Playing the Indian Card

Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Best Female Voices Ever





We cannot fairly judge voices from before recording, or even from before high quality recording. I say, in no particular order:

Mariah Carey

Celine Dion

Aretha Franklin

Whitney Houston

Dolly Parton


These are not necessarily the female voices I most love to listen to. These are the best ones in a technical sense. These are the ones that can bring the house down.

Three of them are together in this clip:


Here are three of them in a row in their prime:



To be fair, here's Aretha Franklin's younger voice for comparison:



In case you don't believe she belongs in this llist, here is Dolly Parton singing her own composition "Jolene" slowed down to show the perfect phrasing:



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