In 1969, Janis Joplin was gettin’ into some Motown funky soul horn stuff:
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),on Dick Cavett Show
Piece of My Heart, as performed at Woodstock.
In 1969, Janis Joplin was gettin’ into some Motown funky soul horn stuff:
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),on Dick Cavett Show
Piece of My Heart, as performed at Woodstock.
**Come Go With Me *(Del-Vikings, 1957). Sax to raise the dead.
Wild Weekend (The Iguanas, The Offbeats, The Rockin Rebels, The Routers and The Surfaris all covered this instro in the 1960’s). Sax to daze the red.
*Yes, Iggy Pop’s first band (never banned).
The sax playing old lang syne at the end of Fogelberg’s song about meeting his old lover in the grocery store…
Do bagpipes count? ![]()
Not exactly pop, but
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll) - AC/DC
Joe Cocker - Leave Your Hat On – Delicious seductive beat with a great horn arrangement.
I thought of that, too, isn’t that a french horn? Love that song.
The names of these songs take me right back to the 70’s, ‘horny’ bands were very big in the 70’s. A lot of early-ish Michael Jackson songs had some great horns.
The Cure - Close To Me
WIN
My first thought was 5:15 by The Who.
Van Morrison’s got a more than a few, including Wild Night, Jackie Wilson Said and (especially) Real Real Gone.
“When I’m Sixty-Four” by the Beatles has some horns. Also, “You Can Call Me Al,” “Late in the Evening” and I think “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes” all had horn parts. It depends on whether you’re looking for horns playing a major role in the song or just providing backing; if the latter, then there’s tons of songs that use horns which you wouldn’t even notice casually. (Side note: “Horns” just stopped sounding like a real word).
A number of Midnight Oil’s songs have great horns:
Best of Both Worlds
Beds Are Burning
Sting’s All Four Seasons actually features the Memphis Horns.
I suspect they’re synth horns, but I have a soft spot for Howard Jones’ Pearl In The Shell.
I wonder if anyone knows this song…
It’s one of my all time favourite tunes - even though i haven’t heard it for over a decade - maybe two. I’m not sure what year, but i suspect 80s or maybe early 90s. I think it was called “faith” or “only the faithful” it was full of great big brass sounds and was all over the radio back in the day, but it seems to have passed out of all knowledge now. If i had the name of the artist I could probably find the song and finally listen to it again.
some of the lyrics were:
you’ve got to have faith in something
we can believe what we want to believe
you’ve got to give if you want to receive
only the faithful gonna see the sun rise
only the faithful gonna kiss the sky
only the faithful gonna greet the dead
Electric Flag (Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, Nick Gravenites, et. al.)
“Over Loving You” - Live @ Monterey
“Wine” - same as above
“Texas” - Studio version
Tommy Dorsey’s recording of “Opus One.” IMO one of the best-arranged and performed songs of all time.
I also love the sax riffs in the Sanford Townsend Band’s “Smoke from a Distant Fire.”
Pretty much this.
How Blue Can You Get? as recorded by the Louisiana Gator Boys is pretty good. Of course, their horn section is Jon Faddis on trumpet and Clarence Clemons, Joshua Redman and Grover Washington, Jr. on saxophone. There are some other people in the band who aren’t all that bad either.
Us and them by Pink Floyd
believe I’m the first one to say it