Kinky Friedman’s “They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore” features Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings as backup singers.
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Are you sure about this? While there are a number of web references that do cite this, I found a few more that say this is a factoid and Steven Tyler never did, in fact, sing backup on this song.
Adding credence to that is this list of Steven Tyler’s recording appearances outside Aerosmith.
The only Left Banke songs I see him credited for are:
“Nice to See You”
“My Friend Today”
“Dark is the Bark”
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I’m never sure about anything…
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Are you sure about this? While there are a number of web references that do cite this
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Philip Toubus, who played Peter in the movie
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Huhuhuhuh.
John Prine’s album The Missing Years has backing vocals by Bruce Springsteen (on Take a Look at my Heart), Bonnie Raitt (Unlonely), Tom Petty (Picture Show), and Phil Everly (You Got Gold)
Eric Clapton’s Journeyman album had backing vocals by Chaka Khan (Pretending, No Alibis), Daryl Hall (No Alibis), and George Harrison (Run So Far)
Vince Gill shows up in a lot of songs as a backing vocalist, none of which I can remember off the top of my head of course. But, if there’s a high tenor voice in the background, there’s a good chance it’s him.
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John Lennon sang backup on Elton John’s version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
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Elton John sings backing vocals on Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Through The Night”
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Doesn’t Bowie do some of the backing vocals for Mott The Hoople’s All the Young Dudes?
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I don’t think so. He did write the song for them because he didn’t want them doing one of the songs from Ziggy Stardust (“Suffragette City”?)
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Joe Jackson sang with William Shatner in 2004 on the song “Common People”. I have no idea who was backing up whom and I do not care to speculate on it.
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It was Shatner’s album, so Jackson was singing back-up on that song. Ben Folds produced it, and sings back-up on it also (along with several other songs).
Folds and Shatner also worked together on the Fear Of Pop, Vol. I project - Shatner was a guest vocalist on “In Love” and “Still In Love”, with Folds singing back-up.
Phil Everly (or is it Don? I can never remember) sings on Warren Zevon’s “Hasten Down The Wind” He sounds like Linda Ronstadt, who originally recorded it, on it.
Darryl Hannah (the actress) sings back-up on Clarence Clemon’s and Jackson Brown’s “You’re A Friend Of Mine”.
Bruce Springsteen also shows up for a stanza of Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle”.
James Taylor sang backup for his then-wife Carly Simon in “Mockingbird” (more of a duet, actually, I suppose), and for his pal Steve Winwood in “Back in the High Life.” And Chaka Khan sang backup in Winwood’s “Higher Love.”
Michael Stipe joined 10,000 Maniacs onstage for a live recording of “To Sire With Love”.
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Phil Collins sings backup on the Eric Clapton song “Bad Love” (and is also the drummer), and also sings backup on the David Crosby song “Hero.”
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Which, if I’m remembering correctly, was balanced out by Crosby singing backup on “Another Day in Paradise.” For that matter, Sting and Peter Gabriel sang backup for “Take Me Home.”
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Bruce Springsteen sings back up (and plays some demented guitar) on Warren Zevon’s “Disorder in the House”
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Yeah, on Zevon’s last album “The Wind” there were a lot of guest artists. The ones that come to mind are Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton on “Dirty Life and Times” and Tom Petty on “The Rest of the Night”.
Per pulykamell’s link, Steven Tyler did backing work on Motley Crue’s “Dr. Feelgood” album, along with some of the guys from Cheap Trick.
A couple I can add:
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**Elvis Costello ** and **Paul Young ** are the backing vocalists for Squeeze’s Black Coffee in Bed
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**Bruce Springsteen ** duets and backs up with Mike Ness of Social Distortion, on his solo CD Solitaire(?) - the track Misery Loves Company…
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A couple I can add:
- **Elvis Costello ** and **Paul Young ** are the backing vocalists for Squeeze’s Black Coffee in Bed
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And didn’t Costello do the backing vocals on “Tempted,” too?
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And didn’t Costello do the backing vocals on “Tempted,” too?
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Yep - and according to this site produced the track and arranged it, too - ultimately swapping out Squeeze vocalist Glenn Tilbrook for then-keyboardist Paul Carrack.
Well, there’s the Roy Orbison concert that the local PBS station plays during every pledge drive.
Backup vocals were k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Warnes.
Oh, and the band included Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.
I could bore you with a lot more. I love to read the liner notes, to see what wonderful players and singers get to work on their friends’ tracks.
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James Taylor sang backup for his then-wife Carly Simon in “Mockingbird” (more of a duet, actually, I suppose…
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She did him a solid singing backup on “How Sweet It Is.”
And Joe Walsh played slide guitar on “Freedom Overspill” from that same album.
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Dolly Parton provided backing vocals for Eric Clapton’s Lay Down Sally, and Steven Tyler pitched in on Run DMC’s cover of Walk This Way.
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Wasnt it his regular backup singer marcy levy singing on that? she also cowrote the song.
John McCrea (the lead singer of Cake) does the backup vocals on “Fred Jones Pt. 2” by Ben Folds.
When I first heard the song I kept thinking, “Why does that voice sound so familiar?”
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Wasnt it his regular backup singer marcy levy singing on that? she also cowrote the song.
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I believe you are correct- Marcy Levy and Yvonne Elliman are the only background singers listed for the album.
Michael McDonald also backed up Christopher Cross on “Ride Like the Wind”, and (IIRC) Kenny Loggins on “This Is It”.