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Melanie C “Sporty Spice” & Lisa “Left Eye TLC” Lopes

 1. Timer by Laura Nyro - released 3/3/68 - It is the “Thirteenth confession”  of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.  

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIKBH9z7SU -  graziemillione  

  

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cX7ahizSh8 - kurt11110

      

 2.    Emmie by Laura Nyro – released 3/ 3/68 – Pop’s, first lesbian love song 

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqSYUBY-dc   

  

 3.   Désiree by Laura Nyro & Labelle – released 11/17/71 

     http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=10418612&type=track   

 

http://www.imeem.com/atheoma/music/UENdV_qs/laura_nyro_labelle_desiree/

 

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1951040&albumid=8098867        

 

 4.  Gloria by Patti Smith released 1975    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBN5aaApg9Q

            

5.     High School Confidential by Carole Pope and Rough Trade – originally released 1981         

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euqNbgL8YP8&feature=related - 1986 concert

 

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJHtzdvfKg - 2006

 

      with Peaches – Montreal 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rsoGPnW7I&feature=related 

 

  6.    Valerie by Quarterflash released 1981       

http://www.imeem.com/people/Dj6uIF/music/vnHHMhn2/quarterflash_valerie/                      

 

 7.  Crimson & Clover by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 1983 

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhonK8NMm8 

 

 8.  When you were mine by Cyndi Lauper released 1983       

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQVme1njDM&feature=related

 

                & a separate cover by Tegan and Sara

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtw5ZWOgr0

 

9. I Kissed a Girl by Jill Sobule 

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgQf0evv10 - live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs11BwErZJQ&feature=related - live with Melissa Ferrick & Jill Sobule

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eov1HpN7f_Y&feature=related -  Beavis & Butthead version with samples of the original 1995 video     

 

10.   Shenandoah by Anais Mitchell

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmBufHhxOY 

 

11.  Peggy Gordon by Sinead O’Connor & a separate cover by Andrea Corr & The Corrs & a youtube cover.

         http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=12937318&type=track

     

      N.B. link below – youtube cover by nikiarrowsmith

 

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBQL3IRml5o

 

12.  Me & Mrs. Jones by Sarah Jane Morris – banned by the BBC, in 1995, presently, at least, three versions and separately covered by Joan Crowe.

     http://www.imeem.com/wednesdaypt/music/ZoZM90GJ/sarah_jane_morris_me_and_mrs_jones/

 

    http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=15903710&type=track   

 

13.  If It Isn’t Her by Ani DiFranco   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHF7nwmNxA

   

14.  Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins & in a duet with Melissa Etheridge 

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhOqE217X0U

 

15. Maggie May/Mae by Melissa Etheridge

          http://www.imeem.com/femmeflower/music/i4PJLXXk/melissa-etheridge-maggie-may/  

 

16. Angels Never Call by Aimee Mann & ’Til Tuesday 

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYUVD08d__g  

 

17. Woman to Woman by Fem 2 Fem

    http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143288673

         

18. Tonight’s the Night by Janet Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLznjDg3BA

        

19. Show Me Love by T.A.T.U.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGC7pYVpbEQ

 

20. All The things She Said (Ya Soshla S Uma) by T.A.T.U.

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJaDZA-_Bk     

      

 

21. She’s So lovely by The Butchies

     http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=13118789&type=track

 

22.  Drive by Melissa Ferrick

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsG-eN96fVc

 

23. I Don’t Cry Anymore by Catie Curtis cover by peacetonight7

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPbmoHZ4PM    

 

24. Girl from the North Country – by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley – Definitive version of a traditional song from Well Kept Secrets & a  separate  cover by Katy Davidson - Dear Nora & a youtube cover by Kaymmill – now defunct.  

       http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042711&type=track

       http://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Moscatiello+and+Rosie+Shipley/_/Girl+From+the+North+Country

 

       http://www.last.fm/music/Dear+Nora/_/Girl+From+The+North+Country

        

25. Never Be The Same Again by Melanie C “Sporty Spice” and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes 

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2FtZ3Eth-4      video duet

 

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9t83xJTXs       live duet

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6ns0dKEQY&feature=related  live duet MTV 2000

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqivsm6pYU&feature=related    live duet mix

