Just a thought…
This occurred to me while watching an old clip of a TV performance by Les Paul and Mary Ford from the early 1950s.
You may have seen this too...Les plays his guitar, and Mary starts to sing, and then, almost magically, Mary is singing harmony with herself right there on the screen!
Of course, this was a cutting edge technological achievement for the time...and people shook their heads in amazement.
Decades later, Ernie Haase and Signature Sound are in concert...and as this quartet sings, it's apparent that there are more than four voices singing.
My question: Why is the obvious technical "trick" lauded and considered worthy of applause when Les and Mary did it in the 1950s, but scorned by many of the same people when Ernie and the boys do something similar 50 years later, in the 2000s?
I have my theory...but I want to hear yours first.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 - 01:58 AM | [1]
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I think the situations are totally different. Mary's overdub (or stack) of a harmony part was simply to augment her live melody line, and was not a duplication of what she was performing live.
EHSSQ and others are duplicating what they are singing live on their stacks.
The difference is that if you remove Mary's live vocal, the stack cannot stand alone, whereas if you remove EHSSQ's live vocal, the stack CAN stand alone.
Those are my thoughts...an interesting thought, though, good post!
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