Great backing vocal lines

[editor]

Here's two good 'uns to get us started:




"Sha la la la push push!"

And of course, the greatest!

 

[platinumsage]

Aa-aa-ye-ah

 

[danny la rouge]

He kept dreaming
(Dreaming)
Ooh, that some day he'd be a star
(A superstar, but he didn't get far)

 

[discokermit]

He kept dreaming
(Dreaming)
Ooh, that some day he'd be a star
(A superstar, but he didn't get far)

dreams don't always come true, a-ah, no, a-ah.

 

[discokermit]

are they really chanting "onomatopoeia" in there? thats what i hear.

 

[discokermit]

minnie ripperton doint backing on this one.

 

[discokermit]

this is the best though, allen toussaint. the master of backing vocals, both as a producer and singer.
here is one of his songs he produced, dont know the backing singers names but this is phenomenal.

 

[discokermit]

allen toussaint doing backing on songs he wrote and produced for lee dorsey,





its a bit of an obsession of mine, listening out for allen doing backing as his vocal is quite distinctive.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Laura Branigan was one of Leonard Cohen's backing singers on a tour or two in the mid 70s

 

[SpookyFrank]

Loads of great call-and-response stuff in early Dexys.

 

[discokermit]

i think its a.t. doing the mother in law bit on this,

 

[discokermit]

sock it to me,

 

[discokermit]

some nice harmonising from johnny paycheck on this george jones tune,

 

[editor]

OOH! AH!

 

[Ax^]

loads of ELO stuff

 

[BCBlues]

A bit of intense call&response on this one

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Merry Clayton on Gimme Shelter.
Fucking hell, goosebumps, every time.


I understand she miscarried the next day. I cannot listen to this song without thinking about her.

 

[SpookyFrank]

doooo doo doooo doo doo, dooooo doo doooo doo doo dooweeoo

Sweetness as satire.

 

[deeyo]

ey yo jay, yo jay...

 

[krtek a houby]

Robin Clark being awesome here

 

[krtek a houby]

Gives me shivers hearing Joniece Jamison

 

[discokermit]

loads of ELO stuff

kelly groucutt who plays bass does the falsetto parts and backing, followed my mom and her mate back home from coseley cinema when they were in their teens. she went out with him for a bit then lost touch. in the early seventies he saw her pushing me in my pushchair back home from wolvo and gave us a lift.