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfPUd0-kj8&feature=related live duet – TOP of Pops – song touted as number 1

 

26. Squeezebox Days by The Murmurs      

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjpcAKDkkQ&feature=related

 

27. Shameless by Ani DiFranco       

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjizt4Ixt6E

 

28. Tell Me by God-Des and She 

http://www.imeem.com/bigmama04inc/music/NJ4jTxFh/goddes_and_she_tell_me/

 

 

 

29. Leah by Rachael Sage

    http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16755865&type=track 

 

30.    The Whole Night by Ani DiFranco great you tube cover by kayenne1

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBmTcOeQXs 

 

31.  All You Got by Tegan and Sara

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7J_1wRTyqE 

 

32.  Valerie by Amy Winehouse 

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g

 

33.   Alison by Janas Hoyt & the Mary Janes 

     http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16201717&type=track 

 

34. Wenn die beste Freundin (When my best Friend) by Marlene Dietrich and Margot Lion “…which became the theme song of lesbians in late 1920s Berlin.” A sample in English of the Ute Lemper cover (2nd link below) “When The Special Girlfriend” is in the movie Kissing Jessica Stein.

 http://www.last.fm/music/Marlene+Dietrich/_/Wenn+die+beste+Freundin 

 

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.20625166&remote=false&page=&pageregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=

 

 

35. Girl I told Ya by Valeria 

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suX47IDIVdo

 

36.  I kissed a girl by Katy Perry

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs

 

37. You Can Sleep While I Drive by Melissa Etheridge. In a duet with Jewel and a duet with Amy Grant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBYYJ73MsM 

 

38. Send Me You by  The Butchies

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxuMSwEZaE

 

39. Let’s Get This Party Started by Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGe0GvtQZGQ&feature=related - full length

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Na44-wSYnE&feature=related - sample

      

40. Gotta Get Over Greta by The Nields  (preview link) “Two skinny tomboys on our bikes – Riding forever into the summer night. There is no marriage more sublime. There is no divorce more final.”

       http://www.nields.com/greta.html

 

 41. The Weakness In Me by Joan Armatrading a cover by Melissa Etherridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61l43q3dJE&feature=related 

 

42. Tangled up in Blue by The Indigo Girls 

         http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo+Girls/_/Tangled+Up+in+Blue

 

              &  Redacted version – youtube cover by ehburns2

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWoFrRvT0A

 

43. She’s A Lady by Patricia Barber

      http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=13890120&type=track  

 

44. Beauty*2 by Ladytron  

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duy55RwlM6A  mibblet cover

    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBP7-DJzUX8  brujales cover

 

45. Crazy by Alanis Morissette - Five star cover of a brilliant song by Seal. Alanis is in excellent voice, ingeniously weaving an intriguing storyline containing love triangles, bisexuality, dyke drama – wow!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=769245065

 

http://video.interia.pl/obejrzyj,film,51006,sortuj,ch,st,5,pozycja,5657,Alanis_Morissette_-_&quot%3BCrazy&quot%3B   

   

http://www.videosbr.info/video/28839/Clipe-Alanis-Morissette-Crazy.html

 

46. Oh My God by Pink featuring  Peaches – youtube cover geminiif

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmZz_AHQjiM&feature=related  

 

     youtube cover jamessouth

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUGVkBcrwI

 

     youtube cover terminite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWDc99KNgM&feature=related

 

47. I Like Girls by Axe Girl – you tube cover GINGERQUEEN. GQ’s entire Spashley series on youtube is 5-star. 

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z435nyaLlU

 

48. Kissing by Bliss – N.B.  Piper Perabo, as a baby-dyke, presaging her role  as Rachel in Imagine Me & You – youtube cover juneseventeen

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLEaN31bro&feature=related 

 

49. Hush Sweet Lover by Kd Lang

     http://www.singingfool.com/Title.aspx?publishedid=151155 

 

 50. The Road by Leslie Leone

   http://www.indabamusic.com/songs/show/134671

 

  http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=86497

 

51. Why Couldn’t It Have Been Me?  by Ari Fox Lauren

      http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20510032

 

52. Sex (I’m a lesbian) by The Butchies

       

