The Twelve Top Fives Of Christmas #10 Top Five Female Vocalists

Alright, so it’s day number ten. I was kind undecided on what to do for today’s top five. I have a few ideas, but I just kept bouncing them around in my head unsure of which to use. I ended up deciding that I should do a top five of female singers since I said I would after the list of male singers. So here’s the list of top five best female vocalists, based on how good I think they are.

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Gladys Knight The sound gets a little weird at the end the that video. It's still good though. I posted this second one mainly because of this guy dancing behind the stage in a blue leisure suit. It's amazing.
3. Martha Reeves
4. Diana Ross
5. Barbara Lynn

That was actually a really tough list to compile. In the end I Had a pretty hard time choosing who should be on the list and who left off, but anyway that’s what I ended up with. Okay, I also just wanted to add Betty Davis, she couldn’t really make the list as far as singers go just based on what I was looking for in my list, but she’s super badass.



In Hindsight I probably should have put her on top front men, on day five. Oh well. Anyway, I’ll have list number eleven tomorrow.

Also, I just thought of this while I was adding the links. For Aretha I used her version of Respect, which is a reply to Otis Redding's Respect which was on his album Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul. I had known about Aretha's version for years and had first heard it as a young kid. I had kinda of written it off for some reason. Then much later in life I came across Otis's. Once I found his version I was like oh man this is way better than the Aretha version. Sometime after that I heard Aretha's again, and then realized that it's better. It's close, but Aretha's gets the nod, simply because of how badass she comes off in the delivery of her retort. Otis's version is badass. It's just that whenever I listen to Aretha's version I imagine that she was sitting at home one day and Otis's Respect came on the radio. I just imagine her face kinda tightening up and her saying, "Oh no he didn't" then going down to the studio and laying down her version of the track.