I came to mention this. Especially “No Reply at All” and “Paperlate” (the latter technically a Genesis tune.)
Hold On, I’m Coming - Sam and Dave
Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
Immigrant Song
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
Hollywood Swinging - Kool and the Gang
California Soul - Marlena Shaw
Give The People What They Want - The O’Jays
Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat is all about sax with a mysterious stranger.
What, nobody’s mentioned Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side” yet (sax on the outro), or the wonderfully loose horns on “Geno” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners?
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.
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.
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.
A couple of great Hip Hop samples:
Public Enemy’s Harder Than You Think
which samples:
Shirley Bassey’s -Jezehel
Kanye West’s Touch the Sky
which samples:
Curtis Mayfield’sMove on Up
Not really pop but Dixie Chicken -Little Feat Live w/Tower of Power Horns.
Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat and Tears
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!
(Late response but) yeah, you are probably right. I had no idea and just googled something.
If Jazz counts, The Peter Gunn Theme has the best horns in the Universe, man!
Re Hot Chili Peppers–Taste the Pain
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
Ol’ Blue eyes - I’ve got you under my skin, this is very much the top drawer horn section
Fly me to the moon
Well jazz pop surely counts, andPaul Anka’s version of Wonderwall has horns that kick all kinds of ass! Check out the whole Rock Swings album if you like.
Which was kind of unusual for a new wave/punk group.
Friend or foe album was among the best of the entire
1980’s in my honest