# Pop songs with kick-ass horns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065 "2013-03-05T03:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/121 "2014-01-21T02:08:19Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Much of Phil Collins’ early solo work applies, he brought in Earth, Wind, and Fire’s horn section to do the work. I came to mention this. Especially “No Reply at All” and “Paperlate” (the latter technically a Genesis tune.) ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/122 "2014-01-21T03:19:14Z")
**Hold On, I’m Coming** - Sam and Dave **Give It To Me Baby** - Rick James ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/123 "2014-01-21T07:59:43Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “Wooly Bully.” _Immigrant Song_ ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/124 "2014-01-21T15:10:43Z")
**Dancing Machine** - The Jackson 5 **Hollywood Swinging** - Kool and the Gang **California Soul** - Marlena Shaw **Give The People What They Want** - The O’Jays ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/125 "2014-01-21T17:28:36Z")
Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat is all about sax with a mysterious stranger. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/126 "2014-01-21T19:25:22Z")
What, nobody’s mentioned Lou Reed’s “[Walk On The Wild Side](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwD261MHsc)” yet (sax on the outro), or the wonderfully loose horns on “[Geno](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4)” by _Dexy’s Midnight Runners_? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/127 "2014-01-22T20:09:54Z")
_You Never Can Tell_ performed live at Leipzieg by BS and the E Street Band. It’s all over SiriusXM but you can find it on youtube too. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/128 "2014-01-22T22:07:19Z")
A very, very young Bob Marley and the Wailers covering the Beatles “And I Love Her” with trumpets playing the killer George Harrison hook. [It’s brilliant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-bNwlYL2Ho). ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/129 "2014-01-22T22:23:15Z")
The Final Countdown by Europe has awesome horn sounds. I believe they used synthesizers to produce theirs but it sounds great when produced [using real horns.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRMuDTRkQSY) ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/130 "2014-01-22T22:34:40Z")
A couple of great Hip Hop samples: Public Enemy’s [Harder Than You Think](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W16XSAU17vw) which samples: Shirley Bassey’s -[Jezehe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WUZf6fRkrc)l Kanye West’s [Touch the Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7j9aVStwQ) which samples: Curtis Mayfield’s[Move on Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw) ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/131 "2014-01-23T19:34:04Z")
Not really pop but Dixie Chicken -Little Feat Live w/Tower of Power Horns. Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat and Tears ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/132 "2014-01-23T19:56:38Z")
I thought of one after seeing so many of the ones I would have mentioned already posted: **Subway To Venus** by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Funky! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzSIKITRJA) ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/133 "2014-01-23T22:36:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Are you sure it’s Herb Alpert? “Cantaloupe Island” is by Herbie Hancock, and the cornet player doing the main riff is Freddie Hubbard. (Late response but) yeah, you are probably right. I had no idea and just googled something. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/134 "2014-01-23T23:53:02Z")
If Jazz counts, _The Peter Gunn Theme_ has the best horns in the Universe, man! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pSkH-p1EW1o/hqdefault.jpg "Peter Gunn | Soundtrack Suite (Henry Mancini)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSkH-p1EW1o) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/135 "2014-01-24T00:32:44Z")
Re Hot Chili Peppers–[Taste the Pain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfnZvKwDHI) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/136 "2014-01-24T13:31:40Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uc8S35k-SJs/hqdefault.jpg "Perez Prado- The Peanut Vendor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8S35k-SJs) The Peanut Vendor - Perez Prada. This is possibly the all time horn song, most folk know the Stan Kenton version but this is the better one but for those who insist on the higher tempo Stan version [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1_okd-n42p0/hqdefault.jpg "Stan Kenton - The Peanut Vendor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_okd-n42p0) Ol’ Blue eyes - I’ve got you under my skin, this is very much the top drawer horn section [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C1AHec7sfZ8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgXChNMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDPVlx59CCKeEdnJwg68gJoP3rPvA "Frank Sinatra- I've got you under my skin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8) Fly me to the moon [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/137 "2014-01-24T15:15:31Z")
Well jazz pop surely counts, and[Paul Anka’s version of Wonderwall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCI27zi30nc) has horns that kick all kinds of ass! Check out the whole [Rock Swings album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUgvtHSrD9E) if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/138 "2014-01-24T15:58:08Z")
Tremendous sax work on some of Al Stewart’s stuff. [Song on The Radio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-1ZTSCqio) [Time Passages](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6TsYypBpY) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/139 "2014-01-25T01:32:11Z")
[Doc Severinsen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9M8FNRLlEA), [Genesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0fk_gCdzE), [Phil Collins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTz3WgZm4c), > [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > It seems like Adam Ant/Adam and the Ants used horns a lot. Which was kind of unusual for a new wave/punk group. [But](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IP-2Ck-wak) [His](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWvOcBSzhQ) [Friend or foe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWWtqa9-7M) album was among the best of the entire [1980’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHcRrrMyeEw) in my honest [Opinion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns)! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-with-kick-ass-horns/652065/140 "2014-01-25T02:32:32Z")
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