[Music] Classic Female Backing Vocal Contributions to Tracks by Male Artists.

[hans kraay fan club]

Hope Sandoval

 

[Wozza]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-c79LQ3aM

Oleta Adams

 

[marlowe]

I love this guest appearance by Linda Lewis during Terry Reid's performance at the second Glastonbury festival in 1971.

Terry Reid was the original choice as vocalist for a band being formed by Jimmy Page called The New Yardbirds (eventually known as Led Zeppelin). Due to other commitments Reid turned down the job and suggested a young vocalist called Robert Plant.

Anyway back to Linda Lewis. She was/is a recording artist in her own right, her most famous hits being Rockadoodledoo and Its in His Kiss.

She ambles onto the stage here at 6.29. Great afro too.

https://youtu.be/l-eA7mUdRog

 

[marlowe]

Does this qualify?

Dusty Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

Yes because she's not credited as the performing artist, only the Pet Shop Boys were.

 

[Tiptoe through the NSC]

https://youtu.be/Tc2NpNqDgPE

Oh Emmylou!

 

[marlowe]

Helen Terry famously supplied backing vocals on Culture Club's "Church of the Poison Mind"

https://youtu.be/CfHFG1-00kw

 

[marlowe]

Sarah Jane Morris shared vocal duties on the Communards classic cover of Don't Leave Me This Way.

https://youtu.be/4q4ubLniqQ0

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sarah McLachlan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyNx1N3ARUQ

 

[Seagull kimchi]

https://youtu.be/2tNoSmlnxwQ

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Re Styles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTd3PrTzSPY

 

[bhafc99]

Hope Sandoval

And William Reid pulled her too, securing the all-time “punching above your weight” crown.


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[maltaseagull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-c79LQ3aM

Oleta Adams

This with bells on. Brilliant track and a great Album by her produced by them. What happened to her?

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[Tyrone Biggums]

Rasa Davies.

How many iconic Kinks songs owe her vocals to a large part of their sound and success.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Valerie Etienne is just brilliant on the wonderful Prince of Peace by Galliano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymGxV6KEtCc

 

[Pistol]

https://youtu.be/rmGxh1FhtxE
Adele Bertei

 

[Icy Gull]

Rosemary Butler gets credited here but not on the album it is taken from. One of the great backing female singers on so many West Coast artists songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMX3vuzkX-s

 

[Barrow Boy]

IMO one of The Small Faces greatest songs with the lovely P.P.Arnold on backing vocals.

 

[marlowe]

IMO one of The Small Faces greatest songs with the lovely P.P.Arnold on backing vocals.

Bugger, I'd just copied that link and was just about to load it.

 

[marlowe]

PP Arnold also provides backing vocals on Nick Drake's Poor Boy

https://youtu.be/8TeZMGx4q6c

 

[bhafc99]

Kim Deal on Ultra Vivid Scene’s Special One

https://youtu.be/1DCjSShu_VA