Most Famous Wurlitzer Electric Piano Intros

[@NicolasMelis]

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[@jorymil]

"Bloody Well Right" pretty well woke me up one bleary-eyed Saturday morning after a party with some friends. Until that point, they had had all the fun, but that intro is what makes the Wurlitzer for me.

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted for the part 2 video :) thanks 🙏

[@terrybrown106]

I actually have a song book with tons if famous keyboard intros on it. And that's one of the intros. I think it's by Mel Bay Publishing. They released several books with pop rock transcriptions of keyboard intros, solos,and accompaniments. You can Google search for them and probably find some for sale somewhere.

[@fulloffools6942]

It's Stevie's 'I Wish' for me.

[@graemeyetts3465]

Thank you. I learned something in that I thought Bloody Well Right, a favourite of mine, was played on a Rhodes! A Donald Fagen video interview brought me here❤

[@NicolasMelis]

whats the title of the book? :)

[@richardlangellotti6208]

Pretzel Logic, Black Friday, other tunes I know well. I played in a Steely Dan cover band. I'd love to play Supertramp all day; i know a lot of those tunes. My nephew kinda appropriated my original, 1982 Fender Rhodes stage Mark II 73 key EP (but he's got a studio). But i got a Yamaha S90-es, so I have all those patches and more. Think funky clavinet, DX-7, about 50 organ patches, every damn thing. I really need a gig!

[@NicolasMelis]

Hope to get a gig soon 🎹

[@seaningram3285]

You nailed that Beck track "Where it's At" 😃😃👍👍🔥🔥

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🎹

[@elshiftos]

I've just discovered these videos, and despite not being a keyboard player, love testing my knowledge with a round of 'guess the song'. Great stuff, keep 'em coming! 😀

[@NicolasMelis]

Welcome :)

[@davida.p.9911]

Two more: "Bloody Well Right"--Supertramp ; "Little Birdie"---Vince Guaraldi 😎🎹🎹🎹🎹 Awesome sound and awesome playing!!

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted ! Thank you 🙏🎹

[@stevehofer3482]

Thanks for posting this. It seems the one thing these songs have in common is a killer bass part. There is this "certain something" about the Wurlie bass tone.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you for watching 🙏🎹

[@ultimobile]

I just listened to this straight after the Fender Rhodes one - while I was impressed with the hit songs on that, my old favourite Wurly takes the cake for more hit songs I know and like here - yas !

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🙏🎹

[@WannaB321]

What a great sound the Wurly has. I used to have a Rhodes, never really played a Wurly. Great video.

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you enjoyed it! Gotta love the Wurli sound🎹

[@ramonitbelascuain8611]

You're My Best Friend and Pretzel Logic bring down strong memories. Great playing, sir!

[@NicolasMelis]

@@ramonitbelascuain8611 thank you 🎹🎵

[@gregsullivan7408]

Thanks - excellent job! Part 2: "Jeans On" - David Dundas Side thought: the Wurly on Abba's "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is fantastic! Sounds like it's run through a big reverb, FOLLOWED by a phaser. Absolute genius production IMHO.

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted thank you 🙏🎹

[@Hotdawgfilms]

"I Wish" was played on a Rhodes. It was an older, worn out Rhodes so its sound was a little rougher around the edges so it's understandable how it could be confused for a Wurlitzer.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes you are right!

[@drgruber57]

Right. That's what I was going to say. Rhodes.

[@BluesCat1980]

Still an electric piano the same.

[@jasonsgroovemachine]

There's never a bad time for Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹🎹🙌

[@E4RLIES]

This has given me a new appreciation for that voice on my piano❤ Your playing is top notch too🫶🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎹🎹🎹

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙏🎹

[@winstonbeech3418]

I was in a band 10 years ago, we did I Wish - keyboard was a Korg of 1000 voices. I was playing bari sax. My own Roland VR09 has several EP patches but none really have the right sound. One of these days I’ll try running it thru a chorus or something. Re: Supertramp. Goodbye Stranger is my old Freedom Song from back in 79.

[@NicolasMelis]

Never played a Roland VR09, is it good?

