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In thinking recently about "Full Sail", I recalled that the bridge is sung by a non-BB (as I remember from some posters on the board, this was co-writer Cushing-Murray on lead in this part, right?). This rarely gets talked about, but it's a bit surprising that a non-BB sang this bridge part, I suppose.

I know we also have "It's Over Now" + "Let's Put our Hearts Together" with Marilyn, "ADITLOAT" with Jack Rieley, "Forever" with Uncle Jesse, but am I missing any others? I'm almost certain I am.  

I guess we almost had "Honkin' Down the Highway" with the Billy Hinsche vocal take (which I'd love to hear someday), and "California Feelin'" by the Pamp-ster, if that counts.

The album version of "Summer in Paradise" has Roger McGuinn singing one of the verses.  Jeffrey Foskett sings prominently enough on a few of the songs on That's Why God Made the Radio that I think would qualify him as a co-lead vocalist (particularly on "Private Life of Bill and Sue" and "Shelter").

There's a female voice singing lead in "Be Here in the Morning" on the lines "It's been such a long day so you better hurry home" and the corresponding lines in the other verses. Marilyn? Diane? Or am I crazy and that's actually Brian sounding very feminine? I could swear I've read somewhere that that is a woman singing though.

IIRC, that's Al.

Van Dyke Parks has a prominent line in the coda of ADITLOAT.

http://youtu.be/rdhua948tV8

Enjoy!  I know I do.  No comparison in my eyes ears.  It's a shame it will probably never see an official release.

I've always thought it to be Carl, from very first listen back in 1979.


Jack Rieley has an even more prominent line in the verses and choruses.  ;D

Marilyn on "LPOHT" & "It's Over Now"... Arnie Geller on "With Me Tonight"... Gene Gaddy on "H&V"... Nik Venet, Andrea Carlo, Hal Blaine...

It's not really singing but Hal Blaine on "Amusement parks U.S.A.".

I like that slightly faster "Honkin' Down The Highway". It rocks more!

also I remember watching a youtube clip, it may have been an Al gig...??...... billy hinsche is doing backup on 'heroes and villiains' and someone
says that he sang on the original recording......


is that right?


there is also the voices in 'county fair', forget who they are off the top of my head....
also Marilyn on 'do you wanna dance'...... sure there's gonna be heaps of em...

RickB

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true-er words were never said "Bellagio 10452 is your friend"  ;)

RickB

Indeed he has  ;) 

Can't recall the drummer's name, but the clipped "...three" count-in at the start of Break Away, peut-etre  :-D

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Dean Torrence on "Barbara Ann".

Yeah but those are just backing vocals, right?  I think this is more about actual lead parts.

If memory serves, there are no Beach Boys singing background vocals on 'Livin' With A Heartache'.

Yeah I just checked: Curt Becher, Terry Melcher and Jon Joyce. For years I though I heard Bruce J. on bg vocals but I guess not.

  Marilyn's voice is fairly prominent on the background vocals of "Rock and Roll Music."

  Always wondered who the female voices on "Got to Know the Woman" might be.

Terry Melcher sings very prominently on the U.K. version of Island Fever.

Dean on Barbara Ann obviously.

Little Richard and Frankie Valli even more obviously.

Try this:
http://recordingsunflower.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/track-4-got-to-know-woman.html (http://recordingsunflower.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/track-4-got-to-know-woman.html)

I also hear Marilyn on a lot of 15 Big Ones songs including "Its OK", "Had To Phone Ya", "That Same Song", and "Back Home".

I forget, what's the source on this? I've seen it before but would swear I hear Bruce on there, too. Could he have possibly put his voice onto it after the original background vocal session? He did produce the album, after all, wouldn't have taken long for him to quickly do those parts in one take when no one else was around to witness and document it.

Marilyn on Busy Doin' Nothin'

The KTSA/BB 2001 liner notes.

Marilyn is very prominent on the Smiley Smile version of Wonderful.

Yeah, I think that's Al.

On another note about Be Here in the Morning, Papa Murry sings bass on the responding parts. I believe the story goes that mike was in India, thus, he wasn't there to sing his bass lines.

County Fair I believe is Nick…Venet

Something I've always wondered about that story: if Mike was away for the recording, then why was he given a writing credit on that song? Logically, wouldn't he have to have been at the recording to have had some lyrical imput?

Naw, songs are (usually!) written before they're recorded. ^_^

The Honeys on the single version of Be True To Your School
Billy H on My Solution (I think)
Audree Wilson on What is a Young girl made of
Marilyn on You're so Good to Me (I don't think this was mentioned yet)
Karen Lamn on Love Surrounds Me (I think!)
Terry Melcher, Diane, and Marilyn on the extended accapella ending to God Only Knows (rumored)

I agree that Al's voice sounds somewhat "girley" but I doubt that it's sped up. Keep in mind that the tempo is rather slow & we hear Al's usual tone, only set in a very high falsetto. Nothing else.

Interesting info, I wasn't aware of it. Thought it's Bruce too. However, if that Curt Becher is Curt Boettcher, then I see why some people heard Bruce in the backgrounds. The 2 have similar voices, both being tender & kinda effeminate, if I may say so.

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Don't want to seem demanding, Zach, but I'd like it if you shared the link to the readable source. TIA.

Isn't Al or Brian's voice at that point in the song recorded/sung through an amp? Or is that a different part?

The source I've heard quoted is some dude name of Alan Charles Jardine. Someone asked him who it was and he said "me".  :-D

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2efloW hcaZ: from Mr. Doe's explanation, it seems like Al sang BHIM in his original voice, only extremely high-pitched. If there were used some effects, it's definitely not sth. concerning the speed. Otherwise, Al would reveal so.

It's not sped up. It's just just his normal voice in a higher register. It sounds so strange because it's probably the highest we've heard him sing.

Carl sings through a leslie cabinet in the second chorus of BHIM.

I know the real reason Al was able to sing so high, much like the part in Endless Harmony where Al pinches Brians nose so he can emulate Mike, someone had a good firm grip on Al's balls while he did his vocal take for Be Here In The Morning. The identity of the aforementioned ball-grabber seems to be lost to history..

Purty sure it's been said to have been sped up, and it really sounds like it to me. Lots of their stuff was sped up back then, see "How She Boogalooed It" on the album prior.

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