Famous 'Ghost Vocals' From The Analog Era
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- Have you ever heard something in a song that doesn't seem like it was supposed to be there? You might have been hearing what is sometimes referred to as a "ghost vocal," which is usually a leftover vocal from an earlier take from a recording.
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You forgot the fourth possibility: they noticed, but weren't able to remove it due to it being glued to another track.
and the fifth possibility: It was intentional
That’s something that is bothering me with these videos, they are looking at it from a modern perspective. “So, why didn’t they just edit it out” THEY COULDN’T
@@timcox5373 Oh right... they were using ProTools version 0.00. Dang!
I've heard McCartney, or maybe Geoff Emerick?, say that their songs were built (on a 4-track, remember) to play on AM radio for a month or so. Not to be scrutinized generations later. If the guide vocal had leaked onto what became the final rhythm track, why would you care?
or the fifth possibility: these were washed out supplementary vocals that got nearly left out of the mix or weren't adequately mastered.
This is what rock was supposed to be back then, raw and imperfect
pauldzim yet it’s still perfect
sort of what steve albini does
And people who played instruments and sang without auto tuning.
Near the end of Yer Blues, after the hard edit out of the guitar soloing back to the verse, you can hear Lennon’s guide vocal all by itself without any lead vocal overdub. It’s a great example of the loose approach that makes the White Album such a fun & engaging listen.
Agreed! Another interesting fact about the instrumental outro verse: it's the exact same portion of the instrumental used in the first part of the song (minus the lead vocal). If you line them up, they match up perfectly.
@@YouCantUnhearThis Also that distant from the mic vocal used at the end became intentional when Lennon performed it live. You can see it on his Rock and Roll Circus Dirty Mac performance. He steps back from the mic to achieve the same effect.
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@@YouCantUnhearThis Now maybe you can explain the end of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise). At the 1:09 mark of Reprise Paul begins yelling and we hear what sounds like: "Paul McCartney's dead! Really, really dead! Paul McCartney's really dead!" Please perform your magic video breakdown for us on that one. {must be an echo chamber around here]
I love those raw bleed throughs on the White Album -- the blood sweat a tears of the recording process, the mechanics under the hood, allowed to show through.
Yes!!
I always assumed it was intentional, at least for the Zeppelin stuff. It adds a mystique and depth to the music.
I think usually arr accidents.
@@juliodicarlo5313 Accidents or the attitude that you just don't care, it's rock 'n' roll, not chamber music.
Page was a perfectionist, it absolutely was intended.
@@apolloptx I agree, during those days music was made to be listened to while stoned. Aural artifacts kind of messed with your head when the songs were listened to, especially with headphones.
@@apolloptx Page has said a thousand times that the ghost vocals were unintentional. He always describes it as evidence of the "power" of Plant's voice-he sang so loud that they couldn't get rid of it on the tape, no matter how low they moved the fader. The only intentional thing was playing it up on Whole Lotta Love for the reverse echo effect. On Misty Mountain Hop, Baby I'm Gonna Leave You, etc. it's 100% an unintentional and unavoidable consequence of bouncing tracks and analog tape.
The Long and Winding Road near the end, there's an extra "don't leave me waiting here" after the main vocal finishes. It's one of my favorite things in a recording ever, I think it sounds so cool.
First example is called 'bleed' . As in when a sound 'bleeds' on to a different mic. 'Audible guide' or 'ghost' vocals are called 'scratch vocals' or 'scratch tracks' . The band plays together to make it natural, but you're trying to record just one of the instruments, and the other players are indeed acting as a guide for the one being recorded. Just thought some people might be interested in the terminology most often used. Great channel.
There is also "cross-talk", which is bleed across channels on the tape itself, or within the mixing console. There is also "print-through", where magnetic tape can bleed onto itself in the windings of tape stored on a spool. This is why tapes are stored "tails out", so any print-through will be perceived as echo/reverb. If stored "tails in", print-through will be cause a ghostly echo _before_ the sound.
