music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?

Subject: What pushes your
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 05:02 PM

You may disregard this entire thread if
you deny having an "Oh Goodie!" button.
No need to single you out. You know who you are. Bye bye.

The rest of us,
some commercial/pop-music performances
get our attention (they are designed to do that, after all)

by making us perk up and bark "Oh Goodie!"
like pet dogs who are well-enough-trained to know what
the human means when the human spells out W-A-L-K.

I have got one of those buttons, and it isn't hard to push it.
Maybe, what pushes my "Oh Goodie!" button is
different than what pushes yours.
Would you care to confess what, in the pop music bag-of-tricks,
pushes yours?

Me,
after all these decades
I STILL can't get enough of
"Shout!" with the Isley Brothers,
in fact most anything with the Isley Brothers will get
an "Oh Goodie!" out of me.

I'm partial, as well,
to the even earlier Mills Brothers.

What do they have in common?
Choral harmony, up-tempo beat, swinging rhythm,
and non-verbal vocalizing.

That diabolical studio producer, Nile Rodgers,
is especially good at pushing my "Oh Goodie!" button,
and one of the best examples is
the chorus on "(It's Time to Take the) Pressure Off".

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Helen
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 09:15 PM

Thanks keberoxu, I always wondered what that response is called. LOL

My first thought is that there are too many songs to count, and where would I start, and do you only want pop songs, but then my next thought was this:

Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day

And this one, especially at 4 minutes into the track where you can hear the whole audience singing:

Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet (Live At Sydney Opera House)

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Helen
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 01:36 PM

Looks like you and I are the only 'Catters with Goodie buttons, keberoxu. Maybe the others won't admit that they like pop music. LOL

I thought of this song yesterday:

Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 01:56 PM

Creedence.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 01:59 PM

I understand completely keberoxu. I have quite a few songs I regularly play on Youtube which push my 'Oh goody' button:-

Vindaloo by Fat Les always cheers me up.

These Days by Rudimental (makes me sob, but also a 'goody' song as it's therapeutic)

Any song by George Formby (Window cleaner, Leaning On A Lampost etc)

ditto by Alan Smethurst the singing postman

The Wellies song by Billy Connelly

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Jos
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 02:23 PM

Buddy Holly

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Jos
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 02:30 PM

And a few non-pop examples: Kathleen Ferrier, Bach's solo cello suites, Chopin's four piano Scherzi.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Helen
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 03:27 PM

Nights in White Satin/Moody Blues
White Room/Cream
A Whiter Shade of Pale/Procul Harum

Now I'm showing my age.

It's a coincidence that three songs that I love from that era have the word "white" in the title.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 03:46 PM

I like to think of myself as non-sexist, but there are still some lines a can't cross. To me, saying "O Goodie!" bout be self-emasculating. I can't go there.

But what really push my "Wow" button, are female close harmony groups, like Herdman, Hills, and Mangsen; and the Witches of Elswick; and Parton, Harris, and Ronstadt.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 05:25 PM

Loads, in particular the first few bars of
Johnny B Goode/I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha)
Anything by The Savoy Family/Balfa Brothers
The swirly intro to The Ride of the Valkyries
and many many more
Nice Thread, Keb

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Tony Rees
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 05:43 PM

Mike Silver calls it that "certain something" and wrote a song about it... the subject was James Taylor in that instance. For me I think it's a certain soulful, heartfelt feeling in the vocals - as exemplified by Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt (on their better selections) and many others. Paul Simon as well, on his more acoustic offerings. And that guy who sang "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone"...

That's mostly from the vocals aspect. As far as rhythm/groove goes, Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" has to be up there among the top contenders for me!

Cheers - Tony

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 06:12 PM

Tony Rees, "that guy" was Bill Withers.
He also sang "(keep on using me until you) Use Me (up)."

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 07:03 PM

Back in the day, "Sugar Baby Love" by the Rubettes always gave me a lift
for some unknown reason.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 09:37 PM

Kodachrome (almost any song) also has heartwarm to it...

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Jos
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 02:32 AM

I am with Joe in that 'Oh Goodie' is not an expression that would readily come to mind, especially not when it comes to a piece of music that I really like.

