I pine for the female singers of the past....

[ChiroDoc]

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[Paladin1950]

Don't miss any of those! Never like what they sang.

 

[timoc]

Doris Day - Lullaby Of Broadway (1951)​

 

[timoc]

Eydie Gorme - What I DId For Love​

 

[timoc]

Sarah Vaughan ~ Misty​

 

[Pappy]

Two of my very favorites are:
Emmy Lou Harris and Kitty Wells.

 

[Messy]

Ria Valk Rockin' Billy

Do you really still love me, Rockin' Billy? Or is your love already over? Really, I'm starting to have some doubts now. It's so lonely on the farm. Why don't you ever write to me, Rockin' Billy? Since you went to America? Because you said I could come over. Once you got there, darling. I haven't seen a letter in two years.

Maybe you don't have a pen and paper there. Do you really still love me, Rockin' Billy? Or is your love already over? Really, I'm starting to have some doubts now. It's so lonely on the farm. In America, you were going to start a liver pate factory. You didn't have the money for that, Rockin' Billy. So you borrowed it from me. I hesitated at first because I didn't want to. But you promised me love and loyalty.

Do you really still love me, Rockin' Billy? Or is your love already over? Really, I'm starting to have some doubts now. It's so lonely on the farm.

You took all my furniture too. and clothes To that faraway America Because you were probably going to decorate our house And so I sighed and said, "Okay." Please send me my beautiful mattress again Because that's where my money and my passport are

 

[Aunt Bea]

Two of my very favorites are:
Emmy Lou Harris and Kitty Wells.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[IrishEyes]

I liked that era when comedy could be in the songs and fit their character, she did it well

 

[IrishEyes]

Not sure I have really followed or bought anything from a female solo singer since
the mid-70s. They began to copy each others styles it seemed to me and definitely
not since the clothes began disappearing. Stevie Nicks could look sexy without showing it all.

 

[IrishEyes]

Correction on my post above: Enya, her music soothed me when late hubby was diagnosed
with cancer, helping me keep sane, strong and be there for my kids and him.

Enya - Only Time

 

[MACKTEXAS]

The Greatest Man I Never Knew - Reba McEntire, 1992
(a song about the distance between a daughter and her father)

 

[retiredtraveler]

Billie Holiday.

 

[horseless carriage]

 

[Imogene]

Kate Smith still had “it” in 1974.

 

[Imogene]

BUT I have to say Miss Carrie Underwood is right up there with the best of the oldies

 

[Murrmurr]

@horseless carriage
Lena Horne was my dad's favorite. And you mentioned 2 of my faves; Billy Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Whitney Houston is another.

The quality of this video needs to be remastered but the quality of Lara Fabian's voice still sounds masterful.
And I still have a big crush on her.

A lot of female singers that are popular now sound so alike, people know them by their songs instead of their voices.

 

[Irishdude]

So many greats -- Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty Springfield, Etta James, Nancy Wilson, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris -- but Linda Ronstadt remains my all time favorite.

 

[Messy]

 

[RambleTamble]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a great singer and guitar player

 

[Llynn]

Ginny Simms, Julie London

 

[Marv Malone]

Tammy Wynette, why not?
Don't overlook female s in musicals who are not famous

 

[Messy]

Tammy Wynette, why not?
Don't overlook female s in musicals who are not famous

I didn't know who it was, so I Googled her and found this:

One day in 1976, she found Burt Reynolds unconscious in the bathtub and saved his life by taking him to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with low blood sugar. The two remained lifelong friends.