NOTE: This was supposed to be an update, but I hit 'reply' by mistake.

>>Jackie Ryan
>>Sophie Milman
>>Anne Hampton Callaway
>>Janis Siegel
>>Lori Cullen
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>>Five of my favourites.
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>>All good...but no one as good as Karen Carpenter
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>>"Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby"
>>"You said you'd be comin' back this way again, baby..."
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>>God, I get chills just thinking about her...
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>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.
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>Oh, I forgot to mention Stacey Kent. And then there's Patti Cathcart of "Tuck & Patti" fame.
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>Oh, what the hell. There are too many to start listing them all.
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>But still, at the very top of my list has to be Jackie Ryan. If they weren't dead, I'd also include Connee Boswell and Mary Martin.