Anyone else HATING children doing BV's?
skel
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My enjoyment of the following (otherwise excellent) records is intolerably impaired by the insane tactic of allowing small children to 'perform' backing vocals, and I ain't talking Osmonds or J5: Razzie - I Hate Hate [/b] (sub-gentre: oxymoronic rekkid titles) Ryo Kawasaki - Looking Around You [/b] (Little Tree album)Please post other similarly tainted desecrations 
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After all, the Oompah Loompah song is a big in-car entertainment favourite of many right-minded individuals
you are like a one-man archive for this stuff, the hat is off to you sir
He gets all excited and always demands the rewind.
Im trying to think of songs i play that include kiddy vocals, but none spring to min.
That Vinyl Vulture kids compilation ( Its fun o listen and learn) is a staple in our house.
kids...
I have a home brew cd in the car of kiddy soul pop, e.g. New Edition, Ponderosa Twins, J5, Osmonds, Sylvers etc man alive, even Hanson!
The kids love it but from an adults perspective, the only cuts that stand repeated playing are the Osmonds and Sylvers tracks. All others come across a tad too knowing, cutesy, mannered.
They are a little older now and feelin' it for the jazz.
Jon Lucien is a big favourite. Thankfully.
The version I have*** has NO background vocals...but it's still a slightly corny tune anyway.
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***from the album Sparks, on the Plantation label, a reissue of earlier singles meant to cash in on Razzy Bailey's later country success in the eighties
The version I have*** has NO background vocals...but it's still a slightly corny tune anyway.
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***from the album Sparks, on the Plantation label, a reissue of earlier singles meant to cash in on Razzy Bailey's later country success in the eighties
but a great singalong tune, no?
I knew about the version w/o kids on it, then I saw one for sale on Ian Clark's list.
I calls him up, he swears blind that it's the one w/o kids, I buy it, get it, play it
and guess what......
the pretty much ruin movies, music, whatever they happen to be involved with really.
magnolia and his 10 anos depois albums are good examples
GOOD GOD!
Yeah, I'll give ya that, but they probably would have made out better had they used some grownup female vox instead.
I like The Annie Chorus on Jay-Z's Hard Knock Life, but Hatt the song.
I really like Diamond D's use of kids on Red Light Green Light.
Its usually not done right.
plaese to get familiar:
And no, I'm not hating.
whoa... that's not a shrunken Mr J*rvis of *biquity is it?
That one always sounded like they took an existing Stairsteps track and dubbed Cubie on top of it...kinda weird hearing Cubie spout gibberish while his older siblings just keep singing like nothing is wrong...that ain't kiddie background vocals, that's kiddie FOREGROUND vocals, and my-oh-my is it ever bizarre.
Ditto. Our 5-year son old demands ill rewinds of (the wife's copy of) Take That's "Mancunian Way" because Gary Barlow's daughter squeaks out the bee vees at the end.
Imagine that.
I've heard it done well on one track that comes to mind quickly, Outside's "The Plan" from "The Rough and the Smooth". The kids all do some "La La Lah-Laaaah" line and then they leave in the voice of one kid asking the engineer "Was that alright, Andy?"...
and it hardly counts as backing vocals
I feel that putting kids on a record is a little like vanity publishing.
And surely has near-ruined some great tracks.
anyway, how did this dead thread get resurrected?
I mention earlier that some favourite in-car cd entertainment is provided by those you mentioned, and I reckon they had the singing chops to carry the songs, no question. And in general, I ride for kiddie pop/soul any time. J5, Sylvers, New Edition, Ponderosa Twins, Osmonds, Hanson, bring it on.
It was more aimed at the tuneless shouting that pervades the first titles in the thread, namely Razzie's " I hate hate" and Ryo Kawasaki's " Look Around You", which really are besmirched by this awful caterwauling.
Rest assured, the bv's on those songs are certainly not provided by anyone with a scrap of singing talent.
Edit: Sorry Missed this part :
"vertically different or any other policically correct construction"
though I'm not sure exactly what policically means, this thread was made about songs with poor useage.
my bad
sorry, should have been 'politically'.
You're spot on with the Floyd track, those kids vocals are very well used.
Though most of the kids were adolescents I believe.
Borderline kid bv's revealed!
well, that's another topic entirely
the subject line hates on children's BACKGROUND vox. not FOREGROUND.