Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part

[hbelkins]

If you've ever heard live versions of these, you know what I'm talking about.

Metallica's "Master of Puppets" and Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."

[Road Hog]

You're talking about a song where there are lyrics and the band just lets the crowd sing along?

Queen had several songs like that.

[zachary_amaryllis]

close encounters of the third kind.

all those guys in the desert singing the doo-doo-DOOO-doo-doo thing.

[SectorZ]

YYZ by Rush, at least in their "Rush in Rio" CD/DVD. For those that don't know them (or at least the song), the song itself is an instrumental.

Heaven and Hell and Iron Man by Black Sabbath (HB already covered War Pigs). Ozzy usually started the Iron Man sing along; the Heaven and Hell one used to come more naturally.

[1995hoo]

Two of totally different genres–"Sweet Caroline" and "Seven Nation Army" (the latter perhaps the only song I know of where people sing the bass line).

[hbelkins]

You're talking about a song where there are lyrics and the band just lets the crowd sing along?

Queen had several songs like that.

No, where there's an instrumental part and the crowd "oh-oh-ohs" or "ah-ah-ahs" along to it.

But with the example you give, "War Pigs" also qualifies.

I whistle along to the horn breaks of classic Chicago songs (the first 13 albums) when I'm driving and one starts playing.

[bandit957]

I remember in the '70s and '80s, people would often clap to the rhythm of songs at concerts or during TV performances. It always had a rhythm sort of like "Bennie And The Jets." It was cool.

In high school, when students read a paper in front of the class, we would clap at the end and it would evolve into this rhythm, and the teacher got really mad.

[NWI_Irish96]

Two of totally different genres–"Sweet Caroline" and "Seven Nation Army" (the latter perhaps the only song I know of where people sing the bass line).

Seven Nation Army was the first song I thought of when I saw the thread title.

[jp the roadgeek]

YYZ by Rush, at least in their "Rush in Rio" CD/DVD. For those that don't know them (or at least the song), the song itself is an instrumental.

You also get the crowd shouting "Hey"  in the 2112 Overture and Temples of Syrinx.

[Big John]

And Hey is shouted out in Rock and Roll Part 2, though the lyrics doesn't have "hey" in it.

[abefroman329]

With some of these, I've only heard it once, but

"Lucille"  by Kenny Rogers
"Mony Mony"  by Billy Idol
"Living Next Door to Alice"  by Smokie
"Margaritaville"  by Jimmy Buffett
"Family Tradition"  by Hank Williams Jr.

[1995hoo]

And Hey is shouted out in Rock and Roll Part 2, though the lyrics doesn't have "hey" in it.

Are there any lyrics?

[jp the roadgeek]

And Hey is shouted out in Rock and Roll Part 2, though the lyrics doesn't have "hey" in it.

Are there any lyrics?

Part 1 has lyrics

[thenetwork]

The Live version of I Want You To Want Me has the audience repeating the word Crying.

[michravera]

With some of these, I’ve only heard it once, but

“Lucille” by Kenny Rogers
“Mony Mony” by Billy Idol
“Living Next Door to Alice” by Smokie
“Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett
“Family Tradition” by Hank Williams Jr.

I've certainly participated in it on the first verse of Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" in Oakland in 1985. I believe that they captured the Baltimore crowd singing it on the live version from his 1975-1985 tour medium.

I haven't been to either of their live shows, but I'm pretty sure that Billy Idol and Tommy James expected the backtalk on "Mony Mony".

The "Hallelujah Chorus" of "Messiah" is frequently performed as a singalong. Sometimes the whole work is done as a singalong.

A couple songs are so well known that the vocalists often drop the mic in favor of the crowd. I was just watching Humerto Tozzi do this on "Gloria" letting the crowd sing "Gloria, manchi tu nell'aria" and Ricchi e Poveri do this on "Mamma Maria". The refrain is infectious. Don't listen to the live version unless you want to be be singing "Ma Ma  Ma Mamma Maria Ma" for the next day and a half.

When the song ends in instructions to "repeat forever and fade" a simple chorus such as "Hey Jude", "White Punks on Dope", "Crimson and Clover" or even my version of "Little Willy" the audience eventually gets involved.

Of course, my live version of "Paper Planes" invariably has the audience playing percussion! But no one asked about that.

[lepidopteran]

In Brian Adams' "Run To You", in concert he'll have the audience do the "Da-da da da" part.

[JayhawkCO]

Two songs that couldn't be farther apart:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You Never Even Called Me by My Name

[ErmineNotyours]

In the Green Day concert film Bullet In a Bible, shot in the UK, the band does not sing certain lines of songs, probably for censorship reasons.  But the crowd sings those lines anyway.  The DVD still carries an explicit lyrics warning.

[hotdogPi]

Some of you are missing an important word in the thread title...

Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part

[abefroman329]

Some of you are missing an important word in the thread title...

Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part

Came here to say this.  Do better.

[JayhawkCO]

Two songs that couldn't be farther apart:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You Never Even Called Me by My Name

The audience sings (added) words during instrumental parts, for the record.

[Rothman]

Two songs that couldn't be farther apart:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You Never Even Called Me by My Name

The audience sings (added) words during instrumental parts, for the record.

For Rudolph, I haven't heard people singing along with the instrumental part.

[JayhawkCO]

Two songs that couldn't be farther apart:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You Never Even Called Me by My Name

The audience sings (added) words during instrumental parts, for the record.

For Rudolph, I haven't heard people singing along with the instrumental part.

All of the added words? "Like a light bulb", "like Monopoly" that aren't in the original lyrics?

[hotdogPi]

While it's during the instrumental part, it's not along with it.

[JayhawkCO]

While it's during the instrumental part, it's not along with it.

So for the definition of this thread, you have to exactly follow the melody of the instrumental part?