Best BGV performances of all time?
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Best BGV performances of all time?
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So, obviously, I just got done watching 20 Feet from Stardom and listening to the CD's I promptly ordered from Amazon after watching it and I'm a little underwhelmed by the background singers featured in the movie's solo offerings. That movie opened my ears to the importance of BG vox in so many of the songs I love (and hate) so dearly. The movie sure puts the song "Sweet Home Alabama" in a new context for me.
So, I thought I'd ask here, what are the best background vox records of all time in y'alls estimation? Specifically in the rock/funk arena. What are the best records that the ladies featured in the movie sing backup (not lead) on?
Thanks so much,
So, obviously, I just got done watching 20 Feet from Stardom and listening to the CD's I promptly ordered from Amazon after watching it and I'm a little underwhelmed by the background singers featured in the movie's solo offerings. That movie opened my ears to the importance of BG vox in so many of the songs I love (and hate) so dearly. The movie sure puts the song "Sweet Home Alabama" in a new context for me.
So, I thought I'd ask here, what are the best background vox records of all time in y'alls estimation? Specifically in the rock/funk arena. What are the best records that the ladies featured in the movie sing backup (not lead) on?
Thanks so much,
"Gimme Shelter",
"Tumblin' Dice",
"Walk on the Wild Side",
"Respect",
"Papa Was a Rolling Stone",
"Dance to the Music",
"End of the World As We Know It",
"Eminence Front",
"Rock & Roll Hoochie-Koo",
"Heat Treatment"
"Hungry Heart",
"1999" and "Li'l Red Corvette", etc.,
all come immediately to mind.
And yes, I know they is all old songs.
Also, so much of CSN and CSN&Y, as well as GP & Emmy Lou, the Motown acts ...
"Tumblin' Dice",
"Walk on the Wild Side",
"Respect",
"Papa Was a Rolling Stone",
"Dance to the Music",
"End of the World As We Know It",
"Eminence Front",
"Rock & Roll Hoochie-Koo",
"Heat Treatment"
"Hungry Heart",
"1999" and "Li'l Red Corvette", etc.,
all come immediately to mind.
And yes, I know they is all old songs.
Also, so much of CSN and CSN&Y, as well as GP & Emmy Lou, the Motown acts ...
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I agree with just about everything listed here so far. In the case of certain groups (Motown, Beatles, Beach Boys), or certain classic records (Gimme Shelter, Dark Side of the Moon), the vox are so integral it's hard to call them "backgrounds." That's why I usually categorize background vox and lead harmonies separately in producing and working with bands live.
But to answer your question, and since I've been in a roots reggae mood for a couple of months, I'll throw Peter and Bunny from the Wailers in there as well. They just blended so well and wrote/sang such perfect back-ups/harmonies. I like the I-Threes just fine, but the original Wailers smoke them (and Bunny, as a lead vocalist, was probably the most "American-sounding" soul singer of all three of them).
About this movie-- I've never heard of it. It sounds great; where is it available, Red Box, Netflix??
GJ
But to answer your question, and since I've been in a roots reggae mood for a couple of months, I'll throw Peter and Bunny from the Wailers in there as well. They just blended so well and wrote/sang such perfect back-ups/harmonies. I like the I-Threes just fine, but the original Wailers smoke them (and Bunny, as a lead vocalist, was probably the most "American-sounding" soul singer of all three of them).
About this movie-- I've never heard of it. It sounds great; where is it available, Red Box, Netflix??
GJ
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I just streamed it off Netflix, within 15 minutes the rest of my family joined me and we just watched it together. I wasn't intending to watch the whole thing at that time even.Gregg Juke wrote: About this movie-- I've never heard of it. It sounds great; where is it available, Red Box, Netflix??
I gotta say, the movie gave me a craving for the drummer, bassist, horn section, percussionist, etc., version of the same movie. All those side "men" might have a compelling story, it seems to me.
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http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com/Snarl 12/8 wrote:I gotta say, the movie gave me a craving for the drummer, bassist, horn section, percussionist, etc., version of the same movie. All those side "men" might have a compelling story, it seems to me.
That being said, the lady who sings backup on Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty" would definitely be in the running.
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I just saw "20 feet from Stardom" last night. Carl, how could you be underwhelmed by Lisa Fisher??
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Soloed "Gimme Shelter" vox / bgv and lots and lots of silence.
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Lori and Stevie Nicks' backgrounds on "Edge of Seventeen" are fantastic.
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