Comments on: Words Of Love

By: Lonedrone

Lonedrone — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:12:23 +0000

Correct, but i don’t think the vocals are double tracked, although George’s guitar is. On the last aahs Paul changes the timbre which makes him sound a bit like George.

By: Jonathan Ryberg

Jonathan Ryberg — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:12:59 +0000

This certainly seems to be a rare instance of a Lennon – McCartney two part harmony where John sings the upper part to Paul’s low. IMO it gives the vocal sound a kind of ‘softness’ to it that isn’t usually associated with their two part harmony singing. Maybe they felt this styling being truer to the undoubtly mellow vocals of Holly’s original?

By: Sgt Pepper 67

Sgt Pepper 67 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 04:01:16 +0000

John And Paul sing the Lead Vocals while George joins the harmony during the hums the oohs and ahhs

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:02:55 +0000

They were using AC-100 amps in the studio then. They never used AC-15’s – their first Vox amps were AC-30’s.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:57:11 +0000

Holly, like so many others, may have been the one “negated” and become a footnote instead of a martyr (as great as he was).

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:55:07 +0000

…and NOT a 12-string.(see above discussion).

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:52:02 +0000

Ondra has it exactly. Not every ‘twangy” sounding guitar is a 12-string. You need to listen for that octave-G

By: Ondra

Ondra — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:40:45 +0000

It’s John singing the lower harmony and Paul the higher harmony. They’re both double tracked. So in fact four voices. No George singing, he was probably focusing on the guitar part.

By: Ondra

Ondra — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:32:40 +0000

Wrong. It IS Tennessee double tracked. Had it been Rick 12 you would hear an octave string when George hits G string in the riff but there is no octave string. Gretsch Tennessee with both pickups enganged, double tracked.

By: Charlie Burns

Charlie Burns — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:45:41 +0000

So Paul is DEFINITELY singing high and John low, my guess is that George is singing in unison with John, and the parts where you guys are hearing three voices are parts where George and John’s voices fluctuate ever so slightly with note changes etc, but there are definitely only two individual melody lines here. The low one sounds very rich, so as I say I think George is singing the same thing as John there.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:46:13 +0000

Is there something that proves George used his Rick on this one? I’m not disagreeing with you at all, but I can never figure out if it’s a 12-string or if they just compressed the heck out of a 6-string.

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:00:59 +0000

Sorry, lads, there´s no George singing here. Only John on the low and Paul on the high. If you still have any doubt, listen to the BBC version where is clear that there´s only John and Paul .

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 05:57:01 +0000

I think you guys are nuts. It´s John and Paul. It´s actually on the sleeve of the original album.

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:12:26 +0000

I had always assumed that this was John double-tracking his vocals the same way Buddy Holly had done in the original. If Paul or George are there, they are doing the low voice because the high voice is unmistakably John.

By: mack

mack — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 03:45:28 +0000

i thought there was drums on this track, on the left side of the stereo mix. no kick, just the snare and hi hats.

By: elias

elias — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 02:03:51 +0000

George os singing through out The song .and you can hear hum specialy towards The end of mono mixing singing loud ahhh ahhh ahh aah. Before that John and paul uhhhhhhhhhhhh and then George ads ahvhhhhh. You can hear it clearly in The mono mixing that its longer then The stereo. Its a three part harmony song . They breathe The song. It s unique

By: SouthofReality

SouthofReality — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:16:06 +0000

You listen to this song and then Honey Don’t and then Twist and Shout and you realize that not only were the Beatles the best band of all time, they were also the best COVER band of all time.

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:03:00 +0000

loved his guitar. this is the only other Holly song that i like the cover verson better than the origional one. the other is Loves Made a Fool Of You, by Bobby Fuller Four

By: Getty Love

Getty Love — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:26:24 +0000

I agree that George’s vocals are in there. One of my favorite early Beatles recordings.

By: Math Person

Math Person — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:16:25 +0000

Wow. See my comments below on this. I know later on vinyl, John and Paul do the major singing. But it’s really hard to tell here what’s up, as I mention below, for me, anyway. All help is invited, although you say already it’s George on top, John below here. See my humble comment relating to all this below if you like. Thanks for your good ear for vocals, Baggio!