# Great Male/Female duets **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761 "2006-11-17T00:55:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761/21 "2006-11-17T12:59:15Z")
All this way and no one mentions ‘Fairytale of New York’? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761/22 "2006-11-17T13:18:23Z")
Baby It’s Cold Outside by Liza Minelli & Alan Cumming ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761/23 "2006-11-17T13:26:20Z")
**Louis Prima & Keely Smith:** [ul] [li]Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home[/li][li]Hey, Boy! Hey Girl![/li][li]I’ve Got You Under My Skin[/li][li]Embraceable You / I Got It Bad and It Ain’t Good[/li][li]That Old Black Magic[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761/24 "2006-11-17T13:28:35Z")
\*\*Bonnie Raitt & Delbert McClinton: \*\*Good Man, Good Woman ---
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\*\*Elvis Presley & Ann Margaret: \*\*You’re the Boss ---
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**Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) & John Prine:** If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man ---
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\*\*Eddie Rabbit & Crystal Gayle: \*_You and I \* (Certainly not for everyone’s taste)_ ---
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\*\*Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: \*\*A Fine Romance ---
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\*\*Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown: \*\*Need Your Love So Bad ---
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\*\*Frank & Nancy Sinatra: \*\*Something Stupid ---
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\*\*Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes: \*\*Up Where We Belong _(also not for all tastes)_ ---
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\*\*Meat Loaf & (the rarely credited) Ellen Foley: \*\*Paradise by the Dashboard Light ---
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Mickey & Sylvia: Love Is Strange ---
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\*\*Paul Simon & Phobe Snow: \*\*Gone at Last \*\*Paul Simon & Linda Rondstadt: \*\*Under African Skies ---
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\*\*Prince & Sheena Easton: \*\*U Got the Look ---
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**Ray Charles & Margie Hendricks (and the rest of the Raelettes: Darlene McCrea, Patricia Lyles, and Gwendolyn Berry):** Hit the Road, Jack ---
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**Jim Mathus & Katherine Whalen (of the Squirrel Nut Zippers):** Prince Nez ---
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\*\*Steve Earle & Iris DeMent: \*\*I’m Still in Love with You ---
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\*\*Sonny & Cher: \*\*I’ve Got You Babe ---
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[QUOTE=Hey you!] \*\*Steve Earle & Iris DeMent: \*\*I’m Still in Love with You [/QUOTE] Damn. That’s one of my absolute favorites. There are lots of fine duets in the many variants of country. Emmylou & Gram did several. Emmylou & just about anyone, actually. “Would You Love Me One More Time?” on Ricky Scaggs’ first album gives me chills. George & Tammy “Take Me” & many others. Porter & Dolly: “If Tear Drops Were Pennies”–again, many more. (Yes, I’ve listened to country music for a long time.) (Lots of the country M/F duets carry on the tradition of the “brother” duos–like the great Louvin Brothers–also an influence on Emmylou.) Ian & Sylvia did a fine “Crazy Arms” with their Country Rock band, Great Speckled Bird. With lyrics in French. Of course, they built their folk career on their duet voices–& fine songwriting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-male-female-duets/380761.md?page=3)