Thanks for responding Terry - holding my hands up here, my initial post was total shit as I really didn't express what I was thinking in a manner even closely related to the word coherent. Bit of a brain to hand semantic balls up! Probably didn't help that I used 80's bands onwards as examples either!

Basically, I love the kind of vocal affectations that bands use to create melodic refrains. Always have done. It's one of the things I love about Springsteen as he's a master at that. Knowing how influenced he and Stevie Van Zandt were by 60's pop, soul and R&B I'm guessing artists from that period will have used many of those affectations too. I'm not well versed in a great deal of music from that time outside the classic rock bands of the era. But I've heard those melodic signatures in loads of music from The Beatles to Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic, Led Zeppelin to Scorpions etc.

I was really wondering what brought it into popular music, was it a creation and innovation of bands that came out in the 50's and 60's, or was it, like most other things influenced by genres such as the blues, jazz, country and other roots music? With so much rock beng born of the blues it wouldn't surprise me if it there were elements there, albeit in a more stripped back primal form as I can't imagine impoverished Delta blues musicians doing the old Jovi Woah - oh's! As I said, using 80's bands as an example was ill thought out.

Cheers for responding anyway Terry, although you really didn't need to read my first post two and a half thousand times to check how crap it was :-))

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