Well, when we were discussing "songs to ditch" and "songs never to ditch," one song showed up on both that is to me a "gasmic" piece -- "Rose of Allendale." The chorus opens with the highest notes in the tune, and that opening phrase can reduce me to a puddle, particularly as sung by Dick Holdstock and Allan McLeod, who work out of the Northern California "scene."

There are other songs of this sort, but none comes to mind just now.