In studio recording a "click track", like a metronome for the timing is sometimes used.
Thank you very much this gives me a bigger outlook on the word bleed ....this is a prime example of what you think you know ...may not know at all ...this is why they say knowledge. Wealth success truth !!!!i love music and ive learned so much on this channel thank you all love light and life and laughter you have to have laughter to see the light then ifyou have light and laughter you may have love which is the cure for every thing and the just maybe you have LIFE some merely just exists where very few actually Live!!!
Here's the option you left out from a studio rat of over 50 years. They didn't rewind the tape properly before storing. You should always fast forward the 2inch reels to store them. Sometimes and engineer would be so tired or the helper, not knowing better, would just hit rewind and store the tape. This can cause the magnetic tape to lay differently and the reverb tracks would sometimes "bleed" through the tape. That's what I've always been told about such albums as Led Zepplin 2 where you faintly hear the vocals before they are actually played. This too is another form of "ghosting." I still Love the sound of the analog tape btw. I love the smell of opening a new box with a 2 inch reel of tape in it. For me, as an artist, I always thought that smell was a blank canvas just waiting to be painted with all sorts of textures and sounds. Much warmer than digital in my humble opinion.
There are a number of famous tracks escaping me now that have that faint first second or so of the song before it repeats at full volume and the song continues. If they removed them after all these years it would sound wrong to me! I think there may be some on the White Album or Let It Be but I'm more confident of it happening with Led Zeppelin IV on a track or two. Maybe on Black Dog when Plant comes in? Have to check my old tapes.
All true, but the tape width was not 2" on much of these sessions, as it didn't exist yet.
@@Kevbo4 And on Whole Lotta Love: "way down inside..."
Absolutely. I miss vinyl so much. I guess I’m old... 😍😄☮️
@@Kevbo4 I knew I have heard this many times before and it drove me crazy not knowing what caused it or why I seemed to be the only one who noticed! I'm so happy to read these comments :)
Not Mick doing a guide. That's Keith "singing" the Ohhh on same take.
exactly! ... it's so obviously Keith doing his trademark background howls.
There are moments in the song when Keith's "ghost" vocal is even more audible than what's pointed out here. I remember the first time I noticed it, I had no idea what it was!
Print through also resulted in some ghost vocals, as heard in the Led Zeppelin II track Whole Lotta Love.
I'm disappointed that this song, with those obvious miss-tracked vocals, was not mentioned.
@@karlspear6729 but I think that these vocals add so much to their songs especially to whole lotta love
@@mykhaylok.7248, I agree! I'm just surprised he didn't mention this one.
I think the coolest example of "ghost vocals" will always be in Zep's Whole Lotta Love, where Plant sings the "Way down inside" line at the end, where you can hear his ghost vocals slightly BEFORE he sings. It was recorded so hot that the tape magnetized itself
Zepp used reverse echo to get that effect. Purposely....
John Caash it isn’t reversed man. Take another listen
@@DrewArmstrongMusic Correct. It isn't reversed. REVERSED ECHO.There is a difference. It's an effect sometimes used by guitar players. It doesn't reverse the phrase just plays the echo of the phrase before rather than after.
Page used it on plants vocals to make them more "trippy". Page has talked about it at length in quite a few interviews.
John Caash yes I’m aware of the effect and I know zep we’re experimenting with reversing echos in that song but with that instance I believe it was tape bleed that was a mistake, which reverb and delay were thrown on after and plant loved it. www.audiomasterclass.com/newsletter/whole-lotta-love--the-mysterious-pre-echo-explained-sort-of
John Caash what’s cool about it tho is that nobody really knows for sure exactly why it was done and if it was deliberate or not
Yup. Simple. Because he was singing live for the base track. One of the things I love about these recordings. You can hear the same thing with George's guitar on can't by me love as well as many others. I think it sounds great
The extra guitar solo by George was attributable to his being unhappy with the original recording in Paris. He redid it in London but the engineers couldn't completely eliminate the first one. I like it too!!
