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blue notes

A device in blues, the playing of certain notes, especially the third and seventh of the scale, deliberately out of tune, between major and minor.



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Female voices and other studio singers were added and in some cases, such as with The Spinners, The Stylistics, and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, only the lead singers were actually used on the records.
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