If you're willing to get really twee, then check out the Free Design who had very tight, complex male/female harmonies.
Sure, I'll sample them on Amazon. I’ve picked up on the way some of my favourite songs (“Go Where You Wanna Go”, “We Love You, Carol and Allison”, “All About You”, “Solar Sister”, “The Ballad of the Comeback Kid”, “Another New Day”, “It’s All In My Mind”) carry the most emotional charge when they harmonies kick in or when they’re made noticeable by their absence. It’s only recently though, while I’ve been getting hardcore into The Mamas and The Papas, that I countenanced the idea of chasing the predilection into not-pop-and-rock. I also thought that maybe The Mamas and The Papas' success would have given rise to a plethora of copycats and some would be worth looking into.
All my good male/female vocalist recs are alt country/bluegrassish not pop.
I couldn't love the new Yo La Tengo album more if I tried. Seriously. I love them and I like a lot of their albums a whole bunch, but this is the kind of album I
need
to listen to constantly. It's danceable and varied and affirming and wonderfullll. Yay!
The new Buckner is much like the new Mountain Goats - too sad. I'll try again in another month when I am not (still) getting over a nasty breakup and spending Friday night doing laundry and wishing I was in southcentral Kansas sitting in front of a campfire and listening to many distant banjos.
Back to the kids' songs: Corwood, your mixes put my "B's Bedtime Compilation" to shame, but here it is anyway - in its favour, it was made with much Buffista input:
Doris Day, "Lullaby of Broadway"
The Chordettes, "Mr. Sandman"
Everly Brothers, "Dream"
Elvis Presley, "Blue Moon"
The Beatles, "Golden Slumbers"
The Pentangle, "Watch the Stars"+
Paul Weller, "Moon on your Pyjamas"
Crowded House, "Weather with You"
Allison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris (O' Brother Soundtrack), "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby"
Suzanne Vega, "Stay Awake"
Judy Collins, "All the Pretty Horses"
Ed McCurdy, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" ++
+Apparently, Bert Jansch plays this on his new CD, The Black Swan, with Beth Orton.
++This whole CD, "Children's Songs - the Greatest Hits" is wonderful. I used to listen to it when I was small.
Clara doesn't have a CD of her own yet. Poor second child.
Thanks, David! I really need to bone up on my early Motown history!
man/woman dual vocals
Versus! Oh, how I love you...
Professor and Maryann is a group in NYC I'm acquainted with.
Versus! Oh, how I love you...
Me too, but they do more of the back-and-forth thing than the harmonies thing.
Sufjan Stevens is coming to the Olympia Theatre on Novemer 1, and oh how I want to go. I wish I had people to do this sort of thing with!
In the ongoing itunes 7 saga, I just tried to purchase my "summer" songs and was told my credit card zipcode didn't match my bank's info. It does. In fact, nothing has changed since my last order, except I upgraded my software. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
