Xander ,'Get It Done'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
When I have children, I want ye to raise them.
Can anyone recommend me poppy records with lots and lots of man/woman dual vocals? Or multiple vocals? Or whatever the words I should be using to articulate what I mean?
Somewhere between the Swimming Pool Qs and The Mamas and The Papas.
Can anyone recommend me poppy records with lots and lots of man/woman dual vocals? Or multiple vocals?
off the top of my head
New Pornagraphers, Pixies, Magnetic Fields
Can anyone recommend me records with lots and lots of man/woman dual vocals? Or multiple vocals? Or whatever the words I should be using to articulate what I mean?
Do you want more duets (trading vocals) or more male/female harmonies?
X has excellent tradeoff vocals.
Lee Hazelwood / Nancy Sinatra
Serge Gainsbourg / Nancy Birkin
Male and female harmonies....Hmmm. The Miracles. Uh...Spanky and our Gang.
Can anyone recommend me poppy records with lots and lots of man/woman dual vocals? Or multiple vocals?
X
I love love love male/female vocals together. It's one of my favorite musical things.
Non-Spring, if you're thinking of '70s pop with a soulful bent, there's Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. Members of the 5th Dimension (who were originally marketed as the black Mamas and Papas, though their later work doesn't really have the male-female interplay) who went on as a duo after the group broke up.
Do you want more duets (trading vocals) or more male/female harmonies?
Harmonies. Less relay, more two-legged race.
Thanks for the suggestions. The 5th Dimension, The Miracles and Spanky and our Gang sound interesting. Not that X and the Pixies don't but they're not really what I'm after.
I think there's a small bias in rock and roll against male/female harmonies. The fear that it's too glee club or folkie.
The early Fifth Dimension does have some very cool Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro compositions (aside from the hits) that are worth hearing.
If you're willing to get really twee, then check out the Free Design who had very tight, complex male/female harmonies. (It was a family group, so you get those close brother and sister harmonies.) Cowsills also have male/female harmonies.
Um... I thought the Miracles just had Smokey singing really really high on lead, no women?
Um... I thought the Miracles just had Smokey singing really really high on lead, no women?
Indeed, Smokey sang high parts. But early on the Miracles had a woman in the group. Then Smokey married her. (I think.) Anyway, I've definitely seen pictures of them with her.
Let me go check...
It was a fairly brief period, actually:
The vocal quintet then changed their name to the Matadors, and in 1956 Claudette Rogers joined the band after her brother Sonny Rogers was drafted. The Matadors auditioned for Jackie Wilson's manager, Nat Tarnapol, in 1956. Although Tarnapol wasn't interested, finding the group too similar to the Platters, Jackie Wilson's songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. was, and he soon began producing the band, who now went by the name the Miracles. Gordy produced their first single, "Get a Job," which was issued by the NY label End Records in 1958. After one more release on this label, the Miracles recorded their first song for Gordy's new Motown/Tamla label, 1959's "Bad Girl" (which was issued nationally on the Chess label). Next came the first hit for both the group and the label, 1960's "Shop Around," which reached number one on the R&B charts and number two pop. The next song by the Miracles to hit the number one R&B spot and reach the pop Top Ten came two years later with "You've Really Got a Hold on Me." Smokey and Claudette got married in 1963, and she retired from the group a year later.