Breakfast in America, Goodbye Stranger,

Check out Take the Long Way Home, Give a Little Bit and Breakfast in America

@ladyshar42

3 жыл бұрын

those and Goodbye Stranger

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

Yes especially Goodbye Stranger

"Take the long way home", another great one from the same album.

Breakfast in America an album I still play regularly today, my children all loved it too growing up, such great lyrics and musicality.

The Sax has always been a part of popular music. Always.

@iamstevec1656

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. I've been listening to rock since the 60's and there was always some sax here and there. Check out the Classics Four - Spooky

@margaretfogler1848

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever watched the Sexy Saxman videos? Pure gold.

@teknikel

3 жыл бұрын

Until now.

@derekbrandon2802

2 жыл бұрын

Instablaster

Next recommended Supertramp song: “Bloody Well Right” (The piano intro on the studio/audio version is so sick that you’ll be replaying it in your head the rest of the day.)

Sax has been a part of rock n roll from the beginning

@WILBURNREACTIONS

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Where have I been all these years. I think it just shocks me that I wouldn't think that instrument would be one incorporated in rock and roll but it sounds so good!!

Sax was usually a nod to the 50's roots of rock

Watching your facial expressions while listening puts a smile on this ole man's face, seeing the young man gets it with the music of my time . Thanks to you Chud I get to relive the memories .

Supertramp were front and Center with Sax playing on all thier albums in the 70s , this song was released in 1979, thier last commercially successful album "breakfast in america"

You like Sax! Try 'Foreigner' - 'Urgent', you will not be disappointed!

@bugvswindshield

3 жыл бұрын

Frankenstein.....Edgar Winter Group.

@donalddixon6541

3 жыл бұрын

The band "Quarterflash" has a woman sax player.They had a couple of hits. Harden my heart and Find another Fool". Very good songs! kzread.info/dash/bejne/mY5lksqDddTeZrA.html

@gemini2012100

3 жыл бұрын

Pink Floyd- "Shine on Your Crazy Diamond"; "The Gunner's Dream"; and "Two Suns in the Sunset"

@MoMoMyPup10

3 жыл бұрын

@@donalddixon6541 the one sax everyone seems to ignore on these channels. Watching her go at it is mesmerizing. Rindy Ross.

@darrellboone9274

3 жыл бұрын

Junior Walker😳

I love Supertramp the album “Crime of the Century” is so fantastic!!!

This was a massive radio hit in 1979, to the point where I had to put a moratorium on listening to this song for years.

@meofcourseitsme

3 жыл бұрын

1979 best year in music hands down ..

Progpop. Listen to the "Crime Of The Century" album one time. Not one bad song on their best album. Very proggy!

The 80"s had to be the decade of the sax solo, I am thinking Hall and Oates, Men at Work, Quarterflash Bruce Springsteen and many others. In the 70's there were alot of bands that had whole horn sections KC and the Sunshine band, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago. But at the end of the 70's the Gerry Rafferty song Baker Street started a pop trend for sax solos. It was just the right sounding horn to bridge two halves of a song.

Supertramp have more than their share of masterpieces: "Give a little bit", "Take the long way home", "Lady", "Two of us", "Lord is it mine", "Even in the quietest moments", "Dreamer", "Bloody well right"... That's a deep well to dive in to! John Helliwell was Supertramp's sax player. The sax was big in the 50s, but made a resurgence in the mid 70s. The ultimate 70s sax song is probably Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", but a lot of bands were using it back then.

This song is Supertramps' biggest hit ever. The drummer did a wonderful job here and so did the sax guy. The sax was popular in the 1970's. Remember: Pink Floyd using the sax, the BeeGees. Now the logical song was a catchy hit and the lyrics are great.

The album " Crime Of The Century"---- masterpiece of masterpieces from Supertramp....the albums "Crisis? What Crisis" ,"Even in the Quietest Moments", "Breakfast in America" also masterpieces. The albums" Famous Last Words" and" Brother Where You Bound "are very good...excellence abounds The sax started becoming popular in the late 60s, with the advent of progressive rock and rock/jazz fusion bands This song was released in 1979

Bruce Springsteen's sax player Clarance Clemens, Bad A**

@jc296x

3 жыл бұрын

Sax solo in Jungleland.... chills!

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

@@jc296x Oh I know right.

There was a lot of sax in that time :-) Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street Sade - Smooth Operator George Michael - Careless Whisper Hall and Oats - Man eater Tina Turner - You're Simply The Best

Roger Hodgson, wonderful voice. My first 3 vinyl records Pink Floyd The Wall Steely Dan Greatest Hits Supertramp Breakfast in America 1979 😎🥰🥰🥰 Still listening to them.

Their album Breakfast In America (the album this song is from) was the best selling album in the world in 1979 and with good reason. It's a masterpiece. Their follow up album was a live album "Paris". A couple years ago the video and sound of the concert was remastered for HD and released on Bluray. A must have for any fan of Supertramp. It captures them at the height of their popularity.

PLEASE...guy, Even in the quietest moments. I honestly feel it's their best album. I know the die hard will say otherwise but, the symphonics of the majority of the songs are just awesome. So glad u'v discovered this amazing band, so many great songs.

I love Supertramp! You need to do "Give a Little Bit", "It's Raining Again" and "Dreamer", for starters...

Supertramp is one of my favorite groups of all times. This great song is off of their big selling album " BREAKFAST IN AMERICA". The album in 1979 sold more than 4 million copies in the United States and was number 1 on Billboard albums chart for "6" weeks. They love to inject the sax in their songs. Try " TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME" AND " BLOODY WELL RIGHT", I think you will enjoy. Their other album "CRIME OF THE CENTURY" is a keeper. They are another great group from across the pond, the United Kingdom.

