A few of mine:

1. Cyndi Lauper - "Money Changes Everything"
-This was the first song that alerted me to her exquisite power and control.
2. Debbie Harry - "Dreaming", "Union City Blue", "Hanging On The Telephone", "One Way Or Another" et. all
-An ice-cream voice with an uncharacteristic warmth; a woman of extremes (tough vs. vulnerable, coy vs. sexually aggressive, detached vs. involved), she really understood how to milk a song for maximum emotional impact.
3. Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting"
-She had finally reined in her voice by this point; she captures the pathos and poignancy of the song perfectly.
4. Lisa Stansfield - "All Around The World", "What Did I Do To You?", "You Can't Deny It", "Those Were The Days" (live w/ George Michael)
-A truly underappreciated talent; projects longing and regret extremely well, but can also sound spontaneous when she wants to. Always sounds alluring.
5. Madonna - "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Oh Father"
-Personal songs means adept performances from Ms. Ciccone; certainly not a huge vocal talent, but it's the way she sings them.
6. Mariah Carey - "Vision Of Love"
-Precise and measured, but also jubilant; this was before she succumbed to melisma and her own ego.
7. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Your Precious Love", "If This World Were Mine"
-The definition of "perfect vocal interplay".
8. Marvin Gaye - anything he's ever done
9. The Temptations - anything they ever did
-I'm sure we can all agree on this.
10. [color=red:0ba7be4509]Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"-[/color]This song best displays the vocal mannerisms he's been employing for 25 years. Beautiful voice, but it got repetitive after a while.
11. Prince - "Purple Rain", "The Beautiful Ones", "Little Red Corvette", so many more
-What a beautiful, emotional voice. Peerless.
12. Teena Marie - "I Need Your Lovin'"
-Lady T. is a living legend.
13. Bryan Ferry - "More Than This"
-Simply gorgeous, almost ethereal.
14. Patsy Cline - "Crazy", "She's Got You", "Sweet Dreams"
-She had exquisite tonality and control. And also one of the biggest voices of her time.
15. Whitney Houston - "I Have Nothing", "I'm Every Woman"
-How the mighty have fallen *sigh*.
16. Annie Lennox - "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", "Angel", "Why", "Honestly" etc.
17. Barbra Streisand - "Cry Me A River", "Woman In Love", "Guilty"
-Barry Gibb was one of the few producers who stripped her of her artifice. These latter two are great tracks because she sounds loose and spontaneous, not anal and self-satisfied as on much of her other material.
18. Boy George - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me", "Time (Clock Of The Heart)", "Victims" etc.
-Simply an exquisite voice.
19. Carly Simon - "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"
-Her greatest vocal achievement. Heartbreakingly honest.
20. Carole King - "It's Too Late"
21. Diana Ross/ The Supremes - too many to mention; she was much better with The Supremes, though
22. Donna Summer - "Last Dance", "Heaven Knows", "Dim All The Lights", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "I Feel Love", "On The Radio", "State Of Independence", "I Will Go With You" and so much more
-Whitney Houston's clarity (OK...a little grittier and more ballsy), but superior delivery and an amazing, sustainable power (the 15-second note she holds - twice, in different ways - in "Dim All The Lights" is spine-tinglingly good). If you've seen her live, you know how amazing she can be. Criminally forgotten these days because the best of her work was done in a much-maligned genre - disco.
23. Elton John - a lot of his 70's material
-Before he became a corporate whore for Disney.
24. Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds"
25. Stevie Nicks - "Landslide", "Dreams", "Stand Back", "
26. Daryl Hall - "Sara Smile", "Say It Isn't So", "One On One", "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid", etc.
27. Tina Turner - most everything she's done
28. Al Green - most everything he's done
29. Michael Hutchence - "Never Tear Us Apart"
-A vocal chameleon
30. James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"
31. David Bowie - "Heroes"
32. Judy Garland - "The Man That Got Away", "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (before the voice deepened with drug use)
33. Martha Reeves - "Dancing In The Street", "Heat Wave", "Quicksand", "Jimmy Mack"
34. Aretha Franklin - tons of her stuff
[This message was edited Fri May 28 14:36:20 2004 by VoicesCarry]

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