Everlasting Love by Carl Carlton

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Pre-Verse → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• A – Bm/A – Bdim/A – A
  I – ii (bass A) – ii° (bass A) – I

Verse

• A – Bm/A – Bdim/A (×4)
  I – ii (bass A) – ii° (bass A)
• F♯m – B
  vi – II

Chorus 1

• E – E/D♯ – C♯m7 – F♯m7 – A – B (×3)
  V – V (bass D♯) – iii7 – vi7 – I – II
• E – Bm – C/E – E
  V – ii – bIII⁶ – V

Pre-Verse

• A – Bm/A – Bdim/A (×2)
  I – ii (bass A) – ii° (bass A)
• F♯m – B
  vi – II

Chorus 2

• E – E/D♯ – C♯m7 – F♯m7 – A – B (×3)
  V – V (bass D♯) – iii7 – vi7 – I – II
• E – Bm7 – C
  V – ii7 – bIII
• E – E/D♯ – C♯m7 – F♯m7 – A – B (×4)
  V – V (bass D♯) – iii7 – vi7 – I – II

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Bdim/A (ii° (bass A)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C/E (bIII⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0607, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.