bands with multiple lead singers

[TerpWomenFan]

From my wife hometown of Annapolis, Md. This also should have been on the people who are no longer living thread. Both lead singers died at 50 years old one year apart. Great wedding song. Rene Diggs is just gorgeous.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[rugbymate]

Mamas and Papas….Simon and Garfunkle

 

[Scud49]

Steely Dan - in the early days, David Palmer did a few songs like "Dirty Work". The vast majority of the time, it was Donald Fagan, one of which is "Bad Sneakers":

 

[sledog]

Mauntain w Felix. Gresat to see those Sunns' stacked.

 

[64Zcode]

Depending on how firmly the rules are applied here I would submit that The Who had more than one lead.
Roger did most of the heavy lifting but Pete is credited with lead on a few Who songs.
Townsend had a pretty decent solo career as well.

 

[Scud49]

The Allmans - Greg Allman doing Dreams I'll Never See, Dicky Betts on the lead vocals for Blue Sky:

 

[Bigboote]

Depending on how firmly the rules are applied here I would submit that The Who had more than one lead.
Roger did most of the heavy lifting but Pete is credited with lead on a few Who songs.
Townsend had a pretty decent solo career

Pete sang close to half the songs on Tommy.

John Entwistle usually sang a song on each album too. My favorite of his is My Wife, from Who’s Next. Great lyrics.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Both ladies from Indigo Girls sing lead, I'm not sure if one is predominant. Maybe same w/ Freakwater, the extremely twang-ified version of Indigo Girls.

 

[Bigboote]

While we’re at it, the Rascals had two-plus leads. Early on, Eddie Brigati sang on most songs, later it was Felix Cavaliere. Here’s Eddie then Felix.

 

[tomcat]

Rhett Miller sings lead on a majority of the Old 97s songs, but Murry Hammond gets lead on 1 or 2 songs per album, and they are almost always among the best. Here's two from the same album--Too Far To Care. I'm not gonna say it's the best alt country album of all time...but it probably is.

Rhett first.

Nice to know someone else who likes this band. I heard an interview on NPR years ago, looked them up abd git hooked. Great to hear them again.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Nice to know someone else who likes this band. I heard an interview on NPR years ago, looked them up abd git hooked. Great to hear them again.

Saw them live once. It was the 15th anniversary of the release of Too Far To Care, or something like that. They played the whole album straight thru. Then they took a little break, came back and played a second session with a bunch of their other songs. Very good performance.

 

[Scud49]

Buffalo Springfield- Rock and Roll Woman - Steven Stills wonderfully unique voice singing the lead. Richie Furay doing the beautiful Neil Young song Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing:

 

[CaliHuskyFan]

Walk Off the Earth - "Red Hands", Live from Germany, & the Gotye cover "Someone That I Used to Know", aka the five people playing a single guitar!

 

[MSGRET]

ABBA

I saw ABBA in the late 70's while I was stationed in Bueren, Germany. All four of them sang lead at least once at the concert in Dusseldorf.

 

[Bigboote]

Walk Off the Earth - "Red Hands", Live from Germany, & the Gotye cover "Someone That I Used to Know", aka the five people playing a single guitar!

See this is what I love about these threads on the BY. Never heard of these guys, maybe not exactly my cuppa, but that second video is da bomb!

One of the best shows I saw was Gentle Giant at Woolsey Hall in New Haven. And one of the things that made it cool was them all sitting at a huge marimba/xylophone, five guys playing it at once. (They also had 3 playing recorders at one point, four playing guitars, and all playing toy xylophones.) But five at a single guitar -- that I've never seen before.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Never heard of these guys

They've been around quite a while. Mostly do covers but they have some originals. They have some fun videos.

 

[Scud49]

Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Sometimes in Winter, sung by Steve Katz, who wrote this beautiful piece. David Clayton Thomas, their prime vocalist, doing God Bless the Child:

 

[Bigboote]

Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Sometimes in Winter, sung by Steve Katz, who wrote this beautiful piece. David Clayton Thomas, their prime vocalist, doing God Bless the Child:

And Al Kooper on the first album (Steve Katz sang a couple on that one too). This is one of my favorite BST songs:

 

[luvgiraf]

Not seeing these guys listed: Eric Woolfson, David Paton, Chris Rainbow, Lenny Zakatek (among others).

 

[luvgiraf]

More Alan Parsons Project (Eric Woolfson on lead vocals):

 

[Wasn’t me]

We can’t leave Keith Moon out - Bell Boy - Quadrophenia - lucky enough to see him 2x with The Who

 

[Bigboote]

Grand Funk Railroad -- Mark Farner and Don Brewer (another singing drummer). They trade lines in the middle of this one.

 

[Scud49]

Loggins and Messina- of course they sang together, but sometimes one was the prime lead singer. "Be Free" is sung by Jim Messina, and "Sailin the Wind" is Kenny Loggins:

 

[Bigboote]

I’m somewhere between surprised and shocked that 10cc hadn’t occurred to me till now. They weren’t a supergroup, but they might’s well have been, having all written, recorded, played with, and/or produced many major acts before they set out on their own. All four were legitimate lead singers. I’m pretty sure they all take a turn at singing lead on this one.