Greatest Intros in Rock

[radioman148]

How about this handful:

Rainy Day Bells - The Globetrotters
Why Do Lovers Break Each Others' Hearts - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Broken-Hearted Melody, by Sarah Vaughn
Stubborn Kind of Fellow - Marvin Gaye
He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals

I agree regarding Sarah Vaughn. I think a better intro for the Crystal's is "He's A Rebel" or "Da Do Ron Ron".

 

[Markieo]

"There Is" - The Dells
"Suddenly You Love Me" - The Tremeloes
"Shape Of Things To Come" - Max Frost & The Troopers
"My Little Red Book" & "7 and 7 Is" - Love
"Goldfinger" - Shirley Bassey (I know it's not rock, but top 40, and one of the great "top of the hour" songs ever made)

 

[Silkie]

How about this handful:

Rainy Day Bells - The Globetrotters
Why Do Lovers Break Each Others' Hearts - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Broken-Hearted Melody, by Sarah Vaughn
Stubborn Kind of Fellow - Marvin Gaye
He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals

I agree regarding Sarah Vaughn. I think a better intro for the Crystal's is "He's A Rebel" or "Da Do Ron Ron".

Two more good ones!

 

[Silkie]

Not rock intros, but definitely hip - on the jazzy side:

Lou Rawls and Dianne Reeves - Fine Brown Frame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYcv3TMM4A

 

[cyberdad]

Jazz? Okay, the intro to "Big Noise From Winnetka" by Benny Goodman....or the Louis Prima original. Honorable mention would be the awesome percussion intros of two from 1946.....Artie Shaw's version of "Donkey Serenade, (with Shaw helping out on clarinet)" or Desi Arnaz' orignal full orchestra "Babalu." (conga line ending of which would also qualify as an all-time great "outro"). The only reason these guys weren't rockers is because they were born too soon. (Possible exception of Goodman).

 

[GridLeakBias]

Eric Bourdon and the Animals, “House Of The Rising Sun”.

Compare the clean simplistic guitar intro in their 1964 recording to the lengthy and complex opening when they appeared live on stage in Germany Apr 21, 1976.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg7jzi9JAkw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUwEQ7EKmTA&feature=related

 

[GridLeakBias]

Jazz? Okay, the intro to "Big Noise From Winnetka" by Benny Goodman....or the Louis Prima original. Honorable mention would be the awesome percussion intros of two from 1946.....Artie Shaw's version of "Donkey Serenade, (with Shaw helping out on clarinet)" or Desi Arnaz' orignal full orchestra "Babalu." (conga line ending of which would also qualify as an all-time great "outro"). The only reason these guys weren't rockers is because they were born too soon. (Possible exception of Goodman).

Thanks cyberdad, you're someone after my own heart. The days of Goodman, Shaw, Prima and others, such as the Dorseys, Miller, and...ah, just too many to name. Goodman's swing with Krupa on drums is at the top of my list in this catagory.

 

[radioman148]

"Dead End Street" Lou Rawls (love the opening monologue)

 

[Silkie]

Well, if we are going into jazz, it's pretty hard to leave out Thelonious Monk - regardless of the label he played under, although his Blue Note years were among his best. Just my opinion.

 

[cyberdad]

Well, if we are going into jazz, it's pretty hard to leave out Thelonious Monk - regardless of the label he played under, although his Blue Note years were among his best. Just my opinion.

+1

I'd add Oscar Peterson (perhaps he comes to mind because I'm writing tonight from Canada). And if we're going to talk about Jazz crossover stuff in the rock era, how about Cozy Cole's "Topsy"....or anything from Earl Bostic. Of later vintage....Tom Scott & the L.A. Express. (How about "Rock Island Rocket"....or his work on Joanie Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery"

There goes the Can-Con influence again. ;D

 

[radioman148]

Well, if we are going into jazz, it's pretty hard to leave out Thelonious Monk - regardless of the label he played under, although his Blue Note years were among his best. Just my opinion.

