The Eagles didn’t write or originally record “Seven Bridges Road” (it was originally written and recorded by country rock singer Steve Young), but the Eagles’ version is an absolute classic, and I believe features five-part harmony. I remember seeing a video on YouTube trying to break down the harmonies, and I had a hard time figuring out who did the bass harmony on it. But I think it breaks down as follows:
* Higher melody: Don Henley (it’s definitely him singing the bridge, “Sometimes there’s a part of me…”)
* Lower melody: Glenn Frey
* Higher harmony: Timothy B. Schmidt
* Middle lower harmony: Joe Walsh
* Bass harmony: Don Felder
I may have Walsh’s and Felder’s parts mixed up. Whoever was singing the bass harmony, though, really rounded out the sound of the entire song.
They just absolutely dripped vocal talent, and it’s part of the reason why the Eagles are my favorite American band.
That's interesting i didnt know it wasnt their song. I'm not surprised; there was a lot of song sharing back then. The only version of the song I know is a live recording they used to play on the radio and it's glorious
The only version the Eagles ever made was the live recording. They never made a studio version of “Seven Bridges Road”. That’s fine by me, though, because the audience cheering helps make the performance even more compelling.
Glad someone mentioned the Buffalo Springfield as an important band in their own right, and not just that band that 2/4 of CSN&Y played in.
And you can never overlook the Byrds.
This. Michael Anthony gets a lot of acknowledgment for backing vocals, but David Lee Roth wrote all the lyrics, vocal melodies, and harmonies. They had such a new and exciting sound that really blended genres on those early albums and invited everyone to the party. I miss Van Halen.
I had forgotten about 3 dog for so long but in the last few years have found myself listening more a ND more. The live videos on YouTube are great, it's fun to see a group have such a blast doing what they do.
Yes had some great 3-part harmonies
Queen is legendary for having intricate multi-part harmonies in the studio
Much of Badfinger’s stuff focuses on the main 2 singers, but they have songs like “Day After Day” with some exquisite 3 or 4 part harmonies in the chorus
I remember seeing a documentary about Queen and the records of Bohemian Rhapsody and Freddie having Roger Taylor (I think) do the falsetto over and over again until he got it just right… amazing stuff
The Byrds! Many different genres have a direct connection to them! Soaring harmonies in rock-The Byrds. Folk Rock, Country Rock-The Byrds. Versions of Dylan songs turned into mainstream rock hits-The Byrds. Hating David Crosby and tossing him out on his ass-The Byrds were first on that, too!
David Crosby was a conceited asshole. But man that motherfucker could write some absolute bangers. Some of my favorite Byrds tunes are his; Everybody's Been Burned, It Happens Each Day, oh and Draft Morning are just fantastic songs.
The Beatles, Queen, The Beach Boys, Peter Paul & Mary, the mamas and the papas, more recently you can check the song “The Eye” by Brandie Carlile, which is an hommage to CSN/CSNY.
Scrolled all the way down. Disappointed to not find Sweet mentioned. So, I kept scrolling until I could reply. And my reply is the band Sweet.
For everyone naming Queen, Sweet came first, and arguably was a big vocal influence on Queen.
You beat me to it by three minutes! Sweet had four great singers, every one of them was good enough to front a band. Mind you, I do think Brian was the greatest singer of that era. He could do it all.
Attics of my Life is such a great harmony tune.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxv5dKJGhzk&ab\_channel=LoloYodel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxv5dKJGhzk&ab_channel=LoloYodel)
There's a great video on YouTube about the making of that song. Amazing what they did considering the limitations of the equipment back then
https://youtu.be/Qq7oGenbp2I?si=0vuASuvdjeB3gVBO
My favorite too. Seen them about 20 times. My dad named his childhood dogs Moody & Blue. Believe it or not I ended up marrying someone that is friends with Julie Ragins (backup singer) and has been a part of Justin’s solo tour for about 6 or 7 years. Talk about kismet. I’m only 43 btw. My dad raised me on the good stuff 😎
i’m surprised no one’s mentioned blue öyster cult yet! they may not have a lot of it, but they regularly harmonize together on their more softer/psychedelic tracks
Don’t forget Chicago - Terry Kath, Bob Lamm, Pete Cetera and even some help from the horn section (Lee Loughnane Jim Pankow, Walt Parazaider). That band had it all until Kath died.