[@richardmiller191]

One of my favorites was Breakdown by Tom Petty. Glad you had Where its At

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🎹

[@semicool103]

I LOVE WURLITZER YAAAAAY

[@NicolasMelis]

Me too 🙌🎹

[@BenjaminDehli]

Yes! 🔥 Great sounding Wurli and fantastic playing as always👍 Love those "I Wish"-chords 🕺

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks Benjamin, just fixed it and i ve made the video… it was very noisy before :)

[@SuperRingoffire1]

Such a beautiful rich tone 👌😁☮

[@NicolasMelis]

thank you! glad you like it 🎹

[@sethie_shots]

Killer compilation! Love it that A200 sound. I have a student model (no tremolo) but add it with a pedal

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you! Glad you like it 🎹

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

This is a kickin’ list. Honorable mention for a song that doesn’t begin with a Wurlitzer piano but include some very impressive Wurlitzer stylings before the vocal kicks in: “Top of the World - Carpenters. Did Donald Fagen play the piano parts of Black Friday on both Wurlitzer and Rhodes?

[@NicolasMelis]

Have to check that out!! Thanks 🙏

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

My pleasure, Nicolas.

[@thecabanaband6999]

Came here to say that... Richard Carpenter played Wurlitzers EP exclusively, but usually it was embedded in the songs, except "Top of the World"

[@jeffmcclure888]

Great!

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🎹

[@jamesarthofer3413]

Your playing is excellent! Thanks for posting, I really enjoy this,and getting an education on what songs use what keyboard 👍

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you very much! appreciated 🎹🙏

[@coltonmykael]

Thanks for including Cannonball!

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🎹

[@petergorges6163]

Not to be a spoilsport, but "I Wish" is clearly a Rhodes ;)

[@NicolasMelis]

Yeah, i know :)

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

I don’t mind sharing that there was (at least) one instance when I mistook a Rhodes piano for a Wurlitzer piano. That was off of my first classic Chicago song, “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”. That demonstrated for me how it’s possible to get one of them to sound like the other (if only in the middle of the pitch range), if not vice versa.

[@melodymaker135]

Stevie is such a badass that he gets faux-Wurlitzer crunch out of a Rhodes. Fooled me too 😂

[@melodymaker135]

@@Shred_The_Weapon And that is a freaking great song!

[@estuarysound]

🤍 luv it 🙌 great choices and playing as per usual.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you for the support my friend! Really appreciate it 🎹🖤

[@deantiquisetnovis]

Excellent!

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you liked it!🎹

[@joeblankenship377]

Zawinul kills it on Mercy Mercy.

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@szrnkabela]

Great Video :D I only missed Vulfpeck - Soft Parade

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks! Oh thats a great tune! I think i have to do a part 2 video 😁

[@szrnkabela]

@@NicolasMelis and of course the Vulf Intro itself!!! :D

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🎹

[@TheWarriorSongProject]

And the Cradle Will Rock?

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted

[@thomassicard3733]

Remember Me With Kindness by Gentle Giant - Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes? Neither. Piano!!! Great intro and song throughout.

[@Ashfaq1999]

Brilliant 🎶

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙌🎹

[@Ashfaq1999]

@@NicolasMelis Welcome 🎶

[@Antonio_Gallego]

some Ray Manzarek's vibe there! Well played!

[@NicolasMelis]

🙏🎹🎵

[@davidfalconmusic]

Great playing and sounds. Definitely going to learn some of these songs!

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks David! 🙏🎹

[@davidfalconmusic]

@@NicolasMelis Especially cool the Jamiroquai sound through the amp sim! ;)

[@NicolasMelis]

@@davidfalconmusic yeah! Love that intro… didnt quite nailed the sound but oh well 😁

[@davidfalconmusic]

@@NicolasMelis Sounds amazing as is :D

[@NicolasMelis]

@@davidfalconmusic thanks man, appreciated!

[@mmadchef808]

Great stuff !!!!

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you!!

[@melodymaker135]

Missing “Tin Soldier” by Small Faces here. But this was a great list, thanks!!

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted! Thank you 🙏

[@nytom4info]

for years on sat on my B3!

[@NicolasMelis]

I would love to have a B3 someday :)

[@mlaughlin70]

Very cool; thanks.

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you liked it!

[@rockonguitar8117]

The Queen sounded amazing man! All killer!

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🙏🎹

[@Jenairaslebol27merde]

another one to mention: "mama told me not to come" by randy newman, in the versions by three dog night or by tom jones with stereophonics.

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh yes!! Noted thanks

[@Leepianojourney]

👏👏👏 This is very good! 👏👏👏

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you very much Lee🎹🙏

[@ratghost25]

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl), Dancin' In The Moonlight (King Harvest).

