Hit songs recorded with fretless?

[Vandelay]

I heard Melissa Etheridge's "Come To My Window" on the radio the other day. I could hear that there was clearly a fretless bass on the track. So now I wonder: what other hit songs definitely contain a fretless?

Right off the bat, I thought of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" and Pearl Jam's "Alive". What other well-known fretless songs are out there?

 

[Matt R.]

Don Henley-Sunset Grill

Eric Clapton-Tears In Heaven

I know there are tons i'm forgetting

 

[billbern]

Lady in red-Chris Deburgh
Tear Your Playhouse Down-Paul Young
Everytime You Go Away-Paul Young

 

[DaveKirkpatrick]

what i am- edie brickell and the new bohemians
call me al- paul simon

 

[Rickett Customs]

I could swear most of these songs listed so far are Pino's doing.
Except sledgehammer and alive.

 

[rockwarnick]

theres a few pink floyd songs and i think that track with pino...tear your playhouse down? was that fretless?

EDIT: billbern beat me to it

 

[Rickett Customs]

theres a few pink floyd songs and i think that track with pino...tear your playhouse down? was that fretless?

EDIT: billbern beat me to it

It surely was, a stingray w/ octave and a slight envelope effect IIRC.

 

[lambro]

Paul Young

Bad Company

The Firm

Japan, Midge Ure, Ultravox

Paul Simon Graceland

all had billboard hits with fretless bass

 

[ogrossman]

theres a few pink floyd songs ...

"Hey You" for one

 

[Rickett Customs]

until it sleeps--metallica

 

[Barkless Dog]

Joni & Jaco

 

[Phalex]

The entire Graceland album comes to mind....

 

[Lonnybass]

New York Minute
Boys of Summer
Heart of the Matter
Sunset Grill
---all songs by Don Henley

Lonnybass

 

[Rickett Customs]

New York Minute
Boys of Summer
Heart of the Matter
Sunset Grill
---all songs by Don Henley

Lonnybass

Yep, those are all pino, aren't they?

 

[iScott]

Dream Theater - "Through Her Eyes"
Not much of a hit on radio, but it was a single.

 

[lhoward]

I could swear most of these songs listed so far are Pino's doing.
Except sledgehammer and alive.

I think "Call Me Al" was Bakithi Kumalo. You may recall the 2 measure run he played in the latter half of the tune. I also attended a class he headed in 2004 in Reading, PA. Although I didn't associate his name with Paul Simon's Graceland when I first walked into the class, I knew exactly who he was when I heard that run that someone in the class asked him to play. Great player and nice guy. I love his rhythmic sense which he said is tribally based. Each tribe in his homeland have a unique rhythm which is not written but passed on generation to generation.

I'd also love to have a chance to hear Pino live in a club type setting rather than a large venue, but that hasn't been possible yet. Short of that, videos are great.

Lloyd Howard

 

[nickn]

Some Iced Earth songs have fretless basses.

 

[tmart937]

Pearl Jam Alive along with many other PJ songs

 

[AlunJWDavies]

Wherever I Lay My Hat-Paul Young cover of Smokey? Hmmm...
Pino on fretless and a beautiful intro.

Definitely anything by Japan(MIck Karn on Wal or early stuff Kramer aluminum neck) but those would only be hits in U.K., Japan, and maybe Toronto.

I think both Pino and MIck played on some Joan Armatrading stuff as well.

 

[Alan Vorse]

"Paint it Black" - Rolling Stones
"Black Velvet" - Alanna Myles
"I Wish it Would Rain" - Phil Collins

Ok, now these are the ones I'm not sure about:

"Bang the Drum All Day" - Todd Rundgren
"You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette