This is an incredible, one-of-a-kind, 4-CD set featuring all the great female vocalists of the 20th century. From the 50s through the 90s, this 83 track box set takes you on a musical journey through the decades. Everyone is here, from Marilyn Monroe to Blondie to Janis Ian to Dionne Warwick to Judy Garland to Pat Benatar.

CONDITION: Gently used.
CDs are clean and are guaranteed to play with no skips.
Jewel case has a bit of scruff, but no cracks.
NOTE: Someone circled one song on the back tracklist (see scan above)
There is no booklet with this set

Great stuff here that you’re not likely to find anywhere else. The Eurythmics with Sweet Dreams are Made of This, Laura Branigan’s Gloria are contrasted by sultry standards like Doris Day singing Que Sera Sera and Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger. (See the tracklist below)

The name says it all. A unique collection bringing together the great sirens of sound. Once only available to Reader's Digest subscribers via mail order, this great set can now be part of your collection.

Leading Ladies: The Best of the Great Ladies of Songs
Reader’s Digest Music – 1997

CD # 1 – The ‘50s

1-01 Teresa Brewer Music! Music! Music!
1-02 The Andrews Sisters I Wanna Be Loved
1-03 Doris Day Que Será Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
1-04 Rosemary Clooney Hey There
1-05 Kay Starr The Wheel Of Fortune
1-06 Dinah Washington What A Diff'rence A Day Makes
1-07 Sarah Vaughan Broken-Hearted Melody
1-08 Patti Page Old Cape Cod
1-09 Dinah Shore Love And Marriage
1-10 Debbie Reynolds Tammy
1-11 Georgia Gibbs Kiss Of Fire
1-12 Marilyn Monroe River Of No Return
1-13 Judy Garland The Man That Got Away
1-14 Margaret Whiting I'll Walk Alone
1-15 Peggy Lee Fever
1-16 Kitty Kallen Little Things Mean A Lot
1-17 Jo Stafford You Belong To Me
1-18 Della Reese Don't You Know
1-19 The Chantels Maybe
1-20 Kitty Wells It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
1-21 Vera Lynn Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart

CD # 2 - The '60s

2-01 Mama Cass Elliot Make Your Own Kind Of Music
2-02 Petula Clark This Is My Song
2-03 Patsy Cline Sweet Dreams (Of You)
2-04 Connie Francis Everybody's Somebody's Fool
2-05 Brenda Lee Johnny One Time
2-06 Ella Fitzgerald Mack The Knife
2-07 Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
2-08 Martha Reeves And The Vandellas* I'm Ready For Love
2-09 Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe
2-10 Dusty Springfield I Only Want To Be With You
2-11 The Supremes You Can't Hurry Love
2-12 Jackie DeShannon Put A Little Love In Your Heart
2-13 Dionne Warwick This Girl's In Love With You
2-14 The Chiffons One Fine Day
2-15 Lesley Gore You Don't Own Me
2-16 The Marvelettes Please Mr. Postman
2-17 The Shangri-Las I Can Never Go Home Anymore
2-18 The Shirelles Baby, It's You
2-19 Shirley Bassey Goldfinger
2-20 Mary Wells My Guy
2-21 Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man

CD # 3 - The '70s

3-01 Carly Simon That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
3-02 Barbara Mandrell Woman To Woman
3-03 Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
3-04 Anne Murray Danny's Song
3-05 Crystal Gayle When I Dream
3-06 Helen Reddy I Am Woman
3-07 Cher Take Me Home
3-08 Linda Ronstadt You're No Good
3-09 Minnie Riperton Lovin' You
3-10 Loretta Lynn One's On The Way
3-11 Carole King I Feel The Earth Move
3-12 Janis Joplin Me And Bobby McGee
3-13 Natalie Cole I've Got Love On My Mind
3-14 Janis Ian At Seventeen
3-15 Lynn Anderson Rose Garden
3-16 Joan Baez Diamonds And Rust
3-17 Melissa Manchester Midnight Blue
3-18 Sister Sledge We Are Family
3-19 Chaka Kahn I'm Every Woman
3-20 Rita Coolidge (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
3-21 Gladys Knight & The Pips The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

CD # 4 - The '80s & '90s

4-01 Laura Branigan Gloria
4-02 Dolly Parton 9 To 5
4-03 Olivia Newton John Physical
4-04 Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes
4-05 Emmylou Harris In My Dreams
4-06 Wynonna Judd She Is His Only Need
4-07 Patti LaBelle New Attitude
4-08 Stevie Nicks Talk To Me
4-09 Pat Benatar Love Is A Battlefield
4-10 Diana Ross I'm Coming Out
4-11 Donna Summer She Works Hard For The Money
4-12 The Pointer Sisters Slow Hand
4-13 Blondie The Tide Is High
4-14 Amy Grant Find A Way
4-15 Sheena Easton Modern Girl
4-16 Judy Collins From A Distance
4-17 Mary Chapin Carpenter He Thinks He'll Keep Her
4-18 Sheryl Crow Run Baby Run
4-19 The Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
4-20 Vanessa Williams Save The Best For Last

Just add a living room easy-chair and a glass of wine and you’ll have quite an amazing night in front of you listening to this amazing set.

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