Songs with great harmonies

"If I Fell" - The Beatles
"Without Rhyme or Reason" - Spanky and Our Gang

 

Matt - A very fine list, especially 1, 4, 5 and 9!

 

Oops! Color me embarrassed! :0

In an earlier post I listed And I Love Her as having harmonies...funny how memory plays tricks on you at my age. I guess I was remembering the harmony from If I Fell and transposed it to the wrong song. You'd think I wouldn't do that after all the times I've listened to The Beatles' records (I do know all the lyrics by heart, thank goodness). I'll just chalk it up as a senior moment.

Here's one to make up for it:

Seven Bridges Road -- Eagles

 

Here is a slice of white that you hardly ever hear anymore, but has harmonies galore- Never My Love- the Association.

 

Dare I mention.........Carpenters? One of their signature sounds, at least more so on the earlier albums, were the tight vocal harmonies. I think the album A Song For You highlights this quite well.

 

Virtually every song on the first album by the Roches. A classic of witty and sensual female harmonizing.

 

Take It Easy by The Eagles should be included in this list as well. Timothy B. Schmit is highly under rated as a singer IMO. I know that he's not the original for TIE, but he does an outstanding job on this song.

 

You know what they say about great minds!! I was just thinking for the both of us this time!

 

The one that always comes to mind for me:

Eagles "Seven Bridges Road"


Also, Huey Lewis and the News had some great harmonies. "Bad is Bad" is a good example.

 

They do by me! Great vocals on that whole disc!

Van Halen records had a lot of great harmonies....Micheal Anthony could hit those high notes!

 

Anything by Dixie Chicks, Travelin' Soldier if I must pick one.
http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selection/30/DixieChicks/DixieChicks_TravelinSoldier_30_56.asx

 

Magic by Pilot is another great use of harmony in a pop song.From what I understand,Brian Wilson was inspired by this to get back into creating music back in the 70s.The handclap arrangement even takes a life of its own.Pure pop done right from the 70s with an inspired harmony arrangement,that's what "Magic" is!!!

 

Great song and produced by Alan Parsons.


A somewhat obscure British band from the early to mid 70's that did excellent harmony work as well was Hudson Ford (Strawbs spinoff band).

Badfinger's "Baby Blue" has some nice harmonies, too.

The Hudson Brothers' "So You Are A Star" has a bridge that was pure Lennon/McCartney harmonizing.

 

Although a rippoff of CSN I love the harmony on America's RIVERSIDE and HERE off the first America LP.

Joe L.

 

Some of my faves:

Spread Love - Take 6
It's For You - Three Dog Night (or any number of other tracks)
Rag Doll - Four Seasons
Magnet & Steel - Walter Egan
Ruby Baby/Walk Between Raindrops - Donald Fagen
The Real End - Rickie Lee Jones
Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan
Eleanor - Turtles

 

Beach Boys/Good Vibrations
Beach Boys/Til I Die
Fleetwoods/Tragedy
Pentagons/To Be Loved (forever)
Hollies/Air that I Breathe/He Ain't Heavy
Elton John Band/Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

 

Almost anything by The Hollies; the choruses of their songs always seemed to have very strong harmonies.




Ed Hurdle
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America and the Eagles learned at the feet of CSN,but they understood those lessons very well!!Those two bands had a knack for the melding of harmony and melody in a pop context.

 

Dawn Go Away - The Four Seasons

 

Carrie Ann - The Hollies

 

Candy Girl - The 4 Seasons

 

"The one that always comes to mind for me:

Eagles "Seven Bridges Road" "

Listen in DTS on the Hell Freezes Over DVD. Amazing! (BTW, it's an audio-only bonus track)

 

Along Come's Mary - The Association

 

You bet. Can't forget about The Association!

 

Never My Love - The Asscioation

Cherish - The Asscioation - they did it first Keith Partridge!!