# Music with awesome brass parts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217 "2010-03-21T06:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/61 "2010-03-24T13:35:29Z")
[March Fourth Marching Band](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6M2-HZpZDM&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/62 "2010-03-24T14:29:58Z")
I’m not sure if the brass parts qualify as awesome, but I think they’re great (also, a pretty cool video): [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wQg7qOB5Heg/hqdefault.jpg "Ms. Pacman Music Video - The Go! Team") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQg7qOB5Heg) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/63 "2010-03-24T18:33:08Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > [Groovin’ Hard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY2ogaAkoUA) – best version I could find at YouTube. I misremembered [the Heats on](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3fwsTvrDg&feature=related) and thus wasn’t able to find this amazing band’s version of it. To my ear, these two tunes have a similar feel. Notice the trumpets! ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/64 "2010-03-24T19:25:14Z")
Fela Kuti Irakere ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/65 "2010-03-24T19:31:21Z")
_I’ll Play the Blues for You_- **Albert King** _Hey Brother_- **Beulah** ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/66 "2010-03-25T00:09:56Z")
Bye Bye Life, the finale from the movie All that Jazz has a spectacular horn part near the end. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcl0L7eJUY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcl0L7eJUY) ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/67 "2010-03-25T01:56:38Z")
Eurythmics- Would I Lie To You? ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/68 "2010-03-26T12:44:13Z")
‘Living In America’ by James Brown. Very good brass arrangement, neatly slotted into the vocal parts and adding plenty of musical ‘punctuation’ to the flow of the song. ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/69 "2010-03-27T07:22:08Z")
Cheesy 80’s pop hits + 90’s Ska Brass = More than the sum of its parts! Example 1 Reel Big Fish covering A-ha… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FZZkM06Z2n4/hqdefault.jpg "Reel Big Fish: Take On Me (LIVE)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZkM06Z2n4) Example 2 Save Ferris covering Dexy’s Midnight Runners… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sakw-qTTrGE/hqdefault.jpg "Save Ferris and The Specials- "Come On Eileen" at READING") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sakw-qTTrGE) ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/70 "2010-03-29T18:30:44Z")
The last section of Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” (Pines of the Via Appia?) has fantastic brass orchestration. Picture a roman legion marching in from a distance… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/71 "2010-03-29T18:45:39Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > Pretty much anything by Herb Alpert or Louis Prima. In particular there’s a little song Prima wrote called “Sing Sing Sing.” And Sam Spence’s “The Lineman” is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/72 "2010-03-29T22:09:16Z")
It seems we’re not limiting this to brass instruments in the strictest sense (i.e., excluding sax). If so, and we’re just talking awesome horn parts, I’d say the Budos Band has some pretty hot hornwork: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyXgFaf1-4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyXgFaf1-4) (excuse the lame travelogue video format) Menahan Street Band’s “Going the Distance” opens with a nice Roman-style flourish at around :45, then at 1:30 turns into a bizarro-world version of “Gonna Fly Now (Rocky’s Theme)”: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2Xe4ZHQjs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2Xe4ZHQjs) Or maybe Mingus Big Band’s version of Haitian Fight Song: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYBTlkhZuU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYBTlkhZuU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217.md?page=3)