The let it be sessions has several of these with various instruments.
Base? Lol BASS dummy
So fucken what !!!! It’s Rock n’ roll take the stick out of your ass and rock out !!!
@@swettyspaghtti He said BASE as in backing/instrumental track, YOU ABSOLUTE DUMMY.
And in most of today's DAW recording platforms you can actually create the effect of microphone bleeds artificially.
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You'll have to do a can't unhear on the edit between the two takes in Strawberry Fields!
Great content. Ive always been a big fan of yer blues. One his/their best off the lp. The opening countdown always caught my attention as sort of an indication they were having fun in the studio with the mix and to listen closely to the background.
Can you do more stuff like this? With other bands like led zepplin?
Also do you want to do a can't unhear this episode for Let It Be vs. Let it be naked, just for the new edit of The Let It Be movie being announced.
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The craziest artifact such as this is by far the orchestral cover of Ticket to Ride ,which much have been left over from whatever was previously on that tape, playing as quiet as audible, at the very very end of The Dark Side of the Moon album as it fades into the heartbeat.
ALLEGEDLY, Abbey Road wasn’t reusing tape at the time and the LSO was recording in the next room and bleeding into the studio. That’s what I had heard
I've heard it. Even on my Mobile Fidelity CD. Anyone know if it's still on any of the many remasters since then?
Oh, i love that. I have heard that it was playing outside Abbey Road studios at the time, and the recorder accidentally picked it up as they finished recording ''Eclipse'', but i really think it was a hidden tribute to the Beatles.
I like the story about when Sting sat on a piano, and you hear *BANG* at the beginning of "Roxanne" by The Police!
And he also laughs afterwards
Listen to "Paperback Writer" about halfway through and you can hear one of the background vocals getting his note - "Paper...." - and then clearing his throat.
Ekkie101, yes! I always heard that too.
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Even recording digitally with my bands, I like to leave my scratch track vocals very low in the mix. It adds a little depth that almost isn't noticeable. I don't do it with every song, but it's fun to leave it in sometimes.
For me, I think the first time I really noticed the "count up" transitions in "A Day in the Life" from sgt pepper was when listening to an unfinished take on Anthology. I never noticed it on the final release before, now I hear it everytime I play the song. And I still listen to my old Beatles LPs, including the VeeJay release "Introducing ... The Beatles".
Love the beach boys mysterious cough on WENDY....often wonder who that was.
That was Charles Manson. Security punched him in the stomach.
and Hendrix clearing his throat just before starting to sing Purple Haze
that’s the beauty of production and music for me, how it can never be perfect. that’s also why i love tape so much
Whole Lotta Love. A mistake that sounded so good they had to leave it in.
Probably the most well known is in A day in the life. That counting was there to lead into the orchestral part.
Of course, the alarm clock ringing, while not a vocal, was something that they couldn't remove, so Paul just wrote it into the song.
There's actually something more human and organic with these pre-digital recordings that makes them more interesting to listen to.
I believe that is also the song where towards the very end piano fade...you can hear a chair squeak (probably someone repositioning themselves) & someone promptly "says"....shhuushh.
YES!!!! I'm so glad that "Angie" was brought up in this. I first heard the ghost vocals about 15 years ago while listening to it loudly through headphones. I remember telling my dad, who's a musician and huge Stones fan about it, and he said he had never heard it in 30+ years of the song being around and that I was probably hearing things. Any time I mentioned it to someone they didn't believe me. But yeah, once you hear it you absolutely can't unhear it. At the time I theorized that it was Keith singing to himself while playing a basic track on acoustic guitar that the rest of the song would be recorded around, but it makes more sense that it'd be Mick since he wrote the lyrics.
I’m glad your making videos about non-Beatles music. I love the Beatles but there are a lot of subjects you could cover and I can see this channel going places.
