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My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)Wait for the breakdown when the main groove clears out. Producer Thomas McElroy drew on the Andrews Sisters for a part that shows off En Vogue’s harmony. The singers pass the refusal around in clipped phrases and stack the notes as they go. The hook carries the record through the gap on its own.0 - 2
Helplessly HopingStephen Stills's guitar leaves room for three voices to carry the movement. As the refrain counts upward, listen for how one voice holds a note while the others move. The tug and release give the familiar words a shape you wouldn't hear from the melody alone.0 - 3
White Winter HymnalStart with the voices at the opening. The next entry catches up while the first one is moving on, so a short tune becomes a changing set of harmonies. That overlapping shape gives the refrain its momentum before there’s much instrumental backing.0 - 4
TempoWhen the electronic beat falls away, a cappella voices take over the bridge. One part moves through the words while lower and higher parts form the chords. The pause gives you a second hook to wait for, and the main refrain feels different after the voices have carried the beat alone.0 - 5
This BoyListen to how John, Paul, and George move together in the verses. The close three-part harmony gives repeated lines their shape. When Lennon opens up on his own in the bridge, you can hear how much of the first sound came from voices pressing close together.0 - 6
In My Room (Mono)The title phrase goes by quietly, yet it keeps drawing you back. Listen for the voices staying together as the pitches underneath the tune change. The repeated phrase feels like a private thought the whole group knows how to say.0 - 7
All I Have to Do Is DreamDon and Phil Everly make the repeated title word recognizable before there is much song around it. Listen to the upper part stay close to the lower one, and to how the vowels change together. One part alone would give you the tune, but the two voices make the sigh.0 - 8
End of the RoadIndividual voices make their cases in the verses, but the voices gather into one plea in the refrain. Listen for the chord they make at the end of the title phrase. The stacked notes give it a sense of arrival even as the words insist that the relationship is unfinished.0 - 9
Hammond SongThe three sisters keep their blend steady as the words change from advice to pleading. Pick out the low note under the higher voices as a phrase settles. It gives their warning a weight that a solo delivery would have to find somewhere else.0 - 10
Somebody to LoveFreddie Mercury poses the question. Then listen to the phrase fill out as Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor answer in stacked parts. The rising chord is as much the hook as the words. It sounds like the lead has a whole congregation on the other side of the room.0