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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 16:25:08 GMT -5
Sirius XM 70's Channel had listeners vote on their favorite female singers of the 1970's.
Here are the results:
1 Karen Carpenter
2 Olivia Newton-John
3 Linda Ronstadt
4 Fleetwood Mac
5 Donna Summer
6 Carole King
7 Abba
8 Heart
9 Carly Simon
10 Barbra Streisand
11 Helen Reddy
12 Cher
13 Diana Ross
14 Anne Murray
15 Tina Turner
16 Dolly Parton
17 Gladys Knight
18 Blondie
19 Joni Mitchell
20 Gloria Gaynor
The top three are the same as I recall from last year's poll.
Sirius 60's channel recently had a poll where the listeners voted on their favorite female singers from the 1960's. Linda finished #12 in that poll. As I recall she was #9 last year.
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 31, 2024 18:34:31 GMT -5
A bit strange since Fleetwood Mac is not a female singer. It probably should have been Stevie Nicks. Linda is moving up in the ranks so that's a "seriously"nice nod to her!
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Post by RobGNYC on Mar 31, 2024 18:43:07 GMT -5
A bit strange since Fleetwood Mac is not a female singer. It probably should have been Stevie Nicks. Linda is moving up in the ranks so that's a "seriously"nice nod to her! And equally Christine McVie. By that standard, this is an inconsistent list—to state the obvious, ABBA, Heart, and Blondie aren’t “female singers” either, and Karen Carpenter wasn’t a solo singer. |
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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 20:21:17 GMT -5
A bit strange since Fleetwood Mac is not a female singer. It probably should have been Stevie Nicks. Linda is moving up in the ranks so that's a "seriously"nice nod to her! They played 2 songs by each Top 20 artist. For Fleetwood Mac they played one with Stevie Nicks on lead and one with Christine McVie. I was not paying attention to the Abba selections. The two Linda selections were You're No Good (I think) and Blue Bayou. I got a phone call just as Linda came up. I was hoping for When Will I Be Loved/ Long Long Time. But Long Long Time is not on the '70s playlist. I suppose it wasn't a big enough hit, although they play songs by Elton John that didn't even go Top 40. Also, they never play my favorite Olivia Newton-John Song, the first I ever heard by her, If Not For You. It barely made the Top 30. Not to be morbid, but my initial thought was that Linda was #1 among living artists. I am surprised that Donna Summer was not higher. She is by far the female artist I hear the most on the '70s station. |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 1, 2024 8:34:10 GMT -5
I didn't have much time but that is a keen observation re: the list, Boss!! I forget, at times, that Olivia is no longer with us. eddiejinfl
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Post by MokyWI on Apr 1, 2024 13:51:10 GMT -5
Linda was the bomb. #1 and the best, no questions asked. Thank You, HELLO!
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Post by PoP80 on Apr 1, 2024 14:23:01 GMT -5
"Favorite" singer is a very subjective term and doesn't really necessarily reflect the level of vocal talent or ability.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 1, 2024 16:25:59 GMT -5
"Favorite" singer is a very subjective term and doesn't really necessarily reflect the level of vocal talent or ability. Yes, there's really no arguing with this list. They asked the listeners to vote and these are the results. To use a trite phrase that I detest, it is what it is. I know that Karen Carpenter and Olivia have dedicated online fan groups who try to vote in every poll. I did not vote in this one or even post a link here. I also wonder if them ending up #1 #2 could be partially due to the Jim Croce effect. Back in the '70s I liked Jim Croce. I had one of his albums. Unfortunately he died an untimely death. Radio started playing his music ad nauseum. It got to the point that I switched the station when I heard him, especially Time in A Bottle. The public's love for an artist seems to intensify when they are no longer with us. To this day I still don't listen to Jim Croce, although I don't mind hearing Melanie sing one of his tunes. |
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Post by sliderocker on Apr 1, 2024 21:09:52 GMT -5
