Organ, Hammond
The Hammond Organ played by a professional adds so much depth to a song. It is often in the background subtly adding harmonics to a nice country song. It is quite an instrument. I have collected some examples here of the Hammond in various songs.
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Goodbye, Hallelujah I’m Gone
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Stuck with You
Huey Lewis and the News
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Deep River Woman – Lionel Richie w/ Little Big Town
Vocal harmonies and Hammond Organ all in one song written by Lionel Richie. Does it get any better than that?
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Hello Stranger
Queen Latifa covering the old Barbara Lewis song from 1963. This was one of my very first favorite songs when I got my first transistor radio that same year and started listening to the radio.
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Listen to the Music
I love the original version for the dual guitars. I love this cover for the Hammond organ. Check it out.
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Green Onions
With none other than Booker T. Jones for a nice exercise on the Hammond organ.
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Silence is Golden – Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons
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Hammond Organ in Gospel Music
The Hammond Organ was made for gospel music if one knows how to play it. Here is an example of what I mean.
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First Organ Solo that Got my Attention
That would be Carlos Santana’s “Oye Como Va”. The organ solo begins at 3:12.
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The Hammond Organ, Robby Robinson and Billy Preston
Boy do I love to hear the Hammond organ played in a band and Robbie Robinson is one of the best. Here he is playing the SK-1. Here he is playing piano and Hammond organ with Frankie Valli and doing a short organ solo and leading the band to boot! Here is another favorite of mine, Billy Preston singing George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord and playing the Hammond organ.
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Believe
There is nothing like a simple song to convey the simple message that God is real, that His plan of the ages is real, that the plan focusses on the salvation of sinful man and that all the human intelligence in the world cannot gainsay or resist the message. The renowned theologian Karl Barth was at Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago during his lecture tour of the U.S. in 1962. After his lecture, during the Q & A time, a student asked Barth if he could summarize his whole life’s work in theology in a sentence. Barth said “Yes, I can. In the words of the…