100 Greatest 'Female' R&B/Soul Vocalists

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100 Greatest 'Female' R&B/Soul Vocalists

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_rb-vocalists-fe.html

Criteria: - Female R&B/Soul Vocalists are rated by their ability, in their prime,
for vocal range, ability to convey emotion, power, versatility, and uniqueness.



1. Aretha Franklin
2. Dinah Washington
3. Etta James
4. Ruth Brown
5. Mavis Staples
6. Minnie Riperton
7. Big Maybelle
8. Patti LaBelle
9. Darlene Love
10. LaVern Baker
11. Whitney Houston
12. Doris Duke
13. Roberta Flack
14. Mary Wells
15. Tina Turner
16. Gladys Knight
17. Chaka Khan
18. Dionne Warwick
19. Irma Thomas
20. Florence Ballard [[Supremes)
21. Patti Austin
22. "Little" Esther Phillips
23. Anita Baker
24. Carla Thomas
25. Denise Lasalle
26. Melba Moore
27. Cissy Houston
28. Ronnie Spector [[Ronettes)
29. Freda Payne
30. Linda Clifford
31. Dee Dee Sharp
32. Faye Adams
33. Martha Reeves
34. Jean Terrell [[Supremes)
35. Nora Hendryx
36. Judy Craig [[Chiffons)
37. Vesta Williams
38. Bonnie Pointer [[Pointer Sisters)
39. Shirley Ellis
40. Barbara Lynn
41. Millie Jackson
42. Mary Wilson [[Supremes)
43. Thelma Houston
44. Nellie Lutcher
45. Big Mama Thornton
46. Ann Peebles
47. Donna Summer
48. Julia Lee
49. Toni Braxton
50. Arlene Smith [[Chantels)
51. La La Brooks [[Crystals)
52. Nancy Wilson
53. Diana Ross
54. Natalie Cole
55. Mary Weiss [[Shangri-Las)
56. Deniece Williams
57. June Pointer [[Pointer Sisters)
58. Merry Clayton
59. Fontella Bass
60. Mabel John
61. Valerie Simpson [[Ashford & Simpson)
62. Betty Everett
63. Kathy Sledge [[Sister Sledge)
64. Shirley Brown
65. Ethel "Earl-Jean" McCrea [[Cookies)
66. Gladys Horton [[Marvelettes)
67. Shirley Alston [[Shirelles)
68. Doris Troy
69. Stephanie Mills
70. Maxine Brown
71. Ester Satterfield
72. Yolanda Adams
73. Terry Ellis [[En Vogue)
74. Gloria Jones
75. Varetta Dillard
76. Brenda Holloway
77. Kim Weston
78. Carolyn Gill [[The Velvelettes)
79. Wanda Young [[Marvelettes)
80. Mary J. Blige
81. Phyllis Hyman
82. Brenda Payton [[Brenda & Tabulations)
83. Alicia Keys
84. Margie Joseph
85. Wanda Young
86. Lauryn Hill
87. Randy Crawford
88. Candi Staton
89. Sugar Pie DeSanto
90. Judy Clay
91. Martha Wash
92. Ernestine Anderson
93. Deloris Hall
94. Bettye Swann
95. Ann Cole
96. Zola Taylor [[Platters)
97. Inez Foxx
98. Justine "Baby" Washington [[Hearts)
99. Claudette Ortiz [[City High)
100. Bertha Tillman

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Here are the next 30:

101. Beyonce Knowles
102. Macy Gray
103. Queen Latifah
104. Tammi Terrell
105. Gloria Gaynor
106. Maxine Jones [[En Vogue)
107. Erma Franklin
108. Oleta Adams
109. Ashanti
110. Betty Wright
111. Janet Jackson
112. Marie Adams
113. Cheryl Lynn
114. Little Eva
115. Aaliyah
116. Linda Hopkins
117. Cindy Herron [[En Vogue)
118. Mary Russell
119. Neneh Cherry
120. Anita Humes
121. Joan Armatrading
122. Loleatta Holloway
123. Carrie Lucas
124. Maxine Weldon
125. Jody Watley
126. Maxine Nightingale
127. Marilyn McCoo [[The Fifth Dimension)
128. Lulu Reed
129. Shirley Goodman [[Shirley & Lee)
130. Sade

[skooldem1]

Another useless list. Why is this list being posted for the 98th time here in this forum?????

[marv2]

Another useless list. Why is this list being posted for the 98th time here in this forum?????

You get the point though, right? It was posted this time in response to the one posted by Jobeterob in that other thread! Now if I were to do my own list, it would look different still from this and that other posted list! It is mostly subjective!

Marv

[luke]

Lorraine Ellison should definitely be on there and Linda Jones of course.

[carlo]

Another useless list. Why is this list being posted for the 98th time here in this forum?????

Why are you so crabby?

