"Hung up on a Dream"

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A couple days ago, I was thinking about the backing vocals in "Hung up on a Dream," and I realized something about the phrase to which "Gentle love" is sung:

(It's sung in falsetto, so it might have been more accurate to notate it an octave higher, but then there's a mess of ledger lines.)

The first two notes have the same rhythm and pitch as the first two notes of the mellotron part at the beginning of "Changes," which just happens to be the next track on the album (after flipping the vinyl, of course):

Although the songs are in different keys, those phrases' having the same rhythm and tonality is just an-other element (albeit a small one) that gives Odessey and Oracle a kind of cohesion.