Oboes in pop music

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Oboes featured prominently in "Pretty Ballerina" by
the Left Bank. One of the prettiest, strangest hit singles
ever.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

"Black & White" by Greyhound
(Must have oboes, I'm... pretty positive)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

Hi,
I am an oboe/english horn player who just finished a CD entitled,"Pop Goes the Oboe", for the very reasons you have been discussing. It just isn't heard much.

My CD includes songs sung by Evanescence, Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, some pop jazz by Chick Corea, and more.

Anyone interested can email me at:
5pantely @msn.com

Thanks,
BP

― Bonnie Pantely, Sunday, 18 April 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

"i went to sleep" by the beach boys?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 April 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

Lindsay Cooper ownz this thread. Check out the Variations On A Theme album by David Thomas and the Pedestrians, esp. "Semaphore".

For nice cor anglais, seek out the Durutti Column albums Another Setting and Without Mercy.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 19 April 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

The album "16 Lovers Lane" of the Go-Betweens has a lot of oboe on it. And the song "Tryptich" from Roxy Music too.

― zeus, Monday, 29 August 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

What's thet Blur song...on Modern Life Is Rubbish..."I've been making plans (for the future)/Become an unconscious man"..."Starshaped", that's it. Great song. That's got an oboe.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 29 August 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Orchids" by Psychic TV.

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

rolling stones "Dandelion". Oboe solo in the middle of song. Beatles anthology 2. Different mix of Penny Lane with an oboe instead of picccolo solo. monty jan 2006

― michael montalto, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

just wanted to say Sue Harris rocks the oboe hard on the first Albion Band record BATTLE OF THE FIELD, and is an ace hammered dulcimer player to boot. ha ha "hammered"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I have always heard the lyrics of a certain Huey Lewis and the News song as
Now the oboe may be better tweeting
But the heart of rock and roll,
the heart of rock and roll is still beating

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Electronic - "Some Distant Memory"

― Dan (Come On, People) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Beatles anthology 2. Different mix of Penny Lane
I might have thought there were more Beatle songs, but all I could find was "The Inner Light," apparently.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Madonna, "Crazy For You"
Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town"
OMD, "Talking Loud and Clear"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Jennifer Juniper - Donovan

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Ronnie Lane, "The Poacher"
Honeybus, "Can't Let Maggie Go"

― Gez Kahan, Friday, 19 February 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Surprised no one's mentioned Kiss From A Rose by Seal.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Electronic's "Some Distant Memory."

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link

The Cardigans circa 1993/1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuLpYnxsQAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfV5pMEVdDw

― fat ass idiot butt munch (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks for reminding me about Can't Let Maggie Go.

― dynamicinterface, Friday, 19 February 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link

The Fall - "Chicago Now"

― eatandoph, Friday, 19 February 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link

I like whatever instrument is on "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat

― lukevalentine, Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link

apparently a pan pipe

― lukevalentine, Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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