Lady sounds like a Dude

[Incandenza]

Okay, it had to be done...

The first time I heard Nina Simone, I didn't know anything about her. I think it was "Sinnerman," and I thought it was a man singing.

I shocked someone I worked with when I told them that Q Lazzarus ("Goodbye Horses," the song in Silence of the Lambs that Buffalo Bill dances to) was a woman.

[erwin]

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Later Marianne Faithful ... a bit.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Horse. A dead ringer for Freddie Mercury.

[Heliotrope]

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I remember a letter printed in Rolling Stone around the time that "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," a duet with Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes, was out: "I like that new song by Kenny Rogers and Rod Stewart."

[adams house cat]

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There are those of us old enough to remember the rumors that Kathy Kirby was really a man in drag.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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I never heard that! It would've played havoc with my fifteen-year-old bedtime fantasies.

[George]

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To reverse the title for years i thought laughter in the rain was sung by a female before finding out it was Neil Sedaka.

[Sam]

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George, this thread is a reply to the 'Dude sounds like a Lady' one.

Which I have just discovered myself after posting there the thing about someone at my salsa class thinking Celia Cruz (!) sounded like a man.

[WOM]

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The first time I heard Max Sedgley's remix of Sarah Vaughan's Peter Gunn was as background music in an Old Navy store. I thought it was a guy.

[Mighty Mudhsuden]

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Incandenza wrote:

I shocked someone I worked with when I told them that Q Lazzarus ("Goodbye Horses," the song in Silence of the Lambs that Buffalo Bill dances to) was a woman.

Crikey, really? And is the 'tucking the dick between the legs' thing a reference to that?

[Andy C]

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Aimée Mann
Stacey Earle
Tracy Chap-Man

[adams house cat]

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Yes Amor. It was something of a nine day wonder. One of the Sunday Smuts brought it up (possibly literally) and it made the rounds of TV and papers, even a snide mention on Juke Box Jury. I don't think it was true although it would have given greater poignancy to 'Secret Love'.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Poor KK. The only similar rumour I remember from back then concerned Capucine.

[adams house cat]

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Agreed. Poor KK. I hadn't heard the Capucine one. Seems unlikely. There might be a thread here - Riculous Rumors in Rock'n'Roll.