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The FEMALE greats.... who's still here?


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A week or two back I started a thread lamenting the fact that all the male giants of soul music seem to have passed on.  I was trying to point out that being a male soul superstar can be hazardous to the health and very few have lived to a grand old age like BB King did.  Bobby Womack made 3 score and 10, but too many others died young or in middle age.  The discussion morphed into a general discussion of great male soul singers who are still with us - regardless of their commercial success.

So let's flip the question and widen it to female soul singers.  I suspect that more have survived - women live longer, don't they?

My personal  favourite is still here - you gotta love Gladys - and so is Aretha.  Who else is still with us?  Let's celebrate them while we can....

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Candi Staton, Shirley Brown, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Millie Jackson, Jackie Moore, Lyn White, Dorothy Moore, Cissy Houston, Denise Lasalle, Tina Turner, Ella Washington, Betty Wright, Valerie Simpson, Barbara Mason and Debbie Taylor are still with us I think.

There's plenty more that came and went that I couldnt say were still alive like Shirley Wahls, Fontella Bass, Veda Brown, Alice Clark, Brenda Lee Eager, Gloria Scott, Jeannie Reynolds and Gwen McCrae.

Oh forget to add Maxine Brown and Carla Thomas 

 

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Guest MBarrett

I know she's at the pop end of the soul spectrum but what a perfect time of the year to celebrate the one and only Darlene Love.

Up to Christmas 2014 she had sung Christmas(Baby Please Come Home) on David Letterman Show for some 29 years in a row. Missed just one I year due to Writers' Strike.

I believe she bowed out in 2014 with this performance. :):):)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSDgA9eMtU

P.S. 73 years old when she did this performance. A human tornado. A force of nature. :D

My whole day will be better for watching this vid. :yes:

 

 

 

 

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