The telephone ringing on Zeppelin's 'The Ocean' is my fave !
You should do a video on the extremely bizarre guitar solo in All You Need Is Love. Someone brought it up to me and now I haven't been able to unhear how messy it is, which given your channel name sounds like a great video idea.
That's a great suggestion. All You Need is Love has a TON of weird anomalies, like the infamous debate over who is singing "She Loves You, Yeah Yeah Yeah" in the outro!
George had to do that solo on the fly, and apparently he didn't have enough time to rehearse it, but George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick left it in, warts and all, for some reason.
I"ve left a lot of these in my own home recordings and the usual reason was "couldn't dig it out without ruining the whole thing." I think that is probably the most likely reason. It was low enough that you can leave it in. I hear these ALL the time and also, I love listening to acoustic guitar players sniffle and twitch during their grammy-award-winning recordings.
This stuff is so interesting! Great channel, dude. I think they didn't really worry about it too much because they knew the average home hi-fi owned by the "youngsters" listening to their rock-n-roll likely wasn't all that great... and if you asked them what happened, they could easily say it was supposed to be there.
You can also hear ghost vocals during Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Ghost: I can hear it calling me...
Lead: I can hear it calling me the way it used to...
Intentional. Page loved that kind of stuff.
@@apolloptx and it was great. Like someone is wildly screaming from far away
@@ildarrrr2 I agree. One of my favourite uses is at the end of No Quarter. "The dogs of doom are howlin more, give me quarter!"
Dude, I LOVE your channel! Please keep up the fantastic work!
Anyone of a certain age who owned a Sony Walkman or similar knows what tape bleed sounds like. I always loved hearing those ghost voices and sounds that bled through from Side One of a cassette tape to Side Two. It seemed to occur more often on cassette players that switched from one side of an album to the other without having to take the cassette out and flip it over.
This happens on Porcelina of the Vast Oceans by Smashing Pumpkins. During the quiet parts of the song you can hear a faint screaming because Zero was on Side A. I miss cassettes.
There’s an F-BOMB in “Hey Jude”. I’ve always heard John saying something in the blend of tracks, but I never knew it was “ah, fucking hell” after he possibly dropped a pick or something like that. If I remember correctly, it’s toward the end between a couple of the last lyrics before the long “ahhh...” that leads into the vamp out.
In Pink Floyd's "Let There Be More Light" at about 2:35 when Richard Wright is singing "Something in the sky sky waiting there for me" you can hear an additional whispering voice singing the wrong line and repeat the "Something..". Idk if it is an early take because it fits perfectly in the recording quality of the main vocals so maybe its just in there because no one cared.
Analog had those imperfections that made it more perfect that is why those original LP's still are treasures. Some of the recent remixes take out all those imperfections. Long live Analog recordings!
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline also has a ghost vocal like this, albeit for very different reasons. In Patsy's day, everything was recorded live, in one room, with only movable sound barrier walls to prevent mic bleed. Patsy recorded "Crazy" just shortly after being hospitalized for months due to a near-fatal car accident. She was still dealing with bruised ribs for this session, consequently causing her to be flat on the higher notes.
Sessions lasted for 4 hours in those days (1961), and she, the session players/background vocalists, and legendary producer Owen Bradley spent the last hour working on this one song. Bradley elected to call it a day, deciding to overdub Cline's lead vocal on the best instrumental track they'd recorded in another two weeks in order to give her ribs time to heal.
Patsy came back two weeks later and nailed the vocal in one take. The ghost vocal was not as noticeable in older mixes of the track on vinyl. Remember, they were recording on 3 track stereo live. However, when re-mastered in the early 1990's for inclusion on "The Patsy Cline Collection" box set, the ghost vocal is more prominent.
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It's subtle, but it features in the left channel.
