Take the next verse, Levon!: Rock songs with different lead vocals on different verses.

"Lay Down Stay Down"-Deep Purple. In fact the entire Burn album does this.

Many Grateful Dead songs as well, eg "Jack Straw"

"Someday", Moby Grape

"1999" by Prince has three different lead vocalists during each verse, does that count?

Drive-By Truckers version of Like A Rolling Stone

I guess vocal groups like The Isley Brothers or The Impressions don't count either, because this is their specialty.

EVERY NIGHT I HOPE AND PRAY....

I'm thinking of bands that play their own instruments and stuff.

That's rockist!

I'm not a rockist. I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.

It's hard to think of a War song where they DIDN'T trade off verses (besides "Spill the Wine" obv).

My personal point to these observations is except for "A Day in the Life" or "1999", I never noticed that there were different vocalists. That's how tin-made my ears are.

I thought this thread was going to be about "The Weight" or about Levon's recovery from throat cancer.

Maybe you mean different lead vocals on the verse versus the chorus or bridge for some of these, like the two Beatles songs?

Traveling Wilburys!

Animal Collective- Winter's Love, maybe others

"A Day in the Life" by the Beatles -- John sings all the verses.. Paul sings that middle section.. technically not a verse... "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles - Once again, John sings the verses & Paul sings those bridge things.

Should the thread topic be "multiple lead vocalists" ?? If so "We Are The World" should count for this.

There's tons of Who songs where Roger sings the verses and Pete sings the bridge, or part of the chorus, or some other prominent part: "I'm A Boy," "Baba O'Riley," "The Punk Meets The Godfather," "A Quick One While He's Away," etc. etc.

Jefferson Airplane's arrangement of "Get Together" had Signe on first verse, Marty on second, Paul on third.

KISS only did this once or twice as far as I can recall: "God Gave Rock & Roll to You," maybe "Shout It Out Loud"?

Monkees did this on "Shades of Gray" to nice effect.

Squeeze "Tempted", and Costello even does different "voices" on the backing vocals.

walk awhile & angel delight & meet on the ledge & bird on a wire and a whole other bunch of Fairport Convention songs. shame sandy denny and iain matthews only sang together for a brief time, very beautiful together.

also, lots of Beach Boys tunes.

Comfortably Numb (verse vs chorus)
Death is not the end, nick cave
Goodnight, smashing pumpkins.

I always wamted Take That to do one of these, but the closest they ever came was Never Forget (where they all sang a line each in the middle eight).

Lots of Mekons songs trade off between Jon/Tom/Sally/Rico et. al. The one I'm thinking of right now is "St. Valentine's Day."

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oops, "excluding duets"

The Blood Brothers trade/share verses quite a bit. McLusky did it occasionally on songs like "Random Celebrity Insult Generator" um... Los Campesinos "Frontwards", Black Eyes "Pack of Wolves", Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television "Shiny Shiny Sun"

Live Rockpile "JuJu Man": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW-6WxF670U

Billy, Nick and Dave trade vocals.

Monkees did this on "Shades of Gray" to nice effect.

Hmmmmmm, yes, lovely

There's just too many examples of this to count

Early Fairport

I like it when bands switch lead vocals sort of unpredictably or not in a cleanly distributed verse-verse or verse-chorus way. Chicago's "In the Country" and Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation" are two good examples.

"Murder Mystery"! "I'm Sticking With You"!

Beatles' "I've Got a Feeling" is another; how it's mostly Paul, and John gets his 'detour' vocal bit in, and then they join up at the end.

I heard that on the radio the other day. I love that song.

Smashing Pumpkins - "Farewell And Goodnight", the last track on Mellon Collie.

Back to the original thread theme, there's a Queen song on Made in Heaven (can't remember the title) with Freddy Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor each taking a verse.

Chicago's "Dialogue" makes excellent use of a dual lead vox format (Terry Kath and Peter Cetera).