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

[Dave the OAP]

Kate bush. Don’t give up....peter Gabriel.

 

[marlowe]

Kate bush. Don’t give up....peter Gabriel.

Strictly speaking that is a duet as she is credited as one of the performing artists.
On the other hand she is merely a backing singer on Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" where she sings the 'Jeux sans frontières' refrain.

 

[Norman Potting]

Suprised this hasn't featured yet - Merrie Clayton and some English white boys. Having just listened to it again I think it almost deserves that most annoying of phrases - "thread closed". Harp on it isn't too shabby either - Mick Jagger maybe?

 

[marlowe]

Suprised this hasn't featured yet - Merrie Clayton and some English white boys. Having just listened to it again I think it almost deserves that most annoying of phrases - "thread closed". Harp on it isn't too shabby either - Mick Jagger maybe?

See my opening post where you can even enjoy Merry singing the whole song.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I would have thought that Lisa Fischer singing Gimme Shelter with the Stones has to right up there, she has a great powerful voice.
Always backed up Luther Vandross as well so I have seen Lisa 3 times live, a great performer in her own right.

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

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

As a yoof, fell in love with the girls from the B52s

 

[Weststander]

Robin Clark eg @ 4:20 in this performance:

 

[timbha]

Amy Belle, duet with Rod Stewart on “i don’t want to talk about it”

Edit : not a classic but I like it.

And another vote for Kate Bush/Peter Gabriel

 

[FIVESTEPS]

Close runner up to Merry Clayton on Glmme Shelter is Maggie Bell on Rod Stewart's Every picture tells a story.

 

[Flex Your Head]

Hope Sandoval

Cracking tune, but who the bloody hell is the band in the Youtube image?!

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Yes. It was my immediate thought. See post #2

Oh yes, haha!

 

[Is it PotG?]

2 for 1 here, PP Arnold and Madeline Bell.



The great PP has her new album out tomorrow, featuring Sir Weller on it too.

 

[Icy Gull]

No idea if this has been posted already but it’s so good I’ll post it again if so. How much do you miss live music? This from a band showing why they are rated as one of the all time great live acts. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did on this dark dingy rainy lockdown Saturday

Quick search shows that this song HAS already featured but with a different female vocalist.

https://youtu.be/rLx4xJdCcZ4

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Wow - a bounce from the past but I'll add most Wham songs which had Pepsi and Shirley as backing singers.

 

[happypig]

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

As a yoof, fell in love with the girls from the B52s

In that case :

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[Pogue Mahone]

This is impossible to watch or listen to without welling up.

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

 

[jakarta]

Can't see past Clare Torry.

A post psychedia band moving into prog do a simple piano based instrumental and ask a session singer to do scat above it.

Couldn't possibly work could it?

 

[Bodian]

Tracie Young

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not sure if this counts, but it is utterly stunning. Backing poetry by Joolz Denby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFS0JdcQ2w

 

[Finch]

Kim Shattuck