Monday, February 10, 2020

"Time to Get Alone"

I listened to Friends/20/20 this evening because I saw that to-day is the anniversary of 20/20's release (in 1969), and I noticed a couple things in the bridge of "Time to Get Alone."

There's some sort of effect applied to the vocals singing "deep and wide" at the end of the line "Lookin' down through the valleys so deep and wide," giving a sense of voices echoing through a "deep and wide" valley.

In the last "Aren't you glad we finally got away," the "away" is sung with a melisma (G A Eb D), musically giving a sense either of movement or distance.  I think the Eb is even an accidental, which heightens the sense of distance.