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Not many people agree with you on that. Years ago, there was a poll about who was the greatest female singer. Karen Carpenter was # 1 with more than 3 times the votes of the second place lady, and the pack.We all have our favourites and KC deserves to be, and surely is, high in any list , if only because of her tone and pitch . And I am a huge fan . But compared to great singers like Ella Fitzgerald , Etta James , Janis Joplin , Sarah Vaughan, she gets splendid billing but she is not quite in that top drawer of "all time best "league . For sheer voice, listen to Yma Sumac --with an almost unheard of five octave range.
It reminded me of the 1973 Belmont Stakes race when Secretariat won by a huge margin, the pack of horses at halfway the track behind him, and this huge open space between them.