The Women of Rock.

[captsandwich]

Don't forget The Selector and their "2 minute hero."

3 Minute Hero.
I've had the good fortune to open for the Selector and Pauline Black is awesome.
How about Lynne Scott? Can anyone identify the band?

[bitzerguy]

Wouldn't just happen to be Skaface now, would it Greg?

Nice one!

[bitzerguy]

How about Darby Mills (Headpins)? Pretty much defines rocker...

[chuck_king]

You can't talk about women in rock without a tip of the hat to Wanda Jackson, who did it first and as well as anyone who came later.

[whojamfan]

Yeah, I blew it, "3 minute hero", it's been a good 10 years(at least) since I heard that one.

[winston]

You can't talk about women in rock without a tip of the hat to Wanda Jackson, who did it first and as well as anyone who came later.

You know in the back of my mind I vaguely remembered Wanda Jackson as a country artist. Looking back at her career profile I see she crossed over to country in her early years in the business. Thanks Chuck for bringing her to our attention.

[wayang]

Martha And The Muffins...that's Martha in the center, and bassist Jocelyne Lanois next to her. Great band, and Jocelyne is one of the best bassists I've ever had the chance to hear live. She's Daniel Lanois' sister, and has a myspace page...

[winston]

Martha and the Muffins! What a great addition to this thread. Thanks Dane.

I forgot to mention Carole King as one of my faves.

In 1971 her Tapestry album hit number 1 in the U.S. for the first of 15 consecutive weeks. The LP contained such classic tracks as “It’s Too Late,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” “So Far Away,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”

It’s one of the best rock ‘n’ roll albums of all time by a female artist.

She is also a very gifted songwriter who has written a string of hits along with her co-writer and husband Gerry Goffin.

Here's the list according to Wikipedia: It's a pretty impressive list by anyone's reckoning.

1961 "Take Good Care of My Baby"
Bobby Vee #1 Dion and the Belmonts (later in 1961), Smokie (in 1981), Bobby Vinton, Stephen Collins, Dick Brave

1961 "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
Shirelles #1 Carole King (in 1971), Four Seasons (group), Roberta Flack, Amy Winehouse, Melanie

1961 "Some Kind of Wonderful"
The Drifters #32 Marvin Gaye (in 1968), Carole King (in 1971); not the same song as the Grand Funk Railroad hit

1962 "Chains"
The Cookies #17 The Beatles (in 1963), Carole King (in 1980)

1962 "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby"
Little Eva #12 The Beatles (in 1964, unreleased until 1994)

1962 "The Loco-Motion"
Little Eva #1 The Chiffons (in 1963), Grand Funk Railroad (in 1974, #1), Carole King (in 1980), Kylie Minogue (in 1988, #3), Tina Turner, Dwight Yoakam

1962 "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"
The Crystals The Motels (in 1982), Hole (in 1994)

1962 "Go Away Little Girl"
Steve Lawrence #1 Mark Wynter, Donny Osmond (in 1971, #1)

1963 "Don't Say Nothing Bad (About My Baby)"
The Cookies #7

1963 "Hey Girl"
Freddie Scott #10 Donny Osmond (in 1972, #9), Carole King (in 1980), Billy Joel (Greatest Hits Volume III in 1997)

1963 "One Fine Day"
The Chiffons #5 Rita Coolidge (in 1979, #66), Carole King (in 1980, #12), Aaron Neville (in 1993), Natalie Merchant (in 1996)

1963 "Up on the Roof"
The Drifters #5 King (in 1970), Laura Nyro (in 1970), James Taylor (in 1979, #28), Neil Diamond (in 1993), Billy Joe Royal, Peter Cincotti

1964 "I Can't Hear You No More"
Betty Everett #66 Dusty Springfield (in 1965), King (in 1970), Helen Reddy (in 1976, #29)

1964 "I'm into Something Good"
"Earl-Jean" McCrea #38 Herman's Hermits (later in 1964, #13)

1964 "Oh No Not My Baby"
Maxine Brown #24 Manfred Mann (in 1965), Dusty Springfield (in 1965), Aretha Franklin (in 1970), Rod Stewart (in 1973, #59), The Partridge Family (Bulletin Board in 1973), King (in 1980 and 2001), Cher (in 1992), Linda Ronstadt (in 1994)

1965 "Don't Forget About Me"
Barbara Lewis - Dusty Springfield

1966 "Don't Bring Me Down"
The Animals #12 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (in 1986)

1966 "Goin' Back"
Dusty Springfield - The Byrds (in 1968, #86), King (in 1980), Larry Lurex (1973) Nils Lofgren, Johnny Logan

1966 "I Can't Make It Alone"
P.J. Proby - Dusty Springfield, Maria McKee (in 1993)

1967 "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
The Monkees #3

1967 "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
Aretha Franklin #8 King (in 1971), Laura Nyro (in 1971), Rod Stewart (in 1974), Mary J. Blige (in 1995), Celine Dion (in 1995)

1968 "Porpoise Song"
The Monkees #62

1968 "Wasn't Born to Follow"
The Byrds King (in 1980)

1970 "Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)"
Blood, Sweat & Tears #14 Dusty Springfield (non-LP B-Side in 1969), King (in 1980)

[scotty]

i love echo beach takes me back to school days.

[wayang]

"Women around the world at work..."

Kind of on topic: our gender wayang group, Catur Eka Santi, played a gig at the Denver Zoo last night...their annual fundraiser. Lots of great food and drink, and some shoulder-rubbing with the affluent. It started raining just as we started playing at 7 and stopped just as we finished an hour later, so it was a very traditional Balinese gig...the same thing has happened to us several times when we've played in Bali. Anyway...

The headliners for the evening were Starship (that would be the Jefferson Starship, featuring somebody-or-other whose name I didn't recognize, and a young woman 'replacing' you-know-who)...I kind of heard their set from a distance as we strolled around the place. It was pretty MOR...and of course, the giant 'surprise' encore: We Built This City...hmmm. The most bizarre element was at about the halfway point of the set...I could not believe it when they launched into a cover of Elvin Bishop's I Fooled Around And Fell In Love". WTF??? I suddenly felt like I was in a Holiday Inn lounge out by the interstate. Lo, how the mighty art fallen...

Oh Gracie, where are you?

[wayang]

Okay, I get it now, sort of...a friend informed me that Starship singer Mickey Thomas (whose name I didn't recognize on the marquee last night) and drummer Donny Baldwin were both on the original recording of Fooled Around.... That kind of explains it, I s'pose...but that tune is no White Rabbit, that's for sure...

[blue330]

Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson of Lush. Cool band, and they were funny on stage, sort of the last thing you'd expect given their "shoegazer"-era origins, which endeared them to me forever!