Agreed.
Still, we can suggest some notables – all live (look up YouTube):
-Wring That Neck (20 minute ride),
-Mandrake Root,
-Lazy (I have 4 live versions) and
-Space Truckin’ (any will do but Made in Japan is live standard).
Right. It was some kind of weird organ that used pieces of adhesive tape to keep the stops open, IIRC. I’ll have to see if I still have my Zombies biography.
Missed this thread the first time around. I see someone already mentioned Jon Lord from “Deep Purple” – pretty damned classic. He used to run the Hammond through some Hi-Watt guitar amplifiers, and either used preamp distortion or overdrove (sp?) the power tubes for that distortion he used pretty often.
Lee Michaels and Frosty, anyone? ETA: someone already chimed in on these two as well.
Nitpick on nitpick: the Hammond was actually invented as a subsitute for a pipe organ – for people who didn’t have space for a real one in their house or church. It was meant to sound as close to a pipe organ as you could get with electricity in a small box – probably didn’t succeed too well, but it has other uses, fortunately. Not how it’s used in rock, but I always thought that was interesting as a historical note.
Intevention by Arcade Fire. (That’s a particularly good recording. I’m off to see them in Hyde Park, London on the 30th.)
Can’t leave out “Highway Star”.
“Green Onions” or anything else by Booker T. and the M.G.s.
Speaking of “Green Onions,” I saw this a few weeks or more ago, Booker T. these days showing people how to play some of his tunes the right way. I’m embarrassed that I never heard a little extra note in the main thing. It’s a great video, though. I’d call him a rock guy, for sure.
NOPE that was a mellotron on “Watcher of the Skies.”
For notable Genesis organ work I was going to post about “The Musical Box,” but cjepson beat me to it. “Wonderful chill-inducing crescendo” is an apt way to put it.
In the “Apocalypse in 9/8” section of “Supper’s Ready,” Banks plays a long organ solo in various different meters over the rhythm section chugging away in a 4+2+3/8 motif, so that he was beginning and ending measures in completely different places from everybody else. Unlike most musicians who stumble into that, Banks did it on purpose. And it took plenty of concentration and rhythmic chops to pull it off.
Also, “In the Cage” features a pretty rockin’ organ part by Tony.
Don’t forget Al Kooper’s work on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone;” it pretty much defines the song musically.
Laurens Hammond’s lawyer once claimed, during a lawsuit with pipe organ builders in the 1930s, that pipe organ makers would go the way horseshoe makers or kerosene lamp makers. Interesting factoid I thought I’d toss in! 
You know what, come to think of it, “In the Cage” is my favorite example of rhythm organ outside of R&B music.
Muse’s “Megalomania” - YouTube
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Hugh Banton has played various organs with Van der Graaf Generator over the years, and now also has a business repairing and renovating pipe organs.
At one gig (not a VDGG gig, although all the members were involved) he had a solo spot playing Barber’s Adagio for Strings on the hall’s pipe organ!
Saucerful Of Secrets showcases Rick Wright’s organ very well (no sniggering at the back). When played live in places like the Royal Albert Hall, he used to climb up to the Hall’s pipe organ to play the end section (Celestial Voices). Very moving.
A rather obscure English prog band called Rare Bird didn’t have a guitarist and were organ led.
The beginning of the Alan Parsons Project’s “Don’t Let It Show” from “I Robot” has a lot of organ in it.
Swing, Swing by The All-American Rejects.
People keep mentioning Deep Purple but forgetting about “Perfect Strangers”, which has an awesome organ intro as well as awesome organ throughout.
I found this thread through a search. What are rippin strong blues or blues songs with subtle or tasteful organ additions. Similar to a Greg Allman or similar. I’m not interested in the over the top organ contributions but rather the ones that are blues songs but really tasteful and main stream?
I’d love to put a playlist together and would love your contributions if possible…
Listen to the long version of “Peppermint Twist” (1961) by Joey Dee and the Starlighters. The version you hear on the radio is 2:03, but the whole thing is 4:05 and the second half is instrumental jam including great organ by Carlton Lattimore.
House of the Rising Sun by the Animals?
Here’s a live clip from 1964. Alan Price on the keyboard.
This is as good a thread as any to mention Dr Robert by the Beatles. Whenever I hear the “organ” part of it, or the intro to Swing Swing Swing by the All American Rejects, I confuse the two.
Ditto and expanding. Search for all Yes music released before, oh say 2000. Notably the work done by Rick Wakeman. While it is untrue that genuine church pipe organs were used, Rick pioneered the use of stacking keyboards and was an early user of the Mellotron as well as the Mini Moog organs.