I don't know if this counts as a ghost vocal but at the very beginning of We Will Rock You, you can hear Freddie Mercury saying what sounds like "one"
A similar ghost vocal is heard on Break on Through by The Doors, where at the very beginning, just before they start playing their instruments, Jim Morrison can be heard saying "yeah"
Led Zep Whole lotta love. Very evident during the "Way down inside" section.
you can also hear bonham screaming when playing the fill at 3:45
Interesting videos! Too bad about the TH-cam troubles.. Fair Use!! I've always loved The Doors "Riders on the Storm".. Love the yelling vocals nears the end that sound way off in the distance.. Also that 'whispering' vocal track throughout the song is something else!!!
Ive heard this on other classic rock songs and i love it.
Love it!!!!
Love your channel man. Makes me wanna get 4 track and start hammering out some analog noises
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The last chorus on Black Hole Sun.
You can vaguely hear Chris screaming 'black hole sun, wont you come!
I always point that out to people, and they say they've never noticed.
I've always thought that part was intentional because it continues and then it becomes the main vocal and pans from ear to ear and has some sort of minor distortion on it to sound like it's coming from over a walkie talkie or something
The first instance i noticed guide vocals being left in the mix with Led Zeppelin occurs during the `Way down inside' vocal part in Whole Lotta' Love, from their second album. And now that I think of it, Babe I'm Going To Leave You and How Many More Times, from the debut, may also have very obvious ones.
I saw it explained in an video by an engineer who worked on Whole Lotta Love. "Way down inside... woman... you need yeah... love." They recorded over the same tape for a different take, so you hear what was on the tape before, which was not completely erased. Recording was crude back in the day.
A great way to discover background secrets is to only plug in your audio jack half way in to only listen to one channel. It happened to me on accident when I listened to KoRn as a teen and it was marvelous to hear all these new things in the songs I had never noticed. Everything sounded really roomy and dreamy.
interesting, indeed. I hope you'll make a video on tapebleed and such... when you can hear the piano part coming up before it actually plays and such. Got to love these old recordings
Lovely Rita is a classic example. Also Concrete Jungle by Bob Marley and the Wailers
Beatle fans have known about 'Yer Blues' since it was released. It's very clear.
Frankly, it just adds more character to hear the little audio quirks in the older analog recordings.
I can't tell you how cool these videos are!
I noticed that hidden vocals in Angie, and that's adding some magic to this song. In Babe I'm gonna leave you is hidden screaming too
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Wrong!
@@elijahlegorreta2860 Where in the actual ass am I wrong?
During the organ solo on "Light My Fire" you can hear Jim yelling. It's trippy to hear. I had it blaring through my headphones the first time I heard it. I kept thinking someone was calling for me.
On Marcy Playground's "In the Shadow of Seattle" at the beginning you can hear the guide vocals come through John Wozniak's headphones as he was singing the lead vocals.
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Listen to the Beatles version of, “Slow Down” at 1:14 John sang the word, “girlfriend” and later overdubbed the word, “boyfriend” over it. You can clearly hear both words, “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” at the same time. It changes the meaning of the song.
Yes i've noticed it
Same in the song Revolution. At 0:23 you can hear John Lennon say evolution but due to a double track error the second vocal says, what seems to be, institution.
Ha! I always thought that sounded odd, now I know why!
John does not sing the word "girlfriend". John double tracked his vocal. In one track, John sang the line "And now you don't care a dime for me." In the other track, he sang "And now you have a boyfriend down the street." In the final recording, both vocal tracks are played back at the same time. The Beatles left the goof in on purpose, as they often liked to do.
I was surprised you didn’t mention Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love where the tape bled and included Plant’s voice overdubbed singing, “way down inside” etc.
