Favorite harmonica songs

[Htown Harry]

Time for another music thread...but please no Huey Lewis suggestions

I know there a few players here so maybe they will offer up some surprise picks.
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/any-harmonica-players-here-34395.html

The idea came from hearing the harp break at 1:27 when this played over the store speakers the other day:
The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running (official video) - YouTube

My favorite harmonica jam song:
Magic Dick w/LRBR - Whammer Jammer - The State Theatre - YouTube

I found this one looking for the links above. Been listening all evening...
VA-classic harmonica blues from smithsonian folkways - YouTube

 

[jollystomper]

The group War featured a great harmonica player, Lee Oskar, who had many featured solos. One of my favorites is in the song "Gypsy Man". Here is Lee performing the solo live:

 

[Htown Harry]

Good one, Jollystomper. Until now I never realized the War lineup had a harmonica player. Listening to them on car radios, I had assumed horns.

This song would be forgettable without the harmonica hook. With it, it's recognizable by millions in just the first few bars:
Lopez Tonight - " Low Rider " - War - Live HD - YouTube

 

[Nodak]

Paul Butterfield

Born in Chicago-Paul Butterfield Blues Band - YouTube

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - LIVE - WPLJ 1970 - YouTube

 

[Nodak]

and of course Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson- "Bye Bye Bird" 1963 (Reelin' In The Years Archives) - YouTube

Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine below zero - YouTube

 

[Free To Canoe]

Room to Move

John Mayall

 

[bld999]

Room to Move

John Mayall

+1, and good album altogether.

 

[heeyy_joe]

HARP ATTACK! AWESOME LIVEPERFORMANCE!

Hurry Up & Wait ~ Little Charlie & The Nightcats - YouTube

 

[stepford]

I was always kinda liked the mournful/wistful tone Neil gets on "My my, Hey hey" off Rust Never Sleeps.

But my favorite is a Yardbirds cover of "I'm a Man" off their "Live at the Anderson Theater" album in '68. By then the band were in the process of breaking up and reforming as Led Zeppelin, but the collision of old and new produced a strong harmonica vs. guitar duel between Keith Relf and Jimmy Page.

 

[Free To Canoe]

I found this one looking for the links above. Been listening all evening...
VA-classic harmonica blues from smithsonian folkways - YouTube

+1 Can't stop listening to this one. I think I heard Sonny Terry in there on one of those.

 

[scrabbler1]

It is not a harmonica per se, but how about the harmonica sections of "Piano Man," by Billy Joel?

 

[Koolau]

Okay, if you don't like Huey, how about a little John Sebastian?

Raw:

Flamin' Groovies - "Night Owl Blues" (Lovin' Spoonful Cover) - YouTube

or:

Cooked:

Night Owl Blues - Lovin' Spoonful - YouTube

Blue-eyed soul at it's finest, but, of course, YMMV.

 

[48Fire]

Springsteen Thunder Road

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[HFWR]

Not a particularly good recording, but...

 

[devans0]

Harmonicats was a funny B&W tv memory.