The OP might also enjoy Santana’s early work with Gregg Rolie on B3.
“This Will Be Our Year” is one of the great pop songs. I would throw the Walker Bros (no hammond there) on your pop rock list and be very satisfied.
Tell me, is that a Hammond in “Leave Me Be?” It’s only in a few parts midway through.
That sounds like a Vox Continental to me or something very similar.
Several mentions of Jimmy Smith in here, but I didn’t see any love for Jimmy McGriff. Check out his big hit “I’ve Got a Woman”.
Boston featured a Hammond B-3 in each of their albums, I believe. I know their album “Walk On” used the Hammond B-3 in several (if not all) songs; in fact, there’s a medley that features the organ with one segment titled “Get Organ-ized.”
Unless my ears deceive me, check out “Jeremiah” by The Brockingtons. It’s finally available on youtube now. Wicked, criminally obscure soul number.
the entire Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills Super Session album is great, with tons of organ work… here’s some samples:
Alberts Shuffle - Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills - Super Session - 01 - Albert's Shuffle - YouTube
Season of the Witch - Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills - Super Session - 07 - Season Of The Witch Part 1 - YouTube
damn… Mike Bloomfield could play.
Did Dire Straits use a B-3? They had a few bitchin’ organ parts in their music…Tunnel of love and Walk of Life come to mind!
When I saw ELP, he mostly used the Hammond for sticking knives into, and tipping up. Most of his actual playing was on the Moog or one (or two simultaneously) of the several other keyboards (I am not sure what they all were).
At least at latter-day ELP shows, Emerson would have two Hammonds onstage. The one he abused during the climax of the set was not the same one he had been doing the serious playing on for the bulk of the show.
Old school ska, reggae, and rocksteady is chock full of Hammonds. Pretty much anything on the Trojan record label will have it (okay, not everything, but it’s standard to the genre). Start with The Liquidator (Harry J Allstars).
Atomic Rooster’s Death Walks Behind You, from 1971. Comes from the short-lived “power trio with an organist” period of rock music. The spooky bizarre thing is that the drummer was called Paul Hammond! Isn’t that funny? He’s called Hammond but he plays the drums!!! The organist was Vince Crane which means that, logically, we can deduce that the singer - the only remaining member - played the crane and was called Something Drums.
Here’s the band on Top of the Pops, with ladies:
The organ took the place of the bass and rhythm guitars, unlike ELP (for example) who used it instead of lead guitar. The organist starts soloing at 1:45, and by gum he does it with gusto. Good example of the value of having a charismatic vocalist - Led Zeppelin had one, Atomic Rooster didn’t.
Yeah, Jimmy Smith’s the man you need.
Great clip, thanks for posting that. Here’s what happened when they did hire a theoretically charismatic lead vocalist–at least one who was already an established star in the UK: his idea of stage presence is munching on a sandwich while singing.
Sad trivia note: all three band members in the clip you posted are now dead.
I think Ken Hensley used a Moog.
Edit: Upon further research, it seems I was wrong. Not on Uriah, but in his wikipedia page, it says
Hensley played both Hammond and Moog with Uriah Heep, as well as piano, guitar, and occasionally other instruments.