In the musical sense, harmony is how notes come together to produce pleasant chord progressions; applied to relationships, it's about compatibility. In this song, Harmony could be a lover, or it could be music itself.
Running just 2:45, this is the last song on the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton's best-selling studio album and one of his most acclaimed. "Harmony" was used as the B-side of "Bennie And The Jets" but not issued as a single itself. "We could have taken singles off that album for years," Elton said. Despite being merely an album cut, "Harmony" gained a fervent following, especially on the New York City radio station WOR, it won the "Battle of the Hits," voted on by listeners, for 33 consecutive weeks.
Befitting the title, this song required some rich vocal harmonies, a-la The Beach Boys. Instead of hiring professional singers, Elton used his backing musicians, who proved quite competent: Dee Murray (bass), Davey Johnstone (acoustic guitar) and Nigel Olsson (drums). Del Newman did the orchestral arrangement but didn't sing on the track.
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