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Step Up to the Microphone
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The lead vocalist of a band steps aside to offer another band member (an instrumentalist or backing singer) A Day in the Limelight, singing the lead for at least the duration of a whole song. Usually occurs when the lyrics of the song in question were written by this particular band member. In some cases, this can become a permanent promotion to lead singer: the lead vocalist departs and rather than finding a new singer, one of the remaining band members takes the mic. Note that, historically, having someone “step up to mic� rather than employing a full-time singer has sometimes been considered the norm; in the Big Band era, singers weren’t entirely considered real musicians, but were often supposed to be instrumentalists taking a brief spotlight moment. See the note on Bing Crosby below. Compare and contrast with Vocal Tag Team. |
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Information Society: Their Breakthrough Hit, "Running," was sung by short-time member Murat Konar instead of by frontman Kurt Harland. On their 1990 album Hack, bassist James Cassidy sang lead vocals on "Can't Slow Down", "Mirrorshades", and "If Only". |
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Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore sings the first two verses of "Space-Dye Vest." Somewhat of a bizarre example, as James LaBrie's vocals are still in the mix, but it sounds like only one vocalist (the singer is clearly not LaBrie alone, but is also in a much higher register than Moore's solo recording of the song) Starting with 2002's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, drummer Mike Portnoy would contribute harsh-sounding co-lead vocals to a song or two every album, providing a Soprano and Gravel contrast to LaBrie's higher, operatic range. Notable examples are "Constant Motion", in which the two split the vocals almost 50-50, and "A Nightmare To Remember", where he attempts a death growl in one verse. The Wither EP features a version of the title track sung by guitarist John Petrucci and a demo of "The Best of Times" sung by Portnoy |
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The Velvet Underground had three lead singers on rotating duty - Lou Reed and Nico on the first album, Lou and Doug Yule on the last two - but bass/piano/viola player John Cale ("Lady Godiva's Operation", "The Gift") and drummer Maureen Tucker ("After Hours", "I'm Sticking With You") also got to sing two each. During their 1993 reunion tour, John Cale handled vocals on songs where Nico originally sang lead (Nico having died in 1988). |
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Steve Hackett, on the other hand, has been the primary lead vocalist on all of his post-1981 solo albums other than Feedback 86 and the two Genesis Revisited albums. Before he took over as lead vocalist, he sang one song on each of his first three albums. Also, when performing live from 2013-2018, Hackett would sing most of his solo songs and Nad Sylvan would sing Genesis songs and some of Steve's early solo works, but drummer Gary O'Toole would sing lead on "Blood on the Rooftops" and "Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody 1974" whenever they showed up in the setlist. | |
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TJ Osborne is usually the lead singer of Brothers Osborne, but John sings the second verse of "I'm Not for Everyone". | |
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During the tours supporting their self-titled album, Metallica bassist Jason Newsted would sing "Seek and Destroy" and "Whiplash". Very rarely, the entire band has swapped instruments for "Am I Evil?", with Lars Ulrich on lead vocals. | |
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Legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert, who had become famous as the leader of the Tijuana Brass (and also the co-founder of the band's record label), scored his first number one single with "This Guy's in Love With You", which despite being recorded during the heyday of the Brass was credited solely to Alpert. The song featured him uncharacteristically singing lead vocals. | |
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Carl Wilson was notable for this. After only occasionally singing lead from 1962-1965, he beautifully sang "God Only Knows", and from then on, he began singing lead on many of their famous singles, such as "Good Vibrations", "Wild Honey", "Darlin'", "I Can Hear Music", "Good Timin'", and "Kokomo". When Brian quit touring, he took on most of his lead vocals too. | |
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Another very successful example: when Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd, the rest of the band sans drummer Nick Mason took over on lead vocalsnote Though he did speak the only lyric in "One Of These Days"; first, it was keyboardist Rick Wright, who sang back-up in their early years, then guitarist David Gilmour, who replaced Syd, and then bassist/lyricist Roger Waters, with him and Gilmour switching back and forth depending on the album. Gilmour became lead singer after Waters left. | |
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Hey Violet had their lead vocalist, Julia Pierce, leave and Rena Lovelis - their bassist - became the vocalist | |
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On the 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour, David Marks, the rhythm guitarist from their first four albums (and childhood friend of the Wilsons) took over lead vocals on "Getcha Back", singing it in the style of Dennis Wilson, who Mike Love wrote it in memory of. | |
