Best Female singer?

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I love getting blasted for my taste in music (admittedly I have none). Does that make me a sadist or a masochist? Like port and starboard, I can never get it right.

Leann Rimes, Martina McBride and Amy Grant (early years before she went pop). And I will always think Karen Carpenter had the most perfect voice I've ever heard.

Here is the drill on Port and Starboard, since I was a jarhead and had to spend time onboard naval vessels it was important to not seem ignorant to the swabbies.....Port is left. Four letters in both words. So starboard has to be right. An interesting by the way was a fellow officer of mine who was a Naval Academy graduate told me he had written a couple of letters to Karen Carpenter inviting her to a big dance at the Academy when they were suppossed to receive their rings and become upper class men. Unfortunately for him she declined the invitation due to conflicting tour dates. We used to kid him and say it was really because he was going to a small all boys school in the east and wasn't up to her standards.

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That's the nice thing about this kind of topic though. There are no wrong answers at the individual level. It's all a matter of personal preference and taste.

Well, to be fair, someone did mention Celine Dion.

Sweet Mother Mary and Joseph, it is good to have at least some standards.

Good Lord, she's Canadian.

USA #1

[Maggie]

I have to also say despite the fact that I despised them in my teenage years, Fleetwood Mac, featuring Nicks.

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I will have to go with Annie Lennox, Etta James, Adele, Stevie Nicks

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Add two more...Carol King and Edie Brickell.

[kcshocker11]

Mike Finnigan takes the backseat to no one, he is the greatest of all time.

Yep! Captain Bobby Stout done found me out and I owe the man another year!

[kcshocker11]

I love this womans music!

Dont forget Whitney Houston , Natalie Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella fitzgerald, Billie Holliday,Pearl Bailey, Peggy Lee

and my new addition.

[RoyalShock]

Lacey Mosley of Flyleaf.

I'm kinda, sorta serious.

[pinstripers]

Forgot Patsy Cline. Thanks for the reminder.

[Maggie]

I love this womans music!

Dont forget Whitney Houston , Natalie Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella fitzgerald, Billie Holliday,Pearl Bailey, Peggy Lee

and my new addition.

It's good

[JJClamdip]

Yep! Captain Bobby Stout done found me out and I owe the man another year!

Those were wild and crazy days my friend.

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Haley Reinhart Youtube

[kcshocker11]

Those were wild and crazy days my friend.

Thats true used to go see the Jerry Wood group every Sunday night at Whiskey River, (RIP Jerry)

[pinstripers]

Was'nt it Jerry Hahn?

[Maggie]

Good suggestions - and I listened to each one, save Adele's, but no one beats Merchant’s voice in my eyes, she could grab a daily rag, start reading and singing, an I would stop.

By the way what song or songs should I listen to by Adele?