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Title: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: hbelkins on November 19, 2021, 07:45:53 PM
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."
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: Road Hog on November 20, 2021, 01:22:21 AM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on November 20, 2021, 03:45:31 AM
close encounters of the third kind.

all those guys in the desert singing the doo-doo-DOOO-doo-doo thing.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: SectorZ on November 20, 2021, 08:59:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: 1995hoo on November 20, 2021, 09:04:47 AM
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).
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: hbelkins on November 20, 2021, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on November 20, 2021, 01:22:21 AM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: bandit957 on November 20, 2021, 06:37:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on November 20, 2021, 06:45:42 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 20, 2021, 09:04:47 AM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: jp the roadgeek on November 20, 2021, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 20, 2021, 08:59:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: Big John on November 20, 2021, 09:40:39 PM
And Hey is shouted out in Rock and Roll Part 2, though the lyrics doesn't have "hey" in it.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: abefroman329 on November 20, 2021, 11:12:47 PM
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.

Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: 1995hoo on November 21, 2021, 09:51:05 AM
Quote from: Big John on November 20, 2021, 09:40:39 PM
And Hey is shouted out in Rock and Roll Part 2, though the lyrics doesn't have "hey" in it.

Are there any lyrics?
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: jp the roadgeek on November 21, 2021, 10:05:02 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 21, 2021, 09:51:05 AM
Quote from: Big John on November 20, 2021, 09:40:39 PM
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 (https://youtu.be/2r8Ac7JtEaU) has lyrics
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: thenetwork on November 21, 2021, 11:21:04 PM
The Live version of I Want You To Want Me has the audience repeating the word Crying.

Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: michravera on November 22, 2021, 01:06:32 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 20, 2021, 11:12:47 PM
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.


Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: lepidopteran on November 22, 2021, 10:09:59 AM
In Brian Adams' "Run To You", in concert he'll have the audience do the "Da-da da da" part.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: JayhawkCO on November 22, 2021, 03:40:35 PM
Two songs that couldn't be farther apart:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You Never Even Called Me by My Name
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 22, 2021, 10:48:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: hotdogPi on November 23, 2021, 08:36:35 AM
Some of you are missing an important word in the thread title...

QuoteSongs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: abefroman329 on November 23, 2021, 09:50:14 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 08:36:35 AM
Some of you are missing an important word in the thread title...

QuoteSongs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Came here to say this.  Do better.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: JayhawkCO on November 23, 2021, 09:53:14 AM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 22, 2021, 03:40:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: Rothman on November 23, 2021, 09:57:53 AM


Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 09:53:14 AM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 22, 2021, 03:40:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: JayhawkCO on November 23, 2021, 10:01:49 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 23, 2021, 09:57:53 AM


Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 09:53:14 AM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 22, 2021, 03:40:35 PM
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?
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: hotdogPi on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
While it's during the instrumental part, it's not along with it.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: JayhawkCO on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: Rothman on November 23, 2021, 01:41:22 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
That would be the definition of "along."
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: JayhawkCO on November 23, 2021, 01:48:14 PM
Quote from: Rothman on November 23, 2021, 01:41:22 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
That would be the definition of "along."

I would beg to differ.  If you're Ozzy in "Iron Man", you're singing along with the instrumental melody.  If you're almost any other lead singer, you are creating the melody, not just singing on top of the instrumental melody. 

If you're singing along with the song, during a time when there are no lyrics, it doesn't matter to me if you follow the instrumental melody or creating a vocal melody, you're still "singing along" during what is normally an instrumental part, fulfilling the definition of the subject of the thread as written.

That said, if the OP meant to be more specific, then that's fine too.  Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but that's what AARoads is for.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: DenverBrian on November 23, 2021, 10:18:54 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
Don't think so. Most of the examples are people shouting "original" lyrics in the spaces between actual lyrics. Mony Mony is classic; Rudolph is a great example.

