Male & Female voices together - your best?

[Solan]

Which is the most beautiful male/ female voice combination you know of? I am listening right now to Lizz Wright, "Speak Your Heart", with Marc Thompson's bass in the background, and the combination just sends tingles down my spine. But also Alison Krauss and Robert Plant ... and in quite another direction: Yoshikazu Mera and Edita Gruberova.

So, what are your favourites?

 

[Jaska]

PJ Harvey and Nick Cave rank right up there for me.

 

[papomaster]

Mark Knopfler + Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning

have fun

 

[en480c4]

Everything from Slowdive (Neil Halstead + Rachel Goswell) & Dean & Britta (Dean Wareham + Britta Phillips) to Draconian (Anders Jacobsson + Lisa Johansson) & Epica (Simone Simons + Mark Jansen).

 

[blessingx]

It's far from best, but as a personal favorite the only duo I can remember making me tear up was John Doe & Exene Cervenka's off-kilter harmonies on See How We Are (off X's acoustic Unclogged) on an old Grundig tube table-top, several Christmas mornings ago.

YouTube - X See How We Are

If I had to pick one other it would be about half the unusual pairings (various artists) on John Prine's In Spite of Ourselves.

YouTube - John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves
YouTube - Iris Dement & John Prine - We're Not The Jet Set
YouTube - Iris Dement & John Prine - Let's Invite Them Over
YouTube - John Prine : Hello In There / YouTube - Natalie Merchant & Michael Stipe - Hello in there

 

[Cousin Patty]

Theatre of Tragedy - A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal

Awesome video for those who are bored:

YouTube - Theatre of Tragedy - A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal

 

[blem]

Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ray Charles in "Precious Thing"

 

[jsaliga]

Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland
Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald

YouTube - Frank Sinatra - Ella Fitzgerald Medley

--Jerome

 

[mcmyers]

Though Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is not from my favorite PJ Harvey album, I really love her duet with Thom Yorke on the song "This Mess We're In."

 

[TheAnomaly]

by "combination" do you mean harmony (both at the same time)? or the best bands/works that feature both male and female singers?

 

[james444]

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Music From The Motion Picture Once

 

[dgbiker1]

The Weepies... but Deb Talan's voice is so good you just wish the guy would shut up

 

[Solan]

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Originally Posted by TheAnomaly /img/forum/go_quote.gif by "combination" do you mean harmony (both at the same time)? or the best bands/works that feature both male and female singers?

Harmony.

 

[fatcat28037]

Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli, Time to say goodbye. listen th this.

YouTube - Time To Say Goodbye

 

[tru blu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessingx /img/forum/go_quote.gif If I had to pick one other it would be about half the unusual pairings (various artists) on John Prine's In Spite of Ourselves.

So glad to hear that somebody else out there digs this record; it's a personal fave. And because Emmylou Harris is one of Prine's duet partners, I'm also reminded of her work with Gram Parsons on Grievous Angel.

Of course, there're others that haven't been mentioned:

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell/Kim Weston

Jackie Cain and Roy Kral

Paul Hillier and the Hilliard Ensemble (Arvo Pärt's records, among others)

The Mamas and the Papas

The Consolers (husband-and-wife gospel duo my grandmother couldn't get enough of)

The Digable Planets

Sly and The Family Stone

I'll bet there's a ton of fantastic country music that escapes me right now.