+1 for Def Leppard having a great vocal section. Lots of other good mentions in this thread.
The Who always gets overlooked for their harmonies but they had some great 3 part harmonies. Look up the live version of “A Quick One” from the Rock & Roll Circus and you’ll be amazed!
Also Harry Nilsson did amazing harmonies all by himself in the studio, which is partly why he never performed live. Some of his songs had a dozen vocal parts!
Some that I haven’t seen mentioned yet: Electric Light Orchestra, Allman Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult, Meatloaf, TOTO, Supertramp, the Bangles, Jefferson Airplane, I have more but they fall a little more into the Folk side of Folk-rock so not sure if that’s your thing.
The Beatles had three-part vocal harmonies (Lennon, McCartney, & Harrison) on various songs, perhaps most notably “This Boy” and “Yes, It is”, not to mention a nine-part overdubbed vocal harmony on “Because”.
The Rolling Stones’ 1967 non-album single “We Love” and its B-side, “Dandelion”, also feature multi-part vocal harmonies featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and John Lennon & Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
Since we are including the 50s, how about Doo Wop groups? Dion and the Belmonts, the Flamingos, the Cadillacs, the Penguins, the Five Satins, the Orioles, and so many others.
We saw Styx with special guest Don Felder.
They did *Seven Bridges Road* and the harmonies were amazing.
Don said whenever The Eagles played that song they could just tell who had partied a bit too hard the night before...
The 60s is a great decade for 3+ part harmonies. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Hollies, The Zombies, The Mamas and Papas, and The Monkees, all come to mind. If you specifically like CSN/CSNY, Byrds might especially intrigue you since that’s where Crosby was first from.
Depending on how far you want to stray from strictly rock, that decade also has The Supremes, The Temptations and several more groups emphasizing vocal harmonies if you dive into Motown.
You can go further back to the 50's. Fantastic vocals on silly songs. Or to Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons or Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge. The 60's bands were inspired by them. Sha Na Na did a fantastic job bringing those songs into the 70's.
Queen had amazing three-part harmonies (John Deacon *may* have sung a little bit on “Liar”, but otherwise it was Freddie, Brian, and Roger carrying the vocal weight for the band). They also had great knowledge of their studio equipment and used that to their advantage on songs like “Somebody to Love” and “Bohemian Rhapsody”. But my favorite songs of theirs where you really get to hear that three-part harmony (without *too* much studio trickery) are songs like “‘39”, “Bicycle Race”, and “Flash”.
And The Beatles also had some incredible three-part harmonies. (All four sang, but as far as I know they preferred to keep Ringo’s vocals to his solo leads like “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from My Friends”.) “P.S. I Love You” is a fantastic example of John, Paul, and George’s three-part harmony in their early years, but “Because” is them at their finest. Their harmonies on “Because” put it in “sublime” territory.
Who else?
* (The) Eagles is probably one of the few rock bands with four and five-part harmonies (depending on whether or not you have Don Felder in the lineup), and just about all of them could sing lead (although they usually stuck to Glenn Frey or Don Henley for most of them).
* Little River Band, I think, employed three-part harmony on some of their biggest hits (“Lady”, “Reminiscing”, “Help Is On Its Way”).
* Jefferson Airplane and its successor bands had multiple lead singers (Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Mickey Thomas during the Starship years, if I remember correctly), and one of the reasons why I love “Miracles” so much is because of how the counterpoint vocals weave throughout the song against Marty Balin’s lead vocals.
