What are some vocal harmonies with one voice singing in monotone?

I used to watch this video all the time, because I thought it was a clever parody and found the song really catchy, and then I realized what I really loved about it was the robot singing pi, and how, in addition to how lovely the different numbers sounded together, one of the voices keeps singing the same note while others move around (see: 1:18-1:39, 2:44-end). I mean, I'm sure this has been done in other songs, but not a single one comes to mind. Is this remotely common? Are there any other examples?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU

Steven Tyler hits a really neat single high note harmony on the "Love in an Elevator" chorus..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4u5om4xihU

Holy shit, that's really good. And the backwards guitar!!

Whoa, it's weird to me to think that there are people who haven't already heard Love in an Elevator a million times, but I guess it just happened to be a video that was on all the time right when we first got cable/MTV.

And it IS really good!

Although the video itself is a bit like the inside of a douchebag's mind.

Would that be called pedal point? Sorry, I can't think of any examples, except to say the first example sounds like The Free Design.

Yeah, I think that works - when harmonies move around a fixed note, that note is called a pedal point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lYPhiNb-Y

The Beatles did it all the time. This isn't the greatest example, but I saw this movie yesterday, and there's a really nice bit where John holds a note through the "love...was in vain" part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ei47bK_zs&feature=PlayList&p=D59509559D886BC2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24

Still cannot stop listening to "Love In An Elevator" and am feeling greedy and want more songs with this kind of harmony.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w8f0_depeche-mode-never-let-me-down-agai_music

Try Charming Hostess's "Imam Bey's Mosque"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUV09Kjtxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZLVJwXP-U

xp WHOA!! That song!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS-ZOTVYu6U

Yeah, I think that works - when harmonies move around a fixed note, that note is called a pedal point.

A pedal point is usually something a little more specific -- when one voice moves while another stays on one note, that's oblique motion, as opposed to similar, parallel, or contrary motion. I feel like The Beatles did this a lot -- Please Please Me is a great example. weezer did it a bunch too.

Now every time I sing "Love in an Elevator" I do so in monotone.

first 2 artists that came to mind are everly brothers and louvin brothers. could've sworn they do this all the time, but while quickly going through a bunch of their tunes i couldn't find any good examples.

"cathy's clown" by everly bros does this for a hot second?

good topic though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2-9j1WxJ4c

music doesn't tend to scare me, especially when it's intentionally scary, but listening to this song on headphones in the dark last night when I was half-asleep and hearing that ghostly, phased monotone voice chiming in on the chorus ("they will talk about you...") made me very grateful that I keep a lamp right next to my bed to ward off nightmares. I don't know if vocal harmonies with one voice singing in monotone are a common trick in "horror" songs, but they definitely should be.

I think this is sort of happening here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8NdUgOKhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6zoNBfAL_8

@ 1:10

there's a little bit of that in blur's "coffee and tv" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqXVx3sBOk

In parts of the chorus, I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyystXrqI8Y

Chorus of X's "The world's a mess (it's in my kiss)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xMrmmDaocw