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Brent DeBoer, drummer and backing vocalist of The Dandy Warhols, sung lead on "This Is The Tide". | |
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Motörhead guitarist Eddie Clarke sings lead vocals on Step Down, on the album Bomber. | |
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Sandinista! gave one song to two of the other members each; "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" sung by Topper Headon and "The Crooked Beat" sung by Paul Simonon. Simonon also sang lead in a duet with Kosmo Vinyl in "Red Angel Dragnet". | |
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Korean rock band FT Island's Lee Jaejin, who is the bassist and subvocalist, sings a few of their songs by himself, "Rock'n'Roll" and "Yume", instead of the main vocalist Hongki. There's also "Friends" which is technically sung by Jaejin and Seunghyun but Seunghyun mostly just backs him up. | |
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Kim Deal and David Lovering also took the lead on a pair of b-sides, "Into The White" and "Make Believe" respectively. Black Francis wrote the latter, but had David Lovering sing it because the lyrics are based on an in-joke about Lovering having a crush on 80's teen idol Debbie Gibson. And there was a period where Kim Deal would sing live performances of "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)", though earlier in their career it was always sung by Frank Black. | |
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Lead guitarist Stu G of Delirious sang the verses of "Inside Outside", although Martin Smith still sang the chorus. | |
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Dethklok has "Kill You", which is sung by the Pickles the Drummer while Nathan was resting his voice (and having a sandwich). | |
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Unwound: "Side Effects of Being Tired" and "December", which appear on their penultimate and final albums, respectively, are sung by bassist Vern Rumsey instead of usual vocalist Justin Trosper. | |
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Guns N' Roses: "So Fine", sung by Duff McKagan. Also from those albums, "14 Years", "Dust N' Bones", "You Ain't the First" and "Double Talkin' Jive" are sung by Izzy Stradlin'. Also, during Rock in Rio III in 2001, guitarist Robin Finck sung "Sossego", by Brazilian singer Tim Maia. |
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This has happened to Annihilator's Jeff Waters THREE TIMES (from 1985-6, 1994-7 and from 2015 onwards). The fact that he is the band probably has a lot to do with this. | |
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Dennis Wilson sang on "Do You Wanna Dance?", and in the early '70s, when he hurt his hand and couldn't play drums, began singing and playing piano regularly on stage and in studio. | |
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Al Jardine also took on lead vocal duties, starting with the Number One hit "Help Me Rhonda". Some of his later songs, such as "Lady Lynda", "California", and covers of "Cottonfields", "Come Go With Me", and "Peggy Sue" also became huge international hits. | |
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The Newsboys. When John James left, their drummer Pete Furler took his place as lead singer. The first album with Pete on lead vocals was, appropriately enough, titled Step Up to the Microphone. Now Furler has left and been replaced by Michael Tait. Phil Joel has several "Songs in the Limelight" - a few of the band's hits such as "Woo Hoo" and "Entertaining Angels", as well as lesser-known tracks like "Breathe (Benediction)". Many American fans probably didn't know this, as it was difficult to tell Joel's New Zealand accent apart from the Aussie accents of John James and Peter Furler (who themselves sounded quite like each other). | |
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Bruce Johnston sang lead on several songs from the fan-favourite Sunflower and Surf's Up albums, including the international hits "Bluebirds Over The Mountains" and "Tears in the Morning" and fan-favourite "Disney Girls", a live staple. | |
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Whitesnake: in the early days of the band guitarist Bernie Marsden got to sing lead on two tracks: 'Free Flight' and 'Outlaw'. | |
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Heart normally features Ann Wilson as the lead singer with her sister Nancy on the guitar. Nancy, however, has performed lead vocals on several songs, most notably "These Dreams", Heart's first #1 single. | |
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Journey usually had at least one member stepping in for the lead singer. During the early era with organist Gregg Rolie as lead singer, Neal Schon sang on several tracks. After Steve Perry joined the band, Rolie continued to contribute the occasional lead vocal until his departure. Rolie's replacement Jonathan Cain sings lead on the unreleased track "All That Really Matters." |
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The Big Big Train album Grimspound featured two tracks on which David Longdon, for the first time, shared lead vocals: "A Mead Hall in Winter", with drummer Nick D'Virgilio (see above) "As the Crow Flies," with violinist Rachel Hall |
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A very similar situation happened with his Genesis bandmate Mike Rutherford, who sang lead vocals on Acting Very Strange, his own second record. He realized in retrospect that playing guitar came to him more easily than singing, so when he formed Mike + the Mechanics soon afterward, he hired dedicated lead singers for the group and focused strictly on guitar work in the actual songs. | |
