# Great harmonies in song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504 "2019-07-23T16:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/41 "2019-07-24T17:52:22Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Riu Chiu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_hlYgCNFZc) – The Monkees Wow! Very impressive and a capella! ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/42 "2019-07-24T18:05:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow! Very impressive and a capella! AND without instruments! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/43 "2019-07-24T18:31:37Z")
Teenage Fanclub - [Ain’t That Enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeqYx-9-AQ) The Jayhawks - [Pray For Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5F576Rn1o) Gary Louris and Mark Olson’s voices together always had a special magic, just like Gram Parsons’ and Emmylou Harris’: [We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjteYWNr-zI) [Love Hurts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ivVJzGgcq0) The Louvin Brothers - [Kentucky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqqb2OHkEQ&list=PLCWC6NIPrik5ILYP2CwWIt7jgcbBx5oPL&index=1) And the Gosdin Brothers covering the Louvins exquisitely: [I’ll Live With God (To Die No More)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-qQgfeg-s) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/44 "2019-07-24T18:38:46Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Teenage Fanclub - [Ain’t That Enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeqYx-9-AQ)] Great pick ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/45 "2019-07-24T19:14:23Z")
Almost 50 years after Riu Chiu, Mike and Micky could still sing pretty well together: [Me And Magdalena](https://youtu.be/FfruDTmFDUA) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/46 "2019-07-24T20:06:21Z")
Forgot: [Songs From The Wood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGEG15mASQ), Jethro Tull ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/47 "2019-07-24T22:12:56Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Teenage Fanclub - [Ain’t That Enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeqYx-9-AQ) Sounds like they’re channeling The Byrds. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/48 "2019-07-24T22:22:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Sounds like they’re channeling The Byrds. Oh yes, they have been always fans of the Byrds. The have a song named “[Gene Clark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKFH-m9NGU)” which sounds like Neil Young with Crazy Horse, but they also have a song named “[Neil Jung](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpBlfJLbRM)”, which sounds like Big Star. Great band anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/49 "2019-07-25T00:45:50Z")
[5th Dimension - AQUARIUS/Let The Sunshine In](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ) [The B-52’s 52 Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZfrKCWXn8) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/50 "2019-07-25T01:05:14Z")
[“White Bird”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNgQ03D2qA) from It’s a Beautiful Day. Lots of great harmonies on that album. Traffic had some great harmonies; Winwood and Capaldi’s voices just meshed. “[Heaven is in Your Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZmmwK3MlII)” is one example. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/51 "2019-07-25T01:16:16Z")
Yeah, there seems to be enough old fashioned love songs coming down in three point harmony here. Not sure about my ears if this pretty cool Monkees song, [Valleri,](https://youtu.be/QWTa9CE51sA?t=13) has harmonizing during the catchy chorus, or if they’re just simply shadowing (or doubling) (or in this case tripling) each other. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/52 "2019-07-25T01:46:25Z")
Here’s an a capella performer, Peter Hollens, who does some great harmonies It looks like he’s doing quintuple tracking in this version of “Loch Lomond”: Maybe just triple tracking on “Shenandoah”? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0NmKp5A8i3M/maxresdefault.jpg "Shenandoah - Peter Hollens (A Cappella)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmKp5A8i3M) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/53 "2019-07-25T02:10:43Z")
[quote=“casdave, post:39, topic:837504”] Crowded House - Weather with you. When I heard this the very first time I thought it was a copy of CSN&Y [/QUOTE] There’s something about siblings harmonizing. My favorite harmonies of Crowded House (and Split Enz before that) were Neil Finn and his brother Tim; they’ve done some touring with just the two of them. Here’s an [acoustic version of Won’t Give In](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QswOjC_TUA). Powerfully emotional, but I’m touched even more by their song about talking to each other at night as kids, [Disembodied Voices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qrENYDLByc). ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/54 "2019-07-25T03:46:09Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Yeah, there seems to be enough old fashioned love songs coming down in three point harmony here. I see what you did there. 😉 I’ll never understand why [Three Dog Night](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npcHdSo90A) aren’t in the R&R Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/55 "2019-07-25T05:06:48Z")
A couple of people have already mentioned The Andrews Sisters. The Boswell Sisters were another close harmony sister group that (in my opinion) were better. Here they are singing [Everybody Loves My Baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUzHJJ3aAo). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/56 "2019-07-25T06:31:25Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > [The B-52’s 52 Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZfrKCWXn8) Ooh, good call! Those ladies sure can harmonize. _[Roam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4)_ is a particular favourite. And _[Deadbeat Club](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXy0XnzTQuc)_. Someone on youtube made a great suggestion - there should be a musical of B52s songs, like the ABBA ones. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/57 "2019-07-25T12:56:27Z")
Most anything by [The Pipettes](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMa24f6sK8TMfGseS_nhKiyjbtKJJTiDL). E.g., the interestingly named [_The Burning Ambition Of Early Diuretics_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7i-J51Qey8) ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/58 "2019-07-25T13:16:16Z")
Nobody going to mention Suite Judy Blue Eyes? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kVUwrifwKrI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHmAoAC8AGKAgwIABABGH8gJihDMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDv1ZpyQMA-GIZD0lyBS_M0_5hLIA "Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUwrifwKrI) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/59 "2019-07-25T15:13:06Z")
Always had a soft spot for “[hymn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwk-8E7al5Q)” by Barclay James Harvest. Lovely harmonies, lovely song. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504/60 "2019-07-25T16:57:44Z")
[The Haden Triplets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgwXliSMIPM) (daughters of the late Charlie Haden) sing some great harmonies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-harmonies-in-song/837504.md?page=4)