What is your favorite musical duet/collaboration?

Happy Days Are Here Again / Get Happy

Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This

Barbra & Donna - "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"

Did you miss the thread about Simon and Garfunkel?

Roy Orbison and K D Lang - 'Crying'

Bowie and Jagger - 'Dancing in the Street'

Marvin & Tammi: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

D'ANGELO and his close friend and collaborator, QUESTLOVE, performing their version of the S.O.S Band hit, "TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE". You can just feel the intense platonic love that these two musical maestros have for one another. I absolutely adore watching and listening to this

I liked this collab - George Michael and Mary J. Blige

[quote] Barbra & Donna - "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"

Can you believe Mary had the nerve to do a poll and didn't include the most EPIC duet in gay history (at the time)?!! This place has all the rectitude and decorum of a brothel outside of Reno.

We Are The World is so dreadful.

No More Tears, you fag!

Where is the Love?

Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway

Steve & Edye - BLACK HOLE SUN

Carly Simon & James Taylor - "Mockingbird" (LIVE)

Mike and Janet SCREAM

Psy and Suga

Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put A Little Love In Your Heart

Billboard lists the Best Duets of all time. Two that I really like in their Top 10:

Islands In The Stream by Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton

Endless Love by Diana Ross & Lionel Richie

This Dionne Warwick & Toni Tennille duet from 1980 is pretty awesome.

James Ingram and Patti Austin had some wonderful duets. In particular, How Do You Keep the Music Playing (linked below) and Baby, Come to Me.

Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie

"Marvin & Tammi: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

Any of Marvin's duets, regardless of whether they are with Tammi, Mary Wells, Kim Weston or Diana Ross.

Correct Link.

Whenever I Call You Friend - from Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks would be in my list of favorites.

Ricky Martin & Meja

[quote]Barbara Streisand

Turn in your gay card - AT ONCE.

R26, is this the same Meja?!! My recollection was she knocked us out with "Happy" and then dropped off the face of the earth.

Thanks a lot OP!

"No Matter What You Do," a staggeringly age-inappropriate romantic duet of Diana Ross and Al B. Sure. She was 46 and he was 22. President Emmanuel Macron and First Grand Dame Bridgette Macron are an almost wholesome union by comparison.

Still, a beautiful song.

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

[quote]Can you believe Mary had the nerve to do a poll and didn't include the most EPIC duet in gay history (at the time)?!! This place has all the rectitude and decorum of a brothel outside of Reno.

I can't believe the OP spelled Streisand's first name wrong TWICE in the post.

Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - "Candy"

The Knocks & Dragonette's collaboration started in 2021 with "Slow Song" and has culminated in the excellent new "Revelation" album.

Here's my favorite deep cut.

Barbra and Barry: Guilty.

I freaking love that song.

But, yeah, Endless Love and Islands In The Stream are the pinnacle.

Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

BJ Thomas and Dusty Springfield - As Long as We Got Each Other (with Dusty Springfield) (Theme from 'Growing Pains')

The little homosexual boys seem to like this song about the weather from Martha Wash and Izora Armstead.

Benny Goodman and Rosemary Clooney, "It's Bad For Me"

Another vote for Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks—Whenever I Call You Friend. I’m surprised it’s not even included in the poll.

Also, Elton John and Kiki Dee—Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart

Please not that one. I hated Caca Dee

r41, no music in YOU, then.

I loved Kenny and Dolly together, but I think my favorite duet is Kenny Rogers with another artist, Sheena Easton. I normally prefer the original version of a song, and Bob Seeger is one of my favorite artists, but their cover of "We've Got Tonight" is the definitive version to me.

Stevie Nick's and Tom Petty....Stop dragging my heart around

When...

Yes, R44!!

One of the best ever!!

I like it better than the Stevie, Don Henley one.

Why do some Yoytube images appear in Link Previews and others do not?

R43, how are you posting?

Going back in time a bit:

My Sweet Hunk o’ Trash by Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

I love duets that introduce an element of relatively good-natured discord.

Lee Hazlewood and Ann-Margret’s spin on Sweet Thing.

Like a duet between a toad and a shrill harpy. I love it.

I love Billie Holiday, R48, but this duet with Ella and Louis is sublime.

Japanese Rhumba

The first time I ever heard (and saw the video) "I knew you were waiting for me" was at Faces in Sacramento. I got in with a fake ID. I was so nervous. I kept expecting a group of security guards to find me and drag me out of the club and physically throw me out on the sidewalk. It's not my favorite song but I'm glad it's not a song that has been played to death (If I could turn back time). Also used to sneak into BoJangles.

Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas on Smooth

Is that a duet, tho?

Carlos doesn’t sing. It might be a collaboration but not a duet.

One of the best songs ever to be made. It’s amazing.

Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry’s version of Margo Guryan’s Sunday Mornin’.

I’ve never been crazy about this album despite being a big fan of both singers, but this song works so well for their voices together.

Jeanette...

R54 it is indeed a collaboration. Rob Thomas wrote the lyrics, Carlos Santana wrote the music. It truly is one of the best songs and collaborations ever. Lightning in a bottle.

The gawd-awful "Ebony and Ivory" is possibly the worst pop record of all time; not is it totally horrible, it's performed by two of the greatest artists of the time--Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Maybe the OP is thinking of "The Girl Is Mine," another piece of shite upchucked by Paul McCartney with Michael Jackson.

Telephone Bill

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty had some great sparring matches, but I always liked the high drama of As Soon as I Hang up the Phone, with CW imploring her to listen to his breakup announcement while being constantly interrupted by LL.

Beatrice Arthur / Rock Hudson / Everybody Today Is Turning On (From "I Love My Wife")

My favorite Loretta Lynn duet is with Willie Nelson,

Cerrone and LaToya!

Julie & Dinah

I prefer those old timey medleys usually sung LIVE by the great vocalists on variety shows!

Get this trio - Dean Martin, Lena Horne and Bing Crosby live on Martin's TV show, 1967. The weird part is Crosby phoning it in like he had to catch a plane:

"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late." Deniece Williams was a fabulous duet partner for Johnny Mathis. Despite his best efforts, and many attempts, Johnny was never able to replicate the beauty of his vocal blend with Deniece with any other female singer.

A sad song sung beautifully.

Ebony and Ivory was better with Frank Sinatra and Stevie.

Bing & Satchmo

David Byrne and Selena - "God’s Child" (Baila Conmigo / Come Dance With Me)

I hate to be a basic bitch by Moves like Jagger by Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera. It’s my guilty pleasure song from the gym to my car to sometime cleaning up the house on Sundays. I’ll never admit it though.

“Moves Like Jagger” makes my ears bleed. It has to be the worst sell-out turd piece of shit ever unleashed to radio. I abhor it. Even “The Macarena” is better.

George Michael and Mary J. Blige, "As".

Here's the link for R72 I neglected to post earlier.

And now I see R9 already posted it. That's what I get for jumping ahead...

Serge Gainsburgh and Brigette Bardot Bonnie and Clyde

Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney’s Men Are Good for Nothin’.

R66 That leaves me sobbing every single time I hear it.

May I present Cher and Labelle in a duet (quartet?) from 1975. I like it.

Elton John & Olly Alexander - "It's A Sin" - BRIT Awards 2021

this

Liza and the Pet Shop Boys, Losing my mind... the sun comes up, I think about you, the coffee cup, I think about you

Wunderbar!

The gorgeous love theme from "Out of Africa." Titled "The Music of Goodbye" it was recorded by Al Jarreau and Melissa Manchester.