Thursday, February 14, 2019

Horns and Saxophone

I've had a long running thread on twitter about my favourite songs featuring brass instruments and Saxophone (Yes, it's a wind instrument but hey, my thread my rules.) Compiling them songs here: 



Blue Swede: Hooked on a feeling
Cat Empire: Sly
Stina Nordenstam: Little star
Ray Charles and Margie Hendricks: Hit the road Jack
The Jacksons: Blame it on the Boogie
A.R. Rehman: Tu bole main bolu
Amy Winehouse: You know I'm no good
Boyzone: Picture of you
Macy Gray: Freak like me
Asha Bhosle: Raat Shabnami
Spice Girls: Stop
M.I.A.: Boyz
OMC: How bizarre 
Patric Carney and Ralf Carney: Theme from BoJack Horseman 
Herp Albert and the Tijuana Brass: Lonely Bull
Apache Indian: Boom-Shack-A-Lack
Herp Albert and the Tijuana Brass: Tijuana Taxi
ABBA: Waterloo
Adnan Sami: Meter Down
Chicago: 25 or 6 to 4
Kishor Kumar: Eena Meena Deeka
Ricky Martin: La Copa De La Vida
Santana feat. Rob Thomas: Smooth
Corinne Bailey Rae: Put your records on
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run   
Suresh Triveni, Surya Ragunaathan, Veera Fauzia Saxena: Life me fair chance kiska?
Ezra Furman: Body was made
Rebirth Brass Band: Do whatcha wanna



This list will be updated with more songs featuring brass instruments and Saxophone.

Next up: Maybe a list of favourite songs featuring the Harmonica

2 comments:

AB said...

Latest this?
https://youtu.be/-u036N4Moec

Praveen said...

1. Wearing the inside out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N7Asm83Gfs
2. Indian rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhDijafzVg
3. Pretty child - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsB93peys4Y
4. Song for everyone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJl48t4C9s
5. Lingus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc

And usual suspects: Brubeck, Coltrane, M Davis etc.