Another ghost vocal is on Hey Jude where someone says “f*ck!”. When it was brought up to McCartney he had never heard it before but thinks it’s John. - Good video, thanx!
ur voice is so soothing dayum i can listen to u in a podcast
Hi, nice vid to explain how records are made Dude. Well done. I'm in a Rock n' roll band myself and do recordings. There is a 4th and I think main reason ghost sounds are still there : it's because you just can't totally erase them ghost. You can do some little tricks to hide them the best you could. The biggest tool you have as sound engineer is deal with EQ. But as you have to remove some frequency if you go too far you can totally ruined the sound and make it too thin. That's why you have to let it go and some point. Like Glenn Gould singing in JS Bach records. And I think it's also kind of cool ! There is a story to discover if you listen close enough
Ghost Vocal in Areosmith's , " Love in an Elevator".
Another example I haven't seen mentioned much: The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil. I'm pretty sure around the "Stuck around St. Petersburg" line, you can hear Mick singing on the backing track.
Video showed up in my recommended right as I was playing Yer Blues on my guitar.
These videos are so well made, Jesus Christ. I like the idea to expand a bit artists and bands wise to attract more viewers!
There are ghost drums in the end of Christina Aguileras "beautiful".. Pretty cool!
This is quite a unique channel concept
More like a pre-bleed than a guide vocal, since Van Morrison recorded in one straight take, but you can hear his powerful vocal come before the actual vocals on the quiet bits of "Really Don't Know".
In Axis Bold As Love the guitar was mic’d separately, as were all instruments. The other instruments mixed first and each had also its own substantial ghost if the lead, then the lead guitar track added to bring it up to lead volume. The result is magical, the lead so richly layered and voiced compositely in each instruments track with the lead track giving it location and focus. A lot of compression when recorded as well.
There is what seems to be isolated opera singer vocals for 2-3 seconds through one of the speakers in the very beginning of 'Her Majesty.' Remember catching it when I was 12 or so.
The scratch vocals are the charming parts of these old recordings.
So interesting! Thanks for sharing. We wonder if there was any of these on the Sgt. Pepper's album... We just opened #Pepperland last night!
Great video. So informative.
ive been waiting for a beatles essay channel was gonna have to start one myself
Good video, and congratulations for the channel! I don't know if it counts, but at the very end of Isn't It a Pity, appears out of nowhere a voice of George singing a part of lyrics that happened at the beggining.
Giovanni Vellozo Yes! That’s always been one of my favorite recording anomalies. I’ve always thought that with that one, Phil Spector duplicated an earlier part of the song then threw it into the rest of that enormous coda during the mix down to make the Wall of Sound seem even bigger. Only thing is, that track didn’t match up with the others during the fade out, leading to hearing the attached vocals when all other tracks faded out first.
Good stuff.
Zeppelin has a lot of these.
I thought this was going to be about the tone-on-tails print through where you hear a ghost of the start of a song before the song...from the analog tape era.
Can you do a video on that? It's something that's even more obvious to the untrained ear than these ghost vocals.
There were several processes involved between the multi-track tape and the final vinyl record. There was the mixing to 2 track tape and at least one further tape to tape transfer to master the recording in preparation for cutting to the plate used to press the vinyl. Then there was the plate cutting itself. All of these processes caused small degredations in the sound quality (unlike digital which copies by cloning). Producers at the time were aware that minor glitches and errors would disappear once a song had reached the record and knew in advance to ignore them. Another famous one is Keith Richards mis-stomping the fuzz pedal in Satisfaction - that only became audible once the song was released on CD.
i always assumed that these were deliberate, especially on misty mountain hop.
in the kraftwerk song "it's more fun to compute" you can hear one of the band member talking during an instrumental section.
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Sunshine Of Your Love. You can hear either Jack or Eric calling out when the changes between verse and chorus are coming up.
Another thing you can't unhear, is the backup vocalist in 2nd chorus of "You're So Vain" with Carly Simon. No album credit is given to this vocalist.
You're so vayin ...
That was Mick Jagger. Uncredited on purpose.
Yes!
I used to hear ghost vocals whenever I would play the 12" of "Hello" by Prince & The Revolution but that would ONLY happen on my grans record player (in the mid eighties).
