Most Famous Wurlitzer Electric Piano Intros

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  • čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
  • Most Famous Wurlitzer Electric Piano Intros
    I have recorded the Wurlitzer straight to my Apollo Twin.
    I used UAD Fender 55 Tweed Deluxe for the Jamiroquai tune and a bit of reverb for the Supertramp tune
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    0:00 - 0:32 Ray Charles - What'd I Say
    0:33 - 0:57. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
    0:58 - 1:18. Queen - You're My Best Friend
    1:19 - 1:40. Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
    1:41 - 2:09 Jamiroquai - Black Capricorn Day
    2:10 - 2:20 STEELY DAN "Black Friday"
    2:21 - 2:39. Supertramp - The Logical Song
    2:40 - 3:03 Beck - Where It's At
    3:04 - 3:26 Stevie Wonder - I Wish
    3:27 - 4:22. Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
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  • @NicolasMelis
    @NicolasMelis  Před rokem +4

    AFFILIATE LINKS -you can support the channel using these links:
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  • @seaningram3285
    @seaningram3285 Před 4 měsíci +15

    You nailed that Beck track "Where it's At" 😃😃👍👍🔥🔥

  • @jorymil
    @jorymil Před 4 měsíci +20

    "Bloody Well Right" pretty well woke me up one bleary-eyed Saturday morning after a party with some friends. Until that point, they had had all the fun, but that intro is what makes the Wurlitzer for me.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Noted for the part 2 video :) thanks 🙏

    • @terrybrown106
      @terrybrown106 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I actually have a song book with tons if famous keyboard intros on it. And that's one of the intros. I think it's by Mel Bay Publishing. They released several books with pop rock transcriptions of keyboard intros, solos,and accompaniments. You can Google search for them and probably find some for sale somewhere.

    • @someinternetrando4993
      @someinternetrando4993 Před měsícem +1

      It's Stevie's 'I Wish' for me.

    • @graemeyetts3465
      @graemeyetts3465 Před měsícem +1

      Thank you. I learned something in that I thought Bloody Well Right, a favourite of mine, was played on a Rhodes!
      A Donald Fagen video interview brought me here❤

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před měsícem

      whats the title of the book? :)

  • @davida.p.9911
    @davida.p.9911 Před 5 měsíci +14

    Two more: "Bloody Well Right"--Supertramp ; "Little Birdie"---Vince Guaraldi 😎🎹🎹🎹🎹 Awesome sound and awesome playing!!

  • @stevehofer3482
    @stevehofer3482 Před 9 měsíci +11

    Thanks for posting this. It seems the one thing these songs have in common is a killer bass part. There is this "certain something" about the Wurlie bass tone.

  • @richardlangellotti6208
    @richardlangellotti6208 Před 4 měsíci +10

    Pretzel Logic, Black Friday, other tunes I know well. I played in a Steely Dan cover band. I'd love to play Supertramp all day; i know a lot of those tunes. My nephew kinda appropriated my original, 1982 Fender Rhodes stage Mark II 73 key EP (but he's got a studio). But i got a Yamaha S90-es, so I have all those patches and more. Think funky clavinet, DX-7, about 50 organ patches, every damn thing. I really need a gig!

  • @ultimobile
    @ultimobile Před 3 měsíci +2

    I just listened to this straight after the Fender Rhodes one - while I was impressed with the hit songs on that, my old favourite Wurly takes the cake for more hit songs I know and like here - yas !

  • @jasonsgroovemachine
    @jasonsgroovemachine Před 3 měsíci +9

    There's never a bad time for Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.

