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Here for Lennon. Thanks 👍

There is no one who didn’t know how great Micheal McDonald is. His voice is beautiful and anything he sang on was a hit.❤

After 7 years, are you still using the same equipment? How has it held up?

:: Hi Aimee! Talking about vocoder, Roger Troutman from Zapp is a master :) / Also, the Carpenters bass line reminds me of Paul McCartney's intro; starting on high notes ::

"Makes it sound years beyond the 1980s". Kids these days... The Alan Parsons Project famously used it in "The Raven" in 1976, and ELO in "Mister Blue Sky" in 1977. And it's "early adopter", not "early adapter". 😉

Stevie Wonder used a talkbox to do all of his backing/lead vocals on this Beatles classic sung by Syreeta and it's amazing, extensive and very early I believe. czcams.com/video/PuNe5iY8Uso/video.htmlsi=Bc9VhCngMFOMkaJL

You could said about I just wasn't made for these times, in the chorus, the backing vocals sings in Spanish

Do you have some learning videos on nebula?

Mr Michael McDonald is a legendary singer he could collaborate with any other various artists such as Patti LaBelle,Mr James Ingram etc his solo career made him more popular,my favorite song from Mr Michael McDonald is "what a fool believes" his music career is phenomenal.

What is the name the art piece?

Wow - I have always played Summertime in just in a sort of 4 time, although I improvise , your version sounds so much cooler than mine so I can swing into that - brilliant thanks -

Great sound piano & vocals

One of my favorite tiny details in a song comes at the very end of James Taylor's "(I've Got To) Stop Thinking' 'Bout That," where he ad libs "tentpole city, baby" during the fade out, to emphasize how...erm, excited... the woman in the song makes him feel. That line does not appear in the liner notes or in any songbook, I'm pretty sure!🍆 Another tiny detail that applies generally to the entire Steely Dan discography is all the times Donald Fagen double- or triple-tracks his vocals in places with astonishing precision. He is such an underrated singer!

This is such a great episode. Such a great ear!

I would use the same trick... but from the other direction!

Vocoder song. Earth, Wind and Fire in Let's Groove. Blue Bayou. Written by the late Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Jackson Browne was the neighbor of The Eagles. He also hung out with Linda Ronstadt. Late David Lindley played the lead guitar as if it was a lap steel guitar 🎸. Leland Sklar played bass guitar 🎸. 5 years later, he played with Phil Collins. Leland Sklar has a CZcams channel. Bob Seger and the late Glenn Frey were born and raised in Detroit. They met when they were adults. Oh Sherrie and some songs in Street Talk. 40 years 🎂 Short story. Randy Goodrum thought he was going to write ✍ with a member of Aerosmith. But the daughter of RG got her Journey poster and pointed who Steve Perry is. Joe Perry of Aerosmith =/= Steve Perry of Journey! L 🤣 L Journey had Prairie Prince, Ansley Dunbar and Steve Smith as drummers. Steve Perry chose late Larry Lundin as drummer for Raised on Radio and Street Talk. I miss Rickie Lee Jones.

You are killing me ! In a good way. Great job featuring some great songs to make your point. It landed solid with me. Thanks 😎🤙

What an awesome video, the small things are what makes me love a record and listen to it over and over.

I could listen to saloons and torches all day by Aimee.

A video on Steely Dan backing vocals, please! 🙂 With a focus on Michael McDonald's "Children we have it right here" in "Time Out of Mind"

You are so gifted and brilliant. Thank you for this sensible explanation and demonstration on modes. It's been a while since I've visited your channel because I've been focusing on learning the guitar fret board, and we just started learning about modes on the guitar. On another note (pardon that), I can't wait to ask my 9 yo granddaughter to watch your video on modes, and discuss it with her at the piano! Keep on doing what you do, and thank you!

With all respect to you and family, besides your talent and amazing voice I also think you are very pretty women.

Aimee, I think you landed upon something for me. So often, it is that detail that makes the song! It is the sound we express when telling others to listen to that song. It is the sound we make in social gatherings when we are talking with others about that song because it stood out to us. Thanks so much for aggregating just some of these here to get my mind swirling on the possibilities that songs can become iconic over a simple sound or moment in the song. Cheers!

What a great little video. You should do more of these. Have you ever done a video on great chord progressions?