+1

I'd add Oscar Peterson (perhaps he comes to mind because I'm writing tonight from Canada). And if we're going to talk about Jazz crossover stuff in the rock era, how about Cozy Cole's "Topsy"....or anything from Earl Bostic. Of later vintage....Tom Scott & the L.A. Express. (How about "Rock Island Rocket"....or his work on Joanie Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery"

There goes the Can-Con influence again. ;D

Topsy Pt 2 is a classic.

 

[GridLeakBias]

Well, if we are going into jazz, it's pretty hard to leave out Thelonious Monk - regardless of the label he played under, although his Blue Note years were among his best. Just my opinion.

+1

I'd add Oscar Peterson (perhaps he comes to mind because I'm writing tonight from Canada). And if we're going to talk about Jazz crossover stuff in the rock era, how about Cozy Cole's "Topsy"....or anything from Earl Bostic. Of later vintage....Tom Scott & the L.A. Express. (How about "Rock Island Rocket"....or his work on Joanie Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery"

There goes the Can-Con influence again. ;D

Jazz is a great genre … looking back at some of the best I hear the sounds of Earl Hines, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Bessie Smith, Jack Teagarden, Charlie Mingus, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, and so many others.

As in Rock ‘n’ Roll, the list of credits is longer than time (and space) allows. Each artist added in their own way with their recognizable innovations and stylings.

Perhaps Jazz should be on a thread of its own – we sort of veered sharply off topic here, didn’t we?

 

[Silkie]

Scott Joplin could possibly be considered a jazz musician, I guess, although ragtime was a genre all its own. Scott Joplin even had a, hit record in the 70s from The Sting soundtrack, with a Marvin Hamlisch cover.

But speaking of rocking pianos, how about Fats Domino's cover - "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". The Ink Spots had the hit, however, if memory serves me well.

 

[cyberdad]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

 

[radioman148]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

Don't forget "Hooked on Classics" and the song that was from the 70s based on a Bach composition (I can't remember the title).

 

[GridLeakBias]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

Don't forget "Hooked on Classics" and the song that was from the 70s based on a Bach composition (I can't remember the title).

I don't think Mason Williams had Bach in mind when he wrote and later performed "Classical Gas" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but it was classical none the less.

 

[GridLeakBias]

Scott Joplin could possibly be considered a jazz musician, I guess, although ragtime was a genre all its own. Scott Joplin even had a, hit record in the 70s from The Sting soundtrack, with a Marvin Hamlisch cover.

The variations of Jazz are many, in fact, too many to list on this thread. Dixieland, Ragtime, Blues, Swing, New Orleans, Kansas City, modern, and progressive are but a few of the genres which we know as Jazz. The influence [of jazz] is widespread and crosses many boundries.

(The Scott Joplin hit from the movie “The Sting” was “The Entertainer”, a classic piano rag written by Joplin in 1902.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFkae0j_Ns

We’re all familiar with the piano version. Take a minute to listen to Chet Atkins finger-picking on his acoustic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtwF-gpluc&feature=related

But speaking of rocking pianos, how about Fats Domino's cover - "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". The Ink Spots had the hit, however, if memory serves me well.

“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”, The Ink Spots, 1941, was first recorded by another African-American group - Harlan Leonard and his Kansas City Rockets. Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Horace Heidt’s version went to #1 on the charts.

 

[firepoint525]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

Don't forget "Hooked on Classics" and the song that was from the 70s based on a Bach composition (I can't remember the title).

"Joy" by Apollo 100.

 

[Silkie]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

Don't forget "Hooked on Classics" and the song that was from the 70s based on a Bach composition (I can't remember the title).

"Joy" by Apollo 100.

Ahhh, but you need to check out The Ventures cover of "Joy". They did a whole album covering the classics. Good stuff!

 

[radioman148]

Okay, I'll take it to classical music. Albeit classical music turned into rock, to get us back on topic. First up....with a great intro, "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble. Two others would be "Asia Minor" by Kokomo or "Night" by Jackie Wilson (although you couldn't really classify "Night" as rock).

Don't forget "Hooked on Classics" and the song that was from the 70s based on a Bach composition (I can't remember the title).

"Joy" by Apollo 100.

Thanks--I couldn't remember the title ( A senior moment).