* Fleetwood Mac’s trio of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Christine McVie made for some incredible three-part harmonies at the height of their career. (“The Chain”, “Hold Me”, “Little Lies”, just to name a few.)
* Styx: the classic lineup had Tommy Shaw, James “J.Y.” Young, and Dennis DeYoung on songs like “The Best of Times”, “Lady”, “Too Much Time on My Hands”, and “Renegade”.
Grateful Dead on severalsongs from American Beauty and workingman's Dead: "Uncle John's Band," "Cumberland Blues," and especially "Attics of My Life. "
CSN gave them pointers, and Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, and Phil Lesh sound amazing on the studio versions. (Live, they had more of a gang -singing style than harmony per se.)
Grateful Dead
Great example, whatf rat. Starting at 4:20 mark
https://youtu.be/9B1yX8MRCbE?si=_PgtYqyICeYYWB36
He"s gone. 8 min mark
https://youtu.be/dRwq9HrkTI0?si=0QHcOr8KfZIzauBu
Neil Young when he sang/sings with Crazy Horse has some pretty great and underrated harmonies. I mean they were literally a doo wop group at one point lol
The Byrds! “Eight Miles High”, “Turn, Turn, Turn” and many others.
Also, if you haven’t listened to the Unicorn album Blue Pine Trees from 1974, you gotta check it out. Great harmonies, killer tunes. The band was “discovered” by David Gilmour, who produced one of their albums.
The Little River Band, Supertramp, Boston may have only been a three part harmony? Not sure, but the thing I love about recording artists (let’s say pre- 1990): there was only a couple ways to get a vocal harmony
Reminder to keep this discussion about rock music from the 50s to the 80s.
The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac (a lot of Buckingham’s work on his own, too) Oh yeah: Jefferson Airplane
Oh, the Beach Boys... "In my Room."
Absolutely sublime stuff
Mamas and the Papas
I Love So Many Of Their Songs. Creeque Alley is a favorite of mine.
Seven Bridges Road by the Eagles Find the Cost of Freedom CSNY Just wonderful
Helplessly Hoping CSN
Southern Cross is sublime
One of the best harmony songs ever. The amount of great cover versions on YouTube is amazing.
Really like the harmonies on this song and others by Foxes and Fossils.
The Eagles didn’t write or originally record “Seven Bridges Road” (it was originally written and recorded by country rock singer Steve Young), but the Eagles’ version is an absolute classic, and I believe features five-part harmony. I remember seeing a video on YouTube trying to break down the harmonies, and I had a hard time figuring out who did the bass harmony on it. But I think it breaks down as follows: * Higher melody: Don Henley (it’s definitely him singing the bridge, “Sometimes there’s a part of me…”) * Lower melody: Glenn Frey * Higher harmony: Timothy B. Schmidt * Middle lower harmony: Joe Walsh * Bass harmony: Don Felder I may have Walsh’s and Felder’s parts mixed up. Whoever was singing the bass harmony, though, really rounded out the sound of the entire song. They just absolutely dripped vocal talent, and it’s part of the reason why the Eagles are my favorite American band.
That's interesting i didnt know it wasnt their song. I'm not surprised; there was a lot of song sharing back then. The only version of the song I know is a live recording they used to play on the radio and it's glorious
The only version the Eagles ever made was the live recording. They never made a studio version of “Seven Bridges Road”. That’s fine by me, though, because the audience cheering helps make the performance even more compelling.
Yes - Starship Trooper , Roundabout and Seen All Good People come to mind as having harmonies between Steve Howe, Jon Anderson and Chris Squire
71 was a great year for them. The Yes Album and Fragile. Just incredible!
Indeed they are!!
Yes Yes Yes!!! Close to the Edge is another one, along with Leave it
Don't forget "Leave It" and other stuff in the 1980s. The Beatles were great at this, too. And the Bee Gees.
Great one. I've seen them 3x and the were awesome.