  • @BenjaminDehli
    @BenjaminDehli Před rokem +1

    Yes! 🔥 Great sounding Wurli and fantastic playing as always👍 Love those "I Wish"-chords 🕺

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem

      Thanks Benjamin, just fixed it and i ve made the video… it was very noisy before :)

  • @estuarysound
    @estuarysound Před rokem +1

    🤍 luv it 🙌 great choices and playing as per usual.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem +1

      Thank you for the support my friend! Really appreciate it 🎹🖤

  • @SuperRingoffire1
    @SuperRingoffire1 Před rokem +3

    Such a beautiful rich tone 👌😁☮

  • @E4RLIES
    @E4RLIES Před 4 měsíci +1

    This has given me a new appreciation for that voice on my piano❤
    Your playing is top notch too🫶🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎹🎹🎹

  • @mlaughlin70
    @mlaughlin70 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Very cool; thanks.

  • @Leepianojourney
    @Leepianojourney Před rokem +2

    👏👏👏 This is very good! 👏👏👏

  • @deantiquisetnovis
    @deantiquisetnovis Před 4 měsíci +1

    Excellent!

  • @mmadchef808
    @mmadchef808 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great stuff !!!!

  • @Hotdawgfilms
    @Hotdawgfilms Před 3 měsíci +11

    "I Wish" was played on a Rhodes. It was an older, worn out Rhodes so its sound was a little rougher around the edges so it's understandable how it could be confused for a Wurlitzer.

  • @jamesarthofer3413
    @jamesarthofer3413 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Your playing is excellent! Thanks for posting, I really enjoy this,and getting an education on what songs use what keyboard 👍

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you very much! appreciated 🎹🙏

  • @gregsullivan7408
    @gregsullivan7408 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thanks - excellent job!
    Part 2: "Jeans On" - David Dundas
    Side thought: the Wurly on Abba's "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is fantastic! Sounds like it's run through a big reverb, FOLLOWED by a phaser. Absolute genius production IMHO.

  • @davidfalconmusic
    @davidfalconmusic Před rokem +1

    Great playing and sounds. Definitely going to learn some of these songs!

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem

      Thanks David! 🙏🎹

    • @davidfalconmusic
      @davidfalconmusic Před rokem +1

      @@NicolasMelis Especially cool the Jamiroquai sound through the amp sim! ;)

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem +1

      @@davidfalconmusic yeah! Love that intro… didnt quite nailed the sound but oh well 😁

    • @davidfalconmusic
      @davidfalconmusic Před rokem +1

      @@NicolasMelis Sounds amazing as is :D

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem

      @@davidfalconmusic thanks man, appreciated!

  • @ashfaq1999
    @ashfaq1999 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Brilliant 🎶

  • @coltonmykael
    @coltonmykael Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thanks for including Cannonball!

  • @sethie_shots
    @sethie_shots Před 5 měsíci +2

    Killer compilation! Love it that A200 sound. I have a student model (no tremolo) but add it with a pedal

  • @melodymaker135
    @melodymaker135 Před 11 dny +1

    Missing “Tin Soldier” by Small Faces here. But this was a great list, thanks!!

  • @rockonguitar8117
    @rockonguitar8117 Před 5 měsíci +14

    The Queen sounded amazing man! All killer!

  • @user-fl8ee7vk1z
    @user-fl8ee7vk1z Před 4 měsíci +1

    nice

  • @petergorges6163
    @petergorges6163 Před 8 měsíci +34

    Not to be a spoilsport, but "I Wish" is clearly a Rhodes ;)

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 8 měsíci +6

      Yeah, i know :)

    • @Shred_The_Weapon
      @Shred_The_Weapon Před 5 měsíci +7

      I don’t mind sharing that there was (at least) one instance when I mistook a Rhodes piano for a Wurlitzer piano. That was off of my first classic Chicago song, “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”. That demonstrated for me how it’s possible to get one of them to sound like the other (if only in the middle of the pitch range), if not vice versa.

    • @melodymaker135
      @melodymaker135 Před 11 dny +1

      Stevie is such a badass that he gets faux-Wurlitzer crunch out of a Rhodes. Fooled me too 😂

    • @melodymaker135
      @melodymaker135 Před 11 dny +1

      @@Shred_The_Weapon And that is a freaking great song!

