What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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In summary, some of the best songs are "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine." by Axl Rose, "Bruce Springsteen - "tunnel of love"" by Led Zeppelin, "Honor thy Father" by Dream Theater, and "Octavarium" by Dream Theater.
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I love this song lately, nice acoustic jam, great harmony. It's by a band called Wooden Sky, titled "Oslo". This is a cover by some kid and he done good.

 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP3TTGuddjY
 
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This is a lot more pop-ish than I usually like, but I still like it! She's very young, only 16, but her voice is deep like an older woman's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
 
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Elvis Presley recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" along with a number of other tracks that catapulted him to superstardom in 1956. Rock N Roll had been around for some time, but did not dominate the charts until Elvis burst on the scene that year. This song actually sounds kind of sedate to my ears, but, together with "Blue Suede Shoes", "Jailhouse Rock" and other singles released later, it created quite a sensation that year. The studio band here included Chet Atkins (guitar) and Floyd Cramer (piano).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PotB76gi2_4
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molbrZNeukM
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw
 
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Today would have been Amy Winehouse's 30th birthday. Her death at age 27 (almost 28) was not unanticipated. An already fragile person, the intensity of the life she fell into helped send her into a very public downward spiral. She considered herself a niche player, appealing to a segment that liked her unusual mixed bag of jazz/ motown /r&b/ Latin oriented music. She always said 'I'm just a musician'. She did what she liked and if you liked it, fine. If not, that's OK too. She tried to cling to her unfettered way of life in the face of the massive publicity her second album engendered. She continued to live in her ground floor apartment facing a Camden (London) street and walk to her favorite local haunts for as long as she could (she didn't drive). She never really understood she was now internationally famous and winced at the praise lavished on her. She actually was more comfortable being ignored and even scorned. As for scorn, she generously lavished it on herself as in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XymXHKoQndQ
 
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this song is mislabelled (Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz is unplayable) but I like it. Apparently the actual song here was written and performed by a game creator that allegedly coded/wrote/performed every aspect the game himself (music, graphics, mechanics, etc)

 
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A recent mention of the old movie "Silent Running" made me think of its classic theme "Rejoice in the Sun" by Joan Baez:

NkF05D-NJMU[/youtube] It hypnoti...trange representation, didn't you.) :biggrin:
 
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My father liked the big band jazz of the 30's and 40s. I didn't, but when I was 9 or 10 he played the classic record "Sing Sing Sing" for me. I was mesmerized by Gene Krupa's drum beat. This You Tube version is shorter than the original version recorded in 1937, but it was re-recorded a number of times by the Benny Goodman orchestra. I still generally don't like the big band music of the 30s and 40s, but I do like this piece. The intro sounds a bit dated, but keep listening. It develops in an interesting way over Krupa's steady beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFLLHs7_cA​
 
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Love that Simon & Garfunkel song! Although every time I see one of these guys -

http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Boxer-300x225.jpg

I instinctively sing in my head, in the clearing stands a boxer...

...then I giggle for about 90 seconds. Yep I'm a dork.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMM4iwC-ag
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusrTOxoASw
 
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tionis said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusrTOxoASw

Awesome. I don't even need a translation to appreciate it. :thumbs:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1O_Y8TD1U
 
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Polish folk. Stylized and rather modern, but with an interesting hint of the original sound.
 
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I like the energy :smile:
 
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I have to admit, I never quite understood the lyrics of this Beatles song. Now that I found this video which spells them out, I understand them perfectly.

Come Together. (BTW, if you don't add text for the title and artist/band, it can't be searched.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI4111pc0s
 
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Trivia about the album cover. Crosby, Stills, and Nash found this old house with the couch in front in Santa Monica, later realized that Crosby and Nash were on opposite sides from the album title, but when they went back to retake the photo, that house was gone, so they used the original photo. These days, they probably could have photoshopped it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DUqplxIcNk
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
I have to admit, I never quite understood the lyrics of this Beatles song. Now that I found this video which spells them out, I understand them perfectly.

Come Together. (BTW, if you don't add text for the title and artist/band, it can't be searched.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI4111pc0s

hmmmm... Like you, I never really payed attention to the lyrics. (I had to watch/read it twice, and google a few terms: "walrus gumboot"?)

I think it can be interpreted, in, uh, hmm, different ways.

"boot" is a Canadian word, isn't it?

As in; "What's this all aboot"?

Thank you South West. I needed a good laugh. :wink:

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ps. can't figure out the "armchair"... perhaps it's a British thing. Does anyone know how to get ahold of Woolie? ee's old enough to know these things.
hmmmm...
Never mind. I figured out the arm chair.
 
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OmCheeto said:
hmmmm... Like you, I never really payed attention to the lyrics. (I had to watch/read it twice, and google a few terms: "walrus gumboot"?)

I think it can be interpreted, in, uh, hmm, different ways.

"boot" is a Canadian word, isn't it?

As in; "What's this all aboot"?

Yes. "Gumboot" means "about gum". The inversion is due to the French influence on Canadian.

Thank you South West. I needed a good laugh. :wink:

You're welcome. I wish I could share my insights aboot this song, but it's just too complex for me to express.
 
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Isn't Hotmail (the email service) named after the same kind of lyrical babble from "Happiness is a warm gun"
 
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Not sure why I still like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mE2aIUnevI​

Someone once gave me a stare one day at work, when I filled my fountain drink with ice, soda water, two flavors of tea, lemonade, lemon-lime soda, and a spritz of Pepsi.

I gave him the stare back, and said; "I like my sodas, like my wine*: complex"

I suppose it's the same with my music.

*I don't drink wine, but I've heard that's how the wine-nerds describe things.
 
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While we're clearing up misheard lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8
 
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dkotschessaa said:
While we're clearing up misheard lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8

:bugeye:

I did not know that.

I wonder what the following people are singing about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg​
 
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lisab said:
This is a lot more pop-ish than I usually like, but I still like it! She's very young, only 16, but her voice is deep like an older woman's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc

I like that one, great voice, great singing! And good song too, I think. And I found a semi-live version of it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7T64Qo3bdU
 
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DennisN said:
I like that one, great voice, great singing! And good song too, I think. And I found a semi-live version of it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7T64Qo3bdU

I heard this song on the radio the day after Lisab posted it, on my way to work.

I felt very privileged, to have been given a preview.

ps. Did I share that someone at work slammed the radio off, when I said I'd never understood the words to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers song, Scar Tissue, and kept going "Whip, werp, derp, derp, derp, doooo, dooo, and... dooooooooooo"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGObF2q63Ew

dkotschessaa might understand.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLpLWcX2cg



From a few years back.
 
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