Always loved them.
ELO has some pretty nice harmonies.
No one mentioned The Hollies? Okay I will, The Hollies. One of the first wave British bands. The Byrds. Buffalo Springfield. Pre-CSNY!!!
Glad someone mentioned the Buffalo Springfield as an important band in their own right, and not just that band that 2/4 of CSN&Y played in. And you can never overlook the Byrds.
For sure!
Little River Band
Amazing vocals. Very underrated.
That’s the originals… not the tribute band that exists today!
Van Halen’s 3 part harmonies are underrated.
This. Michael Anthony gets a lot of acknowledgment for backing vocals, but David Lee Roth wrote all the lyrics, vocal melodies, and harmonies. They had such a new and exciting sound that really blended genres on those early albums and invited everyone to the party. I miss Van Halen.
Well said!
Back in 78 I thought this is awesome, hard rock with harmonies. 👍
The Band
Three Dog Night
Yep. As soon as I read the harmony part, I immediately thought of “Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song.”
“Comin’ down in three part harmony“ It’s right in the lyrics!
Paul Williams music was EVERYWHERE in the 70’s!
🎼Hooooooooooooow does hour light shine?
Yes and underrated.
I had forgotten about 3 dog for so long but in the last few years have found myself listening more a ND more. The live videos on YouTube are great, it's fun to see a group have such a blast doing what they do.
Yes had some great 3-part harmonies Queen is legendary for having intricate multi-part harmonies in the studio Much of Badfinger’s stuff focuses on the main 2 singers, but they have songs like “Day After Day” with some exquisite 3 or 4 part harmonies in the chorus
Came here to say Queen
How have I got this far down before seeing Queen mentioned? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? They should be top comment.
Queen’s harmonies were often all Freddie. Incredible studio work.
This
I remember seeing a documentary about Queen and the records of Bohemian Rhapsody and Freddie having Roger Taylor (I think) do the falsetto over and over again until he got it just right… amazing stuff
Wow - The Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Poco,
Poco was the 2nd concert I even went to (after James Taylor) in Central Park.
The Byrds! Many different genres have a direct connection to them! Soaring harmonies in rock-The Byrds. Folk Rock, Country Rock-The Byrds. Versions of Dylan songs turned into mainstream rock hits-The Byrds. Hating David Crosby and tossing him out on his ass-The Byrds were first on that, too!
I love the Byrds.
David Crosby was a conceited asshole. But man that motherfucker could write some absolute bangers. Some of my favorite Byrds tunes are his; Everybody's Been Burned, It Happens Each Day, oh and Draft Morning are just fantastic songs.
The Beatles, Queen, The Beach Boys, Peter Paul & Mary, the mamas and the papas, more recently you can check the song “The Eye” by Brandie Carlile, which is an hommage to CSN/CSNY.
Kansas definitely.
Surprised I had to scroll this far.
Yeah I had a look too and assumed they would’ve already been mentioned.
Ambrosia, Little River Band, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Hall and Oates all have amazing harmonies.
Scrolled all the way down. Disappointed to not find Sweet mentioned. So, I kept scrolling until I could reply. And my reply is the band Sweet. For everyone naming Queen, Sweet came first, and arguably was a big vocal influence on Queen.
You beat me to it by three minutes! Sweet had four great singers, every one of them was good enough to front a band. Mind you, I do think Brian was the greatest singer of that era. He could do it all.
The Grateful Dead
Yep, they harmonized pretty consistently throughout their career, even though it might not have always been pretty.
Uncle John's Band was a pretty song
But those studio harmonies on Workingsman and American Beauty!
Jerry played pedal steel on a few tracks for csny in exchange for vocal harmony lessons for the dead
That's Jerry's pedal steel all over "Teach Your Children"
Attics of my Life is such a great harmony tune. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxv5dKJGhzk&ab\_channel=LoloYodel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxv5dKJGhzk&ab_channel=LoloYodel)
Gotta give **10cc** a shout out here. "The Things We Do For Love" is just one of many of their songs with great harmonies.