53.  For My Lover by Tracy Chapman

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn01zVMX6Q0

 

54.  I Don’t Wanna Talk About It by the Indigo Girls. “…I certainly never thought we’d record a song that Rod Stewart had done.’ E.S.” (Rarities – liner notes)

     http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=19603262&type=track

 

55.  Not A Love Song by Uh Huh Her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9iPPfOMvM

 

56.  Ballad in Plain D by the Indigo Girls – youtube cover KDANTEATER

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzIREBi_lA

 

57.  Venus by Anais Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK3PVgYAcc&feature=related

 

58.  Here’s a Health to All True Lovers by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley from their album Well Kept Secrets   

      http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042700&type=track

 

     Contrasting the same-sex emphasis supra is this version by Scottish traditional singer, Belle Stewart

     http://www.last.fm/music/Belle+Stewart 

      

59.  Halo by Bethany Joy Lenz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4fG6UxxxE&feature=channel_page   

     

60.  Spanish Harlem by Janet Seidel and a separate cover by Rebecca Pidgeon

http://www.imeem.com/people/eiGcPB/music/HL_3bdtw/janet_seidel_spanish_harlem/

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmpVDeh1jf0

 

61.  Black Magic Woman by Patricia Barber

http://www.last.fm/music/Patricia+Barber/_/Black+Magic+Woman

 

62.  Prove It on Me Blues by Ma Rainey released 1928.  “Went out last night with a pile of my friends. They must have been women cause I don’t like no men.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Ma+Rainey/_/Prove+It+on+Me+Blues      

 

63.   B. D. Woman’s Blues by Lucille Bogan released 1935 (B. D. aka Bull Dyke) “…they can lay their jive just like a natural man.”

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.11091745&remote=false&page=&pageregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=    

 

64.    Walk The Dog & Light The Light (Song of the Road) by Laura Nyro, released 1993 

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1951040&albumid=8105971

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_R4eyjQnEg&feature=channel_page   youtube cover vj denknee

 

65.    Sweet Woman by Cris Williamson released 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncS4V6ka8A

 

66.   You Had Time by Ani Difranco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclUbgdtMXg&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDXjyTBKs8

 

67.   Softcore by Dusty Springfield with Carole Pope  at the  Rough Trade 1986 Farewell Concert – Montreal. Carole to Dusty “You like to be on top?”  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0IYbciK0o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewoodstock%2Ecom%2Fpart%2D7%2Drough%2Dtrade%2Dfarewell%2Dconcert%2D1986%2Dsoftcore%2Fyt%2Dvideo%2FhH0IYbciK0o%2F&feature=player_embedded

 

68. Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter by Phranc

        http://www.rhapsody.com/phranc/goofyfoot 

 

69. Come Over Here by Sarah Bettens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0d2__zl_s&feature=related

  

70. If You Go Away by Dusty Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y&feature=related   

 

71. Viens, Malika – Lakme by Maddy Mesple and Danielle Millet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0RPXcpDes&feature=channel_page - VJ starrynight003

 

72. Shy by Ani DiFranco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIrSoCkdzk

 

73. Sally Go Round The Roses by Fanny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pHGXIh9Cg&feature=related

 

 74. Te Amo by Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VODDpR0HAd0&feature=related

 

75.  Just Like A Woman by Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull, Vicki   Randle, et al

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJHkWELiuYc&feature=related

 

76. Take me or leave me by Idina Menzel & Tracie Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNzpl3vz5Y&feature=related

 

77. Come To My Window And Inevitable by Shakira & Melissa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q67RoF0Q1cE&feature=fvw

 

78.  I Hate your ex-girlfriend by God-des & She

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxzG7KQ8Ws&feature=related

 

79.   Cute For a Girl by Alix Olson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYS2TXviOFQ&feature=related

 

80. One More Hour by Sleater-Kinney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koskizxFmOM&feature=related

 

81. Perfect by Doria Roberts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z343A35o18&feature=related

 

 82.  These Boots Were Made For Walkin’ by Two Nice Gilrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lEwkMTPF8 

 

     To make the list: the singer must be a woman; the love lyrics must be obvious; and the love object must be unmistakably a woman.  Not friendship love, but undisguised sensuality, an open expression of same-sex attraction.