# Best duets **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772 "2001-10-31T20:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/1 "2001-10-31T20:00:10Z")
What, in your humble opinion, are some of the best male-female duet songs? My favorites are “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” and “Baby, You Got What It Takes.” Any other contenders out there? – Beruang ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/2 "2001-10-31T20:41:27Z")
**A Fairytale of New York** by Shane MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/3 "2001-10-31T21:10:17Z")
Best duets: Damn near anything when one of 'em is Ray Charles. Worst duets: Damn near anything when one of 'em is Julio Iglesias. ---
**Author:** ![goonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@goonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goonhead)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/4 "2001-11-01T05:24:01Z")
Those Louis Prima / Keely Smith duets were corny, but fun. “That Old Black Magic” is probably their best known duet song. “A Rockin’ Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)” – Brook Benton and Dinah Washington “Your Precious Love” – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (these two recorded at least a half dozen classic tunes, most of which were written by the husband/wife duo Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson). Runner up: “You’re All I Need to Get By” “Reunited” – Peaches and Herb “Mockingbird” – Inez and Charlie Foxx ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/5 "2001-11-01T15:25:22Z")
Whoa- Johnny L.A.- I didnt know the “late” part about Kirsty Mccoll. WHen was this? ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/6 "2001-11-01T16:39:00Z")
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/7 "2001-11-01T16:44:59Z")
From [here](http://www.freeworld.demon.co.uk/info/obit/herald/). > [@](#): > > Tributes were pouring in last night for singer-songwriter Kirsty McColl after she was killed in a boating accident in Mexico. U2 frontman Bono led the tributes to MacColl, who died in front of her children after being struck by a speedboat on Monday during a holiday on the Yucatan peninsula. The 41 year-old star was swimming with her two sons at Cozumel on the Caribbean coast when she was hit by a boat that appeared to have intruded into any area reserved for swimmers. It was around Dec 19, 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-duets/90772/8 "2001-11-01T19:10:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Whoa- Johnny L.A.- I didnt know the “late” part about Kirsty Mccoll. WHen was this? [Kirsty MacColl has died.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51808)