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Goo Goo Dolls have John Rzeznik and Robby Takac. Rzeznik is known for being the voice behind hits like "Name" and "Iris", but until close to that point, Takac was actually the lead vocalist as the band had mainly punk influences, with Rzeznik getting a song — usually a ballad — in the limelight every so often. Since the band found more mainstream success, it's been the other way around. Rzeznik has taken over as the main lead vocalist, but Robby Takac still sings lead on at least two or three songs per album. | |
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Fictional example: In Degrassi: The Next Generation, when Peter left Studz due to his drug addiction, Sav became the lead singer. | |
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"Hourglass" by At the Drive-In, sung by rhythm guitarist Jim Ward - Ward would go on to front Sparta, whose lineup mostly consisted of other former members of ATDI. | |
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Under the group's original lineup, Tim Rushlow was the lead vocalist. However, their first three albums have at least one song each sung by keyboardist Brady Seals, including "My Love", their only #1 hit and the only single under the original lineup not to be sung by Rushlow. Rhythm guitarist Dwayne O'Brien got a couple turns on their third and fourth albums, along with their cover of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" for the multi-artist compilation Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. | |
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Fugazi mostly have Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto as a Vocal Tag Team, but bassist Joe Lally takes the lead for the songs "By You", "Recap Modotti", and "The Kill". | |
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Most of Florida Georgia Line's songs have Tyler Hubbard on lead vocals, but "Dirt", "Anything Goes", and "May We All" (which also features Tim McGraw) have a few lines sung by Brian Kelley instead. Brian also sings "While He's Still Around", "Island", and "Sittin' Pretty" by himself. | |
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Originally, the country band Lonestar had frontman Richie McDonald and bassist John Rich alternate lead vocals; Rich sang lead on several album cuts ("Heartbroke Every Day", "I Love the Way You Do That", "Does Your Daddy Know About Me", "Ragtop Cadillac", and "Paradise Knife and Gun Club" on their first album; "John Doe on a John Deere" and "What Do We Do with the Rest of the Night" on their second) but of these, only "Heartbroke Every Day" was a single. (Coincidentally or not, this song charted at the same time that McDonald made a guest appearance on Mindy McCready's "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now".) Since Rich's departure for Big & Rich, Lonestar has not had an official bassist, and McDonald has been the sole lead vocalist (barring 2008-2011, when he left and Cody Collins replaced him). | |
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The Rolling Stones: Bill Wyman sings lead on "In Another Land" (which he wrote), while Keith Richards does so on a number of songs ("Happy", "You Got The Silver", "Before They Make Me Run", etc). | |
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Bassist Billy Greer of Kansas stepped up for a song on 2000's Somewhere to Elsewhere (and much later for a song on 2016's The Prelude Implicit). After Robby Steinhardt left the band a second time, Greer took his place as the second lead vocalist, supporting Steve Walsh, and later Ronnie Platt. | |
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Madness. Suggs sings most songs, but Cathal Smyth and Lee Thompson also take the lead on occasion; the latter's usual live Song In The Limelight is Razor Blade Alley from One Step Beyond Album. | |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station sometimes gives Dan Tyminski or Ron Block the lead vocal. It can be quite disconcerting to listen to a song by a band with that name, then hear a male voice singing. | |
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While most of their original songs are written by either Chris White or Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone generally plays the role of lead singer in The Zombies. Odessey and Oracle had some exceptions though: Rod Argent sang lead on "I Want Her She Wants Me", while Chris White sang "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" and a verse of "Brief Candles". | |
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When Ralf Scheepers left Gamma Ray 1994 while attempting (and failing) to join Judas Priest, the lead guitarist and band leader Kai Hansen stepped into the vocals. In Hansen's case, he had had experience as a frontman in his previous band Helloween during its early years. | |
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The Who: "My Wife", "Boris the Spider", "The Quiet One" and others, sung by John Entwistle; "Bell Boy" and others, sung by Keith Moon; numerous songs sung by Pete Townshend. | |
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Collective Soul's lead vocals are typically performed by Ed Roland. He also tends to write most of their music and lyrics. On Dosage, now ex-lead guitarist Ross Childress wrote the music and lyrics to "Dandy Life", and also sings lead vocals. Years later, Childress's replacement Joel Kosche would write and sing lead on "I Don't Need Anymore Friends" from Afterwords. | |