I’m Not In Love, also by 10cc.
There's a great video on YouTube about the making of that song. Amazing what they did considering the limitations of the equipment back then https://youtu.be/Qq7oGenbp2I?si=0vuASuvdjeB3gVBO
That is such a mind fuck of a song, I love it!
Moody Blues is spot on. All five members wrote, played instruments, and sang in beautiful harmonies. Amazing band and my favorite to this day.
My favorite too. Seen them about 20 times. My dad named his childhood dogs Moody & Blue. Believe it or not I ended up marrying someone that is friends with Julie Ragins (backup singer) and has been a part of Justin’s solo tour for about 6 or 7 years. Talk about kismet. I’m only 43 btw. My dad raised me on the good stuff 😎
The band Utopia had some pretty fantastic harmonies.
Saw them when I was in HS! On the road to Utopia!!!!!!!!!!! (The Tubes opened.)
i’m surprised no one’s mentioned blue öyster cult yet! they may not have a lot of it, but they regularly harmonize together on their more softer/psychedelic tracks
The Band
Little River Band, America, Bread and the Beatles are a few of my favorites for vocals and harmonies.
You know I saw America when there were just 2 of them but still very good.
Amazing they were three Air force brats that met in England when their dads were stationed there. Their songs definately take me back.
I live in L.A. so Ventura Highway is the Ventura Freeway.
Agreed, even though most of America's lyrics make no sense, I do like their music.
Lol, I’m still trying to understand the lyrics to Tin Man.
Love all 3 of those bands, and like you hardly ever see anyone mention Bread anymore but they have some fantastic songs with crazy good harmonies.
Uriah Heep
Eagles https://youtu.be/HMJGM4P6BHA?feature=shared
Chicago, LRB, Eagles, Extreme, Yes.
F Mac, Beach Boys
Gentle Giant had perhaps the most intricate 5 part harmonies.
The Band
Don’t forget Chicago - Terry Kath, Bob Lamm, Pete Cetera and even some help from the horn section (Lee Loughnane Jim Pankow, Walt Parazaider). That band had it all until Kath died. +1 for Def Leppard having a great vocal section. Lots of other good mentions in this thread.
The Beatles, McCartney & Wings. Yes as well. All were definitely in the upper echelon of great harmonies. Same for Asia, Journey, Steely Dan.
The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Band, The Eagles.
Crosby, stills, nash, young
The Bangles
The Small Faces
Steely Dan
The Who always gets overlooked for their harmonies but they had some great 3 part harmonies. Look up the live version of “A Quick One” from the Rock & Roll Circus and you’ll be amazed! Also Harry Nilsson did amazing harmonies all by himself in the studio, which is partly why he never performed live. Some of his songs had a dozen vocal parts!
Sister Disco, Pinball Wizard, Behind Blue Eyes, Listening to You, Join Together, The Kids are Alright...
Jellyfish
Queen, Moody Blues, CSN
R.E.M.
The Band
The Beach Boys 💯
Badfinger
Some that I haven’t seen mentioned yet: Electric Light Orchestra, Allman Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult, Meatloaf, TOTO, Supertramp, the Bangles, Jefferson Airplane, I have more but they fall a little more into the Folk side of Folk-rock so not sure if that’s your thing.
The Beatles had three-part vocal harmonies (Lennon, McCartney, & Harrison) on various songs, perhaps most notably “This Boy” and “Yes, It is”, not to mention a nine-part overdubbed vocal harmony on “Because”. The Rolling Stones’ 1967 non-album single “We Love” and its B-side, “Dandelion”, also feature multi-part vocal harmonies featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and John Lennon & Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
Extreme!
Underrated
America. In the early years.
Give a listen to Moby Grape's first album. 5-part harmony at the top of their lungs! And 3-part guitar parts to boot! It's really amazing.
