What is the best YACHT ROCK single of all time - sung by a FEMALE?

Gypsy is not yacht rock. Lotta Love is.

No HEART?

Ann & Nancy would feel insulted if someone called their music 'Yacht Rock".

Yacht Ass works better, at least for Ann.

Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love is the best "yacht" song to me. No doubt.

Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore

Do That To Me One More Time - Captain and Tennille

Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me - Patti Austin

Free - Deniece Williams

Woman in Love - La Streisand

Through the Fire - Chaka Khan

Wind Beneath My Wings - La Midler

Save the Overtime for Me - Gladys Knight and the Pips

Do You Know Where You're Going To - La Ross

Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester

"Midnight at the Oasis" by Maria Muldaur

Cool Night by Paul Davis

Also, I need to learn how to read. Sorry. Female: would Angel of the Morning count, even though it is a cover?

Worst Poll EVER!

Linda Ronstadt is the Queen of Yacht Rock.

She's clearly rock, but on the smooth side. Most of the other singers on this thread are easy listening lounge singers.

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I was just gonna say, "No 'Blue Bayou'?" r10

Lots of playlists here.

the term has only gained strength, coming to describe a whole smooth aesthetic that existed roughly from 1975 to 1982, expanding far beyond the white soft-rockers of LA and encompassing smooth jazz and "Yacht Soul." We at AllMusic are paying tribute to that expanded definition, collecting our favorite sounds, songs, and grooves from an era when smooth meant everything.

Kenny Loggins - This Is It

Teena Marie did a cover of More Love that blew Kim Carnes's out of the water.

C&T were never any sort of rock.

[quote]Do You Know Where You're Going To - La Ross

Bitch, hand over your card.

So just because AllMusic and the Poll Troll say so, "Yacht Rock" is suddenly a jandra? I'm not buying it.

I programmed an actual mellow rock FM station in the northwest (patterned after LA's popular KNX-FM of the day) and I've never heard of 'yacht rock'.

Yes, there are boats there.

Yeah...and in what fucking world is "Wind Beneath My Wings" from 1989 yacht rock?

Of those choices, I'd probably pick Nicolette. Great song.

My vote would be for Rita Coolidge. "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" or "We're All Alone"...take your pick.

R18 is old and out of touch.

R18, was it K103 in Portland? Lots of yacht rock on there.

R19, "We're All Alone!" Yes! Perfect!

No, it was K-98 in Eugene. Have a sample!

I'm going to go put on a Spyro Gyra album...

The poll below is for the men - these are the more "classic" yacht rock songs.

R22, I loved that! Thanks for sharing it.

"You are a minstrel, Oregon, and I your guitar."

Poll for the best "Yacht Soul" song:

Thanks, R25. That's generally believed to be the longest radio imaging jingle ever recorded, period. Recorded by TM Productions in Dallas, you think it will end and then it never does! The idea was to make the station imaging sound like songs, but it was an idea which tended to be over the top, in retrospect.

Mellow rock was well suited to Eugene, where the station generally pulled #1 or #2 females (and probably gay men!) Our version was a bit more progressive rock and album oriented than some others. We also gave the wonderful Delilah her second radio job ever...she held down the night shift via pre-recorded voice tracks, very much foreshadowing her current Premiere syndicated show.

"Lotta Love" was written by Neil Young, not that it matters I just think it's interesting.

"Lonely Nights (Angel Face)" by Captain and Tennille

Lotta Love is one of my favorite songs of all time. I think it's just gorgeous.

R28 "Lotta Love" was originally written and recorded by Neil Young. Nicolette Larsen was one of his backing singers, and she covered the song as well.

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This was huge in New Zealand.

I am an unabashed fan of yacht rock, this is the music I grew up listening to and I love it.

Thanks, R33. This was a hit in the US in 1982:

Rita Coolidge's "All Time High" is the only James Bond Yacht Rock song.

I love all kinds of music, but I definitely have an appreciation for this “genre”. I voted for Lotta Love, one of my all time favorites, and one of the first 45s I ever bought. I was in elementary school at the time and my father thought it was amusing how much I loved that song.

CHAMPAGNE FOR LULU!!!

I want to chill, but the classification of Yacht Rock is anxiety inducing.

I think a Pointer Sisters song needs to be on the list.

Either "Slow Hand", or "He's So Shy".

I'd go for "I Need You."

"I Gotta Try."

"Let's Go Up" by DL fave Helen Reddy.

Melba Moore did a vastly superior version of R35 song.

Melba is a bit nasal and shrill.

Someone called Bobbi Walker also tried her hand at the song but the original version by Lulu was the hit, despite being two or three years old by the time it charted.

For me it's a close call between Lotta Love and Gypsy.

I disagree, r36.

It Never Rains in Southern California wins. Thread closed.

Ah crap. I missed the female part. Nevermind.

Zyprexa time, OP.

Take your meds and get some sleep, hon. The doctor will be upset if she knows you let the Bipolar Aspie Pop Cataloguing Troll out for another hypomanic episode.

Do you want to get locked up again?

Nobody shares your obsession for garbage music.