A unique quality of Paul's vocals | Page 2 | Fab forum

Funny to think someone never heard "Little Lamb/Dragonfly" before -- I must have listened to that song 500 times in my life (mostly because I love fingerpicking my acoustic guitar along with it, great chord changes).  It never occurred to me that Paul sounds like John anywhere in that song, and I still don't think so (though it would have been a good song for John to cover, at least that first part).

A Paul song that does have touches of John, however, is "Let Me Roll It" -- particularly this part:

http://swf.tubechop.com/tubech…..cid=824132

(though John could never sing this as well as Paul does, John could add that "rough pained soulful" quality that he had which Paul simply doesn't have).

parlance said

Funny Paper said
Funny to think someone never heard "Little Lamb/Dragonfly" before -- I must have listened to that song 500 times in my life (mostly because I love fingerpicking my acoustic guitar along with it, great chord changes).

I've seen people on this forum mention that they've never listened to the solo stuff, so it's not at all surprising.

parlance

 

It's relative I guess -- I still haven't heard like 80% of George's solo work, and of John's I only know well his "Mind Games" album, which has to me some of his best stuff.

Ben Ramon said

Gerell said
Is it me or does Paul sound a bit like John in the first part of "Little Lamb Dragonfly" ?

I think it's because Denny Laine's singing with him. Love that song.

 

Actually, it just occurred to me that "Little Lamb Dragonfly" may be the best example one could find (after scouring and not finding much) of Paul singing with real emotion coming through.  Which makes one wonder, did he have some lost love in his past that he loved as much as the lyrics imply?

GeorgeTSimpson said

Ben Ramon said

Gerell said
Is it me or does Paul sound a bit like John in the first part of "Little Lamb Dragonfly" ?

I think it's because Denny Laine's singing with him. Love that song.

 

I've always though that awesome voice in the first part in this song sounded like john lennon. I've never thought about who sung it but after listening to the intro again, I agree that it might be paul and denny. This song is one of my favourites. I think it was recorded in the ram sessions and I have no idea why it wasn't released on ram

Remember, in the Ram days there were no CDs, and vinyl only had so much space, and Ram was chock-full of good stuff and couldn't really hold another song (no sense in making it a double album; then he'd have to fill up a whole second record).

On a related note, while I love "Little Lamb Dragonfly", I think one of the most underrated songs Paul ever did comes right before it, on the LP:  "Only One More Kiss" -- his voice in that song is yet another example of a unique tonality that nowhere else he quite does and it fits perfectly; and the instrumentation of the guitar (as well as the chord changes) in that song is truly remarkable, in a subtle way.