Songs with great vocal harmonies?

DiscoStu

Crowded House for sure.

ronnyb

Snow and Otherside by the Red Hot chilli peppers with John Frusciante harmonising.

vale

for something a bit different try some italian folk. gabriella ferri my fav for that. some sublime things among her 1960s and 1970s albums. but here are a couple of her duets for harmonies..





greek folk has a similar feeling. try mikis theodorakis.

stickyfiddle

Pretty much all of the last Jason Isbell album. Absolutely perfect record from start to finish.

Funkfingers

The Band 
Kate Bush - especially with The Trio Bulgarka
The Byrds - especially before Gene Clark left.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Gregson & Collister - especially when backing Thommo
Costello - multi-tracking himself
Joni - multi-tracking herself
Prince - multi-tracking himself

You get the picture.

ICBM

vasselmeyer said:

Have a listen to this. It's The Eagles warming up their voices prior to going on stage with a FIVE PART unaccompanied  harmony of "Seven Bridges Road".

Seven Bridges Road is the first thing that came into my head from reading the thread title too.

Also, ABBA.

smigeon

https://youtu.be/dwYYPWGVvEQ

Kebabkid

'What a fool believes' - Michael McDonald and his backing vocals on Steely Dan tracks such as 'Peg'

Earth Wind & Fire tracks like 'September', 'Let's Groove Tonight' & their collaboration with the Emotions on 'Boogie Wonderland'

Jellyfish - Anything but I'll go with 'New Mistake'

Funkfingers

10cc's I'm Not In Love often gets cited but I shall nominate the less well known Lazy Ways from the album How Dare You!

Placidcasual79

The seriously underrated melodic genius of Gruff Rhys and SFA -

Funkfingers

viz said:

or any other queen

Almost anything with a Phil Spector wall of sound production (or Brian Wilson imitation thereof).

stickyfiddle

Also this. I'm decent at harmonies almost entirely because of listening to John Denver records in the car while growing up.

ewal

Also while this might not be what you were after, nothing beats a good choral work for harmonies. This is spine-tingling.

Jimbro66

Arguably the best of the British harmony bands and a big influence on early Queen: Capability Brown (no not the gardener).

tone1

Mamas & Papas...

https://youtu.be/h81Ojd3d2rY

https://youtu.be/dwYYPWGVvEQ

Jez6345789

Dare I throw the Bee Gees into the mix . LOL

MagicPigDetective

Placidcasual79 said:

The seriously underrated melodic genius of Gruff Rhys and SFA -

Beat me to it; so many great songs with beautiful harmonies I couldn’t decide which song to post!

I’ll settle for this, one of my personal furry favourites

 https://youtu.be/UQDcLWuEt2w

Jimbro66

Two great harmony bands from the late sixties:

The Fifth Dimension


And The Association

Bellycaster

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Who Loves You



The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun



Journey - Lights .........Give it time....OK!



And we have to have a bit of Abba



.

TTony

Eagles = Yes.
Beach Boys = Yes.
ABBA = Yes.

But didn't it all start here ...


The other instruments really are just the backing.  It's all about the vocals.