What are your favourite songs by female singers ? No particular order.

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I've just been listening to 'Will You' by Hazel O'Connor and I'd forgotten what a fantastic song it is. 'Thunder In The Mountains' by her contemporary, Toyah Wilcox, is also great.

Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon;

At Seventeen by Janis Ian.

I'll probably think of more classics later.

Breaking glass was my first album at the age of ten, saved all the 50pences my grandma gave me, love 'Will You' x

Lots by Kate Bush... Cloudbusting is my favourite by her.
Because the night - Patti Smith
Aint Nobody - Chaka Khan
Annabel - Goldfrapp
Feeling good- Nina Simone

Crazy - Patsy Cline
Talking About a Revolution / Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Gravity - Sara Bareilles
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Me Myself I - Joan Armatrading

Call me by blondie

Also quite like been around the world by Lisa stansfield

50ft Queenie by PJ Harvey

Lots by Bjork, too - Hyperballad is amazing

Cloudbusting - Kate Bush.
RocknnRoll Gypsies - Elkie Brooks/Vinegar Joe
Piece of my heart/ Cry Baby/ etc Janis Joplin
Brando - Dory Previn
In This Heart - Sinead O'Connor
Jolene/ I will always love you - Dolly Parton
Trade Winds/ Queen of the Night - Maggie Bell
Stay With Me Baby - Lorraine Ellison
Killing me softly/The First Time Ever - Roberta Flack
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Carey - Joni Mitchell
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield

Anything which features Radie Peat, but you could start with 'There was an old man came over the sea'.

Michelle Shocked

Cloudbusting is probably my favourite Kate Bush song.

Send In The Clowns by Judy Collins;

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell;

One For My Baby...by Stacey Kent.

Band of Gold - Freda Payne
I love to love - Tina Charles

Flameycakes what a lovely memory. You must have treasured that album.

Agree with lotd of these.

Moments of pleasure - Kate Bush
Edge of seventeen - Stevie Nicks

Think there's something quite spiritually powerful about them. I'm not spiritual normally.

Also love Carey by Joni Mitchell, like pps have mentioned. So evocative.

And pretty much all of Tapestry. I've been warbling along to it for decades. I read somewhere that part of the power of that album was that women heard it and each thought it sounded like them singing and also that they could sing it. I think that's true, although I've no idea how she managed it.

I really like fireworks and it’s a shame at the moment. Both by First Aid Kit.

What else...

Am I The Same Girl by Barbara Acklin;

One In A Million by Maxine Brown;

I'm Still Waiting by Diana Ross;

Together We Are Beautiful by Fern Kinney.

There's loads and loads.

I love the way that First Aid Kit's vocals work together. They're sisters aren't they? There can be something really special about siblings who sing with each other.

Anita Baker has recorded many beautiful ballads like " Giving you the Best that I Got" and Rapture

Oleta Adams "Get Here if you can"

Randy Crawford "Rainy Night in Georgia"

Jaki Graham "Round and Around"

Christina Perry "Jar of Hearts"

All beautiful songs, meaningful lyrics and fab score and production.

At Last Etta James

Natural Born Woman Aretha

Will You Hazel O'Connor - the sax solo in this is so haunting

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Dusty Springfield

Oh so so many.

What he wrote by Laura Marling (pretty much anything by LM!)
Emmy Lou by First Aid Kit
Bulletproof by This is the Kit
Me at the museum, you in the winter garden by Tiny Ruins
Nameless, faceless by Courtney Barnett
Cannonball by The Breeders
You and I by Margaret Glaspy
Blood on my boots by Eliza Carthy
Little Green by Joni Mitchell

I'll stop now

I’m with @donajimena on Michelle Shocked. Anchorage, Memories of East Texas and Silent Ways have always been my favourites (showing my age).

kd lang’s version of Case Of You

Ella Fitzgerald, which my Y10 art teacher used to play on an old LP last period on a Friday afternoon, especially Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.

Wildflowers from the ‘Trio’ album, which reminds me of my dad, a big-time country and western fan.

The Story/ Turpentine/ The Joke- Brandi Carlile
Little Earthquakes/ Winter- Tori Amos
Band of Gold- Freda Payne
Hallelujah- KD Lang version
Who Knew/ Please Don't Leave Me- Pink
When Tomorrow Comes- Eurythmics
Love The Way You Lie- Rhianna (not sure if counts as features man)
Is This Love/ This House- Alison Moyet

Barbra Streisand
Debbie Harry
Judy Tzuke
Janis Joplin
Karen Carpenter

Oh yes, and Dolly.

I love Kate Bush's Man With the Child in His Eyes.

I think she was about 16 or 17 yo when she wrote it. Amazing talent

I also love Adele Skyfall it went so brilliantly with the Bond visuals as the theme of the movie. Love the "Close my eyes and count to 10 ... " line. She rather wonderful.

Ooo @Harry I love Judi Tzuke!! Amazing record Stay with me til Dawn

Beautiful isn't it @daisychain01. 😊