Tell me your favourite female - sung records from the 1980s, whether or not they were singles or hits.

[WildRosie]

Mine, in no particular order, are:

Thorn In My Side - Eurythmics
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Super Trouper - ABBA
Only You - Yazoo
Sign Of The Times - Belle Stars
Hymn To Her - Pretenders
Is This Love ? - Alison Moyet
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
The Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

Shit, I misread 1990s for 1980s...

Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
Heart of Glass - Blondie

Heart of Glass 1978 Brass in Pocket 1979

Many of my favourites have already been mentioned but here are some R&B ones that I can't see have been mentioned.

I feel for you -Chaka Khan
Last night a DJ saved my life - Indeep
All night long - Mary Jane Girks
Juicy Fruit - Mtume
Change of heart - Change
Just be good to me - SOS Band

Girks = Girls!

Marti Webb - 'Take That Look Off Your Face'
Liza Minelli - 'Losing My Mind'
The Nolans - 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing' - it's cheesier than Cooper's Hill, but the dancefloor fills instantly whenever it begins!

Has anybody said Charlene - 'I've Never Been To Me' yet? No? Nobody? Well, I wonder why ever not

I've seen lots of my favourites already listed, but not sure if

Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach

has already been mentioned & I missed it.

Well, if we’re having Charlene, then we also need to have Juice Newton - Angel of the Morning anyone?

Is that the one that Shaggy covered?!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I had the Liza Minelli album which featured that song. Was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and called Results.

I was mainly into boy bands at the time, however, I loved (and still do) Gloria Estefan. Have seen her live many times.

Gloria Estefan - 'Cuts Both Ways'
Love the whole album, but the title track gets me every time.

@RebeccaNoodles

Gloria - Laura Brannigan

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@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Is that the one that Shaggy covered?!

I was going to say no, but it is - angel of angels

Soo many great ones

Though I think "rush hour" was Jane wiedlin not Karen wheeler?

And a fair few posters haven't properly read the remit -

80's
Female vocalists

Mine include but not limited to:

Strawberry switchblade - since yesterday (you think you don't know it - you do!)
Eurythmics - miracle of love
Alison moyet - this house (b side to love letters, though later released in its own right in 1991 written and 1st released in 80's and that's when I first heard it. Heartbreaking song)
Robin beck - first time
Donna summer dinner with gershwin
The carpenters - those good old dreams (glad I'm not the only carpenters fan)
Pointer sisters - automatic
Madonna - live to tell
Ellkie Brooks - no more the fool (tempter to stray into 70's here with pearl's a singer)
5 star - rain or shine
Fun boy 3 (wait for it) and bananarama - our lips are sealed
Sheena Easton (yes I know she vanished up her own arse via Prince's) - for your eyes only is still stunning though
Toyah - brave new world
Fern Kinney - together we are beautiful (another one you think you don't know but you do!)
Nicole siebert - a little peace (yes I'm an unashamed hippy!)
Kim carnes- Bette Davis eyes
Martha and the muffins - echo beach
Nena - 99 red balloons
Boy meets girl - waiting for a star to fall
Belle stars - the clapping song
Salt n pepa - push it
Mel n Kim - showing out
Shakespeare's sister - you're history
Belinda Carlisle - half the world
Martika - toy soldiers
Heart - what about love
Stevie nicks - rooms on fire
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Kate bush - cloudbusting
Laura Branigan - self control
Alannah myles - black velvet
Roxette - listen to your heart
Carly Simon - Jesse
Everything but the girl - I don't wanna talk about it
Texas - I don't want a lover
T'Pau - I will be with you
Paula Abdul - state of attraction and knocked out - loved her back then

@Spuriously17windows and @WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants - how cool would it be if you are those 2 girls all grown up?

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners sorry Beverly craven is 90's but I love her too, at one point I knew every word and all the arrangements for the entire love scenes album  my flat mates must have been SO SICK. Of it 

Gloria Estefan - here we are - another album I knew far too well

I am setting up an Amazon Playlist tomorrow called Mumsnet 80s Gold! is this a prime members thing? If so how do you do that?

@ChaosTrulyReigns I find myself arguing with absolute 80's that certain tracks are 70's or 90's...then look them up and am corrected often  but I maintain certain tracks "belong" in other decades

Pepsi and Shirlie - heartache (has to squeeze a wham! Reference in somehow! )

Nolan sisters - sorry @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll that one was 1979 I remember wearing flares still dancing to that one! However there is who's gonna rock you - no? Rock and Nolan's? Yea not really

Another bold fail

I am setting up an Amazon Playlist tomorrow called Mumsnet 80s Gold!

is this a prime members thing? If so how do you do that?

Heart - Alone

Pat Benatar - We Belong

Heart /Ann Wilson - What About Love, and Alone
Sade - Smooth Operator
Terri Nunn /Berlin - Take my Breath Away
Maddy Prior - Deep in the Darkest Night
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Kirsty MacColl - A New England
Alice - Prospettiva Nevski
Belinda Carlile - Heaven is a Place on Earth
Katrina (and the Waves) - Walking on Sunshine
Donna Summer - On the Radio

@Graphista - that's an amazing list. Our Lips are Sealed is the Go Gos and Fun Boy 3, written by Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall. Fab song though I misheard some of the lyrics and only realised recently. It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It was Bananarama and Fun Boy 3. Fern Kinney was a late 70s release.

@wowfudge seems we're both wrong it was a drummer from a. 3rd band on the fun boy 3 version

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OurLipssAreSealed#FunnBoyThreee_version

I stand corrected on fern Kinney released end of 79 but charted in 80?

Together We Are Beautiful by Fern Kinney charted in the UK in February 1980. It was one of those rare records that shrieked 'number one' the moment it appeared, although I don't think it was that successful in the USA.

Cambodia and Four Letter Word by Kim Wilde are probably her two best songs. Just a pity her looks triumphed over her vocal ability.

@Graphista I don't get what you are saying about Our Lips are Sealed?

According to Wikipedia, re the Nolans song:

"Originally released in December 1979, the song became a top three hit in the UK in February 1980."

Surely we can let it in on a technicality?!?!?!

Just coming back to Our Lips are Sealed - it was never sung by the Go Gos and Fun Boy 3 together, but MTV did do a mash up of the two groups' videos for it. I think that may be what I remember.

I’ve had a cracking Sunday listening to all these! Great thread.

Has Samantha Fox had a mention ?

@Graphista cracking list!
Anything by Kate Bush, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox.
Forgotten the breadth of Pay Benetar!
Love Xanadu and Olivia.

Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
Stevie Nicks - Edge of seventeen
Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you
Madonna - Borderline
Kate Bush - cloud busting
Fleetwood Mac - Little lies
Eurythmics- Love is a Stranger