Sweet Caroline is an instance where the audience mimics the instrumental without actual words, unless you count "Bom bom bom" as words LOL.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: ftballfan on November 24, 2021, 10:10:03 AM
Quote from: DenverBrian on November 23, 2021, 10:18:54 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
Don't think so. Most of the examples are people shouting "original" lyrics in the spaces between actual lyrics. Mony Mony is classic; Rudolph is a great example.

Sweet Caroline is an instance where the audience mimics the instrumental without actual words, unless you count "Bom bom bom" as words LOL.
Along the lines of Mony Mony and Rudolph, I bring you Dixieland Delight (with added lyrics in bold):
Spend my dollar, ON BEER
parked in a holler 'neath the mountain moonlight. ROLL TIDE
Hold her up tight, AGAINST THE WALL
Make a little lovin', ALL NIGHT
A little turtle dovin' on a Mason-Dixon night. BEAT AUBURN
Fits my life, AND LSU
oh so right, AND TENNESSEE TOO
My Dixieland Delight.

I was a little disappointed that nobody did the bolded parts when I saw Alabama in concert last weekend (admittedly, it was in Michigan). Some other Southern college fan bases change the words to reflect their football team instead of the Alabama Crimson Tide
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: abefroman329 on November 24, 2021, 12:25:34 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on November 24, 2021, 10:10:03 AM
Quote from: DenverBrian on November 23, 2021, 10:18:54 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
Don't think so. Most of the examples are people shouting "original" lyrics in the spaces between actual lyrics. Mony Mony is classic; Rudolph is a great example.

Sweet Caroline is an instance where the audience mimics the instrumental without actual words, unless you count "Bom bom bom" as words LOL.
Along the lines of Mony Mony and Rudolph, I bring you Dixieland Delight (with added lyrics in bold):
Spend my dollar, ON BEER
parked in a holler 'neath the mountain moonlight. ROLL TIDE
Hold her up tight, AGAINST THE WALL
Make a little lovin', ALL NIGHT
A little turtle dovin' on a Mason-Dixon night. BEAT AUBURN
Fits my life, AND LSU
oh so right, AND TENNESSEE TOO
My Dixieland Delight.

I was a little disappointed that nobody did the bolded parts when I saw Alabama in concert last weekend (admittedly, it was in Michigan). Some other Southern college fan bases change the words to reflect their football team instead of the Alabama Crimson Tide
I've heard ROLL TIDE ROLL added to both Sweet Home Alabama and Deacon Blues.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: Rothman on November 24, 2021, 01:07:52 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 24, 2021, 12:25:34 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on November 24, 2021, 10:10:03 AM
Quote from: DenverBrian on November 23, 2021, 10:18:54 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 23, 2021, 10:13:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 23, 2021, 10:07:19 AM
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?
Don't think so. Most of the examples are people shouting "original" lyrics in the spaces between actual lyrics. Mony Mony is classic; Rudolph is a great example.

Sweet Caroline is an instance where the audience mimics the instrumental without actual words, unless you count "Bom bom bom" as words LOL.
Along the lines of Mony Mony and Rudolph, I bring you Dixieland Delight (with added lyrics in bold):
Spend my dollar, ON BEER
parked in a holler 'neath the mountain moonlight. ROLL TIDE
Hold her up tight, AGAINST THE WALL
Make a little lovin', ALL NIGHT
A little turtle dovin' on a Mason-Dixon night. BEAT AUBURN
Fits my life, AND LSU
oh so right, AND TENNESSEE TOO
My Dixieland Delight.

I was a little disappointed that nobody did the bolded parts when I saw Alabama in concert last weekend (admittedly, it was in Michigan). Some other Southern college fan bases change the words to reflect their football team instead of the Alabama Crimson Tide
I've heard ROLL TIDE ROLL added to both Sweet Home Alabama and Deacon Blues.
Call me Deacon Blue!  Roll tide-- oops, one line too late.
Title: Re: Songs where the audience sings along to an instrumental part
Post by: hbelkins on November 24, 2021, 04:21:19 PM
If there's any doubt about what I'm talking about...



Forward to the 3:50 mark, I could not embed the starting point in the video.



Forward to the 6:42 mark in case the embedded link doesn't work.