Search: '60s/'70s Folk/Folk-pop/Psych-pop/Soft-pop With Haunting Female Vocal Harmonies

Youtube link for come wander with me:

http://youtu.be/lVdIf8BJME8

I guess it wouldnt hurt to throw Vashti Bunyan' - 17 pink sugar elephants in here too:

http://youtu.be/tIyG6iQB7Ao

not as soft and whispery as some of this stuff, but I think the Luv'd Ones are pretty haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9YPs12Zhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fHqxkrpCE

sorry about the embeds

London Phogg - The Times To Come
http://youtu.be/YshrRshsMVA

MARGO GURYAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_ZC-x77a8

Not really harmonies, but this song's pretty haunting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8

Reparata - Shoes (Johnny and Louise) has some of this

Nancy Priddy - Christina's World

Kane Triplets - Mission Impossible

Simon Sisters - Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod

i'm really enjoying these links

The Shangri-Las - I'll Never Learn

The Three Degrees - Collage

I'm really liking the Luv'd Ones, Three Degrees, London Phogg, and Reparata tracks — I think the Luv'd ones come closest to the droning sort of harmonies I'm looking for. Margo Guryan was one of the most sophisticated pop songwriters of the '60s, but vocal harmonies weren't really her strong point, imho.

All in One - The Days of My Life

Lily & Maria - Everybody Knows
Chimera - The Grail

glad you like the luv'd ones. there's another song that sounds almost exactly like them that comes up on shuffle on my itunes all of the time but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. it's driving me nuts.

does the song have no identifying info even though it's in your itunes? weird.

I downloaded the Luv'd Ones collection years ago but never gave it much attention for some reason, but the tracks you posted have convinced me to give them another listen. the fuzz guitar solo in "You'll Never Know" is intense!

no it has info, I just usually use shuffle when I'm driving and don't bother to look.

ah

shameful omission from my OP:

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like A Wheel

The Bitter Sweets - What a Lonely Way to Start the Summertime

The Shannons - Mister Sunshine Man
http://youtu.be/jWEWYsRY_x8

The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore
http://youtu.be/4Ufi4Pz1-pA

The Serpent Power - Up and Down
http://youtu.be/4vYJA6TQP_Y

a lot of curt boettcher stuff gets into similar territory even though it's not female vox

The Oracle - Don't Say No
http://youtu.be/fsVlr-1AqpI?t=31s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4A_p43aFFc

don't forget my hero shelby flint! i'm her number one fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE-bZlwh5Cg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuRT223ImE

from my personal collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEHRtZ4BC4E

yo unregistered, honey ltd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCppOjLNmA

hazelwood produced choral psych folk girl group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hL87sJ74E

the whole album that features this is classic from start to finish, and i would like to think it fits the needs of this thread perfectly ..

Hmm.. I can't do links but my song suggestions:

"This bird" by Michaelangelo - post-psych folk with autoharp.
"Of broken links" by These Trails - curious Hawaiian folk, very haunting.
"Reverend sisters" or "Sheep season" by Mellow Candle, lovely English acid-folk.
"Morning way" by Trader Horne, spooked folk from ex-Them and Fairport alumni.

Sorry if I'm a bit obvious. Or maybe I'm not, I don't know.

Oh, seeing as you mentioned The Carousel I'll mention Red Chair Fadeaway, another splinter from the same band (C86 bowlcut boys Razorcuts) whose folk pop harmonies on early singles and album "Curiouser and curiouser" were seriously out of step with what was going on in the early 90s.

Not sure if I can do this, sorry if it fucks up, let's have a go...

"Tiffany glass" by Orriel Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMCk9fUHfE

this too (from the same comp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKIcY7EeK9U

Get this comp:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Folk-Is-Not-A-Four-Letter-Word/release/407181

And the sequel:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Folk-Is-Not-A-Four-Letter-Word-Volume-2/release/2438475

Feats some of the artists mentioned Vainica Doble, Jan Lorraine, Wendy and Bonnie...

Not a real 60s/70s band but Purson would be a good match for this threAd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el26qhwXZSw

Delicate as you like.

You might know Norma Tanega's "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog." You probably don't know this, the B-side--I didn't until five minutes ago. Fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOvlRcpmHM

Yowza, that's a fantastic track.

