They were from hundreds of tribes across West Africa, and brought with them certain traits of West African music including call and response vocals and complex rhythmic music, as well as syncopated beats and shifting accents.

Plant and Korner were in the process of recording a full album with Plant on vocals until Page had asked him to join " the New Yardbirds ", aka Led Zeppelin.

Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

The event was recorded, and a selection of songs on which he had contributed joint vocals were subsequently released.

Another belief is that it refers to melodic pop vocals sung over beats of a type that previously were used only with rap and semi-chanted electro-funk.

Moon's propensity for making his bandmates laugh around the vocal microphone whilst recording led them to banish him from the studio when vocals were being recorded.

Some of the cassettes for the Sing Along machines were recorded by Filipino cover bands for popular songs so that the vocals and accompaniment could be played independently.

In fact, he asserts that he generally feels more kinship with punks than with heavy metal ; he even played with The Damned for a handful of gigs when they had no regular bassist and Lemmy's guttural vocals were unique in the world of rock at that time, as they would not be copied until the rise in popularity in punk.

Singles from this album were " Krafty ", " Jetstream " ( which features guest vocals by Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters ), and the title track.

With loud walls of sound, where individual instruments and even vocals were often indistinguishable, they followed the lead of noise pop and dream pop bands like My Bloody Valentine ( often considered as the earliest shoegaze act ), The Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Cocteau Twins.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Skyhooks were an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in March 1973 by mainstays Greg Macainsh on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Imants " Freddie " Strauks on drums.

They were soon joined by Bob " Bongo " Starkie on guitar and backing vocals, and Red Symons on guitar, vocals and keyboards ; Graeme " Shirley " Strachan became lead vocalist in March 1974.

On 7 April 2010, 3AW reported that Skyhooks were to appear on the first episode of the new series of Hey Hey It's Saturday with Leo Sayer on vocals.

In particular, Aaron Lewis was lauded for his vocals, which were likened to those of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

The female-dominant vocals of trip hop may be partially attributable to the influence of genres such as jazz and early R & B in which female vocalists were more common.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and The Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel.

On each side of the record was a single composition, approximately 17½ minutes long, using recordings of classic rock and roll songs that were spliced, overdubbed and edited with new vocals, instrumentation and tape noises.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

In commercial popular music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renderings of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals.

The Band was a Canadian / American roots rock group that originally consisted of Rick Danko ( bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals ), Levon Helm ( drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals ), Garth Hudson ( keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet ), Richard Manuel ( piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals ) and Robbie Robertson ( guitar, vocals ).

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

In addition, during this time, the band's song " Tomorrow " ( originally an instrumental on the B-side of " Get The Funk Out Ma Face ") was recorded with vocals sung by Tevin Campbell for Quincy Jones ' Back on the Block release in 1989.

* 1954 Original motion picture soundtrack ( originally incomplete, but re-released on CD with deleted songs, alternate takes, and undubbed vocals )

The music played during the scene where Helena showers in a fountain, while a party crowd watches was originally scored by the film's composer, Graeme Revell, based on the " Love Theme " used sparsely elsewhere in the film, with vocals by Bobbi Page.

Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie ( vocals ) and Jim Beattie.

The Kim Mitchell Band features his longtime musical partner of 26 years Peter Fredette on bass and vocals ( originally 2nd guitar and keyboards ) with Chris Sutherland on drums, and Don Breithaupt on keyboards and vocals.

Clinton, in fact, wrote the vocals and lyrics to the title track which was originally intended by the band to be left as an instrumental piece.

The band originally consisted of musicians Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, and Langston Booth plus the five members of the Parliaments on vocals.

The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane ( guitar / keyboards ) and Lætitia Sadier ( vocals / keyboards / guitar ), both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes.

Metal Box was originally released as three untitled 45-rpm 12-inch ( 30-cm ) records packaged in a metal box resembling a film canister with an embossed PIL logo on the lid ( it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a double LP set, Second Edition ), and features the band's trademark hypnotic dub reggae bass lines, glassy, arpeggiated guitar, and bleak, paranoid, stream of consciousness vocals.

Originally just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware, he says that he thought having two female vocalists / dancers would also add potential glamour to the band.

The band was originally called " Blåblus " ( Swedish for " blue blouse ", a pun on the word " blues ") and featured Skifs singing the lead vocals.

In 1999 / 2000 he worked on a Donovan's Brain session for their Tiny Crustacean Light Show album ( originally on Get Hip Records but now on Career Records ), in which he did much of the backing vocals and some lead vocals.

The band consisted of Hendrix-lead guitar & vocals ; Randy Wolfe-2nd guitar ( also slide guitar ); Randy Palmer-bass & Danny Casey-drums ( both from ' Clouds ' a band originally from Houston, Texas ).

The rough cut to which McFerrin recorded his vocals had the words " blah blah blah " in place of the end credits ( meant to indicate that he should improvise ).

On November 13, 2009 the band uploaded " D2 " which is another rough " first draft " demo with no vocals.

In early 2006, the band recorded a three song rough demo with Eric Dellon on lead vocals and drums, featuring former vocalist Geert van der Velde on backup vocals.

Chaka Demus ' rough DJ vocals were matched with Pliers ' sweet, melodic, soul-influenced singing ; this unusual vocal pairing was championed by Sly and Robbie.

From their inception, the sound of the band was marked by the seemingly incongruous but highly effective pairing of Carter's rough abrasive voice and strident guitar and Andrew Brough's saccharine-sweet vocals and pop hooks.

As noted in many references including Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Recording Sessions, Lennon had a bad cold which accounts for his very rough, almost strange tone he demonstrates on all his vocals during this historic session, including the last song, " Twist and Shout ".