Topic Playlist! (Part 1)

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1961

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
1962

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
1963

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
1964

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
1965

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
  6. Morning Will Come - Spirit
1966

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
  6. Morning Will Come - Spirit

[man, no Chicago songs yet? For shame…]

  1. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
1967

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
  6. Morning Will Come - Spirit
  7. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
  8. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1968

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
  6. Morning Will Come - Spirit
  7. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
  8. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
  9. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy - Blood Sweat & Tears
1969

(That was one I seriously considered starting the list with.)

1970

Songs with horn sections

  1. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
  2. Soul Man - the Blues Brothers
  3. Tucson Train - Bruce Springsteen
  4. Vehicle - The Ides of March
  5. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
  6. Morning Will Come - Spirit
  7. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
  8. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
  9. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy - Blood Sweat & Tears
  10. One Fine Morning - Lighthouse

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
1971

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
1972

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order

I know the most iconic New Order riff is the one from Blue Monday, but I think I already used that song once.

1973

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison

Wikipedia says George was one of the first pop musicians to feature a synth in his music, but the Monkees beat him by a couple years.

1974

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
1975

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
  6. I hear you now - Jon and Vangelis
1976

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
  6. I hear you now - Jon and Vangelis
  7. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Wendy Carlos, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
1977

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
  6. I hear you now - Jon and Vangelis
  7. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Wendy Carlos, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
  8. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
1978

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
  6. I hear you now - Jon and Vangelis
  7. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Wendy Carlos, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
  8. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
  9. Pictures at an Exhibition - Isao Tomita
1979

Synths

  1. Daily Nightly - The Monkees
  2. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
  3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  4. Electronic Sound - George Harrison
  5. Never Been Any Reason - Head East (double-tracked synth solos!)
  6. I hear you now - Jon and Vangelis
  7. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Wendy Carlos, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
  8. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
  9. Pictures at an Exhibition - Isao Tomita
  10. Oxygene IV - Jean Michel Jarre
1980

China or Japan

  1. Visions of China - Japan