However, another, which I rarely heard on the radio even at the height of the record's popularity, is the few bars of fiddle music that introduce 'Come On Eileen'. Why did so many DJs leave the best bit out?

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 04:13 AM

THE SONG OF THE PRUNE

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Andy7
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 05:18 AM

Buddy Holly
Beach Boys
Byrds (the early stuff)
Neil Diamond
Monkees
Carpenters
Abba

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Andy7
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 05:21 AM

Oh, and The Every Brothers

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Jos
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 07:38 AM

Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades - for the magical way it transports me to a little house in the South of France in early summer in the 1960s. I daren't listen to it often or the spell will be broken and it will only remind me of where I am now.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 12:42 PM

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album
Boston's first album
The Beatles, pretty much anything

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 01:14 PM

The Byrds - the years with Clarence White!

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Tony Rees
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 02:32 PM

Thanks, Keberoxu, Yes, Bill Withers, wrote/sang "Ain't no sunshine..."

Just found this amusing snippet on Wikipedia - more there if anyone cares to look:

"For the song's third verse, Withers had intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way: "I was this factory worker puttering around," Withers said. "So when they said to leave it like that, I left it."

Withers, then thirty-one years old, was working at a factory making toilet seats for 747s at the time he wrote the song. On the American Top 40 program of November 6, 1976, Casey Kasem reported that when the song went gold, the record company presented Withers with a golden toilet, marking the start of his new career."

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 01:44 PM

The first ten seconds -- all instrumental -- of
"I've Just Seen a Face" from the Beatles' Rubber Soul

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 02:04 PM

Aerial by Kate Bush, cheers me up every time. Lass of Loch Royal, Silly Sisters, Siege of Deli, Marin Carthy. Talk To Me of Mendicino, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Laura by Natasha Khan . Dark Eyes, Bob Dylan, Is that All There is, Peggy Lee. Glow worm, The Mills Brothers.....oh so many.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Jos
Date: 06 Mar 19 - 02:33 PM

Bobby Goldsboro, Summer (The First Time)

"It was a hot afternoon, The last day of June, And the sun was a demon. The clouds were afraid - One-ten in the shade, And the pavement was steaming ..."

I know of nothing else that conveys summer heat the way that song does.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 09:59 AM

Yodeling

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: John P
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 02:56 PM

Thick as a Brick
Come Together
White Room

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 05:11 PM

Leenia how about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM61Q_QDoLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryBkSWFhBNw

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Mar 19 - 10:54 AM

Thanks, Sandman, I like them both. I think I'll learn to play the first one.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 19 - 06:06 PM

"Shotgun" by Junior Walker and the All Stars

this performance is LIVE all the way

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 12:08 PM

The session guitar player, I forget his name, on the studio recordings
where Al David and Burt Bacharach had their songs
performed with Dionne Warwick:
"Oh, could they make a song happen!"

I Say A Little Prayer

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 01:23 PM

Even though I usually think thoughts of celtic music stylings, if I'm in the grocery store and hear The Bangles singing, If She Knew What She Wants, I listen till the song is done. I don't like when the intercom comes on to interrupt the song, either.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 01:57 PM

How do you turn a duck into a soul singer?

Put it in the oven until it's Bill Withers.

Sorry :-)

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 02:11 PM

lol DtG, I'm gonna borrow that one.

My goodie buttons are being pushed by The Shins, The Pogues and Rockpile today and it's giving me the juice to do my house-cleaning chores.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Mar 19 - 07:29 PM

Summer in Siam. Rainy Night in Soho. Pair of Brown Eyes. Life On Mars. Dancing Queen. Symphony (Clean Bandit). Queen at Live Aid. Beatles from soup to nuts. The Emperor Concerto. The Pastoral Symphony. Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in D. Another hundred things by Mozart. Schumann piano music, any of it. Beethoven last three piano sonatas, plus the Waldstein, plus the little Op78 sonata. Beethoven late string quartets. Beethoven Diabelli Variations. Dvorak cello concerto. Anything you like by Ravel, Gershwin and Bernstein. Bach B Minor Mass. Everything by Woody Guthrie. Nothing by Dylan.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 19 - 12:56 PM

The banjo part on Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music."

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 06:39 PM

Bizet's "Carmen" !

