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best vocal harmonies in rock

What r'n'r artists (or records) feature great vocal harmonies? To keep the list more manageable, let's stay with the post doo-wop period. Brian Wilson/Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren/Utopia and Lindsey Buckingham/Fleetwood Mac -among others- all qualify in my book. Who do you like?

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Also The Moody Blues, Wings, The Hollies, the Outlaws, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, B-52s, Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, original King Crimson, Steely Dan, Alan Parson's Project, Uriah Heep, amazingly even Steve Hackett in some of his solo work.
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In that its now Beatlemania 2009, just reminding everyone that theirs are certainly quite golden and part of some of the best pop/rock music ever...still.
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Actually, Lindisfarne reminded me that the group "Lindisfarne" was pretty darn good also.

Also the Dutch prog-rock band "Kayak" produced many purely heavenly vocal harmonies.

While in the prog-rock vein, toos in the Canadian prog-rockers "Klaatu"
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Klaatu's vocal harmonies went a long way towards making many people seriously ponder the false rumor that they were in fact the Beatles incognito back in the middle 70's.
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YEah, Bee Gees and LRB are good! Forgot about them.
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England Dan and John Ford Coley.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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If we're considering groups with more folk than rock leanings gotta through in the original Kingston Trio as one of the all time best.
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Bee Gees certainly got huge mileage out of their vocal harmonizing and it certainly became the most unique and recognizable aspect of their music, perhaps more so than any other.
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Ditto on The Strawbs.

I almost spit their name out but hadn't listened to them in a while so was not sure.

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