The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62399 Message #1010440
Posted By: M.Ted
29-Aug-03 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Technical: How Do Doo-Wop Harmonies Work?
Subject: RE: Technical: How Do Doo-Wop Harmonies Work?
You're starting to get on my nerves-Peter! Regents did Barbara Ann!
Blue Moon, as noted above, was done by the Marcels--and it is in the key of G!
The "BaumBaBaumba..." all a D bass note, with "Ringadongding" moving scalewise down to B, "Blue" being on A, the "Moon" being on G.
When the two voices that fill in the chords fall in, they are moving it the little "chase' that I described above(third and fifth of the tonic etc)--
The business on the bridge is really no more than the the bass doing an alternating bass line in the oompa style on the song chords, he is on a D and the guys seem to fall in on A and F#,, which is to say, the they filling out the D chord with the third and the fifth--
There is a nice little bit of chaos at the end of the phrase, where the group is singing an A chord moving to a D7 chord and the Bass keeps going into another key--
The chords to this version of Blue Moon are not the same ones used for a standard version of the song, in the regular version, "And then there suddenly appeared before me" is an Am chord resolving to G--"Somebody whispered, "Please adore me" moves to a B/B6/E--the Marcels stick to the Am resolving to G again.