O.K. here's a couple. What about the big one that everyone knows, "Blue Moon" (the Drifters)? That hilarious beginning (bompabomp....)middle singer voice, chorus for a bit, middle singer rolling along, then intro to the top singer for awhile (lower bompist still going along), then the chorus comes in, out again, then things get more complicated under the verse, breaks for the middle voice, then we go into wawaas ("care for") -- the bridge (Really complicated, the best!!!!) -- then towards the end of the chorus there is a big all voice climax ("And when I looked....."), then it goes back into the verse (And at the end a great big chorus (unison?) "AhhAhAhAhAH"). This one has everything. What on earth is going on in the voices?

Or even "Barbara Ann" (The Regents, later the Beach Boys).
There's a first voice, then dual voices come in (in thirds?) then underneath, the other voices start peeling off in all directions, some of it seems to be to the chord progression, but others wandering around.

No great question, but can anyone deconstruct Blue Moon or Barbara Ann? -- while one is at it, do the Beach Boys do anything complex in their harmonies, or is it all in the orchestrations (I don't mean in Barbara Ann, but generally -- I recall that the only orchestration in the Beachboys Barbara Ann is an ashtray)?

yours,

Peter T.