[@NicolasMelis]

@@ratghost25 noted !! Thank you 🙏

[@vhm14u2c]

And outtro to come together 🥂🎶

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted for the part 2 video thanks

[@marcelomanzanoplaza3262]

Me gustaría escuchar el lady sunday de small Faces que también tocaban este teclado muy característico de ellos incluso cuando fueron the faces...

[@easantos79]

'I heard it through the grapewine' 👍

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@MarioHarms-z1j]

nice

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙏🎹

[@nuker3272]

Awesome video, i personally think Dancing in the moonlight should be there but anyways, it's still awesome Btw i really wonder why Stevie never used The Wurlitzer

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you!! Dancing in the moonlight is with a wurlitzer?

[@nuker3272]

@@NicolasMelis Yes, if you compare the song playing it with a rhodes it sounds different

[@d.j.vanderschoot3717]

It's hard to get the pulse in Logical Song right. Roger doesn't do it staccato like that but more legato, he releases the keys only half for the next pulse. The accents are on 1, 4 and 7 where the others are much softer. Again hard to get right and I haven't seen anyone do it properly.

[@fredfox3851]

WHAT?! No Ride Captain Ride? Great job anyway Nicolas.

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted for the part 2 video :) thanks 🙏

[@joetessy]

Hey Nicolas, I really enjoyed hearing your version of Mercy Mercy Mercy. I don't know if you write sheet music or do video tutorials, but I would love to learn how to play it like this!!! All of the sheet music I was able to find was stale and boring :(

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it ! Its just how i play it with my band:) don’t have a music sheet or a tutorial video unfortunately never thought of making one :)

[@joetessy]

@@NicolasMelis aight fam Imma just slow it down to 50 and figure it out. Got the first section done already :)

[@NicolasMelis]

@@joetessy cool :)

[@parsrecording3751]

You forgot the best of all: I'm the warlus. Very, very serious!

[@NicolasMelis]

yep i know :) unfortunately i got a copyright for that one and had to take it off…. great song and great wurli sound

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

That was played on a Hohner, not a Wurlitzer. It almost sounds the same, though.

[@ManelRuivo]

god yes

[@NicolasMelis]

🙏🎹

[@kapturelab]

WHERE ITS AT! Nice!

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🎹

[@louiebee6745]

Intro to Joni's Woodstock?

[@christhedemocrat]

My 200a don't sound like that but it don't sound out of tune either. I'm not sure if it's tuned differently or if it's the fact that I can't play as good as you.

[@NicolasMelis]

i think every one sounds a bit different than the other :)

[@sm1tty031]

Imagine my surprise when I now see this LOL...

[@NicolasMelis]

😁😁🎹

[@ralphbenites1312]

It was very popular in the 70’s and 60’s.the guess who theas eyes.

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@SamT987]

I've always thought You're My Best Friend was played on a Pianet. But I could be wrong about that.

[@NicolasMelis]

I saw online it was on a Wurlitzer but not 100% sure

[@patrickeffiom97]

I was hoping for 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'.(Probably not a Wurlitzer).😁🇬🇧

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh yeah thats a Wurlitzer ! Noted for part 2 :) thanks

[@ratghost25]

@@NicolasMelis I think early on, Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboardist for TDN) used a Hohner Pianet electric piano live and on several recordings, Joy To The World being the most notable. I played a Pianet in a band way back in the late 70's and I can tell you it does sound A LOT like a Wurly. Later on, in the mid-70's Jimmy switched to using a Wurlitzer 140B which you can see him playing in some existing videos here on KZbin of TDN playing live.

[@NicolasMelis]

@@ratghost25 oh cool, never played a Hohner Pianet !! So on this one is a Pianet or a Wurli? When i heard it i thought it was a Wurli with effects :)

[@desoxido]

Great, but you forgot The Zombies ~ She's Not There.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks! Noted :)

[@ENGlishJELLo-yk7up]

I actually thought this was played on a keyboard as Roger plays one in concert 2:20

[@NVM_SMH]

The drummer wrote "Best Friend" on the Wurly but Freddy hated it and only ever played it live on the grand piano.

[@NicolasMelis]

Really? Didn’t know that !

[@mrhappy9999]

Correction: It was written by John Deacon, Queen’s bassist.

[@NVM_SMH]

@@mrhappy9999 my bad. You are correct. Freddie was given the Wurly but he hated it so Deacon took it home to play with.

