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Trivia Question: Can you name any songs that use a cowbell as part of the instrumentation?

Asked by rojo (24179points) November 16th, 2014

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Going first Honky Tonk Women By the Stones.

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dxs's avatar

^^Somehow I knew that’d be first!
Oye Como Va by Santana.

talljasperman's avatar

SNL Saturday night Live.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@dxs It had to be :P

Dutchess_III's avatar

I saw Blue Oyster Cult in concert.

Pachy's avatar

Musician/bandleader Spike Jones used cowbells and other novekty instruments in many of his tunes.

Pachy's avatar

Make that K in novelky an L

Dutchess_III's avatar

Poof!
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Nuthin’. I’m losing it.

ZEPHYRA's avatar

Nightrain – Guns N’ Roses.

Buttonstc's avatar

Doesn’t The Beatles’ “When I’m 64” use cowbell in it for part of the percussion emphasis, or am I mistaken about that ?

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Where is there a cowbell in Don’t Fear the Reaper?

rojo's avatar

@Buttonstc I hear a bell but I don’t think it is a cowbell.

@Adirondackwannabe It is that “tock..tock…tock” you can hear in the background throughout the song.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@rojo I think that’s the drummer. Not a cowbell.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Grazing in the Grass – - Hugh Masekela 1968

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe Nah, that’s a cowbell. Here’s some fun background trivia about the cowbell in that song.

“The song features the prominent use of the cowbell percussion instrument. The song was originally recorded without a cowbell, but the sound was overdubbed into the song at a later stage. Bassist Joe Bouchard remembered a producer requesting his brother, drummer Albert Bouchard, to play the cowbell on the track. Joe Bouchard recalled: “Albert thought he was crazy. But he put all this tape around a cowbell and played it. It really pulled the track together.”[6] Producer David Lucas claims that the inclusion of the cowbell was his idea,[7] and guitarist Eric Bloom supports Lucas’s claim”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Don't_Fear)_The_Reaper#Composition

trailsillustrated's avatar

Rage against the machine- killing in the name of.

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