Favorite harmonies in music

I mean vocal harmonies in songs, lest someone post their favourite oboe/violin duet

A Worried Man - Kingston Trio

Take it To the Limit (Eagles - Meisner)

Love Lies Bleeding (Elton)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

The Everly Brothers - the most beautiful voices in music - Down In The Willow Garden

500 Miles - Kingston Trio

(Also has a special place in my heart, as my mother sang this to me)

Neil Sedaka harmonizing with himself:

Fabulous McGuire Sisters!

Gram and Emmylou - Grievous Angel

The Roches

The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel

Aren't harmonies in almost every song ever recorded?

R11 = Aspie

Take It To The Limit - Eagles

“Round Again” by the Association.

“You Showed Me” by The Turtles.

I Saw Her Again - The Mamas & The Papas

“There’s Always You” The Sundowners.

Seven Bridges Road - The Eagles

God Only Knows - Beach Boys Teach Your Chikdren - Crosby Stills Nash & Young

Linda, Emmylou and Dolly

"Everybody I Love You" - Crosby Still Nash Young

In current music, Little Big Town knows harmonies. especially in their tribute to Elton John.

Old stuff = no computer enhancement, just talent.

New Kid in Town - Eagles. That last verse...."And he's holding her and you're still around". Dead.

All BeeGees songs. Seriously, what they achieved vocally boggles the mind.

Could It Be Magic - Barry. The whole ending. The backups at full voice, Barry losing himself in the chorus. I'm gone.

10cc The Things We Do For Love. Love to sing this with a friend. :)

I'm also a complete sucker for The Association (Cherish), The Turtles (Elenore), The Hollies (Bus Stop), The Four Seasons (Walk Like a Man), The Fifth Dimension (Let The Sunshine In), Beach Boys (Sloop John B). They did harmonies better in the 60s than any other time in music.

Contemporary would be Ghost Love Score by Nightwish. The ending again, the chorus with its morose verse and the lead singer soaring over them.

I've mentioned in the past that I like my music over the top. Guilty as charged.

The classic LA 60s groups: The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, The Byrds, CSN

Have You Seen Her - The Chi-lites

Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips.

HERE COMES THE SUN KING - the Beatles

Also like female close harmony vocal groups like The Chenille Sisters and The Puppini Sisters. The Chenilles do a version of "Dinah" that is fantastic, also a great version of "C-U-B-A" - great stuff.

Twelve Thirty by The Mamas & The Papas.

The Four Freshmen were a big influence on Brian Wilson.

I have a very soft spot in my heart for The Flirtations' rendition of MY BUDDY.

OP has good taste! "If I Fell" was the first track I thought of, the only one that makes me drift off into some blissed out state.

Who was the journalist who compared the track to wedding vows? It was an apt metaphor.

I also like "Scarborough Canticle" (I think that's what it's called) by Simon and Garfunkel.

R4 I agree on the Everly Brothers. Their harmonies are what everybody elsein rock tried to emulate.

Flower Duet

The Flirtations did a great job with MISTER SANDMAN as well. I loved them.

Wilson Phillips Hold on is pretty special...The monkees too...

She Does It!

More than once, Paul McCartney has singled out "If I Fell" as his favorite John Lennon song.

Everything by the Beach Boys

Eight Miles High - Byrds

I know it's cliche, but Good Vibrations is amazing

Carry On - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

California Dreamin' by the Mamas and the Papas, mostly due to Mammas Cass' soaring vocals mixed with everyone else's.

The Eagles, "Lyin' Eyes".

R32, it was Jonathan Gould in his book ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ who made the comparison.

Wonderful choice, OP.

These songs are giving me CHILLS!!!!!

[quote]I also like "Scarborough Canticle" (I think that's what it's called) by Simon and Garfunkel.

It's called "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," and it's the title track from the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. Its harmonies and vocal interplay make it a favorite of mine, too.

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

Remember me to one who lives there.

She once was a sweet love of mine."

^ *true love

I love how Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford sound together, from Inside Llewyn Davis.

Eagles - “Hole in the World.”

Kirsty MacColl with herself.

(The white robed choir in this video? Those voices are all hers.)

What about US, you sanctimonious bitches!!!!!

Just because it's not Christmas we don't matter?!?!?!?

Oh sure. When you and all your friends gather to open presents, drink, and sit around the tree, THEN we matter.

The Everly Brothers, especially "Dream".

My favorite, though, and IMHO the master of harmonies, Brian Wilson, arranging those harmonies so beautifully with The Beach Boys.

A few top ones- "Sloop John B" "Wouldn't It Be Nice" "In My Room" and my all-time favorite, "God Only Knows".

The Bee Gees- way better before disco.

I like One Of These Nights, for my favourite Eagles track. One of their more R&B influenced efforts and I love the falsetto.

The kings

^ So funny, this song coming right after Barry Miller jumps/falls into the Narrows of NY Harbor.

Steely Dan w/Michael McDonald

Peg. Classic Albums vocal discussion starts 6:20.

And of course this song...

That whole making of Aja doc was great, R58. Such sardonic perfectionists.

Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"

R43 According to Michelle, Papa John woke her up in the middle of the night and told her to sign her name to the lyrics of California Dreaming and she would be set for life.

Eagles- Hole In The World

Whitney Houston - This Day

Sister Golden Hair, by America

Take It Easy, by The Eagles

Places I Remember, by The Beatles