Never mind plot and characters and whatever,
I mean the music.
The music is simply a miraculous piece of architecture.
There is a sense of proportion and balance and pacing.
I'm not saying this very well, but
the music is better music than people realize.

There are so many moments when the next number of music begins
and it's, Oh, I'd forgotten this and it's wonderful!

The changing of the guard, with the playful children (boys).

The cigarette factory workers singing about smoke --
Brahms went back to performances some two dozen times
just to see how Bizet managed those rhythmic "hemiola" passages.
(And then Brahms put them in his waltzes.)

Carmen defying the police to arrest her (tra la la la la la la la)

The smugglers in the tavern planning their next heist.
(we can't do it without the ladies ...)

The smugglers coming over the hills
(take care, mind where you step)

... and so many others.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 08:06 PM

Losing my religion

Texas

Vanz Kant Danz

Here's a classic for Leeneia and her yodeling button:

Arizona yodeler

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 10:31 AM

The Wrecking Crew's instrumental intro,
with acoustic double-bass AND Carole Kaye's electric bass guitar,
to
"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: leeneia
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 10:41 AM

Stewie, thanks for noticing that I mentioned yodeling. I listened to the DeZurik sisters (your link) once again. I especially noticed how sweet their high notes are in the exposition.

Another thing I like to do is find and play good pieces of country music. June Apple, Midnight on the Water, Seeing Nelly Home, Sally in the Garden Assisting Sam are a few of them.

I just discovered the varsovienne and will be posting two examples today.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 10:59 AM

Heard this great old tune covered by Canned Heat (on a commercial) while watching March Madness yesterday-

Let's Work Together

Bob Hite was such a good singer, I guess he wasn't pretty enough to be a considered a Rock God.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,Some bloke
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 04:02 PM

Other than groaning (many things make me groan, not just Dave’s duck joke, as bad as it was) it takes something musically special to “float my boat every time.”

A few might be (ask tomorrow and get a completely different list)

Janos Starker playing Bach’s cello suite

John Eliot Gardiner’s take on Vivaldi’s Gloria

Martin Simpson’s interpretation of Plains of Waterloo

Now... Last month I was in Thailand with my son (who lives in China,) and in a bar in Chiang Mai, they were daft enough to let me control the YouTube providing the music.

Jilted John, Birdy Dance, Really Free.... My lad walked out of the bar during Hunting Tigers etc by The Bonzo Dog Doo Daa Band. If that doesn’t fit the bill, nothing will.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 04:26 PM

Hun- ting Ti- gers OUT in IN - di- Yah.

OUT in
OUt in
OUT in IN - di - Yah. YAH.    yes indeed …

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Jos
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 04:33 PM

Anything by Garbutt

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Jos
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 04:35 PM

[totally unreliable laptop]

Vin Garbutt

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 03:24 AM

yes martins interpretation oif that tune is very good

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 03:45 AM

"In The Morning" (original version) - Dixie Hummingbirds
"I'll Take You There" - The Staple Singers
"Chinkapin Hunting" - Chris Norman
"Dixie Chicken" - Little Feat

Anything by Våsen...

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: gillymor
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 06:53 AM

Hamnataing by Fiddler's Bid

I'm also a Vasen enthusiast, they do my favorite version of Josefin's Waltz.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 11:41 AM

Their version of Josefin is, of course, the original, written by Roger Tallroth, their 12-string guitar player.

I heard them in concert locally last year, and they entranced me with their musicality - wonderful tunes played superbly.

It's a tune that we play in our ceilidh band. I did a scratch, off the cuff, duet with Ian, my guitar maker, last autumn - to test out his latest custom tenor guitar. If you're interested, you can see and hear it here:

Ian Chisholm & Will Fly: "Josefin's Waltz"

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: gillymor
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 11:48 AM

Excellent, Will. Thanks for posting that.

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 02:13 AM

I have a whole subset of "Goodie" buttons.
Classical - Salut d'amour, Pictures at an Exhibition - et al
Pop - Everly Brothers, Beatles, etc. But see Sturgeon's Rule
Folk Everley Brothers Barabra Allen, Unquiet Grave and anything played well.
Jazz - Dave Brubeck Take Five, Mood Indego, Rhapsody in Blue

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 05:18 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcBocS_x_M

Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Mar 19 - 07:38 AM

Fado