#1961998 - 06/23/08 06:44 PM
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Okay, it's summer.
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharohs
96 Tears - ? and The Mysterians
Telstar - The Ventures
House of The Rising Sun - The Animals
The Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher
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#1962001 - 06/23/08 06:48 PM
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I always dug the organ solo in Boston's Smokin'.
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#1962010 - 06/23/08 07:33 PM
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I always dug the organ solo in Boston's Smokin'.
Noah
Yeah, but that's a Hammond through a Leslie. On a combo organ, it wouldn't have been so greasy.
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#1962014 - 06/23/08 07:52 PM
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I think some of the Smashmouth stuff is pretty hip. I recently learned "Can't Get Enough of You Baby" in this pick-up band I play with occasionally. Of course, we extend the solo......
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#1962015 - 06/23/08 07:58 PM
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Anything Doors.
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#1962019 - 06/23/08 08:05 PM
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Whip it!- DEVO. Oh yeah, baby! 
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#1962043 - 06/23/08 10:08 PM
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Blues Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
Iron Butterfly - In the Time of Our Lives, In a Gadda Da Vida
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Kicks, Hungry
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#1962044 - 06/23/08 10:09 PM
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And how could I forget:
The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot of My Baby's Love
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#1962055 - 06/23/08 10:30 PM
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I always dug the organ solo in Boston's Smokin'.
Noah Yeah, but that's a Hammond through a Leslie. On a combo organ, it wouldn't have been so greasy.
Oops. Shame on me. Didn't focus on the topic closely enough.
Noah
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#1962080 - 06/24/08 02:46 AM
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I like many of the songs already named. Here are few more where the organ is not really a solo, per se, but plays an important role nonetheless.
- Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
- Where It's At (Beck)
- One Step Beyond (Madness)
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#1962081 - 06/24/08 03:13 AM
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Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Gloria - Them
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#1962094 - 06/24/08 04:14 AM
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pump it up
rock lobster
I'm a believer
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Edited by King Julien (06/24/08 03:35 PM)
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#1962111 - 06/24/08 05:27 AM
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How could I have forgotten?
Runaway - Del Shannon
California Girls - Beach Boys
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#1962148 - 06/24/08 06:59 AM
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Yes, especially "Backdoor Man".
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#1962679 - 06/25/08 11:25 AM
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This is a great list!
How about:
Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
Because - Dave Clark 5
Kind of a Drag - The Buckinghams
Wake Me Shake Me - Al Kooper with the Blues Project
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#1962926 - 06/25/08 10:31 PM
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Runaway wasn't a combo organ but it is cool.
There was a thread about Runaway not too long ago but I couldn't find it.
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#1963088 - 06/26/08 09:18 AM
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Fogerty's Deja Vu from 2004 has a great combo organ song called Radar...Fantastic stuff. He obviously loves the old combo organ songs because he also uses one on the song Jelly Roll on Blue Moon Swamp from 1997.
John
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#1963108 - 06/26/08 09:54 AM
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Missed the thread on Runaway... what was it, if not a combo organ? If it's a home organ, It doesn't sound much like a Hammond - was it an Electrohome? Thomas/Baldwin or Lowrey?
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#1963148 - 06/26/08 10:52 AM
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Runaway used a modified Clavioline called a Musitron, cobbled together by Max Crook, who played the famous solo.
http://www.delshannon.com/maxmusitron.htm
It's monophonic, I believe.
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#1963156 - 06/26/08 11:05 AM
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Wow. Thanks Moe!
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#1963470 - 06/27/08 04:42 AM
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..."Boom-Boom"-Animals
"Indication"-Zombies
"Alabama Song"-Doors
"I Like it Like That"-DC5
And-all the aforementioned.
When I want a combo-organ "fix", I generally listen
to "Best of the Animals". It's bluesy, and Alan Price
really struts his stuff on a bunch on tunes...
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#1963535 - 06/27/08 07:19 AM
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Last night I watched the Doors' Behind the Music show again. It is SO COOL to see Ray sitting there with a pristine Continental and Fender key bass playing those lines.
I'd love to have a Conny in great shape!
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#1963591 - 06/27/08 09:14 AM
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I think you mean The Doors "Classic Albums". I just got that...a good show. Yes totally cool to see Ray playing the real thing again! A friend of mine, Robby's tech Marco owns those vintage keys you see Ray playing.
John
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#1963713 - 06/27/08 01:55 PM
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California Sun - The Rivieras
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Also, that Doors Classic Albums is great. I specifically like when Ray starts playing a little Ray Charles when explaining the origins for the 'Break On Through' baseline.
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#1964685 - 06/30/08 05:23 PM
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I recently had an encounter with the coolness of the combo organ. This guitar guy posts on Craigslist that he wants a keyboard player to do an instrumental, surf-band, Quentin Taratino soundtrack-type stuff. Although I am a self proclaimed Hammond whore, I still love the surf guitar sound, so I give him a call. We talk and he tells me he has TWO Vox Jaguars and he wants someone to play these. So I go down, and lo and behold, he has TWO Vox Jaguars (both fully original, V304's, NOT Heath kits, complete with legs, cover, and 100% operational, and one is 97% mint with a just few minor scratches in the tolex at the corners). It was funny because he had one in the garage with rug deodorizer on the lid because his wife said it smelled too bad. Needless to say I was in combo organ heaven! He also has a Farfisa Compact. They sounded incredible (in that cool, cheesy kinda way). We're clicked (he has 50's sci-fi monster movie posters on the wall of his studio), so we're getting a few songs together.
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