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unusual facts about harmonies



...If I Ever Fall in Love

Rolling Stone gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars and complimented its "crisp, precise harmonies that imply explosive vocal power but display few pyrotechnics", adding that "Shai joins the spiritual yearnings of Take Six with the secular pull of Boyz II Men".

277 Elvira

Elvira is possibly named for a character in Alphonse de Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques (1820) and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1830).

Adrian Vandenberg

They are arguably best known for the ballad "Burning Heart," a song that features complementing guitar layers and harmonies, and "Friday Night", from the Heading for a Storm album.

Betty Wright

She had a hit duet with Grayson Hugh on the remake of Champaign's 1981 hit, "How 'Bout Us", and later arranged the harmonies for Gloria Estefan's "Coming Out of the Dark", which hit number-one in 1991. Wright took a break from recording following the releases of 1990's Passion & Compassion and 1994's B-Attitudes.

Coco Star

The ad libitum parts and sections of the melody line in "I Need a Miracle" and "Toca's Miracle" including harmonies are exclusively the creation of Coco, who gave the song its iconic stamp.

Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers

Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo and Willemina about gardening ideas, color harmonies and the benefits of working in a garden.

Eagles Live

Eagles Live (released that November) was mixed by Glenn Frey and Don Henley on opposite coasts - the two decided they could not stand to be in the same state, let alone the same studio, and as Bill Szymczyk put it, the record's perfect three-part harmonies were fixed "courtesy of Federal Express."

Everybody's Fool

The song was made available to download on April 3, 2012 for play in Rock Band 3 Basic and PRO mode utilizing real guitar / bass guitar, and MIDI compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards plus vocal harmonies.

Everything on Red

“Everything on Red have a really diverse, rich sound. The vocals are well thought out and the use of harmonies, especially on 'Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder' suggests a band who are extremely talented…This four-track EP is quite brief but showcases a band full of good ideas. There are choruses, solid song structures and plenty of singalong moments. Inventive and original…EOR could be ones to watch.” (Punktastic)

George Oldroyd

He composed numerous settings of the mass, but is best remembered for his "Mass of the Quiet Hour" composed in 1928, whose swooping melodies and lush harmonies recall the "Palm Court" style of that era.

Ghosts of Modern Man

The Winnipeg Sun gave a rating of 3.5 stars of 5 and wrote that their "searing blend of churning guitar, bristling impatience, tense dynamics, lyrical angst and anguished vocals ensures they'll please the punk purists" but also praised them as a possible punk future for expanding "their horizons by being unafraid of sweet harmonies, pretty melodies and the odd earnest ballad".

H. Balfour Gardiner

His best-known work Evening Hymn (1908), a setting of the Compline hymn Te lucis ante terminum, is a lush, romantic work for eight-part choir and organ, of dense harmonies.

I Hate Everything About You

The song was made available to download on March 13, 2012 for play in Rock Band 3 Basic and PRO mode utilizing real guitar / bass guitar, and MIDI compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards plus vocal harmonies.

Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81

For example, "The Show Must Go On" had an extra verse that was deleted from the original studio recording (but included in the lyric sheet, even on the latest CD releases.) "Outside the Wall" was longer and re-arranged with mandolin, accordion, clarinet, acoustic guitars, tambourines and more natural-sounding vocal harmonies from the quartet of Joe Chemay, Jim Farber, Jim Haas, and John Joyce.

It's Raining Again

In live versions on the accompanying Famous Last Words tour, John Helliwell and Scott Page sang the lower harmonies on stage while Hodgson sang higher parts.

Jean Michel Constant Leber

When the question of the coronation of Louis XVIII arose, he wrote, as an answer to Volney, a minute treatise on the Harmonies du sacre, which was published at the time of the coronation of Charles X.

Jim Pekol

This band was known for its smooth Slovenian beat, variety of music and well-blended vocal harmonies.

Kristin Mooney

Mooney sang harmonies with Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Steve Earle, John Doe, Jim James, Raul Malo, Jim Lauderdale and Jay Farrar as a member of the "house band" for the Return to Sin City—A Tribute to Gram Parsons DVD.

Love Club

Borcher began to write again in 1999 after a long hiatus, with guitarist and synthesist Greg Reed(co-writer on "Once Upon a Time" and with her vocals, melody and harmonies, for a project entitled "The Nature of Desire".

Optimalniy Variant

Optimalniy Variant was considered by Rossiyskaya Gazeta as the main successor of "post-Beatles period moods and harmonies" on Russian rock scene.

Orchestra Baobab

Unlike other Senegalese bands, they combined the Casamance harmonies and drumming from southern Senegal with melodies from Togo and Morocco to the Wolof tradition from northern Senegal.

Re-amp

Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded layered vocal harmonies and guitar parts, modifying prior tracks with effects such as ambient reverb while recording the net result together on a new track.

Sasha Dobson

Dobson participated in Norah Jones' The Fall tour, providing guitar and percussion accompaniment as well as vocal harmonies.

Simple Mind Condition

In June 2005, Trouble announced on their official website that they were back in the studio to "continue the recording of the new CD. Vinny flew back in mid-June to continue production. Bruce and Rick are recording leads at this time. Eric is singing a bit here and there getting melodies and harmonies together. Stage 2 should be finished in a couple of weeks, then they will go in to mix. Still possible to release in 2005. We will see."

Skydiggers

Since the band's sound had largely been defined by Maize and Cash's vocal harmonies, the band revised their sound somewhat for 1997's Desmond's Hip City, released on DROG Records.

Stephen Wiley

The latter album sought to bring in fans of more traditional gospel by including harmonies from gospel group Witness on the song "Real".

Still Stuck in Your Throat

Bronx Style Bob : harmonies and background vocals on "We Just Lose Our Minds"

The Burns Sisters

The Burns Sisters are an American folk music group from Ithaca, New York known for their tight harmonies.

The Chiffons

With their trademark tight harmonies, high-stepping confidence and the hit machine of Goffin and King writing songs such as "One Fine Day", the Chiffons made music that helped define the girl group sound of the era.

The Fabulous 8-Track Sound of Superdrag

This EP—Superdrag's first—demonstrated many of the stylistic traits typical of the band throughout its existence, including heavily distorted and often simple guitar work, bass guitar lines which convey the instrumental melody (as in "Really Thru" and "Load"), long periods where one or more instruments are either largely idle or absent ("Bloody Hell" and "Load"), and extensive use of vocal harmonies ("Sugar", "Really Thru", and "Load").

The Hazey Janes

Formed around 2000 by guitarist Andrew Mitchell and bass player Matthew Marra, the band's music has been described as a fusion of country-rock and indie-pop, with a penchant for heavy folk harmonies, reminiscent of Big Star, Velvet Crush and The Posies.

The Missouri Harmony

In 1850 a new edition appeared, with harmonies revised by “scientific musician” Charles Warren of Cincinnati, who purported to correct “several errors in the harmony.”

The Olivia Tremor Control

Signal Morning, Circulatory System's sophomore LP features the reunion of Will Hart and Bill Doss singing harmonies on its opening track.

The Wandas

" New Wave Blues is full of sweet harmonies and music that is unburdened with extravagance" - indie.mp3.co.uk "This is some of the best pop I've heard this year" - Mary Leary; San Diego Entertainer Magazine.


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