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CHVRCHES has keyboardist Martin Doherty sing lead on "ZVVL", "Under the Tide", "You Caught the Light", "High Enough to Carry You Over", "Follow You", and "God's Plan" instead of normal frontwoman Lauren Mayberry. | |
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When Geoff Bullock, lead vocalist for the Australian worship band Hillsong, abruptly left the group due to a then-undiagnosed case of bipolar disorder days before the recording of their 1996 Shout to the Lord album, the group ended up promoting Darlene Zschech - writer of the album's title song - to lead vocalist. Despite the abruptness of the change, the recording went smoothly and the album was a success in Australia while also becoming Hillsong's first album distributed in the United States when popular worship music label Integrity Music acquired U.S. distribution rightsnote also marking a first for Integrity as the first album produced or distributed by the label with a woman as the main singer. | |
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The Cardigans originally had Peter Svensson as lead vocalist and Nina Persson mostly on backing vocals — but her one song in the limelight, "Rise & Shine", proved the most popular of their early material, prompting an A&R manager who heard their demo to recommend promoting her to full-time lead singer. They did, and the rest is history. | |
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Dance Gavin Dance had guitarist Will Swan contribute Harsh Vocals on the album Happiness, as usual screamer Jon Mess had briefly left due to health problems. Even after Mess returned to the band for their next album, Swan still contributes rap verses on certain songs. | |
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The Partridge Family: Keith is the usual lead singer, but Shirley sings lead on "Whale Song". | |
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Likewise, once Dave Grohl got his own band, drummer Taylor Hawkins got to sing "Cold Day in the Sun" on the second disc of In Your Honor. He also sings it, while drumming, on several live DVDs and CDs the Foo Fighters have released. He came out from behind the drum kit to perform "Whole Lotta Love" with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on the Wembley Stadium DVD (Grohl took his place at the drum kit). Guitarist Chris Shiflett sang covers of Jawbreaker's "Kiss the Bottle" and The Ramones' "Danny Says", both of which were used as b-sides to various singles. | |
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The Cure's cover of "Foxy Lady" was sung by then-bassist Michael Dempsey because Robert Smith was against the idea of doing cover songs at the time. | |
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Eyes Adrift primarily had Curt Kirkwood on lead vocals, but Krist Novoselic takes the lead for the songs "Inquiring Minds", "Dottie Dawn & Julie Jewel", and "Pasted". | |
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were known to do this, mostly in concert. Tom sang nearly all of the songs but on occasion he stepped aside and let one of the Heartbreakers sing lead. On the second Mudcrutch album, every other member of the band writes and sings a song. |
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Sunrise on the Sufferbus by Masters Of Reality featured Ginger Baker on drums - Ginger also had a sung/spoken lead part on "T.U.S.A.", his lament on Americans' inability to serve a good cup of tea. | |
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Faces: Ron Wood sings "Ooh La La", while Ronnie Lane sings "Richmond", "You're So Rude", "Debris", and "Last Orders Please". | |
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Black Sabbath: "It's Alright" and "Swinging the Chain" are sung by drummer Bill Ward. | |
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Cheap Trick Bassist Tom Petersson has only one lead vocal in the band's discography, 'I Know What I Want' from the 1979 album Dream Police. (There does, however, exist an unreleased version of 'Voices' from the same LP with Petersson on lead.) | |
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Hacktivist has a variation of this. The band is built around the dual-rap approach of emcees Jermaine "J" Hurley and Ben Marvin. However, whenever a song calls for singing, guitarist Tim "Timfy James" Beazly can come in for clean, melodic singing vocals. On their debut album Outside the Box, he gets an entire song to himself with "The Storm II". | |
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Petra handed off the mic twice in their long (by Christian Rock standards) history: 1982's "Disciple" was a duet between lead singer Greg X. Volz and bassist Mark Kelly; and "Breathe In", one of only two new songs on their 2000 album Double Take, was written and sung by lead guitarist Pete Orta. | |
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Aerosmith's Joe Perry sings lead vocals on a few of their songs. He also sings twinned harmonizing vocals with Steven Tyler in "Combination". | |
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Queen: Brian May and Roger Taylor sing lead vocals on several songs throughout the band's discography, especially during the '70s. John Deacon, meanwhile, only ever provided backing vocals during live shows and never sang a note in the studio. He always said in interviews that with three strong vocalists in the group, there wasn't much need for him to do any singing. His bandmates' favourite prank was to make his microphone louder than theirs during concerts. | |