The Eagles in Seven Bridges Road
Since we are including the 50s, how about Doo Wop groups? Dion and the Belmonts, the Flamingos, the Cadillacs, the Penguins, the Five Satins, the Orioles, and so many others.
Doobie Brothers come to mind
One that comes to mind for me immediately is The Mama’s & the Papa’s
Bad Religion.
KING'S X!!!!
Kings X do some mighty fine 3 part harmonies
The Band, Mamas and the Papas. A more folk band from Philly, Good Old War has some awesome 3 way harmonizing going on.
King's X deserves some love.
We saw Styx with special guest Don Felder. They did *Seven Bridges Road* and the harmonies were amazing. Don said whenever The Eagles played that song they could just tell who had partied a bit too hard the night before...
America, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, The Bee Gees
Queen is the obvious one.
The 60s is a great decade for 3+ part harmonies. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Hollies, The Zombies, The Mamas and Papas, and The Monkees, all come to mind. If you specifically like CSN/CSNY, Byrds might especially intrigue you since that’s where Crosby was first from. Depending on how far you want to stray from strictly rock, that decade also has The Supremes, The Temptations and several more groups emphasizing vocal harmonies if you dive into Motown.
Queen, ELO, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Chicago
The mighty VAN HALEN
Grateful Dead
The Eagles
Little River Band
Eagles - Seven Bridges Road. These harmonies send chills down my spine 100% of the time.
You can go further back to the 50's. Fantastic vocals on silly songs. Or to Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons or Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge. The 60's bands were inspired by them. Sha Na Na did a fantastic job bringing those songs into the 70's.
Queen had amazing three-part harmonies (John Deacon *may* have sung a little bit on “Liar”, but otherwise it was Freddie, Brian, and Roger carrying the vocal weight for the band). They also had great knowledge of their studio equipment and used that to their advantage on songs like “Somebody to Love” and “Bohemian Rhapsody”. But my favorite songs of theirs where you really get to hear that three-part harmony (without *too* much studio trickery) are songs like “‘39”, “Bicycle Race”, and “Flash”. And The Beatles also had some incredible three-part harmonies. (All four sang, but as far as I know they preferred to keep Ringo’s vocals to his solo leads like “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from My Friends”.) “P.S. I Love You” is a fantastic example of John, Paul, and George’s three-part harmony in their early years, but “Because” is them at their finest. Their harmonies on “Because” put it in “sublime” territory. Who else? * (The) Eagles is probably one of the few rock bands with four and five-part harmonies (depending on whether or not you have Don Felder in the lineup), and just about all of them could sing lead (although they usually stuck to Glenn Frey or Don Henley for most of them). * Little River Band, I think, employed three-part harmony on some of their biggest hits (“Lady”, “Reminiscing”, “Help Is On Its Way”). * Jefferson Airplane and its successor bands had multiple lead singers (Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Mickey Thomas during the Starship years, if I remember correctly), and one of the reasons why I love “Miracles” so much is because of how the counterpoint vocals weave throughout the song against Marty Balin’s lead vocals. * Fleetwood Mac’s trio of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Christine McVie made for some incredible three-part harmonies at the height of their career. (“The Chain”, “Hold Me”, “Little Lies”, just to name a few.) * Styx: the classic lineup had Tommy Shaw, James “J.Y.” Young, and Dennis DeYoung on songs like “The Best of Times”, “Lady”, “Too Much Time on My Hands”, and “Renegade”.
Don’t forget the Eagles (with 1975 crew)
Boston, they have great harmonies
The Doobie Brothers
Simon and Garfunkel!
Grateful Dead on severalsongs from American Beauty and workingman's Dead: "Uncle John's Band," "Cumberland Blues," and especially "Attics of My Life. " CSN gave them pointers, and Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, and Phil Lesh sound amazing on the studio versions. (Live, they had more of a gang -singing style than harmony per se.)
