# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/41 "2001-11-02T20:23:15Z")
No-one mentioned the big daddy? **Feels So Good?** by Chuck “I kick so much Flugelhorn ass, yo” Mangione? Whenever I hear that one I always think of the Love Boat. You know what’s wrong with that? Not a damn thing. (oh, and that, whosit? John Coltrane album _A Love Supreme_ is the cat’s whiskers, too) ---
**Author:** ![MJH2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@MJH2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJH2)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/42 "2001-11-02T20:28:53Z")
Moving from the sublime to the popular if not slightly absurd (sorry, I can’t help it): _Walking on Sunshine_ – Katrina and the Waves _Livin’ La Vida Loca_ – (you know who) _Place Your Love_ – Roxette (w/woodwind ensemble from the Stockholm Philharmonic) _Tusk_ – Fleetwood Mac _Even It Up_ – Heart _Down Under_ – Men At Work (admittedly a stretch, but a cool flute riff) _Express Yourself_ – Madonna ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/43 "2001-11-02T23:22:16Z")
Every time I hear “Just the two of us” sung by Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr. on sax from his “Winelight” album, I get a real good feeling. And I sing along. With the car windows rolled up. All the way. ---
**Author:** ![Neil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@Neil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neil)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/44 "2001-11-03T06:03:29Z")
jabe: I saw the whole spectacle in Cleveland, OH. I wasn’t sure how the audience would respond to Drums and Tuba, as I had never heard them either, but there was quite a bit of dancing. (Although, frankly, the chemical substances floating around probably aided that.) ---
**Author:** ![milo\_minderbinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@milo\_minderbinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milo_minderbinder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/45 "2001-11-03T18:50:46Z")
Stevie Wonder - Superstition Red Hot Chili Peppers - Yertle the Turtle Jamiroquai - Black Capricorn Day Bring on the funk! Nina Simone - I put a spell on you First heard this on a TV program Jools Holland made years ago called Mr Roadrunner. David Gilmour did a cover of it, it pains me greatly to admit I like the original better. Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy I can’t hear this without getting misty eyed :sniffle: milo ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/46 "2001-11-03T20:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > > 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. Ike you old dog - that was my answer. I hate when I read a thread like this and someone comes up with my response before I have the chance. Good taste in music though!! The track that really stands out on that album in my mind is “WS Walcott’s Medicine Show” The horn arrangement is super-tight and the sax solo blazes. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/47 "2001-11-03T22:29:44Z")
That’s one of my favorite cuts, too. AND one of my favorite Band tunes in general. That’s Garth Hudson taking the tenor sax solo; who’d have thunk it? The other high point of the album for me is the “Rag Mama Rag,” where Howard Johnson’s tuba is VERY pronounced…I think he stuck to baritone saxophone for most of the concert, making the horns a standard R&B backup ensemble of trumpet/trombone/ATB saxes. They recently put out a remixed-remastered CD of ROCK OF AGES. The entire double LP fits on the first disc, and the second disc is previously unreleased material. …hmmmm. I think the record shop down the block is still open. Excuse me. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022/48 "2001-11-03T23:07:58Z")
“The Working Hour” by **Tears for Fears** is my favorite song in which horns play a prominent role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sax-on-the-beach-or-your-favorite-songs-w-horns/90022.md?page=2)