Greatest Intros in Rock

[Limp73]

(Just Like)Romeo and Juliet-The Reflections
Jailhouse Rock-Elvis Presley
Louie Louie-The Kingsmen
Walk Don't Run '64-The Ventures
California Sun-The Rivieras (and The Ramones)
Smoke On The Water-Deep Purple
Spooky-Classics IV
We're An American Band-Grand Funk Railroad
Free Bird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Smokestack Lightning-Howlin' Wolf
Johnny B. Goode-Chuck Berry
Joy To The World-Three Dog Night
Let's Work Together-Wilbert Harrison
Sara-Fleetwood Mac
Nowhere To Run-Martha Reeves and The Vandellas
On The Road Again-Canned Heat
Boom Boom-John Lee Hooker
Are You Ready For A Thing Called Love-Bonnie Raitt
Magic-Olivia Newton-John
Dancin' Fool-Frank Zappa
Pride and Joy-Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Suite-Judy Blue Eyes-Crosby,Stills and Nash
All I Wanna Do-Sheryl Crow
War-Edwin Starr
Eat It-Weird Al Yankovic

 

[GridLeakBias]

Hush - Deep Purple (Tetragrammaton 1503 (PS) is extremely rare, $$$.) Here is their first version (1968) on UK Parlophone label (R5708) with a howling wolf in the lead-in, before the intro downbeat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-x7RqRF8Pk

 

[jimmyone]

Navy Blue--Diane Renay
Melody 'Dmour-Ames Brothers
Hot Diggity-Perry Como
Conquistadour-Procal Harum
Limbo Rock-Chubby Checker
The Fly----Chubby Checker
Indian Reservation-Paul Revere & the Raiders

 

[Silkie]

Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard - Diane Ray

 

[cyberdad]

Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard - Diane Ray

That's more of chant than an intro! ;D

 

[Silkie]

Her Royal Majesty - James Darren

 

[GridLeakBias]

"Chase" - Giorgio Moroder (This is a real stretch, as this cut is not rock, but from the motion picture "Midnight Express" [and the album by the same title]), but the extended intro is intriguing. Additional note: It is used as the opening theme for the radio broadcast of Coast 2 Coast AM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akyx5iu_z8Y

 

[Silkie]

Starman - David Bowie

 

[GridLeakBias]

Pipeline - The Chantays

 

[jimmyone]

Indian Lake--Cowsills
Mississippi Queen-Mountain
White Silver Sands-Bill Black & his Combo
Honkey Tonk Part 1 --Bill Doggett
Honkey Tony Part 2 --Bill Doggett

 

[GridLeakBias]

Honkey Tonk Part 1 --Bill Doggett
Honkey Tony Part 2 --Bill Doggett

Have to respectfully disagree here, nit picker that I am.

Honky Tonk Pt 1 opens with the lead guitar laying down the basic 12-bar blues bass line for the tune. Technically, it is a vamp, not an intro.

Honky Tonk Pt2 has no intro. Pt 1 fades out at the 7th bar of a sax solo and Pt 2 opens with bars 8 through 11 of that solo, intended as though it is an unbroken continuation of Pt1.

Although either piece can and [does] stand alone as recorded singles, musically (and together) they comprise one extended arrangement.

And I agree 100% with myself when I estimate that Honky Tonk 1&2 rates in the top 10 of R&R instrumentals of the 50s. 8)

 

[jimmyone]

A Younger Girl...Neil Harrison
Uptown...........The Crystals

 

[cyberdad]

Wasn't "A Younger Girl" a mid-sixties tune by the Lovin' Spoonful, with another charted version by the Critters?

or are we talking about the ridiculously depressing "A Young Girl" by Noel Harrison (also mid-sixties).

 

[Silkie]

Wasn't "A Younger Girl" a mid-sixties tune by the Lovin' Spoonful, with another charted version by the Critters?

or are we talking about the ridiculously depressing "A Young Girl" by Noel Harrison (also mid-sixties).

The Critters tune was simply "Younger Girl".

Another Critters tune was "Mr. Dyingly Sad"

 

[Silkie]

And then we have Aerosmith "Same Old Song (and dance)"

 

[cyberdad]

Another Critters tune was "Mr. Dyingly Sad"

That one is in "heavy rotation" on at least one Ipod....Mine!

 

[Tom Wells]

I don't know if it was mentioned...I read many pages.

With a Girl Like You - Troggs

They're not playing their guitars, they're slamming them!

I nominate this song also as one of the founding moments of punk rock.
They get the whole song done in 2 minutes and 4 seconds. There's intros longer than that!

 

[Silkie]

I am guessing that "Smoke On The Water", by Deep Purple was probably posted at some point, but it does have a great intro, as well as a great ending.

 

[jimmyone]

Wasn't "A Younger Girl" a mid-sixties tune by the Lovin' Spoonful, with another charted version by the Critters?

or are we talking about the ridiculously depressing "A Young Girl" by Noel Harrison (also mid-sixties).
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Yes, got it wrong, was talking about the depressing Noel Harrison song. DEAD! opps..but it had a good intro

 

[Silkie]

Wasn't "A Younger Girl" a mid-sixties tune by the Lovin' Spoonful, with another charted version by the Critters?

or are we talking about the ridiculously depressing "A Young Girl" by Noel Harrison (also mid-sixties).
[/quote

Yes, got it wrong, was talking about the depressing Noel Harrison song. DEAD! opps..but it had a good intro

LOL - If you were a member of the Addams Family you could revel in the misery of it all.