Charlie Harding

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2,911 appearances 22 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 1 Sep

Charlie Harding’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Switched on Pop · The power of singing together (ft. Tiny Habits) · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

It's also, you know, comes from the world of gospel. matched

Religion and worship. matched

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And I wanna highlight a group like the Golden Gate Quartet, who were transitional figures. matched

They took the sound of gospel, but they started applying it to popular music like the hit song of the nineteen thirties, Stormy Weather. matched

The rich harmonies, the blues, sonorities, the call and response, the move from background to foreground, all of these which are hallmarks of American popular music, were pioneered in the gospel church, especially the black gospel church of the early twentieth century. matched

Eighty years. matched

And those gospel choral arrangements feed right into some of the most popular American musical movements, including Doo OP, which you mentioned. matched

Wouldn't you love to turn on the radio and hear Frankie Valley and the four seasons just rocking that f rich harmony at the beginning of Come On Marianne? matched

He's gotta be listening to it from. matched

Totally. matched

And y I mean, you just called exactly where I'm going next because even into the nineteen sixties and seventies, some of the biggest hits were predicated on really stunning vocal harmonies. matched

And I think the Beach Boys is just like a crystalline example of that. matched

Take their nineteen sixty five track Barbaran, for example. matched

Throughout the 60s and 70s, right? matched

From Motown to the Brill Building to Nashville, Dolly Parton, everyone is doing vocal harmonies, even into the 70s, right? matched

We started this episode listening to Fleetwood Mac, Crosby Still's Nash and Young. matched

You know, their vocal harmonies are like a hallmark of their sound. matched

And then we get to the 1980s and something seems to change. matched

All of a sudden, these vocal harmonies are no longer populated. matched

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