Songs with 7+5 chords

[Hankenstein]

Can anyone suggest any songs with lots of dominant sharp 5 chords? I need some for a lesson.

Thanks

[tstone]

This article cites many examples, most of which either have, or could have, the 7th in addition to the #5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_triad

[Groove Master]

Originally Posted by Hankenstein

Can anyone suggest any songs with lots of dominant sharp 5 chords? I need some for a lesson.

Thanks

Do you want +7 with natural 9ths chords for the whole-tone scale or +7 implying the altered scale?

For the altered scale, any jazz tunes in minor could be a good source. A minor Blues for example.

[Hankenstein]

Originally Posted by Groove Master

Do you want +7 with natural 9ths chords for the whole-tone scale or +7 implying the altered scale?

For the altered scale, any jazz tunes in minor could be a good source. A minor Blues for example.

Both actually - Minor blues is a good thought but I'm really looking for songs where the 7+5 is the featured sound.

Thanks though.

[Hankenstein]

Originally Posted by tstone

This article cites many examples, most of which either have, or could have, the 7th in addition to the #5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_triad

Nice. Thanks. Hoping for some Jazz standards also.

[meandering]

Be aware that many leadsheets in fakebooks will write a 7+5 chord when, in fact, the chord is a dominant with a b9 and b13. The first chord in the bridge to "Stella..." is one example.

[Hankenstein]

And, of course, there's the G7 b13 later in Stella that is often treated as 7+5. Looking for a song with vast expanses of that sound.

[GrowlerBox]

Originally Posted by meandering

Be aware that many leadsheets in fakebooks will write a 7+5 chord when, in fact, the chord is a dominant with a b9 and b13. The first chord in the bridge to "Stella..." is one example.

Originally Posted by Hankenstein

And, of course, there's the G7 b13 later in Stella that is often treated as 7+5. Looking for a song with vast expanses of that sound.

That's what he said ...

[Hankenstein]

yikes - so he did. Sorry.

[contrabart]

All the things you are, last chord before the last A part is C7+5.

[SeaBassTheFish]

Juju. First four bars are B7+5.

Very whole-tone-y though.

[hgiles]

Look To the Sky

[Stick_Player]

Originally Posted by meandering

Be aware that many leadsheets in fakebooks will write a 7+5 chord when, in fact, the chord is a dominant with a b9 and b13. The first chord in the bridge to "Stella..." is one example.

This is very true.

Take a look at the first five chords to Someday My Prince Will Come.

In Bb, it is often written as:

|| BbMaj7 | D7+5 | EbMaj7 | G7+5 | Cm7 | etc...

The second and fourth chords are commonly written as X7+5.

These chords, at the second and fourth measures, would probably be more correctly noted (from the Common Practice Period) as D7b13 (no 5th, 9th, 11th) - D, F#, C, Bb, and G7b13 (no 5th, 9th, 11th) - G, B, F, Eb, respectively.

But it's a lot easier to read X7+5 and know that it's really an X7b13 (no 5th, 9th, 11th).

[Groove Doctor]

Birth of the Blues:
C7 |G7 G7+5 | C7 C7+5| F7....

[Hankenstein]

Thanks, guys. Very helpful.

[Don Higdon]

When Your Lover Has Gone, bars 14 and 30.
Good Bye (Gordon Jenkins) bar 3 of the A section. Song construction is ABA.