Well 'oh my my'... I'm amazed at how what you Aimee, and many of your commenters say the song is about, and what I always assumed the song was about, and how BOTH my interperpritation and your interpretation BOTH work. All my life I always believed the song was/is about what it's like to be a guy who is gorgeous to look at, when you move to a new school. For a while you're king of the hill, but, then again, "they will never forget you 'till somebody new comes along." New, and even MORE gorgeous to look at than you are. I always believed that was why the song says "people started walkin' like the new kid in town"... See what I mean?

That's a signature Larrie London fill. They are all over that Steve Perry solo album as well as Journey's Raised on Radio. She's Mine, Strung Out, I'll Be Alright Without You for example

I highly recommend looking up the making of 10cc’s I’m Not In Love. No vocoder was used but you’ll be amazed at how they did do it.

Having grown up going to a Pentecostal church, 2&4 clapping is standard! It's crazy how the 1&3 clap is sometimes a feel & you just have to understand when & where it fits.

Heya. I play with Elton. Love your content. Broken down so well. And damn….your voice. Kills me. Keep up the good work. And if you see us playing someplace, hit me up. You’re my guest.

The vocoder was invented in the 30's. Kraftwork used it in the 70's as did E.L.O.

We are always on the same wavelength its crazy. I recently was digging deep doing research on that Roland Vocoder and other vocoders from the late 70s/early 80s.

The founding members of The Eagles started off as Linda Ronstadt's backing band. They had written some songs together, and started The Eagles as a side project that quickly blew up and became huge.

Damn. You got the dense vocal harmonies down cold.

Stevie Wonder, and David Sanborn are mid-level talents, who have been placed on a level far above their talent. It's disappointing to hear them so highly praised - get real.

Do you like the work Tina & the Ikettes did with Zappa on Overnight Sensation? Then there is Ricky Lancelotti to consider.

Good ears. Thanks. It was a golden age. Hey, Aimee, stemming off of this, have you done a video on the way great songs have such a tight fit between melody and lyric? I'm thinking of How Do You Keep the Music Playing (listen to Helen Charlston & the Trinity College Choir from Cambridge), I Get Along Without You Very Well, If You Could See Me Now, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (why do they all have such long titles?) But the melodies and lyrics fit so well that almost no other combination could be conceived; it just had to be. If you've done one, I'd like to see it. If not, maybe a project.

Very enjoyable video- really an insight into how little details in arrangement and production can give that extra edge to a song. Prince was a master at this: his little guitar flourish at 2:05 in "Controversy" is a case in point. Really, one of the main reasons I listen to modern Japanese pop/rock is that a lot of the songs still have this sense of musicality and craft. The collaboration between Sara Wakui and Kaho Nakamura ("Gyoukan" trans. "Between The Lines") is a recent case in point. czcams.com/video/s2u-NQ5V928/video.htmlsi=BcIQAII_hQmMjhKw

Excellent choice! This is one of the most thrilling compositions of all time. Love it how Aimee sings it with such warmth.

He would be great with Fleetwood Mac.

I love Rickie Lee Jones. those were some tasty licks. thanks for the video

Tin Man from America A lot of people don't know during the chorus No OZ never did give nothing to the tin Man George Martin who produced after the Beatles some America albums adds a little tiny triangle. You have to listen very carefully if you don't know what you're listening for but once you do you can hear the triangle

Great video and song picks !

I don't think a vocoder was used on 10cc I'm Not In Love. That effect was created by re-re-re-re-re-blending their own voices up to 16 times for each note in the chromatic scale. Then they "played" each note using a fader on the mixing console. That wierd sibilance to the ahhhhhhs is a natural artifact of all those tracks being blended together in the analog domain. A masterpiece of music and engineering. What's interesting is Billy Joe and Phil Ramone did the same thing for background vocals in Just The Way You Are in 1977, a year after I'm Not In Love was a hit.

Vocoder featured on Tug of War’s Be What You See

Nice video. Our dear music is full of those wonderful details. Just a little correction: 10cc's I'm Not In Love doesn't use a vocoder. Search for "the making of 10cc's I'm Not In Love" in CZcams and you'll find the surprising answer. Greetings from Chile.

It’s Danny Korthmar on “Running On Empty”. Rosemary Butler’s backing vocal is also noteworthy.

Nothing like a nice bass gliss.

The Stevie Wonder segment reminded me of the voice sampling synth in Miles Davis' Tutu (1986), played and arranged by Marcus Miller.

Wow, they didn't use hiphop or rap on AJA !!! Wow but ya :)