I as many love keith's complemantary vocals through the stones catalog, and wouldn't mind trying to list some of our favs. Please forgive if this has been done but indulge me if you dont mind. For me, Sweet virgina, Torn and Frayed, and espically Casino boogie does it for me. There are many more id like to list and I know im only going with Exile tracks but its what I feel. Input from IORR is much respected on my part. Thanks.

i don't do "favourites", but:
what he does on Cherry oh Baby is brilliant - like no other can

Casino Boogie
Dear Doctor
Salt Of The Earth

Something Happend To Me Yesterday

Casino Boogie
Torn and Frayed
Shattered

Brown Sugar "... sold in a market down in New Orleans".

That's Keith right?

Memory Motel
I love Keith's hi vocals in 70's but this song has one of my favorite passages in all of Stones music: it is the two lines "..and she began to play, she sang a song to me..". Keith goes high in 'she began to play' but then drops down to this beautiful harmony w/the line 'she sang a song to me'. Oh man I love that part.

Torn and Frayed
Casino boogie

Keith sounds a bit like Dylan when he sings the "might fine" part

Mid 70's.
Through the Lonely Nights
Silver Train
Till The Next Goodbye
Luxury

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I as many love keith's complemantary vocals through the stones catalog, and wouldn't mind trying to list some of our favs. Please forgive if this has been done but indulge me if you dont mind. For me, Sweet virgina, Torn and Frayed, and espically Casino boogie does it for me. There are many more id like to list and I know im only going with Exile tracks but its what I feel. Input from IORR is much respected on my part. Thanks.

Hard to choose but I'd agree that he was really doing great with the backings on Exile. Casino Boogie is a definite fave, among many others on Exile.

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Brown Sugar "... sold in a market down in New Orleans".

That's Keith right?

If you read the liner notes, that's Mick doing his own harmonies on that one.

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If you read the liner notes, that's Mick doing his own harmonies on that one.

Damn. I hear it now.

I always thought it was Keith for some reason.

It's Keith-ish.

This is Keith?

Sittin' on a fence
New Faces

Dead flowers

Memory Motel.
Also what Keith & Mick did on Exile.
I remember listening to the newly released ABB and noticing that Keith wasn't doing too many backing vovals on it. I wonder why? It's part of the rolling stones' sound afterall.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

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Memory Motel.
Also what Keith & Mick did on Exile.
I remember listening to the newly released ABB and noticing that Keith wasn't doing too many backing vovals on it. I wonder why? It's part of the rolling stones' sound afterall.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

The amount of Keith's backing vocals decreased quite a bit as the Stones (probably at Jagger's demand) started using professional back up singers both for the studio and the stage. I also wonder if Mick doesn't want Keith to sing too many back ups as his voice has changed and gotten deeper with age. Still, when keith does sing in the range he's currently comfortable with, I feel he blends in well and still adds a more "Stonsey" sound. I wish he would sing on a lot more songs than he does lately. And while we're at it....What about Ron Wood? I used to like it when he and Keith would share a microphone and do vocals behind Mick. Since Steel Wheels it appears as if he's been banned from approaching a microphone at all, with occassional exceptions like Star Star from Four Flicks. Even there he seems to be miming more than actually singing. Was he banned from singing? If so, it was probably another Jagger move towards the more pro sound.

A couple more....

If You Really Want To Be My Friend
Worried About You

cant u hear me knocking....GREAT harmonizing help me baby!!! aint no stranger !!! top of his game

Take it or leave it!
And all backing vocals in SF and EOMS

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"I'm gonna walk... before they make me run"

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No way, I am certain that Keith sings the backing vocals in Brown Sugar (but I do know that many of the later backing vocals that sound like Keith are actually Mick - Chris Kimsey said in an interview that Mick does a better "Keith vocal" than Keith!

My favourite Keith backing vocals are:

Let it Loose
Rip this Joint
Bitch
Sway
Biggest Mistake
Worried about You (could be Mick)
Tops (but this could be Mick)
Memory Motel

Casino Boogie (really a co-lead vocal)
Torn & Frayed
Loving Cup
Sway
Sweet Black Angel
Brown Sugar (last verse!)
Memory Motel

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Dead flowers

Yes....the quintessential

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This is Keith?

I agree with others there is no doubt that this is Keith. The list just goes on and on with Keith harmonies that help make the song but if I'm forced to pick one all time great it has to be HONKY TONK WOMEN on the chorus---just can't be topped! I've always thought Keith's harmonizing vocals owed more to the style of Don Rich with Buck Owens than anything else!

definitely Keith vocals on that

Soooo many great backing vocals from keith between 1968-1978

Country Honk
Dear Doctor
Salt of the Earth
Let It Bleed
Live With Me
You Got the Silver
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Cant You Here me Knocking
You Gotta Move
Bitch
Dead Flowers

almost all of exile...u get the point...his vocals have been missing from the stones since 1989

Casinoo Boogie

all are great when his voice was high. His voice (imo) is shot and has been for many years. I real shame as he had a unique voice and added so much to the songs.

My new fav for Keef backing vox: SO YOUNG! yeah!