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Category Archives: Divas

  • Happy Christmas Eve ~ Record blog followers!  This is an exciting post for me. This record came to me last xmas in a package from my in-laws ~ [...]

    Family Holiday Sing Song.. In A Big Way

    December 24, 2012
  • It seem like perhaps I have left the best for last, this month. Nina Simone is a deep voiced delicious diva. Jazz at it’s best. A strong, [...]

    Silk and Soul, Nina Simone the Diva

    December 8, 2012
  • OCTOBER 4 Well, we had a kick ass summer that lasted on the BC rainforest coast until.. well ~ yesterday. Today she is raining. So bring me the [...]

    Bring Me Sunshine

    October 10, 2012
  • Olivia Newton John! Have I told the story about Michelle and I sliding across her floors, wearing out leg warmers? We would put on shows for our [...]

    If You Love me, Let Me Know

    September 20, 2012
  • My father walked me down the isle (at the second wedding) in Alberta ~ to the title song of this album. Our first wedding was earlier that week [...]

    Chances. What are the chances that I’d find you?

    August 9, 2012
  • Oh this album is delicious in just so many ways. My sweety found it at the Value Village in New Westminster for a buck. I’m throwing it in [...]

    This is the electrifying voice of a legend… edith piaf

    July 12, 2012
  • I can’t type fast enough ~ to tell you all that I scored an unopened plastic covered She’s So Unusual ~Cyndi Laurper album!! Actually [...]

    Deflowering Cyndi Lauper *or* Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    June 6, 2012
  • Barbara Streisand People. I tried so hard to love this album, just ’cause I feel like I’m supposed to. But I just couldn’t.. [...]

    I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

    May 17, 2012
  • We interrupt this fine Johnny Cash Sunday to say “Happy Mother’s Day!”  “In keeping with the “rules” of [...]

    spinning a grace note like a baker whips a topping

    May 13, 2012
  • Why am I putting this surprisingly fantastic album MELANIE at CARNEGIE HALL in my Top 30 records of 2012? After eagerly  listening to Sides A [...]

    infectious romp about freedom and roller skates

    May 12, 2012
  • Olivia Newton John ~Come On Over and eat your heart out 70′s. There are more Olivia albums coming this year, so hold tight record blog [...]

    making out with John Travolta

    May 11, 2012
  • The Supremes ~ possibly the BEST girl band EVER. Who doesn’t love every song on this album? There was a facebook questionaire gone viral [...]

    Best girl band EVER ~motown Divas

    May 10, 2012
  • Timi Yuro ~ an enjoyable record and a fabulous womyn according to the research below ~ but not really a record I’d give a second listen. [...]

    What’s a Matter Baby?

    May 9, 2012
  • Happy 45′s week! This week we are going to explore a few more of my random 45 collection. I’m not sure how to store them/ file themas [...]

    45′s week ~starting with the DIVA Cher

    April 30, 2012
  • We have seen the Diva Dionne Warwick previously this year. Here she is the featured singer to the soundtrack of the movie In The Valley Of The [...]

    she took the yellow pills

    April 11, 2012
  • WOW. The Divine Miss M. This album is loaded with 1972 awesomenesses. It appears to be all covers, none written by her. It goes into DIVA & [...]

    no wind beneath her wings here

    April 10, 2012
  • Etta James, the late great Etta James. What a TREAT this album is! 1978. I am slowly building a jazz collection, finally.   Here’s what [...]

    now she’s flowin’, he said..

    April 4, 2012
  • I was born on Oct 3rd and she died on an Oct 4rth.  Janis Joplin !  I exhausted my cassette tape of this in highschool. Her autobiography also [...]

    are you staying stoned and you got enough water & a place to sleep, man?

    March 28, 2012
  • Hot on the heels of International Womyn’s Day we bring you Whitney’s (RIP) cousin Dionne Warwick’s GOLDEN HITS Part One. [...]

    she soars through spiraling climaxes.. since 1962

    March 10, 2012
  • Yes, I spell it with a Y. I’m sure you can deal with it. smerk* HAPPY DAY WOMYN FOLK & those that love them. I’ve got mad love [...]

    happy international WOMYNS DAY

    March 8, 2012
  • Oh Sylvia. Please go back to 1982 where you came from. This was instant rethrift soft rock with serious amounts of make up.  Apparently, she was [...]

    possibly the original duck face

    March 7, 2012
  • What places a record in my Top 30 records of 2012? When you listen to a song not once but twice in a row with the volume cranked!! Who is a more [...]

    What’s Love Got to Do With it?

    February 24, 2012
  • Here’s the GOLD find. Baba and Donna 70′s duet! Lovers and Duets redeemed. This went platinum. Review? “epic first two minutes [...]

    love to love you baby

    February 21, 2012
  • Our two weeks of Lovers & Duets has begun with this DIVA. The Supremes ~ fantastic cleaning the house music. Try not to sing along!  I [...]

    where did our love go?

    January 31, 2012
  • C’MOOOOON! This takes awards for TOP 20 ALBUM COVER ART of 2012. My husband was over the moon for this photo. Music for Pussy Cats? meow! [...]

    Music for Pussy Cats (& you know who you are)

    January 26, 2012
  •                      The ads on the back are just as awesome as this classic album featuring [...]

    make out music

    January 13, 2012
  • Polly Bergen, a friend to the Golden Girls ~entertained us through dinner tonight. A lovely lady with red lipstick sings the cover tunes. Not a [...]

    golden girl still rocks red lips

    January 12, 2012
  •    TIMI YURO ~ this album was less than mediocre at best. Although I find her voice deep and sensual, very talented.. this album stunk other [...]

    You Know You Don’t Want Me

    January 9, 2012
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