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Best Intro to Oldies Song

K

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Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the correct term. However, what do you think is the best intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.

My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
 
I can't explain why, but the first intro to pop into my head was "Blues Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothin Yet." Feb 1967 Very powerful out of a jingle!

There are a few hundred thousand more that I'm overlooking I'm sure!

Another one that popped out of my memory banks ... "Friends of Distiction - Grazin' In The Grass." Sounded great out of the Top of the Hour ID. You knew you were cookin' when you almost blew the studio monitors.

Added later in edit ...

How about:

The Who - I Can See For Miles.

Kinks - All The Day & All of the Night

Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me

Aretha - Respect

Ramsey Lewis - Wade In The Water

Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center of Your Mind

Jackson Five - I Want You Back

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece of My Heart

Grassroots - Midnight Confessions

Four Tops - Just Ask The Lonely

Lee
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by LeeSmith on 01/02/06 06:54 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
> Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
>
"Same Old Song" - Four Tops
"Dancin' in the Street" - Martha and the Vandellas
 
"I hear you Knocking"...Dave Edmunds

Runners up, T-Rex "Bang a Gong" (Get it on), Blues Image, "Ride Captain Ride", and "Venus", sung phonetically by the Shocking Blue!. However these Songs go best with Jingles, and your Hollies tune is a great one to talk up to!

> Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
> Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
>
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> "Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vandellas.

"Nowhere To Run" by Martha and The Vandellas was another great intro, not necessarily to talk over, but to come out of an upbeat TOH ID or jingle.

That intense drum snap at the start, right into the Funk Brothers pulsing rhythm led by James Jamerson's bass. Great stuff.
 
> [Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed)


"Rockin' Pneumonia" by Johnny Rivers. The intro is 27 seconds. You've got to be a pretty good DJ to talk over 27 seconds. Most of today's DJs don't talk that much during an entire shift.
 
Chumps run radio these days. Doesn't matter how long they can talk over a song. "Taint sayin' nothin'

> You've got to be a pretty good DJ to talk over 27
> seconds. Most of today's DJs don't talk that much during an
> entire shift.
>

You got that right. They're as lame as the drek they play. Reading off of liner cards. I imagine their as circumscribed as the puny music choice they're allowed to play. What a bunch of creeps that manage radio today.

If those chumps were in charge, there would never be any "discovery" of name acts like Buddy Holly, Tommy James, etc., who made it big when a DJ decided to play their song or instead flipped the 45 over to play the better song.
 
Long Cool Woman is good, very good, but Vehicle by Ides Of March is the best.

Everything is perfect about it including the time it takes to vocal.

I can't help but cook when I play it, even if I am at home. What an intro!



> Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
> Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
>
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Re: Motown Sixties Intros

Motown songs were produced to have a good intro. It is hard to come up with a mid-sixties Motown song that does not have a good intro. Think about that.

I guess Stoned Love sucks, but it is seventies. Love Child comes to mind, and I have heard some great aircheck intros with that song.

> "Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vandellas.
>
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This thread makes me want to go into the studio and cook with a bunch of good intro songs.

If anyone is making an audition tape for an oldies job (private deejay or radio jock) these are the ones to talk up to on the tape.

> Added later in edit ...
>
> How about:
>
> The Who - I Can See For Miles.
>
> Kinks - All The Day & All of the Night
>
> Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
>
> Aretha - Respect
>
> Ramsey Lewis - Wade In The Water
>
> Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center of Your Mind
>
> Jackson Five - I Want You Back
>
> Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
>
> Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece of My Heart
>
> Grassroots - Midnight Confessions
>
> Four Tops - Just Ask The Lonely
>
> Lee
>
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> "Rockin' Pneumonia" by Johnny Rivers. The intro is 27
> seconds. You've got to be a pretty good DJ to talk over 27
> seconds. Most of today's DJs don't talk that much during an
> entire shift.

I much prefer the original version by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns.
 
> > ["Rockin' Pneumonia" by Johnny Rivers. The intro is 27
> > seconds. You've got to be a pretty good DJ to talk over
> 27
> > seconds. Most of today's DJs don't talk that much during
> an
> > entire shift.
>
> I much prefer the original version by Huey "Piano" Smith &
> The Clowns.]



I do, also. But the post relates to songs with intros that DJs can talk over before the vocal starts.
 
Re: Motown Sixties Intros

> Motown songs were produced to have a good intro. It is hard
> to come up with a mid-sixties Motown song that does not have
> a good intro. Think about that.
>
> I guess Stoned Love sucks, but it is seventies. Love Child
> comes to mind, and I have heard some great aircheck intros
> with that song.

My personal favorite Motown intro: "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" by the Four Tops.<P ID="signature">______________


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> Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
> Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
>


Another good one from 1972 is Raspberries "Go All The Way" with it's Who style intro.
 
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Re: Motown Sixties Intros

>
> I guess Stoned Love sucks, but it is seventies. Love Child
> comes to mind, and I have heard some great aircheck intros
> with that song.

By then Holland, Dozier & Holland had left Motown to form their own label.
 
> Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
> Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.

Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One & I Want You Back - Jackson 5 are two of my personal favorites<P ID="signature">______________

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Re: Motown Sixties Intros

A buddy of mine went from working at CKLW over to Motown. One of his duties was to work with the engineers to mix the music so it sounded best on radios. Must have been a neat job.

Lee
 
> Long Cool Woman is good, very good, but Vehicle by Ides Of
> March is the best.
>
> Everything is perfect about it including the time it takes
> to vocal.
>
> I can't help but cook when I play it, even if I am at home.
> What an intro!
>
>
>
> > Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the
> > correct term. However, what do you think is the best
> > intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.
>
> >
> > My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black
>
> > Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.
> >
>
The extended intro to "Here Comes My Baby" by The Tremeloes.
 
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