I'm often drawn to older music, mostly because the recording technology was afwul, what you heard is what you get. Old doo wop is real, real harmonies. Practice over and over to get it right. These guys were taking big band horn harmonies and doing it with their voices.
Today, there are machines, relatively inexpensive, where I can sing the main melody and the machine will generate the other voices in harmony. A few clicks of a mouse and you have the Temptations. I've seen them in action.
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