Great Ladies of Music

This list is far from being truly representative, and well, it came about from something that mostly seems pretty stupid after I gave it quite a bit of thought over the past couple weeks. I just couldn't address it with it just coming back that the arguments the person had just didn't come up as sounding like anything truly interesting. It didn't sit well with me, but oh well.

Here is a mix of a group of women who truly were themselves every time they opened their voices and sang. And I respect and love every one of them for it. This mix goes all over the map and through several eras of modern music and genres.

I'd also like to wish all out mothers out there a Happy Mother's Day, which comes along in a week from this posting and I'd also like to with this site a Happy Birthday, since this posting makes one year since I first posted something relevant. (I treat that one, random October 2004 posting as something akin to a conception, when the idea first came to take root.)

So, without further ado. . . "Great Ladies"
1. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
2. Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
3. Dusty Springfield - Just a Little Lovin'
4. Sade - Jezebel
5. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
6. Jane Birkin - Elisa
7. Fiona Apple - To Your Love
8. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Reflections
9. Astrud Gilberto - Tu Me Delirio
10. Marianne Faithfull - Come And Stay With Me
11. Jefferson Airplane - Aerie (Gang of Eagles)
12. Janis Joplin - Summertime
13. Os Mutantes - Ave, Lucifer
14. Omara Portuondo - Casa calor
15. Sarah Vaughan - Charade
16. Billie Holiday - Speak Low
17. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - Mack the Knife (Live)