The Definitive Vocal Credits Thread...

[John]

You certainly do have a vote, everyone should contribute, and for what it's worth, I think you summed up the argument best. Brian's voice is the loudest component of the harmonies most if not all of the time.

[pixletwin]

You certainly do have a vote, everyone should contribute, and for what it's worth, I think you summed up the argument best. Brian's voice is the loudest component of the harmonies most if not all of the time.

True. I guess that may open a whole can of worms later on, eh?

 

[adamghost]

I just meant to say that I didn't have a preference.  I suppose if I was compiling the list, that's probably how I'd make the distinction, but whether I'd apply it to LITTLE DEUCE COUPE...heck, I don't know.  You could still make the argument that because it splits off at all, and it's the loudest, it's the melody/lead vocal.

[John]

I'm happy with the asterisk.

[MBE]

I think Dennis is on The Lord's Prayer too.

[John]

He is? Anyone else wanna confirm that? I've had to move my lesser-listened-to CDs out of the way because I have a tot with busy hands, so I can't find my copy of the Christmas album at the moment.

[John]

Any (more)  confirmation re: all five Beach Boys on the close harmony accapellas?

[MBE]

I'm just going by my ears as far as the Lord's Prayer. Listen to the lower parts closely.

[John]

Modified it.

[John]

My favourite album!

A couple of points:

I'm not overly thrilled with that many asterisks, but any other symbol looked wrong.

Brian is right. It is him, not Carl, who says "I love you" at the end of PLMW. Ignore the liner notes and listen to it...I put it on repeatedly and I'm sure that's Brian's voice.

[pixletwin]

Its always sounded like Brian to me as well. Lots O'people here will say otherwise though.

On the Today! I have nothing to add. Looks perfect to me.

NEXT!

 

[Guy]

On "Good to my baby"during the round in the intro/ bridge Carl sings the third line ("Good to my baby") solo. Does that count? The complete round is: Mike - Brian (with Alan and Dennis on harmony) - Carl (with B, A and D doing "ooh") -Mike (with B, A and D doing "ooh").

On "She knows me too well" Mike seems to sing a rather prominent back-up "She knows me..." in between verses?

[John]

These are good. The asterisk level is going to be off the charts though! I'm gonna omit "SKMTW" for now, since that's a very short and standard Mike-ism, and I don't want soooo many asterisks!

I'll use your description of "GTMB" more-or-less verbatim, if that's okay...I've initiated a new feature I've called close-up - it'll serve us well on line-by-line readouts of tracks like Wind Chimes and She's Goin' Bald...

[shelter]

I'm not overly thrilled with that many asterisks, but any other symbol looked wrong.

How about (A), (B), (C) etc.?

[Guy]

Close-ups: excellent idea, will certainly be useful later on. (Although my personal preference would be to do that more often, even on this album: for example the choruses of Kiss, me baby and Help me R(h)onda, where the leads aren't exactly sung by resp. Brian/ Mike and Alan.)

(a), (b), (c) etc, or perhaps *1, *2, *3?. With all those asterisks it's a bit hard to quickly look something up. I have to count all those asterisks now.

Are we sure it's Dennis who sings "Help, me Rhonda, yeah!" at the end of the chorus? It sounds like more than one person to me.

[John]

I'm not overly thrilled with that many asterisks, but any other symbol looked wrong.

How about (A), (B), (C) etc.?

Good idea, I'll do that if we get to a point of any more asterisks than on Today!

[John]

Close-ups: excellent idea, will certainly be useful later on. (Although my personal preference would be to do that more often, even on this album: for example the choruses of Kiss, me baby and Help me R(h)onda, where the leads aren't exactly sung by resp. Brian/ Mike and Alan.)

I'm gonna leave it for tricky ones at the moment. Next projected one is probably Little Girl I Once Knew, but it might be She's Goin' Bald.

(a), (b), (c) etc, or perhaps *1, *2, *3?. With all those asterisks it's a bit hard to quickly look something up. I have to count all those asterisks now.

Like I say, if there's an album which is worse than that for footnotes, then I'll change it up.

Are we sure it's Dennis who sings "Help, me Rhonda, yeah!" at the end of the chorus? It sounds like more than one person to me.

He seems the loudest, I dunno. Calling Mr. Stebbins....?

Meanwhile.....:

[John]

Huh, that was nearly as asterisk-y. Not quite though.

[pixletwin]

On "And Your Dreams Come True" I could swear I can hear Dennis.. especially at the end.

 

[pixletwin]

On "And Your Dreams Come True" I could swear I can hear Dennis.. especially at the end.

 

Ok just listened again. Nevermind. 

[Rocker]

Good work !

[Andrew G. Doe]

Instead of multiple ass-terisks, why not try...

+
%
#
@
$
†
‡
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or...

[1]
[2]
[3]

... and so on.

[pixletwin]

Instead of multiple ass-terisks, why not try...

[1]
[2]
[3]

... and so on.

I like that suggestion. It would really make it easier to read.

[John]

Numbers it is. I'll modify the lot soon.

[adamghost]

I like the footnotes a lot, but then, I'm a wonky geek.