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All four members of Sloan take turns on lead vocals, generally on the songs they themselves have written. | |
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Restless Heart went through both variants: Larry Stewart was usually the lead singer, but their third album Big Dreams in a Small Town features one song each sung by bassist Paul Gregg ("El Dorado") and drummer John Dittrich ("Calm Before the Storm"), while Gregg and Stewart split the lead on "Carved in Stone". After Stewart left in 1992, The Band Minus the Face split vocal duties among Dittrich, Gregg, and keyboardist Dave Innis, with guitarist Greg Jennings as the odd man out. Most notably, Dittrich sang their biggest post-Stewart hits, "When She Cries" and "Tell Me What You Dream". Following a 10-year hiatus (barring a brief reunion of everyone but Innis in 1998 for a couple new tracks on a Greatest Hits Album), they reunited in 2004 for Still Restless, which still had Stewart on most of the lead vocals, but gave two songs to Dittrich ("Looking Back" and a cover of The Beatles' "The Night Before") and one to Gregg ("Yesterday's News"). |
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Adrian Smith sings lead vocals on "Reach Out" for Iron Maiden. Possibly parodied by an "attempt" at making drummer Nicko McBrain sing. (the original song, just for comparison). | |
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The Kentucky Headhunters have taken both versions of this trope: For the first two albums, Ricky Lee Phelps was the lead vocalist, and his brother Doug played bass. Both of them quit before the band's third album, which featured new lead vocalist Mark S. Orr. Orr was poorly received by the other band members and the fanbase, so Doug returned to take over on lead vocals, a role he has held ever since. The other side of this trope comes in on Songs from the Grass String Ranch, which had rhythm guitarist Richard Young take the lead to the verses of "Louisianna CoCo" (Doug still sings the chorus) and drummer Fred Young (Richard's brother) on "Dry-Land Fish". Richard began taking lead vocals with increasing frequency on every subsequent album, to the point that they can be considered a Vocal Tag Team. That's a Fact Jack! features two more songs sung by Fred ("Cup of Tea" and a cover of Rick Derringer's "Cheap Tequila"), and lead guitarist Greg Martin sings "Shotgun Effie" (they had previously cut the song in 1973 when they were known as Itchy Brother, and Greg sang on that version too). |
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After long time singer/guitarist for CKY left the band for seemingly good to start his own version after a long period of drama, long-time guitarist Chad I Ginsburg became the band's singer. | |
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Court Yard Hounds are essentially The (Dixie) Chicks Minus the Face, with Emily Robison on lead vocals, but giving Martie Maguire a song in the limelight with "Gracefully". | |
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Atomic Kitten - their final single was "Someone Like Me", giving Liz McClarnon lead vocals. This is partly because of real-life issues. Natasha Hamilton was battling depression during the Ladies' Night album and often no-showed publicity events. One gig from this period had Natasha no-showing after a fight with the other two, and Jenny Frost likewise became sick right before the show. So at some points, Liz was literally singing by herself while Jenny had to rush offstage to vomit into a bucket. | |
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Solo artist variant: Chris Stapleton's wife Morgane is a backing vocalist in his road band. In concerts, he is known to give her the mic for a rendition of "You Are My Sunshine". | |
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In small-scale musical theatre productions, the pianist will occasionally be called upon to sing a number or two. (Contrary to the trope name, the pianist will remain seated and there may be no amplification at all.) For instance, the pianist in Closer Than Ever turns the torch song "There" into an unexpected duet with the singer seated on the piano, supplies a third male voice to "Fathers of Fathers," and also contributes to a few ensembles such as the beginning "The Sound of Muzak." | |
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Blondie Chaplin, who briefly joined the group in the early 1970s, is most remembered for his lead vocal on "Sail On Sailor" from Holland. Ricky Fataar too sang lead on a few songs from that era. | |
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While other members frequently wrote the lyrics and music to songs, the only time someone other than Mike Patton took lead vocals on a Mr. Bungle song was on "The Secret Song", sung/spoken by bassist Trevor Dunn. Strangely, this ended up happening because the band originally left Dunn out of the song entirely: The song was written and recorded without him, and when he stumbled upon the track on his own, he jokingly retaliated by secretly recording lyrics about how angry he was about being left out of the song. The rest of the group was amused enough to keep it in, then they furthered the in-joke by not listing the song anywhere on the artwork to Disco Volante. | |
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This happened to The Wurzels after the death of their founder, lead singer and songwriter-in-chief Adge Cutler in 1974. Pete Budd, who'd joined the band as a banjo player two years previously, stepped up and has been the lead singer ever since. | |
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