# Sax on the beach, or, your favorite songs w/horns. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022 "2001-10-27T23:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/1 "2001-10-27T23:19:30Z")
What’s your favorite songs featuring horns (a whole section or solo)? Here’s a few of mine: 1. Most of Chicago’s big hits. 2. Ditto Earth, Wind, and Fire (and the Phoenix Horns work w/Genesis & Phil COllins (don’t throw things)) 3. “Judy in Disguise (with glasses)” - John Fred & His Playboy Band 4. “Penny Lane” - Beatles 5. “Baker Street” - Gerry Rafferty 6. “The One You Love” - Glen Frey 7. “Java” - Al Hirt 8. “Rise” - Herb Alpert 9. “Grazing in the Grass” - Friends of Distinction 10. “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” - The Fifth Dimension There’s more of course, but these come immediately to mind. Side note: HATED Blood, Sweat, and Tears stuff. The horns always sounded, I don’t know, cheesy? ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/2 "2001-10-27T23:21:50Z")
Soulfinger! By the Barkays. You just gotta dance. ---
**Author:** ![MMMason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@MMMason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMMason)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/3 "2001-10-28T00:13:50Z")
“Pick Up The Pieces” by Average White Band. One of the songs that reminds people that a saxophone can be used for things other than [ul] [li]Porn[/li][li]Kenny G.[/li][/ul] I play the saxphone and I can’t stand KennyG. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/4 "2001-10-28T00:15:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > **9. “Grazing in the Grass” - Friends of Distinction** Friends of Whoozis…? I love “Grazing in the Grass,” but I thought it was a **Hugh Maskela** tune. The one with the cowbells, y’know? My pick is the entire ROCK OF AGES live album by **The Band** …their 1971-72 New Year’s Eve concert, featuring a five-man horn section (staffed by musicians interinstrumentally skilled enough to encompass everything from tuba and baritone saxophone to English horn and E-flat clarinet) overseen by New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/5 "2001-10-28T00:41:18Z")
**Know Your Product** by The Saints. Side 2 of the **Funhouse** record, by the Stooges. **I Hate Music** by Mad. **Ascension** by John Coletrane (either version). ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/6 "2001-10-28T01:11:14Z")
Most anything by James Brown…Maceo Parkers solo albumns…Reel Big Fish and some of that No Doubt/ska type music. Its all good. peace, JB ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/7 "2001-10-28T01:58:51Z")
Oh Bondage, Up Yours- X-Ray Specs and New York’s All Right (If You Like Saxophones) - Fear ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/8 "2001-10-28T02:03:04Z")
Theme to \*\* “Cagney and Lacey” \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/9 "2001-10-28T02:15:43Z")
“Do That Stuff” by **George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic et al** ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/10 "2001-10-28T03:38:19Z")
I agree with almost all of **Mr. Blue Sky’s** choices; he saved me from having to type all that. However, I do love Blood, Sweat and Tears. Other favorites: “Love is the Answer” by England Dan and John Ford Coley. “Our House” by Madness. “The Captain of Her Heart” by Double. “Zoot Suit Riot” by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. “Brand New Day” by Sting (I LOVE this song) I know there are so many more, but I can’t think of them right now. Looking forward to what others say. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/11 "2001-10-28T03:45:56Z")
Three old old ones I like… 1. “True Love Ways” (Buddy Holly…Sweet.) 2. “Reminiscing” (Buddy Holly…IIRC this was with King Curtis) 3. “I Want That” by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (British band. This was a single B-side). Most insane solo I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/12 "2001-10-28T08:52:53Z")
Careless whisper (George Michael) would be my second choice after the already mentioned awesome Baker Street. ---
**Author:** ![Fouccalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fouccalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fouccalt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/13 "2001-10-28T16:01:19Z")
I think its a requirement for sax players not to stand Kenny G. I do and so do all my sax friends, as well as most musicians I know. They recognize his lack of talent, I just can’t stnad that he always plays almost a half-step sharp due to his style of playing, his massive vibrato sounds sick too. As for cool songs with horns: Superman by Goldfinger Anything by Reel Big Fish Maceo Parker is cool too(Pass the Peas) Mighty Mighty Bosstones are another cool ska group Chicago songs are cool too ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Ace\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_Face)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/14 "2001-10-28T20:05:50Z")
Most of The [English] Beat’s stuff. Very simple, but effective. “In My Own Dream” by the Butterfield Blues Band. Killer solo at the end. Totally revised my image of David Sanborn. I second the Earth Wind and Fire and AWB references. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/15 "2001-10-31T22:35:03Z")
Okay, I come to this late, I apologize, press of business, you know. My assumption is that this is really more of a popular music thread than one about other genres and is really about horn sections behind singers, so I’ll try to keep it in those parameters. Nobody likes Kenny G 'cause it’s the weasel horn. I don’t care if Coltrane DID play it, face it, it’s that weasel horn sound. (Kenny G also has all the musical taste of a dead pig in the sunshine but what the heck.) I like most everything that has swinging horns behind it and y’all have mentioned quite a few of my personal favorites. (The Band and Maceo in particular.) Let me also mention some other stuff: Taj Mahal’s work with brass players, most especially his “The Real Thing” with five tubas, recorded live at the Fillmore East. DISCLAIMER: The fact that one of the performers on this album is my mentor and friend in no way affects my recommendation of an incredible body of work. In fact, the man is all over this thread but it can’t be helped. Every single Motown song with the big horns behind 'em . . . the Supremes, the Temps, the Tops, Smokey Robinson, etc. Every time I hear one of those old songs with the big bari and bass sax licks I want one of my own all over again. (Like I don’t have enough problems with tubas.) The collected works of Wilson Pickett, with those Muscle Shoals guys. And always, always, always, any blues band with horns. The way it oughta be. your humble TubaDiva okay, so I’m prejudiced. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/16 "2001-10-31T23:35:25Z")
My son, who is learning to play the trumpet, has a thing for anything by Kool and the Gang. He also loves the coronet in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/17 "2001-10-31T23:37:36Z")
This’ll sound weird, but KC and the Sunshine has an ass-kicking horn section. There. I said it and I’m proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/18 "2001-11-01T00:00:38Z")
Easy for me – Swingout Sister’s version of _Am I The Same Girl_ has awesome horns. My very favorite, _must-_-crank-it horn song. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/19 "2001-11-01T01:05:04Z")
Since no one has mentioned it, I’ll chime in with one of my favorites: “Vehicle” by the _Ides of March_ [Lyrics](http://lyrics.coolfreepages.com/Lyrics/1970/771970.html), in case you don’t remember off the top of your head. And of course anything by the JB’s. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/20 "2001-11-01T01:24:13Z")
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