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WANTED: Songs with count-ins
Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:56:25 GMT
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Jim Webster...
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I'm doing a playlist of songs that start with a "one two three four" (or
similar) count-in. So far I've found several Beatles songs that do this ("I
Mike Meyer...
SRS...
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Steve Forbert - Sure Was Better BAck Then.
Dave Watson...
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I forgot one of my favourite countoffs: Blondie's "Living in the Real
World," win which somebody emits eight rhythmic karate shouts in a
Mark Rae...
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In fact, immediately before that, you can just make out George Martin
keeping count of the bars for the orchestra who, of course, had no music to
play... :-)
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reverby room before screaming out "waaaaaaaaaan twooooooooooo
waantwoothreefooo!", which then slams into the fastest song on the _Eat
to the Beat_ album.
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Mike Meyer...
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Belinda Carlisle - Shot in the Dark
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Saw Her Standing There", "Sgt. Pepper's LHCB reprise", "Yer Blues",
"Taxman"), plus U2's notorious "uno dos tres quatorze", and ELO's "Four
Little Diamonds."
Rich Ardini...
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Wilson Pickett: Land Of 1000 Dances
Gary US Bonds: Quarter To Three
George Harrison: Ding Dong, Ding Dong
Joan Jett: Do You Wanna Touch
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Can you think of any other songs that start with a count-in? (Unfortunately,
Steffen Buehler...
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Still not mentioned:
Yes - Going for the one
Peter Gabriel - Waiting for the big one
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Jeremy Bender
Pink Floyd - Waiting for the worms
Mark Rae...
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I *really* should have got those...
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Mark Rae...
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Pink Floyd - Free Four
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (album version)
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jon...
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JJ Cale - Call me the Breeze
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Matthias Knoche...
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A Song in German:
Nina Hagen - Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo
real punk sounding german count-in
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jon...
most lyrics sites don't include these as part of the song lyrics)
Lorraine...
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Did anyone mention Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough [of Your Love]"?
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jack...
Mathilda Jane...
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A couple that I did not see mentioned so far:
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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R H Draney...
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A non-verbal count-in appears on Nilsson's "Coconut"...instead of numbers, Harry
establishes the beat by muttering "zuh, zuh, zuh, zuh"....r
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TIA,
jIM...
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I have an album called "stairway to heaven/highway to hell" which
includes remakes and live versions of songs of bands with people which
died. I THINK the following songs have count ins:
Anarchy in the UK (Motley Crue)
there is a live version of song on same album, Vince Neil is singing,
but I don't remember song (Hounddog?)
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Jim
Blue Oval...
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"Goodnight Vienna"-Ringo Starr
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rblask...
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comes up with over 100 titles with those lyrics in them.
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Randall Post...
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1-2-3 by Len Barry (not really a 'count-in', since a count-in alerts the
musicians so they can start together)
http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=cKUqrLz1ZXg%3D
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allenkirshner...
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Prince -- Raspberry Beret
New Radicals -- You Get What You Give
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