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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 20, 2023 8:40:53 GMT
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 20, 2023 8:52:14 GMT
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Post by Tony Wilkinson on Oct 20, 2023 11:08:51 GMT
That's a lovely track...and very much Allan, thanks for the link... |
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Post by ransford on Oct 23, 2023 10:34:32 GMT
Are you sure Allan doesn't sing??? In my ears his "new" voice is there. Very nice!!! And it's confirmed in the introduction of the album: "Guest vocalists include B.J. Thomas, Allan Clarke (The Hollies,) Harvey Shield (The Mighty Echoes,) Robert Rex Waller Jr. and Shawn Barton Vach." |
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Post by Tony Wilkinson on Oct 23, 2023 17:51:36 GMT
I definitely hear Allan. A bit over-long, but very nice! He is fully credited on the track too: Allan Clarke: vocal, harmonica Carla Olson: vocal, guitar Laurence Juber: lead guitar, acoustic guitar Paul Marshall: bass Benjamin Lecourt: drums Skip Edwards: piano Laurence Juber was in the final (and imo best) line-up of Wings of course. Are you referring to 'It makes me cry'..? That's a great track and suits Allan to a tee..... |
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 24, 2023 8:32:29 GMT
Erm, he duets with her on "It Makes Me Cry".
He wrote the lyrics to "A Love That Never Blooms" but does not sing on that one.
Look up: Two different links there, boys.
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Post by sandy on Oct 24, 2023 9:21:41 GMT
Are you sure Allan doesn't sing??? In my ears his "new" voice is there. Very nice!!! And it's confirmed in the introduction of the album: "Guest vocalists include B.J. Thomas, Allan Clarke (The Hollies,) Harvey Shield (The Mighty Echoes,) Robert Rex Waller Jr. and Shawn Barton Vach." He sings on ,and co wrote ' It makes me cry', and wrote lyrics of ' A love that never blooms', which has vocal by Shawn Barton Vach and Carla on harmony. .As Laura says! Two different tracks-Take a listen đź‘Ś |
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Post by sandy on Oct 24, 2023 9:26:29 GMT
Carla Olson " I am so glad that you appreciate Allan’s deeper voice because that was the reason he stopped singing for years. He could no longer sing in the keys that The Hollies reached when they were late teenagers. My co-writing with him on his prior album Resurgence is how we got the ball rolling. Saul has known Allan since the 1970s. Allan was so timid about singing. Saul and I kept on telling him, “If you can’t sing, then write some lyrics, and have someone sing with or for you.” I started receiving lyrics from him and that was about twenty years ago. I was also timid about writing music for someone who is known for some of pop’s biggest hits. When I sent Allan the lyrics for “It Makes Me Cry,” that I had written in the late 1980s about impoverished, homeless, and unfortunate people, I told him to edit it any way that he would like. Then I received a beautiful song with him on electric guitar which he recorded on Garage Band which is all he knew how to record on at that point. Luckily his grandson came in and said, “Hey! Let’s do this professionally.” He upgraded to a much better home recording option. He then sent me this beautiful demo with vocal, harmonica, and guitar, which I used as my basis for our collaboration. To me, his voice is so rich, and like you indicated, more in tune for delivering songwriting versus just being the powerful singer that he still is. I was blown away. I went right away into the studio with my rhythm section, and we cut a track very similar to the arrangement he sent me except I added a guitar solo. I sent it back to him and he said, “Great! Now let’s triple track your voice like Graham Nash and I always did in The Hollies.”
...."CO: It is hard to believe that a female has a deeper voice than me, but Shawn does and was able to sing “A Love That Never Blooms” in the key that I wrote it, which I couldn’t do, and Laurence added a twangy Duane Eddy guitar sound to it, which was his idea."
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