  • @richardmiller191
    @richardmiller191 Před 3 měsíci +1

    One of my favorites was Breakdown by Tom Petty. Glad you had Where its At

  • @szrnkabela
    @szrnkabela Před rokem +2

    Great Video :D
    I only missed Vulfpeck - Soft Parade

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem +1

      Thanks! Oh thats a great tune! I think i have to do a part 2 video 😁

    • @szrnkabela
      @szrnkabela Před rokem +2

      @@NicolasMelis and of course the Vulf Intro itself!!! :D

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem

      Yes 🎹

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Remember Me With Kindness by Gentle Giant - Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes? Neither. Piano!!! Great intro and song throughout.

  • @joeblankenship377
    @joeblankenship377 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Zawinul kills it on Mercy Mercy.

  • @winstonbeech3418
    @winstonbeech3418 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I was in a band 10 years ago, we did I Wish - keyboard was a Korg of 1000 voices. I was playing bari sax. My own Roland VR09 has several EP patches but none really have the right sound. One of these days I’ll try running it thru a chorus or something.
    Re: Supertramp. Goodbye Stranger is my old Freedom Song from back in 79.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 2 měsíci

      Never played a Roland VR09, is it good?

  • @Antonio_Gallego
    @Antonio_Gallego Před měsícem

    some Ray Manzarek's vibe there! Well played!

  • @Shred_The_Weapon
    @Shred_The_Weapon Před 5 měsíci +3

    This is a kickin’ list. Honorable mention for a song that doesn’t begin with a Wurlitzer piano but include some very impressive Wurlitzer stylings before the vocal kicks in: “Top of the World - Carpenters.
    Did Donald Fagen play the piano parts of Black Friday on both Wurlitzer and Rhodes?

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Have to check that out!! Thanks 🙏

    • @Shred_The_Weapon
      @Shred_The_Weapon Před 5 měsíci +1

      My pleasure, Nicolas.

    • @thecabanaband6999
      @thecabanaband6999 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Came here to say that... Richard Carpenter played Wurlitzers EP exclusively, but usually it was embedded in the songs, except "Top of the World"

  • @vhm14u2c
    @vhm14u2c Před 3 měsíci +1

    And outtro to come together 🥂🎶

  • @nytom4info
    @nytom4info Před 22 dny +1

    for years on sat on my B3!

  • @easantos79
    @easantos79 Před 4 měsíci +4

    'I heard it through the grapewine' 👍

  • @patrickeffiom97
    @patrickeffiom97 Před 2 dny +1

    I was hoping for 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'.(Probably not a Wurlitzer).😁🇬🇧

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 2 dny

      Oh yeah thats a Wurlitzer ! Noted for part 2 :) thanks

  • @Jenairaslebol27merde
    @Jenairaslebol27merde Před 4 měsíci +1

    another one to mention: "mama told me not to come" by randy newman, in the versions by three dog night or by tom jones with stereophonics.

  • @parsrecording3751
    @parsrecording3751 Před 10 měsíci +4

    You forgot the best of all: I'm the warlus. Very, very serious!

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 10 měsíci +5

      yep i know :) unfortunately i got a copyright for that one and had to take it off…. great song and great wurli sound

    • @Shred_The_Weapon
      @Shred_The_Weapon Před 5 měsíci +2

      That was played on a Hohner, not a Wurlitzer. It almost sounds the same, though.

  • @ManelRuivo
    @ManelRuivo Před 4 měsíci +1

    god yes

  • @sm1tty031
    @sm1tty031 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Imagine my surprise when I now see this LOL...

  • @nuker3272
    @nuker3272 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Awesome video, i personally think Dancing in the moonlight should be there but anyways, it's still awesome
    Btw i really wonder why Stevie never used The Wurlitzer

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Thank you!! Dancing in the moonlight is with a wurlitzer?

    • @nuker3272
      @nuker3272 Před 5 měsíci

      @@NicolasMelis Yes, if you compare the song playing it with a rhodes it sounds different

  • @ralphbenites1312
    @ralphbenites1312 Před měsícem +1

    It was very popular in the 70’s and 60’s.the guess who theas eyes.