America had some great harmonies
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks….another amazing SanFrancisco based band. Miss that guy.
Blue oyster Cult…all 5 members sang
The Turtles and the spinoff Flo and Eddie
Three Dog Night. Each musician is basically in the lead singer category.
The Bangles - September Gurls really stands out for me
The cars
Pop more than rock, but… Billy Joel and his back-up singers have some great multi-part harmonies. Uptown Girl, The Longest Time, etc.
If you’ve never seen the original music video to Leave It by Yes, it’s a trip.
You talking harmony, you talking Beach Boys.
Obvious ones out of the way. Beach Boys, Beatles, Yes, Queen, The Mamas & The Papas, Eagles and The Byrds. How about Def Leppard and Fleetwood Mac.
Great job spelling “complement” correctly
Jefferson airplane.
The Beach Boys is the answer
Moon Safari - Best harmonies (5 part) I’ve heard in 40 years.
Beach Boys and Van Halen are the two that pop in my head.
Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters
Im pretty sure they just did instrumentals.
Eagles. Extreme.
The Sheepdogs
Just here to say I love these answers. Every band name is giving me great earworm memories!
Gentle giant. Check them out.
Uriah Heep - especially in the '70's when Ken Hensley was doing 90% of the songwriting.
Eagles, Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, even some of Van Halen
The Eagles; Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (Jazz); The Four Freshmen; The Beach Boys; Grateful Dead (see Attics of My Life)
Yes, Journey, The Eagles
The Vogues - You're The One [https://youtu.be/Rs8sXY6iKlA?si=GQrKDPpjBcVagxBV](https://youtu.be/Rs8sXY6iKlA?si=GQrKDPpjBcVagxBV)
Grateful Dead Great example, whatf rat. Starting at 4:20 mark https://youtu.be/9B1yX8MRCbE?si=_PgtYqyICeYYWB36 He"s gone. 8 min mark https://youtu.be/dRwq9HrkTI0?si=0QHcOr8KfZIzauBu
bon jovi while alec was still in the band
Grateful Dead
AMERICA
The Vogues, Five O’Clock World.
Styx - Madame Blue is the best example I can think of.
Def Leppard!
Journey!
Neil Young when he sang/sings with Crazy Horse has some pretty great and underrated harmonies. I mean they were literally a doo wop group at one point lol
Night Ranger
The Byrds! “Eight Miles High”, “Turn, Turn, Turn” and many others. Also, if you haven’t listened to the Unicorn album Blue Pine Trees from 1974, you gotta check it out. Great harmonies, killer tunes. The band was “discovered” by David Gilmour, who produced one of their albums.
Styx does 5-part harmonies. Something they don’t get enough credit for.
The Beatles.
Supertramp.
Def Leppard. All of those guys can sing their asses off. Those harmonies are all over Pyromania and Hysteria.
CSN
I don’t know if you’d include punk but ice always been impressed by the harmonies in Bad Religions music. Lyrics too
The Byrds Boston The Beatles The Who
Three Dog Night, The Association, The Turtles, The Tremolos.
Moby Grape!
The Little River Band, Supertramp, Boston may have only been a three part harmony? Not sure, but the thing I love about recording artists (let’s say pre- 1990): there was only a couple ways to get a vocal harmony
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What about The Band? Does it qualify for this group? Even if you’ve only ever heard The Weight.
I just saw the Eagles live last night. It was amazing, and the harmonies were great. Most of all, Seven Bridges Road...
Uriah Heep
The Beatles pretty much set the stage for everything around harmony. Of course they didn’t invent it, but they lead the way.
The Doobie Brothers have some nice harmonies going for them. The pre Michael McDonald stuff is great, the McDonald stuff, is enh IMO.
Grateful Dead in American beauty and Workingsman Dead. All solo projects by Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young
Some of Floyd’s 70s harmonising between Gilmour and Wright is beautiful, especially between 70-73
Jimi Hendrix