[@jukeboxfandango]

Technically Mercy, Mercy, Mercy was written by Joe Zawinul, but originally performed with Cannonball so I'll allow it ;) If you put down that it was a Jozy song people would have complained you didn't say Cannonball lol.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 😁🎹

[@ivyssauro123]

2:21 the best

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@thesunshinemusician]

Hey Arnold vibes

[@ontherhodes8088]

Where it's at......two turntables and a microphone.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yesss🎹

[@richardmiller191]

Yeah love that one. He played it at the Grammys long time ago. I think he won a Grammy that year too.

[@Dombevi]

BLOODY WELL RIGHT = SUPERTRAMP / RIDERS OF THE STORM = The Doors

[@Dombevi]

perhaps it was a fender but it deserve a honorable mention

[@NicolasMelis]

Supertramp is a wurli will incl it on the part 2 video! The doors its a rhodes i have it on my rhodes video

[@alancyr]

Wasn't I wish recorded on a Rhodes?

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes!! My bad :)

[@bhk5150]

Where’s “Joy to the world?

[@NicolasMelis]

Three dog night?? Great tune noted for the part 2 video! Thanks

[@FranklyNorman]

One more: These Eyes by The Guess Who

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted! Thank you 🙏

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

Assuming Burton Cummings was playing the same piano in a few years, "New Mother Nature" is the one that comes to mind. 🙂

[@FranklyNorman]

@@QuarrellaDeVil Pretty sure that's a Wurly, yeah. And it's an iconic part, but I don't know if I'd call it an intro, given that it comes in half way through the track. Everything else in this vid is a solo part that kicks off the song all by itself

[@ElectricBozo]

Not a Wurly on These Eyes, Burton played an Hohner Pianet.

[@FranklyNorman]

@@ElectricBozo Interesting! Now I have an excuse to buy another vintage board 😏

[@AryaDhAn]

You forgot half the world away by oasis. Oasis use this kind of instrument on half the world away and can be hear on the outro

[@Mikeg73070]

Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are ?

[@NicolasMelis]

Thats on a Fender Rhodes, i have it on my Fender rhodes video, check it out :)

[@vito_keys]

You forget Bowling theme from Wii Sports

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted

[@kingsecho3351]

Where is logical song-Supertramp?

[@NicolasMelis]

@@kingsecho3351 2:21

[@kingsecho3351]

@@NicolasMelis oh damn. I missed it. I just learned how to play it. Great song. Really trains your left hand bass technique.

[@NicolasMelis]

@@kingsecho3351 🙌🎹

[@PatrickRosenbalm]

Where was These Eyes? And This Guy's in Love?

[@TylerJamesPryor]

I think these eyes might have been a Honer

[@NicolasMelis]

Are those on a Wurlitzer?

[@JiosX]

Steely Dan's Black Friday sounds like it's made for NES games

[@NicolasMelis]

😁

[@andreasschneider647]

ZZ Top: Dark sunglasses

[@louiscornale5667]

Great job but how about wooly bully watch it now 😮

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks! Don’t know that one, can you send me a link?

[@ronnelson7828]

Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs. Wooly Bully.

[@jeffreystringer]

Isn't I wish played on a clav?

[@robertvonfeldt7882]

Black Capricorn Day 🔥

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes!! Love that one

[@salamndrahak9575]

LA Woman - The doors

[@NicolasMelis]

Noted 🙏🎹

[@kuroageha1096]

Only two are familiar for me. Maybe I should learn more. And if I can suggest one more song, there should be “What’s Going On”, Donny Hathaway version.

[@NicolasMelis]

Great tune!! Noted thanks 🙏

[@josephdipietro8937]

SOMETIMES WE ALL FACE ADVERSITY

[@Gk2003m]

Not ‘famous’ per se, but certainly known among so many: click on the tremolo, and start hitting the D minor thing for ‘Sheep’ from Pink Floyd ANIMALS

[@NicolasMelis]

Is that one not on a fender rhodes?

[@johnscott4693]

Nope, it's a Rhodes. As is "I wish"...

[@maval4537]

@@Gk2003m They're right, it's a Rhodes!

[@samuelbanya]

Should have played that American Football song

[@brc3962]

Beck!!!!!!

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎵🎹

[@MEGAMIGA]

I thought the Doors' Riders on the Storm was played on a Wurlitzer?

[@westernnoir4808]

Nope you can see Ray play it on a Rhodes. he was a rhodes guy with the bass.

[@MEGAMIGA]

OK! @@westernnoir4808

[@andreasschneider647]

Cheap sunglasses!