【Pls look at the top comment first】Here is a flaming song for every 1980s dreamer written by Barlow & Minto, a great songwriting team, consisting of two ladies. Let the song light up every heart and every soul. It is a combination of three mighty ladies, which should become an immortal female-fronted melodic rock gem and spread widely.

Loyal aor fans must remember this group. They are Barlow and Minto, consisting of Pam Barlow and Janet Morrison Minto, which started in the early 1980s in Marin Country, California. They created lots of works in the 1980s and are best-known as the members in the classic aor project "Fake I.D.". Pam and Janet as well as their husbands Bruce Barlow and Chris Minto all worked together in Fake I.D. on songwriting, performing, engineering and producing.

Among Barlow & Minto's works, there are many demos, which were never released. Barlow and Minto worked together with various singers on recordings. This flaming song "Don's Say No" is one of those unreleased demos, a precious masterpiece, featuring a mighty vocal lady Lorraine Frisaura on lead vocals.

When Lorraine Frisaura's singing comes into people's ears, the first reaction from the majority is how awesome the voice is ! This incredible, powerful, distinctive and even a bit mannish voice is from a lady. Her name appeared in several Barlow and Minto's works on lead vocals. This song is one of their representative works, a great combination of ladies' power.

Lorraine Frisaura's career started much earlier than the years she recorded songs with Barlow & Minto. In 1976, she had an album on EP, entitled "Be Happy For Me", which is in the styles of folk, soul and pop. In the years that she worked together with Barlow & Minto, her rock spirit was injected into every track she sang. If there was no portrait of her, I think a certain number of people would think the song was sung by a male singer.

As we know, 1970s pop music works carry very nostalgic and old-school taste with many works featuring gentle and laid-back tunes. In the album "Be Happy For Me", we can hear a different side of Lorraine Frisaura, whose voice was like sunshine and breeze, warm, mellow and touching. Compared to her singing in Barlow & Minto demos, it sounds like a totally different person. Her powerful voice exploded like thunder.

In Barlow & Minto's careers on songwriting, Fake I.D.'s album "Dreaming Ezekiel" let most fans know and hear their creations. Fake I.D. features Gene Miller on lead vocals. In the album, one song "Tied To The Mast" was sung by Lorraine Frisaura. Pam Barlow and Jenet Minto performed backing vocals for the album. In this song "Don't Say No" (not included in Fake I.D. album), Barlow and Minto performed on backing vocals as well as their harmonies in Fake I.D. and Alien's album.

It is worth mentioning that the voices of Gene Miller and Lorraine Frisaura sound very close to each other, especially when they sang the climax of the songs with treble voices. The penetrating power of their voices light up the songs with passion. As a female singer, Lorraine Frisaura's singing is impeccable. Lorraine also recorded Alien's 1988 debut on backing vocals. She is one of the best partners of Barlow & Minto. The hidden songs she sang should become immortal jewels when speaking of Barlow & Minto. Janet Minto said "working with Lorraine was always riotous good fun, but as a musician and a pro, she was a dream: one of the most singularly talented women I ever been lucky enough to know."
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