>Jackie Ryan
>Sophie Milman
>Anne Hampton Callaway
>Janis Siegel
>Lori Cullen
>
>Five of my favourites.
>
>All good...but no one as good as Karen Carpenter
>
>"Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby"
>"You said you'd be comin' back this way again, baby..."
>
>God, I get chills just thinking about her...

Sorry Kevin, but I'd put Jackie Ryan up against any singer in a contest. I liked Karen Carpenter too, but imho, Jackie Ryan is just plain better.

Oh, I forgot to mention Stacey Kent. And then there's Patti Cathcart of "Tuck & Patti" fame.

Oh, what the hell. There are too many to start listing them all.

But still, at the very top of my list has to be Jackie Ryan. If she weren't dead, I'd also include Connee Boswell.