[skooldem1]

I get the point alright.

[skooldem1]

Why are you so crabby?

Excuuuuse me????

[bankhousedave]

That can't be a real list. There's no one from X Factor.

[marv2]

That can't be a real list. There's no one from X Factor.


hehehehehehe.........

[carlo]

Excuuuuse me????

He posted a list. What's the big deal? Just skip the discussion if you don't want to look at it.

[skooldem1]

Carlo- I will let this slide cause I never really had a problem with you, and enjoy your post [[for the most part). Perhaps you should learn to mind your own business. You didn't post the list, so why jump all in my business? Also, remember your words next time someone says something about your religion, etc. Just skip it and move on right?????

[BobC]

Yay--My beloved Nona is on there. Marilyn McCoo should have been much higher

[carlo]

Marilyn McCoo should have been much higher

I agree. She's always been highly underrated IMO.

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Carlo- I will let this slide cause I never really had a problem with you, and enjoy your post [[for the most part). Perhaps you should learn to mind your own business. You didn't post the list, so why jump all in my business? Also, remember your words next time someone says something about your religion, etc. Just skip it and move on right?????

Skool Dem, with all do respect. Anything posted in this public forum of which Carlo is a member.......is his business! It is all forum members business which is why it is an offense to common manners to get personal!

[skooldem1]

That is not the point. I wasn't talking to him. Period. I didn't address him, so there was no need for him to reply directly back to me. There was also no need for him to be insulting either.

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That is not the point. I wasn't talking to him. Period. I didn't address him, so there was no need for him to reply directly back to me. There was also no need for him to be insulting either.

Understood because that is how you perceived it. You know from experience that Carlo is not a trouble maker.
I bet if there were a way for us to see the other person's facial expressions or hear the tone in their voice when posting here, we'd get a much better understanding of where an individual is coming from and there would be far less hard feelings spread around. I try to use as much punctuations as possible [[I'm not that good at it..) but I'll use a "LOL" or my "hehehehehehehe" to convey that I think something is funny or just not that serious to get upset over. I am also learning to go back and read what I just wrote to see if someone else will get the true "meaning" of what I am trying to put over here. Sometimes you read the bare text and it comes off one way, sometimes another. Sometimes it comes off not at all like we intended it to sound.

[carlo]

There was also no need for him to be insulting either.

I'm sorry, Skooldem. I did not mean to be insulting. It's just that when I saw your post, I figured that posting a list on a forum is a rather trivial matter. I was trying to call you out on the way you reacted, when really, I should not have reacted the way I did either. It was not meant to be an angry type of post. I rarely get angry with people on here...because really, it's not worth it in this intangible land of cyber space.

[roger]

No GWEN McRAE?

No MARLENA SHAW??

No BETTY LAVETTE???

Hmmm ..

Roger

[smark21]

I'm shocked Shantelle Baker, Pearlie Salters and Kaaren Ragland didn't make the list!

[smark21]

Another list that would be more accurate to describe as "My 100 favorite Female R and B Singers". Only way to excuse rating Florence Ballard so high as there's just not enough material of her singing lead to rate her so high on a "greatest" list.

[luke]

Carlo youre a fine fellow. Saying someone is crabby I do not find insulting but an innoucuous way to say the person seems upset about something. We all can be crabby. You were supportive of person who posted list and who got criticized for posting something they wanted to share. Im getting sick and tired of people being bullied for their interests. I think this is all going to come to ahead soon.

[carlo]

Thank you Luke. :)

[marv2]

I'm sorry, Skooldem. I did not mean to be insulting. It's just that when I saw your post, I figured that posting a list on a forum is a rather trivial matter. I was trying to call you out on the way you reacted, when really, I should not have reacted the way I did either. It was not meant to be an angry type of post. I rarely get angry with people on here...because really, it's not worth it in this intangible land of cyber space.

I am proud of you period for being so intelligent [[and I am not going harp about your age) compared to some more than double your age. This is like a very small focus group where some of the opinions are interesting but do not have an impact on important real World matters. It's recreation! It's Show Biz......... LOL!!!!

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No GWEN McRAE?

No MARLENA SHAW??

No BETTY LAVETTE???

Hmmm ..

Roger

I agree that Bettye and Marlena should be on the list. There are more omissions that once I get a chance think of them, I will post.

[carlo]

Thank you Marv :)

[selinasian]

I agree that Bettye and Marlena should be on the list. There are more omissions that once I get a chance think of them, I will post.
How about Peggy Scott-Adams and Vermettya Royster! Jocelyn Brown and Shirley Brown! I could think of 4 on the original list who I'd replace with these ladies!
Good list, as long as you take it for what it is....someone's personal opinion.

[copley]

The Marvelettes are 'my girls' but even I wouldn't list Wanda Young Rogers twice! Plus there's no Nina Simone!