When Led Zeppelin was recording their “Houses of the Holy” album, they must have had to do a few takes of “The Ocean” before getting it right, as you can hear John Bonham counting off:
We’ve done four already
But now we’re steady
And then they went
One… two… three… four
I’m looking for other songs where you can hear the band counting off in a humorous way.
Beatles – Taxman
Lennon (?) is counting and someone else yells the real tempo/count behind him and the song starts.
John Lennon – Give Peace a Chance
Lennon counts, “Two… one, two, three, four,” and the song starts.
Some other song Lennon counts in in German (?) but I don’t remember which.
You might be thinking of “I Don’t Wanna Face It.”
^ Dat’s da one.
Harry Nilsson – Coconut
Ever the comedian, Nilsson starts off the song with some kind of count in.
It’s subtle but the count in to “I Saw Her Standing There” with the weird emphasis on four gets me every time.
^ Watch it now, watch it, watch it! 
Offered for your consideration …
Not a true count-in but U2’s Vertigo begins with Bono saying: uno, dos, tres, catorce. (1, 2, 3, 14 si no hablas).
Trouble by Lindsey Buckingham has a count-in that’s on the weird side.
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'Nother one …
At the very beginning. Gently haunting …
“Four Little Diamonds,” by Electric Light Orchestra:
“OK, after four…FOUR!”
Feel free to jettison this one:
Funny I never thought of that as a count-in to the song, but it works!
One, two, free four!
–Free Four / Pink Floyd
It’s the correct math for rock n’ roll.
In an outtake of A Day In The Life John counts in with “Sugarplum Fairy, Sugarplum Fairy”
According to self-described experts it’s George counting, Paul doing the real count in the background. I’m not one of those “experts” fwiw.
The Happy Fits - Too Late (starts off with a count in… French?)
Beck, “Elevator Music”: “One, two, you know what to do…”
Rachel Bloom, “The Math of Love Triangles” (leading into a dance break): “One, two, three, six, eight, three, go!”
Def Leppard, Rock of Ages
“Gunter, Glieben, Glausen, Globen”
Which, of course, leads to “uno, did, tres, quattro, cinco, cinco, seis…”
