Rediscovered oldies that are fun to play but you never hear

[Strat Hater]

I was running through my mp3's last night and tonight and found some songs that have fun bass lines but you never hear. Let's call this the Guilty Pleasure List. I'll start

1. Brick House - The Commadors
2. Drugs In My Pocket- The Monks
3. Centerfold - J Giles Band
4. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
5. We Got the Beat - The Go Go's
6. Day By Day - Doug and the Slugs

any more out there??

[Truktek2]

Superfreak Rick James
Hot stuff Donna Summer
Burning Love Elvis
You're the one that I want Grease soundtrack

[lo_freq_geek]

I don't think we play anything written after the mid eighties but the "oldies" we play include:
Shakin' all over, Lucille (little Richard), Little Queenie, Fever, Feelin' alright, - all of which go over well in the blues/classic rock venues we play.

[MatticusMania]

My band, which is an original alternative rock band, has recently started adding covers to help fill up a full 4 sets and get us some paying gigs on the coverband circuit.
We've got a few 90s songs, but most of our covers would fit right along any classic rock coverband.

Some of my favorites:

Mellow Yellow & Season of the Witch by Donavan
Under My Thumb & Play With Fire by The Stones
House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
and
Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Leadbelly

[BassChuck]

Kind of a Drag - Buckinghams
Susan - Buckinghams
Any Way You Want - Dave Clark Five
Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five
Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
Young Blood - Coasters

[funkingroovin]

That's my bands "selling point"..we play very few standard covers,there's just too many other great tunes out there that haven't been beat to death to play MustangSally or BrownEye'dGirl. Some of our oldies that got the groove..

Lady Madonna -Beatles
Oh Darlin' -Beatles
Sunny Afternoon -The Kinks
Manic Depression - Hendrix
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
What Is And Should Never Be -Led Zeppelin
Stuck in the Middle W/U - Steeler's Wheel

[Mike M.]

Him or Me-Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Elenore-The Turtles
Midnight Confession-The Grass Roots
I Saw Her Again Last Night- Mama's and the Papa's
Heard It Thru The Grapevine-The Pips

Tons of great old songs. Countless.

[mellowinman]

Funnest song I've played lately is "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting," by Elton John.

[Richland123]

We do that quite often and take great old songs that bands don't play much. One song we do that always gets people dancing and bopping their heads is an instrumental tune - Time Is Tight by Booker T. & The M.G.s. We played it again last night and the dance floor got packed instantly. Donald "Duck" Dunn's cool bass groove drives the tune and is fun to play. We get lots of requests to play it since people really like it and know we are the only band around that plays it. And, we do it as a 3 piece guitar, bass, and drums band.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Strat Hater

I was running through my mp3's last night and tonight and found some songs that have fun bass lines but you never hear. Let's call this the Guilty Pleasure List. I'll start

1. Brick House - The Commadors

Played all the time around here by various Variety/Lounge bands.
Couple years ago, some guys I knew we putting together a '60s-'70s-'80s Pop band. Of course, "Brick House" & "Play That Funky Music" were on their to-do-list.
I asked "Why? ...these tunes have been played a gozillion times by a gozillion other bands & The Commodores have better tunes, blah".

Response: "These tunes are played so much because they're the ones people want to hear".

I didn't last too long...

[JimK]

Oldies I woulda preferred playing in lieu of "Brick House" & "Play That Funky Music"-

"Groovy Situation"- Gene Chandler
GROOVY SITUATION/GENE CHANDLER - YouTube

"One Man Band"- Three Dog Night

"Machine Gun" The Commodores
The Commodores - Machine Gun - YouTube

On Soul Train...way before Lionel Ritchie became "the star"-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVoMJ...eature=related

"Work To Do"- The Isley Brothers or AWB

...hell, even "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by The Monkees woulda been cool.

[dtripoli]

Cool 60's Garage Band bass lines

Nobody but me - Human Beinz

Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group

Cool Jerk - The Capitals

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

- As far as I've seen, nobody seems to know/remember this tune, but it was tremendously popular in my country during the late seventies.

- This one was used as the intro theme for a long-running Colombian sitcom.

- And this is another (currently) obscure classic Disco song.

[Richland123]

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

- As far as I've seen, nobody seems to know/remember this tune, but it was tremendously popular in my country during the late seventies.

That sounds like an instrumental of this song.

Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

Carl Douglas - Kung fu fighting(original) - YouTube

[JimK]

How fun would this one be?
The Blues MaGoos-We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet (1966 NYC With Lyrics+4) - YouTube

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Richland123

That sounds like an instrumental of this song.

Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

Carl Douglas - Kung fu fighting(original) - YouTube

Wow! After so many years I get to know this. What a surprise. Thank you so much for the info!