Women In Music
Watch this postWho are your favourite women musicians? How have they influenced you? Who has inspired you most?
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Amy Grant- That's what love is for
Darlene Zschech- worship songs
Julie Andrews
Connie Francis and Brenda Lee
Music is liquid emotion. Often would take their words and make them my own. It is an outward expression of an inward feeling and an emotional release.
Beth Hart, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Jo Harman, Elles Bailey, The Be Good Tanyas, Julia Stone, Larkin Poe (the Lovell sisters), Kasey Chambers, Wendy Matthews, Warpaint, Leah Wellbaum (Slothrust). Erika Wennerstrom (Heartless Bastards), The Breeders, Samantha Fish, Rachel Croft, Pat Benatar, Mary Chapin-Carpenter.
Linda Ronstadt's voice really struck a chord with me in my mid/late teens and I admire her for doing what she wanted to do. It's great to see so many women producing music, communicating in their chosen style, being accepted and appreciated on merit. That many of them are doing so without shackling themselves to the 'music machine' and retaining their artistic freedom is showing us just what van be done when people set their minds to it.
Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, The Indigo Girls, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Bonnie Bramlett, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Joan Jett, Joan Armatrading, Mary Travers, Christie McVie,
Carole King, Susan Tedeschi, Josh Stone and Natalie Merchant.
I enjoyed Lilith fair; with Joan Osborn, Jewel, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole, Meredith Brooks,
and Danya Manning. Also I like Melissa Etheridge, Maddy Prior and Gloria Estefan.
Did I say just a few?
https://youtu.be/-vfAi9HS4BQ
and Whispering your Name https://youtu.be/LowFgeQxbhk
Something here in my Heart ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WplU1jihQ
They're Northhampton girls. What happened to the Paper Dolls ... much too good to disappear without a trace !
plus - Someday ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhruhnugW8 ... don't remember this.
The Shangrilas
Leader of the Pack....
https://youtu.be/5Ge8_6rtQvs
I don't know who the wazzock is on the bike....and try as I might I can't say what the bike is but I know it wouldn't be one that makes the 'recorded bike' sounds.
(For the purposes of 'health and safety'....it is not running anyway!)
I used to sing this growing up....(although I was but a tiny baby when it was released!)
... and yes Bees, likely Paper Dolls had a more literal meaning to you in 1968 🙂 .
Crazy On You
https://youtu.be/vGEKW-e_Ge8
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Cher and Raquel ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IC4dslh44
The original version by what was widely known as the first white singer of jazz and blues Marion Harris.
(Take a listen on "What music are you listening to" post.)
As a celebration of it's....
102nd BIRTHDAY TODAY!
I have found another contemporary version of it.
Fiona Apple
https://youtu.be/FH3tvv-qnrI
"After you've Gone"
The moment deserves a beautiful song..
I played this today...I ended up thinking of my maternal Great Grandmother and how she lived to 104.
What were her thoughts on life?
What was she like?
https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM
Both sides now. - Joni Mitchell.
"It really doesn't matter at all"
It doesn't get much better than this.
Music can provoke all sorts of memories and emotions. It depends on how you want to feel. Nowadays I like music to uplift.
This is not a woman but I like 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams, it will get you swaying or moving.
No worries....we can bend the rules as we like.....
This gives me a chance to post this link......Did you know you can dance Northern Soul style to Pharell's 'Happy'
I am interested in Northern Soul but it passed me by even though I was living in the Midlands at the time...(too young for all-nighters 12am 'til dawn anyway!
Love this for her enjoyment factor of dancing freely... particularly when the old-time Northern-Souler joins in.....makes the heart swell with a community spirit!
("Keep The Faith!")
https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM
Pharrell Williams versus Northern Soul
https://youtu.be/dZLLPaX4SS4
Music can provoke all sorts of memories and emotions. It depends on how you want to feel. Nowadays I like music to uplift.
This is not a woman but I like 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams, it will get you swaying or moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2cG-ed6hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhSuE5QCkk
Little miss lonely ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqJkYkOgPA
https://youtu.be/vLhkSO1T-68
I wish I was in London
Fionnuala Sherry of Secret Garden is a wonderful musician. She really makes the violin sing. One moment your heartstrings are being tugged and the next you are dancing. Haunting and joyful melodies make superb listening.
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101......this will be this
Tears Dry On their Own
https://youtu.be/ojdbDYahiCQ
I don't pick 'favourites' because to choose just one of anything is an impossibility...for me...but I will say I just love to sing along to this....(God help anyone in earshot!)
Walkinstickboogie, you might like these also....
Petula Clarke
https://youtu.be/N-1_d6bbM1I
but I prefer this one......
Don't Sleep In the Subway
https://youtu.be/XGXEPAEW7tc
I couldn't live without your love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ez6bUGGHnU
Uumm.. should try my luck with the scissors 🙂 … careful
Petula Clark, Suzi Quattro, Etta James, Jackie Abbot, Joan Jett, Doris Day,Joan Baez, Diana Ross, Sandi ,Thom, Annie Lennox, Billie Holiday, Debbie Harry,Aretha Franklin...
To name but just a few of my favourite female artists.
...... excellent choices. We've got some of those you mention on here already (for your perusal) I would gladly play them again....bit for now....
Whenever this comes on in the car on the radio.... we....whoever happens to be a passenger (for their sins) always sing/yell along to this....it cannot be helped (another that has this very same affect is Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain'...different kind of song but same happens!!!)
Suzi Quatro - If You Can't Give Me Love
https://youtu.be/7XI9WN1yW_o
Also.....like this one withe the guy from Smokie....
https://youtu.be/iGaF4tKUl0o
Love the seventies!!!!
The Duchess of blues i(n the Jazz age).......
My favourite Bessie Smith
https://youtu.be/DOaZ37tO3uo
Down In the Dumps
I've posted this elsewhere but what the heck.....I found this in a collection.of Larkin's Jazz CD's I purchased in a music shop in Haverfordwest.
(.....He and I used to be Librarians)
Well you new I would find it for you.....
I haven't heard this one you've mentioned....but it is similar to Down In the Dumps....so I like it very much.....
Jailhouse Blues......
(1923 I think) I read Evelyn Waugh books....I like to think this was going on at the same time as that period of 'wild young things'.....despite the greater divide of white aristocracy.....but this was happening too.!
https://youtu.be/tKk0uHHyrcI
Sorry you lost your vinyls....can you imagine having this in Shellac tho'? (I used to have a few from my parents and junk yard sales in the 198Os...but they go brittle and shatter easily!)