boy/girl harmonies: C/D, S/D

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Boy goes la la la, girl goes la la la in a harmony stylee alongside.

IMO the loveliest way vocals can be arranged, and not done nearly frequently enough for my liking.

What's the best boy/girl harmonies you've heard?

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I cast votes for MBV, Low and Mojave 3 off the top of my head.. but there are so many more..

Oh, and what are the worst ones?

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good: Well, the Mamas and the Papas. Damon and Naomi. Jim and Jean. George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

― Arthur, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that bryan adams/mel c song. and i am not embarassed.

― di, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just thought of another of my favourites: Fleetwood Mac ('75 - '86)

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grace Slick/Marty Balin?

― Sean, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favorites: Low, Ida, Quickspace

― A Nairn, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Crass

― dave q, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Drop Nineteens, Pixies, Seafood, Yo La Tengo, Pastels..

CLASSIC: should definitely be done more often.

― nathan barley, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

say it again:

X

― Dave225, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
The Pines (not necessarily my favourite song of theirs but the only offcially sanctioned sample I know of on the interweb

― David, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ok they don't have the best voices ever, but when Mates of State harmonize, I get all girly and what to get pretty for baby.

― Brock K., Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

make that WANT to get pretty for baby. no tea yet this morning

― Brock K., Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ur boy/girl (or rather girl/boy): the Carter Family

Surprisingly not-dodgy contemporary version: I never had much use for Gillian Welch, but her new album features some of the most dee- licious girl/boy harmonizing I've heard in many moons (courtesy Welch and better half David Rawlings). The songs aren't even all that great, but the singing is fantastic.

White-shoe boy girl: the Fleetwoods

― lee g, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kinks "Set Me Free", "Waterloo Sunset", etc

― Curt, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So who was the girl, Ray or Dave?

― Sean, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

only boy girl harmony im interested in is shagging.

― XStatic Peace, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So who was the girl, Ray or Dave?

Ray's wife, Rasa.

― Curt, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Julie Doiron and Rick White,
Anton Newcombe & Paola Simmonds
KD Lang & Roy Orbison

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm preddy fleetwood mav and mama and papas even better non harmony boy/girl - nancy and lee

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ryan Adams and Emmylou Harris on "Oh My Sweet Carolina."

Low's "Two Step."

― bnw, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Linda and Richard Thompson, "Night Comes In"

― Prude, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Evan Dando/Juliana Hatfield - bootiful!

― bernard, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Pastels - "Nothing To Be Done"

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Abba?

― dleone, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mates of State's shouty thing gets a bit grating after a while tho.

― g, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyway, classic when done right. There's nothing more irritating than badly out of tune harmonizing. Do you draw a distinction between female backing vocals and harmonizing (which I think is when the vocals are more or less equal in the mix)? - there has always been lots of great use of female backing vocals. I've always thought the boy/girl stuff on the Rocketship album is the best in the indiepop genre. There's more good stuff, but I can never think of things when I'm not at home...

― g, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mates Of State are GRATE (in the good way, rather than the aforementioned grating way). AND all the best singers couldn't sing. AND The Essex Green are fabulous. AND ummm, I can't think of anything right now.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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