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/a/054831515243c12ba124946b2610a9a6/2511021.jpg

Esperanza Encantada were a trio of siblings who released one album in 1970 - half covers, mostly sung in Spanish, with some local pick-up band. I know nothing else other than it was released by Centron in Nashville and I absolutely love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5rKgGtbiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bsTRa5VK0

You might know Norma Tanega's "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog." You probably don't know this, the B-side--I didn't until five minutes ago. Fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOvlRcpmHM

― clemenza, Saturday, July 19, 2014 1:36 PM (2 hours ago)

the echo effect in the outro is a nice touch. I just hope she got a songwriting credit for Steppenwolf's 'Rock Me Baby' a few years later, because they're basically the same song. Dusty Springfield's recording of Norma's 'No Stranger Am I' is beautiful (just hearing it for the first time now).

Oh, seeing as you mentioned The Carousel I'll mention Red Chair Fadeaway, another splinter from the same band (C86 bowlcut boys Razorcuts) whose folk pop harmonies on early singles and album "Curiouser and curiouser" were seriously out of step with what was going on in the early 90s.

― Rob M Revisited, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:53 PM (1 year ago)

yeah, I'm big fan of their first two singles and the first side of Curiouser and Curiouser. it's funny how they sound almost nothing like The Razorcuts or any other contemporary indiepop groups — twee + psych-folk seems like such an obvious combination in retrospect. "My Brother's Room" is probably my favorite song of theirs.

(belated OTM to your These Trails and Trader Horne recs, btw)

I'll have to check out that Esperanza Encantada album. never heard of it until now!

this Third Wave album is pretty good...like a loungier Wendy & Bonnie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUYcrOYrC8

Third Wave was a pop jazz vocal group consisting of 5 teenage Filipino sisters from California that was discovered by funky keybordist and long time Zappa collaborator George Duke. Duke brought the sisters over to Germany in 1970, where he produced and recorded the album "Here and Now" for German label MPS.

Read up a little bit on Norma--Wikipedia says she and Dusty were in a relationship for a while, and that Springfield recorded a number of her songs.

I love where she laughs in that clip at the 1:29 mark. Hard to know what she's laughing at--maybe at the idea of lip-synching (seems to be identical to the recorded version). Great line: "People always live and die in 4/4 time."

" .412 is not your name" ???

I hear that as "'Point forward to' is not your name." Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.

dunno, I hear "four-one-two" pretty clearly. I guess it's an "I am not a number, I am a free man" thing, which makes sense within the context of the song (but why the decimal?)

Sunforest - And I Was Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1Vvg4IXlg

We were talking about xpost Honey Ltd.'s Complete Recordings on the Lee Hazelwood thread: finally released last year, by Light In The Attic (some killer HL tracks and a couple by their country-pop reincarnation as Eve, minus one voice but just as devastating, are on There's A Dream I've Been Saving, the leviathan Lee Hazelwood Industries box, also out in '13)(Both releases are on Spotify).
Think the reissue of Michele's Saturn Rings is cut out, but several tracks are still on YouTube. She was a 60s session ace, sang on several Boettcher projects, among many other dates, and he produced this, with Mothers like Lowell George and Elliot Ingber making supportive, non-showboat sounds, and stranger cats than that writing lines, but it's not so in-your-face, more like highly proficient psych-pop as a new mainstream, though the sweet starry vibe gets weirder as it goes along, in a canyon garden:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7E0839D64B2D0B20

Oh yeah, and then there's The Cake, cutting class and passing around cough syrup in the Girls Room, droning doom--yeah they made to the Smothers Brothers Show, but they still know the score:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTF4GPJ97Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPP7QofRds

Quarteto Nova Era - Apolo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujxn-39BeCY

Quarteto em Cy - Incelensa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD2Xx_zmHQ

this is from 2006, but it's a perfect evocation of this vibe/era, obviously inspired by Vainica Doble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xYFiS2Hu68

^(that's Pauline en la Playa - 'Lo que pesa un hueso de cereza')

no harmonies but whoa (h/t clemenza 3 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAlx0amAIc

man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOvlRcpmHM

wait what

During the late 1960s Tanega had a romantic relationship with singer Dusty Springfield.[3]

!!

Just saw that Tanega's album is being re-released this Friday, and knew the name was familiar (figured it was in the Hipster Kisses thread but found it here). Went to play the clip of "You're Dead" and damned if it isn't the theme to the series version of What We Do In The Shadows! Have been meaning to check what song that was.

The algorithms have been foisting "You're Dead" for about a week. Keep seeing it come up.

Reissue has a few sq problems but this record is really good. This one almost sounds proto Neutral Milk Hotel or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hk3_YWGryE

I hope someone releases the follow-up because I love the tune "Illusion" from it that appeared on the Sad About The Times compilation

Sounds promising.

What a fine thread more generally. That Third Wave clip at the top is possibly the best thing I've ever heard. Where the hell were they hiding?

"Under the Sky" by Giles, Giles, and Fripp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THg0Hr97GwQ