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Anyone here remember The Wilson Sisters, Anne and Nancy?

Those early albums really rocked. Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen. Songs like Barracuda and Crazy on you, also they did a cover of Zep´s Rock n Roll.

Ann Wilson had a great voice (hear her sing Unchained Melody) I think they are Canadian, I´m not sure.

Anyone?

I think you're right about their Candian roots RM.

As you say, "Dreamboat Annie" was a real classic. The title song appeared in three different forms on the album. The cover of "Rock'n'roll" sounds interesting, haven't heard that.

In the 70´s they were real rock, then in the eighties they had a more commercial sound (but still good)

Those women really were beautiful too.

Although not all of their material is to my liking, I do like some songs, and those ladies really could rock!

"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

zappaholic wrote:

They weren't Canadian. They were based in Seattle. They did get their start in Canada however.

Well seen!!

First three albums were quite good, but the Zep ghosts definitely seemed to hover them

I started hating them once they tried to do video to get on MTV in the mid-80's

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

I bought an album of theirs in 1985. It had 4 hits tracks on it "What About Love?," "Never," "These Dreams," and "If Looks Could Kill". It was very nice to listen to, very melodic.

They are very attractive too ...

Edited by Bob Greece - May 16 2006 at 07:51

Amazing vocals!

.. and I do like some of their ballads

I am a huge Heart fan! Sylvan Song / Dream Of The Archer (Little Queen album) are what got my attention years ago. Although I had always knew of the band, I never knew they were capable of such songs as these.

If I may, I would like to copy a paragraph I wrote about Ann Wilson on another forum:

**IMHO Ann Wilson is the most under-appreciated singer alive today. It is absurd how fans turned their backs on her because she had a little weight problem. Again, IMHO, those were the years she really came into her own. "In Walks The Night" (Desire Walks On) is sung perfectly, without studio magic; it showcases her impecable sense of timming, and "feel" for how a song should be sung. Not to mention the range of notes she can sing, and sing them STRONG.**

I own every release by Heart except all the Best Of's and the first and last live ones. The Music of Heart will always be with me as an integral part of my life, along with Yes, King Crimson, and Kate Bush.

Edited by Grimm - June 02 2006 at 17:40

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bhikkhu wrote:

I always loved their '70s stuff. No other women were rocking like that. There '80s "comback" was really lame, and had little to do with a band effort. I have seen Ann and Nancy in interviews, and get the feeling that they weren't too happy with it either.

That's true. Ann Wilson said in a 1996 Billboard Magazine article about Heart's only #1 album (1985's Heart which had four Top-10 singles - "What About Love", "These Dreams", "Nothin' At All", and "Never") -

"It's not that I hate those songs. They just didn't ring a bell for me. We weren't forced to do those songs, but after a while I began to feel that we made a real devil's bargin creatively to get the hits".

I saw Annie Wilson in a black dress doing "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You" on The Midnight Special in 1976 and pretty much went through puberty in about 10 minutes. Saw them on National Public Television a few months ago, and they both can still hold an audience.

Edited by ClemofNazareth - June 03 2006 at 00:39

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus

I was disheartened (pun intended) to hear that Heart is being used in a commercial. "Alone" is being used to sell laundry washers and dryers.

It's not their best song by far but it's still kind of sad.

"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
they locked up the wrong man."
- Leonard Cohen

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