Little Lamb Dragonfly
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Like a lot of Paul songs that I like, there's a lot of things to say, but I won't be saying them all here. In LLD, the melody provides Paul with great opportunities to use his powerful voice which borders on screaming but doesn't quite go there, even though this is not a rock song at all. People underestimate Paul's vocal power. He had different styles of vocal power. In this song it's a kind of a childlike almost thin voice and yet still packs a lot of satisfying punch. The song where he utilized this style the best and the most was in the song "Tomorrow" from his Wild Life album. Then of course he has the style of the rock song where he screams where it's full-throated and robust -- but again strangely underrated.
Another cool little touch I like in this is the transition in the song that comes after a kind of long interlude of instrumental music with orchestra somewhere past the middle of the song, it's in D, then the instruments do a three note arpeggio A to F-sharp to D, then right up to to B to G-sharp to E (E major triad), which is just a nice way of bringing the song back to E major at that point -- and to top off the coolness, that three note E major arpeggio is accented by what sounds like piccolos.
I also like the sound of the acoustic guitars the dominate the folksier parts, it sounds like double string acoustic guitars and even has a kind of a mandolin flavor to it.
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I posted a long comment here about 4 days ago, my first comment on this site. I still don't see it.
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@fast-city-line said in Little Lamb Dragonfly:
I posted a long comment here about 4 days ago, my first comment on this site. I still don't see it.
I see it right below this post of yours. Make sure when you are on this thread you click on Newest to Oldest (arrows at the top right) and that your notification button (looks like a bell) indicates you want to watch this thread (no \ across the bell)
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@fast-city-line Here’s your post:
Like a lot of Paul songs that I like, there's a lot of things to say, but I won't be saying them all here. In LLD, the melody provides Paul with great opportunities to use his powerful voice which borders on screaming but doesn't quite go there, even though this is not a rock song at all. People underestimate Paul's vocal power. He had different styles of vocal power. In this song it's a kind of a childlike almost thin voice and yet still packs a lot of satisfying punch. The song where he utilized this style the best and the most was in the song "Tomorrow" from his Wild Life album. Then of course he has the style of the rock song where he screams where it's full-throated and robust -- but again strangely underrated.Another cool little touch I like in this is the transition in the song that comes after a kind of long interlude of instrumental music with orchestra somewhere past the middle of the song, it's in D, then the instruments do a three note arpeggio A to F-sharp to D, then right up to to B to G-sharp to E (E major triad), which is just a nice way of bringing the song back to E major at that point -- and to top off the coolness, that three note E major arpeggio is accented by what sounds like piccolos.
I also like the sound of the acoustic guitars the dominate the folksier parts, it sounds like double string acoustic guitars and even has a kind of a mandolin flavor to it.
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@wandy said in Little Lamb Dragonfly:
@njr It did say in the link that it was a pony. Just saying like. There is a picture in the book "Abbey Road", I have a hard back copy, of Linda walking her pony ( Jet) across the Abbey Road crossing, outside the studios.
Mary McCartney did call the pony Jet in one of her interviews about the documentary “If These Walls Could Sing.”
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@njr Thanks -- I didn't realize there was a second page!
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Little Lamb Dragonfly..... one of my faves. I love it... still gives me goosebumps.