Still diggin through the box of vinyl that I brought home. It was an "all or nothing" deal, so I got a bunch that I wanted (see the other thread here (http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62104)), and a bunch I either didn't want, or don't know the artist.

So who are these female artists?

Kate Wolf - Safe At Anchor (1979)
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Hearing It First (1980)
Lori Lieberman - A Piece of Time (1974)
Cheryl Dilcher - Blue Sailor (1977)
Madleen Kane - Rough Diamond (1978)
Ellen Foley - Another Breath (1983)

The first two sound familiar, but I can't place them. Guess I'll have to research a little further.

Other albums in this haul (artists which I know but will never listen to - anyone want these?):

Donna Summer - The Wanderer, Cats w/o Claws, & Four Seasons of Love
Juice Newton - Dirty Looks, & Juice
Laura Branigan - Branigan
Sheena Easton - You Could Have Been With Me, & A Private Heaven
The Judds - River of Time
Bonnie Tyler - Diamond Cut

JD

Turf them all. Quick.

Ellen Foley was the girl in the dialog part of Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light".
Tom

Kate Wolf was a great singer/songwriter from California. She died of breast cancer, the early 1980s I believe. I saw her a couple of times at Kerrville. Very quiet music, but hauntingly beautiful.

Turf them all. Quick.

I kind figgered that, esp. that last list.

However, as Photobitstream noted, a couple of these look promising, esp. Kate Wolf and Beth Chapman. One says that Kate Wolf's peers were Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams. :thmbsp:

Here's some comments I found on internet searches.

Kate Wolf
Ahead of her time and somehow beyond time, Northern California singer-songwriter Kate Wolf now has a collection to represent all her craft, wisdom, and radiance. The selection is impeccable, focusing on what Wolf's guitarist Nina Gerber has called "Kateness": an intimacy born of hard times, a communion forged in love's fire, a delicate soulfulness that few of her acoustic-oriented peers--Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams come to mind--have captured. Even if you own every Wolf album, Weaver of Visions will be a revelation--from the sparkling remastering to the elegant photographs to the intelligent, 42-page liner notes to the songs and voice that will tear out your heart, then mend and renew it once again.

Beth Nielsen Chapman
Throughout the '90s, Beth Nielsen Chapman was one of the most industrious and literate songwriters in Nashville, penning material for a new breed of female country star, including Kathy Mattea, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, and Lorrie Morgan. However, her own recordings have barely dented the country charts, for the simple fact that they're not really country at all. As a singer and arranger, Chapman owes much to the jazz-folk of Joni Mitchell, while echoing the AAA soul-smarts of Shawn Colvin. Her spiritual sensibility shines on songs like "Sand and Water" and "The Color of Roses," as she confronts personal tragedy with an openness to healing. Chapman's music has gone through various transformations, and what this collection lacks in continuity, it makes up for in the ambition of Chapman's lyrical vision.


Madleen Kane
At the age of 20, Madleen mostly mistaken as French but originally Swedish when modeling for Ford, was discovered by J.C. Freidrich owner of Boona Music productions and she became a hot singing commodity with Rough Diamond in 1978 which took off like fire not only in U.S. but across the globe. After she released Cheri in 1979, her singer career became firm. Another gold record followed with Forbidden love. She didn't want to become an object and loved music and singing so much that she even rejected to play with Jack Nicholson in Hollywood ! However Chercez Pas was an excellent club song but couldn't carry the rest of Sounds of Love album when released in 1980. Nevertheless Georgio Moroder appeared with his mixes in 1981 with "Don't wanna Lose You" and helped her album sales in Clubs but no longer in radios. Sadly, Madleen tired of the recordings faded away after the last album 1985 "Cover Girl"...This 12" compilation is a MUST buy for those who remember this beatiful lady and reminiscing late 70's and early 80's club sounds. I still have her in vinyl but I still had to buy this CD and it's already taken its place in my collection. She always makes me dance and after all, it's a pretty good recording too.

Ellen Foley
I have to admit upfront that I'm prejudice. I knew of Ellen Foley when she did the female backup for Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell". That voice saying, "Come on boy, what's it gonna be? Yes or No!" Yes Ellen, yes! What a voice. This album is like the female couterpart to "Bat Out Of Hell". The productions are similar. So, if you like Meatloaf, I guarantee you will love this album.

Her music was also described as "classic rock with a post-punk urgency".

Cheryl Dilcher from her website:
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania

Cheryl Dilcher began her musical career in her hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Accompanying herself on the 12-string guitar, she played her self-penned songs at concerts on college campuses in the Lehigh Valley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some of the colleges she played include Lafayette College (Easton), Lehigh University (Bethlehem), and Muhlenberg College (Allentown).

New York City, New York

Cheryl played a weekly gig at a small coffeehouse, the Back Fence, in Greenwich Village.


I will definitely be checking out the Kate Wolf and Beth Chapman LPs after I clean them.

JD

Ellen Foley was also on the first season of the TV sitcom "Night Court" -- you could look it up :-)

Don't forget Ellen Foley preceeding Markie Post as the defense lawyer in "Night Court".

Ellen Foley was also on the first season of the TV sitcom "Night Court" -- you could look it up :-)
Ya beat me mhardy6647!

Yeh, JD, I do have one Kate Wolf lp somewhere, and it's okay, as far as I recall.

I (or rather my wife) has a copy of Ellen Foley's "Night Out" LP. Has a not too great cover of the Stones' "Look at that stupid girl" on it. Late 70's FM radio quasi-hit.

Ellen Foley was also Mick Jones' (The Clash, not Foreigner) girlfriend 1980-82. They wrote, played on, and produced her 1981 album Spirit of St. Louis.

I kinda liked Laura Brannigan.
Kinda............ :D

Ellen Foley - Another Breath (1983)

Good Album and a good cover of Robert Palmers "Johnny and Mary"

Dunno about that particular Cheryl Dilcher title but should I ever come across (again) her first self titled album on Ampex (1971) I'd gladly snatch it up - it's hailed as one of the best of the numerous obscure female folk/psych singer-songwriter albums of the era, right up there with Linda Perhacs' "Parallelograms" & Karen Dalton's "It's So Hard.."...

Ellen Foley was also Mick Jones' (The Clash, not Foreigner) girlfriend 1980-82. They wrote, played on, and produced her 1981 album Spirit of St. Louis.

Which, btw, is an outstanding album and not at all what you'd expect from either her other albums or Mick Jones' work with the Clash. Not to mention one of my all-time favorite song titles, "The Death of the Psychoanalyst of Salvador Dali"

I also think Ellen Foley sang backup with Ian Hunter on one of his solo tours. At least I have a cassette tape somewhere made from a live FM radio broadcast of him w/Mick Ronson, "Fingers" Raleigh/Riley (?), Hemmy Michaels, (IIRC) when he notes that he wishes enthusiastically the radio listeners could see her because she is wearing "a pink organza (?) nighty!"

Ellen Foley also appears on Joe Jackson's BODY AND SOUL album (originally A&M SP 5000) duetting with JJ on 'Be my number two'.

minor thread hijack alert-- hey, photobitstream, t'other day, i found an LP in VG+/VG+ condition called "Stare With Your Ears" and i recognized the title from your sig line. i've known of Nordine for years, but, when i got it home and pulled it out of the jacket, on the label was handwriting in ballpoint saying, "Thanks! Ken Nordine"

'kay, i'm done.