# Recommend some great albums that feature the Hammond B3 Organ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678 "2012-08-16T16:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/1 "2012-08-16T16:00:36Z")
I’m a rock and blues/rock guy, but I’ll leave genre out of this entirely, because I don’t want to overlook anything featuring that great Hammond organ sound. Thanks. If you’re not sure if it’s a B3, that’s fine of course. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/2 "2012-08-16T16:05:58Z")
Didn’t Jon Lord play Hammonds? So, Deep Purple is a start I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/3 "2012-08-16T16:06:01Z")
If you’re a blues/rock guy you probably already have some Allman Brothers stuff, but if not, get some. They’ve always featured the B3. Gregg Allman’ was never a huge soloist but his most adventurous Hammond playing is on their first few albums: the two studio albums collected in Beginnings and the live At Fillmore East album. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/4 "2012-08-16T16:15:04Z")
Anything by Booker T & the MGs. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/5 "2012-08-16T16:16:41Z")
Cool, I have the Fillmore album; I’ll check out the other. I’ve got Deep Purple’s Machine Head on vinyl, but I should check out more of their catalog. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/6 "2012-08-16T16:17:56Z")
Check out Brian Auger. I like _Second Wind_, but some people may have a problem with Alex Ligertwood’s vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/7 "2012-08-16T16:22:50Z")
[Wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_B3#B-3_.2F_C-3_.2F_RT-3_.2F_A-100_.2F_D-100_.2F_E-100_.2F_H-100_series) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/8 "2012-08-16T18:08:02Z")
I can’t do it now, but find the CD “Have You Had Your Vitamin B3 Today?” (I think) Great music - and nice cover 😉 Also - Back at the Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith. Essential. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/9 "2012-08-16T18:13:21Z")
[Ian McLagan’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McLagan) work with the Small Faces and the Faces, as well as his session work. His organ on the Small Faces masterpiece [Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden%27s_Nut_Gone_Flake) is remarkable, as is his work on “Flying” by the Faces, and their cover of McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and gigs in bars there. If you’re ever lucky enough to see him, you won’t forget him. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/10 "2012-08-16T18:41:51Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > [Ian McLagan’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McLagan) work with the Small Faces and the Faces, as well as his session work. > > His organ on the Small Faces masterpiece [Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden%27s_Nut_Gone_Flake) is remarkable, as is his work on “Flying” by the Faces, and their cover of McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” > > He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and gigs in bars there. If you’re ever lucky enough to see him, you won’t forget him. Yes! I love his playing. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/11 "2012-08-16T18:59:13Z")
The James Gang Live In Concert album has a medley of Take A Look Around/Tend My Garden in which Joe Walsh does some nice B3 work. And although their stuff is a bit dated, check out the Vanilla Fudge eponymous debut album for some nice B3 tones. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/12 "2012-08-16T19:01:11Z")
Didn’t the Doors have some organ sounds on some of their stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/13 "2012-08-16T19:05:49Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Didn’t the Doors have some organ sounds on some of their stuff? Manzarek didn’t use a B3. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/14 "2012-08-16T19:07:52Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Didn’t the Doors have some organ sounds on some of their stuff? Plenty, but most of it was the Vox Continental, a much thinner sounding instrument than the mighty Hammond. Ray Manzarek did play Hammond on the _L.A. Woman_ album, however. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/15 "2012-08-16T19:24:20Z")
Keith Emerson, of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, started with a Hammond L 100 (not a B3 though) > **[The Man Who Murdered His Keyboard](https://slate.com/culture/2012/08/history-of-prog-the-nice-emerson-lake-palmer-and-other-bands-of-the-1970s.html)** > > Here is a list of the musicians, artists, and other figures mentioned in this series, along with brief bios. Listen along to this series with Weigel’s... ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/16 "2012-08-16T19:29:27Z")
[Lee Michaels.](http://musicofourheart.me/2011/10/25/what-happened-to-lee-michaels/) [Just](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PpXSC1NN4&feature=related)[listen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-fjROIH2U). That [self-titled album](http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lee-michaels/id192255822) was “as close to live as you want to be without being warned” (liner notes). He and a drummer went into the studio one night and cranked out a classic by dawn. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/17 "2012-08-16T19:35:55Z")
15 posts and no mention of “The House of The Rising Sun” by Eric Burdon and the Animals? I don’t really know if it was a B3. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/18 "2012-08-16T19:38:51Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > Keith Emerson, of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, started with a Hammond L 100 (not a B3 though) Emerson used the L100 live, but his main organ in the studio was a C3, which is just a B3 with a different exterior. > [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > 15 posts and no mention of “The House of The Rising Sun” by Eric Burdon and the Animals? > > I don’t really know if it was a B3. Nope, it’s that [Vox Continental](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPs8oaFAxo4) again. ---
**Author:** ![theoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@theoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theoldman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/19 "2012-08-16T22:47:09Z")
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Jimmy Smith - not sure of the album but ‘I Got My Mojo Workin’" shows off the Hammond… I think… ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678/20 "2012-08-16T22:58:56Z")
Already mentioned but +1 to Jon Lord, Booker T. (there’s a cool video on the PBS website somewhere of him breaking down on video some of his hits), Lee Michaels. Didn’t see Brian Auger mentioned, but he’s a phat player. For jazz, it’s way too long a list to get into, but some of my favorites are the not-that-famous-as-he-should-be Don Patterson (“The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson”'s a great album, as are the sides with Sonny Stitt and everything else he ever cut), Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, and Dr. Lonnie Smith (these last three have plenty of “soul jazz” sides from the late 1960s which kill). I guess Beck is rock, so maybe Dr. Lonnie’s “Boogaloo to Beck” could be good. I like it a lot, as in enough to really transcribe a bunch of things off it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-great-albums-that-feature-the-hammond-b3-organ/631678.md?page=2)