  • @fredfox3851
    @fredfox3851 Před 4 měsíci +1

    WHAT?! No Ride Captain Ride? Great job anyway Nicolas.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Noted for the part 2 video :) thanks 🙏

  • @kapturelab
    @kapturelab Před 5 měsíci +1

    WHERE ITS AT!
    Nice!

  • @marcelomanzanoplaza3262
    @marcelomanzanoplaza3262 Před 2 měsíci

    Me gustaría escuchar el lady sunday de small Faces que también tocaban este teclado muy característico de ellos incluso cuando fueron the faces...

  • @SamT987
    @SamT987 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I've always thought You're My Best Friend was played on a Pianet. But I could be wrong about that.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 3 měsíci

      I saw online it was on a Wurlitzer but not 100% sure

  • @jukeboxfandango
    @jukeboxfandango Před 3 měsíci +1

    Technically Mercy, Mercy, Mercy was written by Joe Zawinul, but originally performed with Cannonball so I'll allow it ;) If you put down that it was a Jozy song people would have complained you didn't say Cannonball lol.

  • @Dombevi
    @Dombevi Před 3 měsíci +2

    BLOODY WELL RIGHT = SUPERTRAMP / RIDERS OF THE STORM = The Doors

    • @Dombevi
      @Dombevi Před 3 měsíci

      perhaps it was a fender but it deserve a honorable mention

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Supertramp is a wurli will incl it on the part 2 video! The doors its a rhodes i have it on my rhodes video

  • @louiebee6745
    @louiebee6745 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Intro to Joni's Woodstock?

  • @joetessy
    @joetessy Před 2 měsíci

    Hey Nicolas, I really enjoyed hearing your version of Mercy Mercy Mercy. I don't know if you write sheet music or do video tutorials, but I would love to learn how to play it like this!!! All of the sheet music I was able to find was stale and boring :(

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 2 měsíci

      Glad you like it ! Its just how i play it with my band:) don’t have a music sheet or a tutorial video unfortunately never thought of making one :)

    • @joetessy
      @joetessy Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@NicolasMelis aight fam Imma just slow it down to 50 and figure it out. Got the first section done already :)

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 2 měsíci

      @@joetessy cool :)

  • @desoxido
    @desoxido Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great, but you forgot The Zombies ~ She's Not There.

  • @christhedemocrat
    @christhedemocrat Před 9 měsíci +1

    My 200a don't sound like that but it don't sound out of tune either. I'm not sure if it's tuned differently or if it's the fact that I can't play as good as you.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 9 měsíci +2

      i think every one sounds a bit different than the other :)

  • @leesagrrl
    @leesagrrl Před 2 měsíci +1

    ...AND virtually anything by the Youngbloods

  • @PatrickRosenbalm
    @PatrickRosenbalm Před 2 měsíci

    Where was These Eyes? And This Guy's in Love?

  • @thesunshinemusician
    @thesunshinemusician Před rokem +2

    Hey Arnold vibes

  • @ivyssauro123
    @ivyssauro123 Před 4 měsíci +1

    2:21 the best

  • @d.j.vanderschoot3717
    @d.j.vanderschoot3717 Před 4 měsíci

    It's hard to get the pulse in Logical Song right. Roger doesn't do it staccato like that but more legato, he releases the keys only half for the next pulse. The accents are on 1, 4 and 7 where the others are much softer. Again hard to get right and I haven't seen anyone do it properly.

