Song Ideas for female singer

[bassbully43]

Hey guys, Since you all are always such great help i need it again. I am in my new band and its going great. We are developing songs covers and originals and i need more cover song ideas. Our band has a Gal singer with good range from Alantis to i dont know Kelly Clarkson or she sings Janises Bobby Mcgee good also. I dont know alot about the Female voice or vocal ranges at all. We cover from modern rock /pop to classic and sprinkle in origianls we are still writting. any ideas for covers...we are a three piece bass ,guitar drum so keep em simple. thanks

[driver800]

just about any AC/DC, Cheap Trick or Journey. here's a list of songs my current band has done w/ a female singer:

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crowe
All Right Now - Free
Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
Baracuda - Heart
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
Dumb Girl - Lucy Woodward
Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Heatwave - Linda Ronstadt
Hella Good - No Doubt
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett
I'll Be - Edwin McCain
I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge
I'm With You - Avril Lavigne
Lady Marmalade - Labelle/Aguilera, Pink, Lil Kim & Maya
Let 'Er Rip - Dixie Chicks
Love Shack - The B-52's
Middle Of The Road - The Pretenders
Misery - Pink (w/ Steven Tyler)
My Favorite Mistake - Sheryl Crowe
Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar
Redneck Woman - Gretchen Wilson
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Since You've Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Sk8ter Boi - Avril Lavigne
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina And The Waves
What I Like About You - the Romantics/Lillix
Wild Nights - John Mellencamp
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt

[Esquillama]

Great suggestions in the post above.
My band has the exact same set up as yours.
Here's some more that our girl singer does.

Rock N Roll - Led Zep
Honey I'm Home - Shania Twain
Rock and Roll Band - Boston
I Hate Myself For Lovin' You - Joan Jett
Desperado - Eagles
Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
Mi Vida Loca - Pam Tillis
You're Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad - Tanya Tucker
Pour Me - Trick Pony
Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac

Don't be afraid to have her sing some stuff that is traditionally male vocal.
A lot of this stuff works no matter what gender the singer is.
You might want to try some Elton John tunes like Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting.

Good luck!

[bassbully43]

Cool Driver thank you ...we do a few of those and it gave me some new ones to think about.

[txbasschik]

Honestly, she can do just about anything within her range. If she's got the range for Kelly Clarkson, then she also has the range for Led Zep.

When I was with an all-female band, we didn't want to limit ourselves to "female" material. Unless a song was just *too* masculine, lyrically, if we wanted to cover it, we did.

Cherie

[invader3k]

Concrete Blonde...underrated band with a female singer. Something like "Joey" would go over pretty well.

[anonymous278347457]

cassie by flyleaf? Its a great song, and its pretty easy

also, evanescence(sp?) songs are always good

[bassbully43]

Originally Posted by invader3k

Concrete Blonde...underrated band with a female singer. Something like "Joey" would go over pretty well.

Funny my wife told me the same thing...never heard of them so i will check them out. We are not stuck on her doing female vocal only songs we do male sung songs as well. thanks for the ideas. Question is it weird in a song to say like the Black Crowes--Hard to handle.. has words like ..babe i'm a man etc ...you know what i mean...should she change the words to gal etc or just sing the song like written?