Doesn’t he give all the production credits on that song on his Solo Anthology? I would look it up for you but I don’t have it, and Spotify is sketchy with credits.

Even more importantly, DOO WOP. We don’t talk about it much — we usually just all decide that Lindsey is trying to simulate Stevie Nicks’s voice with a VSO on his own tracks — but Lindsey is steeped in the doo-wop tradition of pop recording, and that tradition is filled with male singers who use falsetto and their upper registers to give what can only be called a female energy to their recordings, from Gary Paxton (Skip and Flip, who wrote “It Was I”) to Del Shannon to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (“Big Girls Don’t Cry”) to the Five Satins to Dion to the Platters to Gene Chandler, and on and on. Lindsey cut his teeth on the early era of rock and roll — you can hear it everywhere in his music, from his backup vocal arrangements (even the scat lyrics they used in the old recordings wind up on Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac tracks) to the pop-savvy instrumentation (drum roll intros, frequent rhythm breaks, rolls, turnarounds, and so on). I really don’t think it’s ever been his artistic motive to simulate Stevie Nicks on his own tracks as much as to recall earlier traditions of doo-wop.

This does not speak directly to Holiday Road, but the below is from a 2017 article in Pitchfork about the 30th anniversary and re-release of Tango in the Night and speaks to Lindsey's approach to constructing layered vocal parts. It may offer you some clues.

"Most of the vocal parts were recorded track by track,” he told the New York Times in 1987. “The voices used in the textured vocal choruses were mostly mine. I used a Fairlight synthesizer that samples real sounds and blends them orchestrally.” Out of these newly available materials, he could practically build an entire band, which was useful at the time. Mick Fleetwood was almost entirely consumed by his cocaine habit, and the band had been experiencing an internal drift for years. “Constructing such elaborate layering is a lot like painting a canvas and is best done in solitude,” Buckingham added.

Looked up the credits on LB Anthology. All instrumentation & vocals by Lindsey Buckingham except* ( a small list of contributions to various songs- but not many). Nothing about any other vocalist for HR.
My mind is officially blown on this one. For more than 30 years I thought it was a female singer.

re: Doo Wop- I guess there are actually elements of Doo-Wop style elsewhere in the make up of this particular song.

True. If he happens to sound like Stevie, it’s just their similarities, not that he wants to sound like her. Stevie herself says speed it up or slow down they sound like each other and it’s really creepy. It’s not something that they have to go out of their way to do. For instance, on Big Love I don’t think he’s trying to sound like Stevie.

Now, Stevie mentioned him sounding like Christine on SYW. She said she had to ask him was it him or Christine. He may have been trying to sound like Christine at that time.

I think he likes to create the Fleetwood Mac sound, whether there are 4 of them or 5. Pretty sure he deliberately created a Stevie sound on parts of Buckingham McVie...certainly no accident there imo.

Also, Billy Burnette: backing vocals

Incidentally, Duane Eddy’s ex-wife and musical partner, Mirriam Johnson, left for Nashville, changed her name to Jessi Coulter, and married Waylon Jennings. They were the inspiration for “Leather & Lace.”

Red Sun and on Game of Pretend for sure.

Red Sun would have been great released as FM. It sounds like them
OWTS as well.

Yes, it was Lindsey's voice sampled through a variable-speed oscillator.

Though Mick appeared en Lindsey's Law and Order, and Lindsey appeared in Christine's 1984 album, I don't think Lindsey would collaborate in any of Stevie solo works. And of course viceversa. Twisted is one of the clues that The Dance was coming soon. But that was 1996.

Soldier’s Angel.

I take your point, but don’t forget Soundstage.

I should specify more. My point was about the 80s. Soldier's Angel and Soundstage are from the before The Dance era. That's why I mentioned Twisted. That was the clue that things started to change.

I was talking about Lindsey’s Soundstage. That came after The Dance.

Where Stevie joined him and tantalized us all with the first line of Frozen Love.....then claimed she couldn't recall any more of it.

A longstanding fantasy of mine has been to see and hear them do a version of that song live before one of us (them or me) kicks.

There seemed a slim chance when there was talk about re-issuing BN on cd for the anniversary.

Kiss that goodbye now.:distress:

Man, don’t probe my tender spots.

But as for her memories, there was some news story this week about a man with dementia writing a song which the BBC Philharmonic performed and it made me think of that Glen Campbell documentary. Could you imagine if Stevie had Alzheimer’s but she could still sing all of her songs and perform?