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.

Forgot one - Will you by Hazel O'Connor.

Wow ecuse that's brilliant! Thank you for doing that!

You're So Vain: Carly Simon

One: Mary J Blige

Love Resurrection : Alison Moyet

Magic : Olivia Newton John

Two doors down Dolly Parton

I’m listening to the playlist now while cooking dinner. Thank-you ecuse

I forgot to say Hymn to Her by the Pretenders.

Dancing on my own
Hurts with every heartbeat (live lounge version)-Robyn

Leave me alone-Pink

Baby can I hold you- Tracey Chapman

Thanks so much ecuse that’s fab

Florence and the machine-dog days
Hole (Courtney love)-celebrity skin
Kate bush-cloudbusting and withering heights
Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde)-talk of the town
Loads of songs by Cher and Madonna

Oh I forgot to say time after time by Cyndi Lauper and no more I love yous by Annie Lennox

I love a MN playlist. Thanks ecuse.

Can I please add Inside Out and Mayhem by Imelda May?

I love rock n roll Joan Jett
Dream a little dream Mama Cass
Remember my name Stevie Lange
Piece of my heart Janis Joplin
Wuthering heights and The man with the child in his eyes Kate Bush
Nobody does it better Carly Simon

Dear Darling by Mary Margaret O’Hara

Falling by Alicia Keys
Us by Regina Spektor
True Colours (ok, Colors) by Cyndi Lauper

Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks
Barbara Streisand - Woman in Love

Everywhere - Michelle Branch
Figure 8 - Ellie Goulding
Everytime You Go - Ellie Goulding
Never Give Up - Sia
At Last - Etta James
Falling - HAIM
Chains - Carole King

Nothing compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
Jolene - Dolly parton

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Rainy Night in Georgia - Randy Crawford

And Madonna can do no wrong

In the interests of balance, and as I started this thread, here are some awful songs by female singers. Purely my opinion, of course, but add to playlists at your peril.

The Loco-motion by Little Eva;

Y Viva Espana by Sylvia;

Naughty, Naughty, Naughty by Joy Sarney;

One Day At A Time by Lena Martell.

Horses by Patti Smith
Manchild by Neneh Cherry
Let England Shake by PJ HArvey
Fireworks by First Aid Kit

Yes Will You is a fantastic song

Bad Girl Madonna she just sounds so vulnerable

Anything by Dolly she is just fantastic
Annie Lennox Walking on Broken Glass
Alison Moyet Love Resurrection
Hazel Dean Searching
Paloma Faith Only love could hurt like this

Helmlover1 and PersonaNonGarter
Finally some Madonna fans.

Almost anything by Taylor Swift. I LOVE her

Don't leave me this way - Thelma Houston
I feel love , On the radio, State of Indepedence -Donna Summer
To Sir with love, The man who sold the world - Lulu
Venus, Robert De Niro, Nathan Jones - Banarama
Stay - Shakespear's sister
Pull up to the bumper, Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
Ruby Tuesday - Melanid
Broken English, The ballad of Lucy Jordan, Working class hero, Sister morphine - Marianne Faithfull