"Favorite" singer is a very subjective term and doesn't really necessarily reflect the level of vocal talent or ability. Yes, there's really no arguing with this list. They asked the listeners to vote and these are the results. To use a trite phrase that I detest, it is what it is. I know that Karen Carpenter and Olivia have dedicated online fan groups who try to vote in every poll. I did not vote in this one or even post a link here. I also wonder if them ending up #1 #2 could be partially due to the Jim Croce effect. Back in the '70s I liked Jim Croce. I had one of his albums. Unfortunately he died an untimely death. Radio started playing his music ad nauseum. It got to the point that I switched the station when I heard him, especially Time in A Bottle. The public's love for an artist seems to intensify when they are no longer with us. To this day I still don't listen to Jim Croce, although I don't mind hearing Melanie sing one of his tunes. That was especially true with Jim. Radio stations had been playing Bad, Bad Leroy Brown in 1973. It was a huge hit that summer just before he died in the plane crash. And he had completed his third album for his record company and everything was looking good for him, success wise. I think he would've gone on to have been a big artist in the 70s if not for the plane crash. Time in a Bottle became a hit because of its tie-in to the movie She Lives. It benefitted no doubt from Jim's death and it was kind of ghoulish for Jim's record company or radio to go in to overdrive hyping the song. But, it was a good song. I used to switch the stations too every time it came on, but after all the furor over Jim's death had leveled off, it was easier to listen to and to mourn Jim's loss. It also didn't help that Jim had appeared at the local college in my hometown two days before he was killed in Louisiana. The local college had been part of the college tour he didn't have to be on, but fulfilled because he was a man of his word. Speaking of Melanie, I'm surprised she didn't make the list, following her death back on January 26th. You're spot on about Karen and Olivia having a dedicated online group of fans who try to vote in every poll. I've been listening to a lot of Melanie's recordings on YouTube on her dedicated Melanie channel. She had some good recordings I wished I had gotten when they were released originally. I'm gonna have to watch for the record company which holds the rights to her albums, Cleopatra, reissue those albums, which they say they are going to do. Melanie did very well for an artist who was off-label most of the time. I used to complain about her re-recording a lot of songs, but I have to admit some of the re-recordings were better than the originals. One of Melanie's songs from the 70s, Record Machine was remade in the 90s as Someday I'll Be An Old Record, with just Melanie on guitar and vocal harmonies from her daughters Leilah and Jeordie. The remake included some new verses which appeared to be alluding to death, although the remake was recorded in 1999. I was listening to Maddy Miller talk about Melanie on a podcast that is up on Youtube, audio only. Maddy was and is a photographer who took many of the photos of Melanie over the years. And although not all of her stories were all sad, the one that got me the most was about Melanie and her husband Peter going through some rough patches financially. Seems Melanie did not have the publishing rights to her songs and while she still made a few concert appearances and released a few CDs, not having her publishing cost her. A group in Australia had a hit with a parody of one of her songs but did not credit her as the original songwriter. She made a trip to Australia to accept an award for the song and the group to their credit, upon discovering the error, fixed it so that all future copies of their recording credited her. It's a good interview and there's a beautiful photo of Melanie reminding everyone of just how beautiful she was. And Maddy leaves no doubt that Melanie was the nicest and sweetest person you could ever meet. |
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Post by Pistol Pete on Apr 11, 2024 19:57:51 GMT -5
Sirius XM 70's Channel had listeners vote on their favorite female singers of the 1970's. Here are the results: 1 Karen Carpenter 2 Olivia Newton-John 3 Linda Ronstadt 4 Fleetwood Mac 5 Donna Summer 6 Carole King 7 Abba 8 Heart 9 Carly Simon 10 Barbra Streisand 11 Helen Reddy 12 Cher 13 Diana Ross 14 Anne Murray 15 Tina Turner 16 Dolly Parton 17 Gladys Knight 18 Blondie 19 Joni Mitchell 20 Gloria Gaynor The top three are the same as I recall from last year's poll. Sirius 60's channel recently had a poll where the listeners voted on their favorite female singers from the 1960's. Linda finished #12 in that poll. As I recall she was #9 last year. |
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Post by musedeva on Apr 12, 2024 13:55:05 GMT -5
also remember the "target audience" of Sirius' "70's Channel"........
we all know who's #1!!!
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