  • @andreasschneider647

    ZZ Top: Dark sunglasses

  • @FranklyNorman
    @FranklyNorman Před 4 měsíci +3

    One more: These Eyes by The Guess Who

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci +2

      Noted! Thank you 🙏

    • @QuarrellaDeVil
      @QuarrellaDeVil Před 3 měsíci +1

      Assuming Burton Cummings was playing the same piano in a few years, "New Mother Nature" is the one that comes to mind. 🙂

    • @FranklyNorman
      @FranklyNorman Před 3 měsíci

      @@QuarrellaDeVil Pretty sure that's a Wurly, yeah. And it's an iconic part, but I don't know if I'd call it an intro, given that it comes in half way through the track. Everything else in this vid is a solo part that kicks off the song all by itself

    • @ElectricBozo
      @ElectricBozo Před 3 měsíci +1

      Not a Wurly on These Eyes, Burton played an Hohner Pianet.

    • @FranklyNorman
      @FranklyNorman Před 3 měsíci

      @@ElectricBozo Interesting! Now I have an excuse to buy another vintage board 😏

  • @NVM_SMH
    @NVM_SMH Před 3 měsíci +1

    The drummer wrote "Best Friend" on the Wurly but Freddy hated it and only ever played it live on the grand piano.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 3 měsíci

      Really? Didn’t know that !

    • @mrhappy9999
      @mrhappy9999 Před 3 měsíci

      Correction: It was written by John Deacon, Queen’s bassist.

    • @NVM_SMH
      @NVM_SMH Před 3 měsíci

      @@mrhappy9999 my bad. You are correct. Freddie was given the Wurly but he hated it so Deacon took it home to play with.

  • @bhk5150
    @bhk5150 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Where’s “Joy to the world?

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci

      Three dog night?? Great tune noted for the part 2 video! Thanks

  • @ontherhodes8088
    @ontherhodes8088 Před rokem +3

    Where it's at......two turntables and a microphone.

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před rokem

      Yesss🎹

    • @richardmiller191
      @richardmiller191 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah love that one. He played it at the Grammys long time ago. I think he won a Grammy that year too.

  • @JiosX
    @JiosX Před 3 měsíci +1

    Steely Dan's Black Friday sounds like it's made for NES games

  • @vito_keys
    @vito_keys Před 16 dny +1

    You forget Bowling theme from Wii Sports

  • @alancyr
    @alancyr Před 3 měsíci +1

    Wasn't I wish recorded on a Rhodes?

  • @samuelbanya
    @samuelbanya Před 3 měsíci

    Should have played that American Football song

  • @Mikeg73070
    @Mikeg73070 Před měsícem

    Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are ?

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před měsícem

      Thats on a Fender Rhodes, i have it on my Fender rhodes video, check it out :)

  • @robertvonfeldt7882
    @robertvonfeldt7882 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Black Capricorn Day 🔥

  • @salamndrahak9575
    @salamndrahak9575 Před 5 měsíci +1

    LA Woman - The doors

  • @josephdipietro8937
    @josephdipietro8937 Před 4 měsíci

    SOMETIMES WE ALL FACE ADVERSITY

  • @louiscornale5667
    @louiscornale5667 Před 4 měsíci

    Great job but how about wooly bully watch it now 😮

    • @NicolasMelis
      @NicolasMelis  Před 4 měsíci

      Thanks! Don’t know that one, can you send me a link?

  • @jeffreystringer
    @jeffreystringer Před 4 měsíci

    Isn't I wish played on a clav?

  • @kuroageha1096
    @kuroageha1096 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Only two are familiar for me. Maybe I should learn more.
    And if I can suggest one more song, there should be “What’s Going On”, Donny Hathaway version.

  • @Gk2003m
    @Gk2003m Před 3 měsíci +4

    Not ‘famous’ per se, but certainly known among so many: click on the tremolo, and start hitting the D minor thing for ‘Sheep’ from Pink Floyd ANIMALS

  • @MEGAMIGA
    @MEGAMIGA Před 5 měsíci

    I thought the Doors' Riders on the Storm was played on a Wurlitzer?

    • @westernnoir4808
      @westernnoir4808 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Nope you can see Ray play it on a Rhodes. he was a rhodes guy with the bass.

    • @MEGAMIGA
      @MEGAMIGA Před 4 měsíci

      OK! @@westernnoir4808

  • @andreasschneider647

    Cheap sunglasses!