All this way and no one mentions ‘Fairytale of New York’?
Baby It’s Cold Outside by Liza Minelli & Alan Cumming
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]
**Bonnie Raitt & Delbert McClinton: **Good Man, Good Woman
**Elvis Presley & Ann Margaret: **You’re the Boss
Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) & John Prine: If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man
**Eddie Rabbit & Crystal Gayle: *You and I * (Certainly not for everyone’s taste)
**Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: **A Fine Romance
**Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown: **Need Your Love So Bad
**Frank & Nancy Sinatra: **Something Stupid
**Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes: **Up Where We Belong (also not for all tastes)
**Meat Loaf & (the rarely credited) Ellen Foley: **Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Mickey & Sylvia: Love Is Strange
**Paul Simon & Phobe Snow: **Gone at Last
**Paul Simon & Linda Rondstadt: **Under African Skies
**Prince & Sheena Easton: **U Got the Look
Ray Charles & Margie Hendricks (and the rest of the Raelettes: Darlene McCrea, Patricia Lyles, and Gwendolyn Berry): Hit the Road, Jack
Jim Mathus & Katherine Whalen (of the Squirrel Nut Zippers): Prince Nez
**Steve Earle & Iris DeMent: **I’m Still in Love with You
**Sonny & Cher: **I’ve Got You Babe
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.