# Women with "singing voices." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783 "2016-10-16T23:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/1 "2016-10-16T23:11:58Z")
Every now-and-then I’ll hear a woman speak in what I call a “singing voice.” When she speaks, there is a… “musical quality” to her voice. The best example I can think of is **Madeline Kahn**. I just finished watching _Young Frankenstein_ with our daughter, and every time she spoke she just had this wonderful “singing voice.” I am also friends with a local woman who is a singer, pianist, and mandolin player. She also has what I would describe as a “singing voice.” Just wondering if you know of other examples. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/2 "2016-10-17T12:58:34Z")
I totally get the feel you are referring to. I think of \*\*Bernadette Peter’s \*\*voice that way. My daughter was watching a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show; **Tim Curry’s** Frankenfurter has a male version of that musicality in his voice. Now, he is singing many of his lines, but still…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/3 "2016-10-17T17:01:57Z")
Melodious! I’m told I have one of those voices. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/4 "2016-10-17T18:11:51Z")
I always thought Maya Angelou sounded as if she were singing when she read her poems aloud. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/5 "2016-10-17T18:51:03Z")
Glinda, the good witch of the north? I’m half kidding, as I realize the voice was a put on but some of it is the actresse’s true voice and it seems like it would be quite melodious. I wonder if that is a quality that is rarer to find these days. It seems like vocal fry and valley speak would have taken its place. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/6 "2016-10-17T19:25:32Z")
Given the Young Frankenstein link, how about Jo Stafford, Here are some of her numbers Can you work out the link between Madelaine and Jo? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/7 "2016-10-18T14:15:46Z")
I’ve noticed this in an LPer named MasaeAnala. And, for some reason, I associate this particular voice with Asian women. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-singing-voices/768783/8 "2016-10-18T16:38:44Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > Given the Young Frankenstein link, how about Jo Stafford, And Darlene Edwards… Some people have a naturally beautiful voice, but plenty are also trained in voice production, which can make their natural speech much more musical than most of us: just as somehow you notice the elegance of a trained ballet dancer’s walk.