updated to have Telemundo, and I realized that I had become one of the few gringo fans north of Texas (Kansas) of the fastest-rising Tejano superstar in history. I eventually got all of her CDs, including a few before she had hit it big.
Also a girlfriend introduced me to Loreena McKennitt, and I really enjoy her, especially in Autumn and Winter.
debm55
(30,810 posts)GreenWave
(8,480 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,059 posts)Marshall Chapman
Emily Lou Harris
debm55
(30,810 posts)arlyellowdog
(1,154 posts)debm55
(30,810 posts)MyMission
(1,947 posts)Although I can't name a single song of hers, she's my favorite female singer this year!
Otherwise I've had many favorites over the years, depending on the song or the year.
Most if not all have been mentioned already.
The first dozen that come to mind, besides Taylor Swift...
Aretha Franklin
Roberta Flack
Karen Carpenter
Stevie Nicks
Donna Summer
Barbara Streisand
Cyndi Lauper
Mavis Staples
Tina Turner
Cher
Pat Benatar
Joni Mitchell
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Arkansas Granny
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(30,810 posts)ificandream
(10,187 posts)Especially ...
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(30,810 posts)lpbk2713
(43,096 posts)...
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(30,810 posts)The Wizard
(12,742 posts)Annie Lenox, Laverne Baker, Sarah Vaughn, Deborah Harry
LogDog75
(30 posts)Karen Carpenter had one of the best voices ever. I remember back in the early 70s, I was at my friend's house and we were listening to her and her father comment on how great she was. He was a musician who got a job offer from Glenn Miller but before he could join the band he got drafted for WWII.
Anne Murray is one I can listen to all day. She did mainly country and standard love songs.
debm55
(30,810 posts)beemerphill
(497 posts)It is either Judith Durham, or Pearl: different genres, both top in their field.