Rita Coolidge is a very underrated singer and deserves to be in the same category as Karen Carpenter and Dusty Springfield, especially as her voice sounds like a combination of both.
Why isn’t she more well known?
Harpo who dis lady?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 17, 2025 10:46 PM |
She had a nice voice, but it wasn't exactly full of vim and vigor.
A vocalist without emotion or stage presence.
Still, I had that album in OP's pic in high school and loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 17, 2025 10:49 PM |
SCTV once did a sketch about a Rita Coolidge-Anne Murray TV special - the two most dull performers on earth. It was hilarious.
I wish I could find it online, but I could only find this still from it with Andrea Martin as Anne and Catherine O'Hara as Rita.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 17, 2025 10:53 PM |
Someone just posted this on another thread.
Cher - Country Medley (with Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge) (The Cher Show, 04/13/1975)
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 17, 2025 10:56 PM |
Love her version of "We're all Alone" and "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love". How many times have many of us felt that way?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 18, 2025 12:48 AM |
She was OK. Not terrible but as R2 correctly noted, not a whole lot of "oomph" in her singing or songs. Dusty was in the same range but definitely imbued her songs with more personality and emotion.
This is the song I remember best.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 18, 2025 12:54 AM |
[quote]Love her version of "We're all Alone"
Boz Scaggs’ original was better.
She was the epitome of bland.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 18, 2025 2:31 AM |
A song that's more upbeat for her
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 18, 2025 3:26 AM |