# Songs that prominently feature a baritone saxophone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974 "2013-12-22T21:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/41 "2013-12-25T00:55:11Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > As promised. Here’s a list of [all TMBG tracks that have bari on them](http://tmbw.net/wiki/Category:Songs_Featuring_Saxophone) - not all old ones either, they’re still using it on new recordings as well: > > [She Was a Hotel Detective](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVHvD-IMbg) > > [The World’s Address](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9Ch4G7J60) > > [She’s Actual Size](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OQ0RvMLVUM) > > [The Guitar (Lion Sleeps Tonight)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OKac0K91p4) > > [Shoehorn with Teeth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DJveHYslk) “Number Three” from their first album has a baritone sax too, but it’s a sample on loop. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/42 "2013-12-25T01:24:39Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/43 "2013-12-25T02:48:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > How did I not hear of Morphine before this? That’s some good stuff. One of my all time favorite bands. R.I.P. Mark Sandman. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/44 "2013-12-26T02:31:04Z")
More great Gerry M. can be found on ‘Ghandarva’ (Paul Beaver & Bernie Krauss). Man, that cat could play. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/45 "2013-12-26T04:46:37Z")
> [@digs](#): > > IIRC, it’s just two guys, and the sax guy will often play two at once (tenor and bari, maybe?). Mind: blown. Two saxes at once. Freaking crazy but damn does it work. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/or6iiGJ4O6s/hqdefault.jpg "Morphine - Supersex") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or6iiGJ4O6s) ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/46 "2013-12-26T19:58:20Z")
The end of “The Boxer” sounds like one, during the “lie lie lie’s”, but could be tubas. In the end it doesn’t sound like the Bass Harmonica in the middle of the tune as in the Wiki. “…The song also features a bass harmonica heard during the second and final verses…” [LINK](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxer) Could be creative engineering. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/47 "2013-12-26T20:20:09Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Two saxes at once. Freaking crazy but damn does it work. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or6iiGJ4O6s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or6iiGJ4O6s) Rahsaan Roland Kirk did that, too- and sometimes with three horns at once. I don’t know if he did any particularly famous recordings on baritone sax, but he did play it. He played everything and sometimes created his own instruments! ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/48 "2013-12-27T00:56:39Z")
Don’t forget Tears of a Clown people. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/49 "2013-12-27T01:36:24Z")
_Dance to the Music_, Sly and The Family Stone. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/50 "2013-12-30T16:43:53Z")
The sax solo on Lou Reed’s _Walk on the Wild Side_ is a baritone, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![alphamatix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@alphamatix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphamatix)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/51 "2013-12-31T00:33:13Z")
[Pepper Adams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIu87qCZnJ4) [Serge Chaloff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEY6mgyHtDk) ---
**Author:** ![Huvudtvatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Huvudtvatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huvudtvatt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/52 "2013-12-31T12:37:41Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > Don’t forget Tears of a Clown people. That’s a bassoon, not a saxophone. ---
**Author:** ![swaghorn69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@swaghorn69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swaghorn69)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/53 "2014-04-22T07:29:35Z")
Moaning by charles Mingus is a very good bari piece ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/54 "2014-04-22T14:17:08Z")
> [@Huvudtvatt](#): > > That’s [“Tears of a Clown”] a bassoon, not a saxophone. The sound is definitely a bassoon, but I always understood that the iconic intro, which crops up throughout the song, was actually a synthesizer piece created by Stevie Wonder independently and then pressed into service for the song. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974/55 "2014-04-22T14:20:02Z")
I always liked the one-nite baritone sax bit that hits at the beginning of the play out of “Thank The Lord for the Night Time” by Neil Diamond. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-prominently-feature-a-baritone-saxophone/676974.md?page=2)