I think my ghost vocals & your ghost vocals are different as yours show up on different formats & playback-systems, whereas mine was only from that one 12" on that specific record player.
I always have heard the other vocals in yer blues and wondered why it was kept, cool to know. I don’t know what other people think about it but I personally think it adds to the song
Listen to the Beatles version of Chuck Berry’s Rock and Roll music. The chorus John sings, “its got a back beat you can lose it.” However on subsequent choruses he sings, “its got a BLACK beat you can’t lose it.” A homage to John’s love of American black rock and roll stars and their songs?
70's rock n roll band from Finland named Hurriganes use to play that song live and their drummer and singer Remu didn't understand or talk english but he would learn the lyrics from records. He sings it "black beat" on few rare live bootlegs that i have
I noticed this phenomena a lot in old analog recordings, particularly punk and indie rock albums. I think it was something that occurred due to the equipment used back then.
beach boys: "custom machine" - toward the end of the instrumental break, you can hear ghost vocal of mike coming in early. bobby lewis: "tossin' and turnin'" - same thing. in "don't think twice" by the four seasons (as the wonder who), you can hear the ghost of frankie valli in the last verse, when he sings "goodbye's too good a word..."
Jimmy Page plays a dead note on guitar during Stairway to Heaven. Around the 3:30 mark of the song, the guitar in the right speaker and during the lyric, "And it's whispered that soon," there's a dead note on guitar. He doesn't fret the note right, or something.
Oh my god! You can hear 2 "ohhs" in the background of Angie???? Dude, your onto something BIG here. Definite ghost vocals. Please make more videos if you discover anything else.
Actually, you can hear Mick singing in the background almost throughout the entire track, but I can only use certain excerpts due to the copyright restrictions. I encourage you to try to find them all!
On the song I’m your Captain/Closer to home by Grand Funk Railroad, what you will hear is, I’m your captain, (all right) I’m your captain.
This occurs the first time the phrase is said in the song.
Linda Wolff/Kashmir27 YES!! I noticed it like a year ago and I can never not hear it now!
I found one. On the album NAZZ with Todd Rundgren, the song "When I get my get my plane", you can hear one of the vocalists coughing right before the first chorus.
Queen, “We are the Champions”. You can hear Freddy at the beginning during the first line of clapping saying, “Awwwwe”.
Interesting stuff! Thanks
STOP I CAN'T UNHEAR IT!!! IT'S IN MY DREAMS
I'm a musician. And I do audio production of my own music, I've also studied audio production. And what you're talking about in this video is called "Bleed-Over". Also when you talk about things being in the left channel and not the right there is also a recording technique called "Double Tracking" where a singer will put down a vocal. Then sing another track along to the first vocal. Then when they're mixed one is panned left and one is panned right. It gives the vocals a sense of "Wideness". And depending on the artist and the type of songs an inconstancy between the 2 might compliment the song. Also this technique was used by guitarist Randy Rhodes. It's why his solos would jump out of the mix soo nicely.
"Scratch vocals" It's a fun topic. Another type is heard in some of the extended versions, like 12 inch singles, you can hear the vocal before they mix it in. Example: Grey and Hanks, Dancin' 12 inch version.
i think the beach boys have done that too but i can't think of one single song off the top of my head
The Beach Boys have had several ghost vocals and mistakes. Probably one of the most infamous examples is in the mono mix of Here Today, which has several bits of talking in the background, most prominently at the instrumental break. The rest of their little studio mistakes should be listed on this website: www.surfermoon.com/essays/noises.html
Very cool, thanks for sharing that link. I'm a big Beach Boys fan as well. Maybe I'll get around to making a video on their catalog someday, too.
@@YouCantUnhearThis I'm a huge Beach Boys fan and I'd love to see a video on them man!
Another example is the talking in the beginning of Do It Again and the cough in Wendy
I remember coughs in "Don't Worry Baby" just after the guitar verse.