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My Top Five Female Singers
They aren’t what you would call hard rockers.
I’ll get this out of the way immediately, Oliva Newton John was my favorite female musical artist. Generally speaking, the 70s were my favorite musical decade. The sounds, particularly from female artists weren’t as edgy as they became later.
I loved her music, and her appearance didn’t hurt her career, either. I recently saw a YouTube clip of one of her early appearances on the Tonight Show. Johnny Carson was the host. The other guests were Don Rickles and David Jensen. Don Rickles was Don Rickles and David Jansen appeared to be snockered.
Whenever Don Rickles was on the Tonight Show he interjected himself into every segment, that was just Rickles. Jansen was smitten with Olvia, and Johnny commented on her beauty, but not in the leering, suggestive Art Fern (host of the matinee movie bit) way he was with some attractive female guests.
I’ve put together my list of my favorite female artists. Oliva is at the top of the list. She’s followed by Carly Simon, Karen Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt, and Toni Tennelle.
I’m struck by how great their voices were/are and by the fact, generally speaking, they wore clothes when they performed. I think back to the Super Bowl halftime show where JLo and Shakira topped things off with dueling twerking butts.
