I’m not advocating that The Osmonds were anything musically high brow. However I do have two songs I’ve been playing.
1. Crazy Horses - It’s probably not all that good taken by itself, but knowing it comes from the Osmonds makes it somehow seem impressive in that it doesn’t totally suck.
There have always been a few snippets of songs that have stuck in my brain since I was a kid, and it would be years, decades, or possibly never that I learn who it was.
This is one of them. In the back of my head I seemed to remember the vocal chorus sounding like "If you wanna get to heaven" (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) and then that crazy keyboard part; obviously the brain cell that had the vocals recorded was lost, but I still remember that keyboard part. Thanks Kazaam, for filling in one more gap!
There was another tune that took me decades, it had the craziest Clav part. I heard once over the sound system in a restaurant in Wendover NV (it made an impression) and I quickly asked my waitress if she knew who it was (nope, but young enough to be my daughter). I asked the table next to me, nobody knew. I almost wanted to scream in the casino, "Who the heck does this song!?!?!" but I didn't.
Some years later I was reading an article about "the Fifth Beatle", Mr. Billy Preston, and I ordered a copy of his greatest hits from Amazoid. First track came out of the speakers, and There It Was!
Outa-Space. Easily the greaziest, fawnkiest Clav track ever recorded (beats out Superstition IMNSHO). I was so happy.
While retrieving this video I noticed there's a tutorial on how to play it, will be looking at that soon.