From memory, horns in general were a thing in the early '70's right through to the late 80's. Rock bands like Pink Floyd, AWB, Steely Dan, Chicago and many others introduced backing brass sections and cameos very early on. Funk and soul music invariably had sax infused in the tunes from very early on. Sax itself took off in the mid '70's as a feature instrument as R&B and Mowtown were at their peak. Sax was almost mandatory in any song outside of new wave, all through the 1980's.

I got a chance to see Roger Hodgson (the main voice of Supertramp, and the writer of many of their songs) perform at a small venue in RI a few years back. It was so much better than I expected it to be! And I had high expectations going in. Such a great band!

Yep, what a groove and the sax really drives it home. This song takes me back to 8th grade, not that I understood what the lyrics were about back then. The sax lost favor in the nineties, perhaps as a backlash to what was called "smooth jazz" in the eighties. But it was a part of rock and roll from the very beginning as you'll find out when you check out the songs on this list: Goree Carter "Rock a While" (1949), Jackie Brenston "Rocket 88" (1951), Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters "Money Honey" (1953), Big Joe Turner "Flip, Flop & Fly" (1955), Fats Domino "Ain't That A Shame" (1955), The Cadillacs "Speedoo" (1955), Shirly & Lee "Let The Good Times Roll" (1956), Chuck Willis "C.C. Rider" (1957), The Coasters "Yakety Yak" (1958), Duane Eddy "Peter Gunn" (1959), ...

70s Prog Rock always has a Jazz Fusion or Classical Fusion vibe. Supertramp was gigantic internationally back in the day.

I loved your conclusion about why classic rocks lives on today. The 60's, 70's and 80's were filled with super talented musicians.

Awesome sax...you want more sax? You gotta listen to Year of The Cat or Time Passages by Al stewart. Studio recordings. Holy cow!

I love Supertramp. Breakfast in America sold VERY well here in the U.S. I would recommend Goodbye Stranger for your next reaction to them, and there is a special place in my heart for the song Child of Vision.

You reacted to "Goodbye Stranger" but sadly not the studio version. It is one of the best songs i can think of in the studio version at least. I hope you give it a listen. :D

In the late 60's and early 70's it was anything goes as far as instruments in bands

Breakfast in America album is a classic! When I lived at the beach in the early 80's it was played at every party an bar. You should try Bloody Well Right by them!

My favourite, mid 70's I think, when bands started being a bit different. Not your regular rock n roll or heavy metal or middle of the road, pop music. So it was fresh, actually it was just before or roundabout the time disco was starting to get really popular. My most favourite song with a mad sax solo is Urgent by Foreigner, then there's Total Control by the Motels has gorgeous sax on that track.

@tamjohn

3 жыл бұрын

Harden My Heart by Quaterflash has some great sax too.

I don't know anyone, who grew up with this music, ever put it into a category. I just listened to the music and listened and listened and listened...The "Genre" was something I had not ever contemplated. The 'genre" is "Music",

The sax is very popular in the late 70s going into the 80s. It was also very popular during early rock ‘n’ roll music of the 50s. Motown records of the early to mid 60s also used The saxophone, especially during a musical break in those singles

Another 70's song with a sax that is amazing is Love is the Answer by England Dan and John Ford Coley. The world needs to hear that song NOW!!!

Yeah, as I recall the sax was 'the' horn in the late 70's and early 80's. Springsteen, Supertramp, Doobie Brothers, Bowie, Tina Turner etc.. David Sanborn was an unknown jazz sax man until he joined David Letterman's band when he was on NBC. Sanborn ended up getting his own TV show out of it. Around then the sax was 'it, kind of like the coronet owned the 30's.

I saw Roger Hodgson (who wrote and sang lead on this) at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019. Ah, the magical year of 2019, when concerts were a thing. He really put on a show, possibly the best I saw that year (and I saw quite a few people). 'Hide In Your Shell' is wonderful. The song that really got everyone up on their feet and singing along was 'It's Raining Again'. (Has a lot of sax in it, he hinted . . . )

Goodbye Stranger. The outtro always sends chills down my spine. Great English band (yet another one) who have 5 masterpiece albums.

the mid to late 70s had a lot of saxophone in the popular charts. From this song by Supertramp, and the Year of the Cat by Al Stewart, Baker Street by Jerry Rafferty, Listen to what the man said by Paul McCartney, and Whatever Gets you Through the Night by John Lennon. And of course others like Billy Joel's New York State of Mind, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. And in 1975 the intro to a new show called Saturday Night Live had sax. This album Breakfast in America came out in 1979, it was a monster hit album. I remember it well because I was 11. A lot of these songs were well polished popular songs of the late 70s and they were kind of like the successor to the Beatles' experimentation in the 60s.

Chod, you'll love their "Take The Long Way Home" and "Give A Little Bit". I read that Roger Hodgson (singer on this song) wrote this song in his late teens. He played keyboard and some guitar with this group.

Supertramp had two lead singers.. This was Roger Hodgson... Some other great songs with him singing are Dreamer, Breakfast In America, Take The Long Way Home. - A good one from with other singer is Bloody Well Right.

I enjoy this album so much because it reminds me of that time period, 1979. It's also my second favorite year for music. 1981 being #1 for me...

The sax has been a big part of rock and jazz, going back to the 50's, and in some other forms of music even further back. Check out 'Short shorts' by the Royal Teens. Or Little Richard's music. Lots of saxophone. Also- 'Girl From Ipanema' with Astrud Gilberto. Really soothing jazz style, (Bossa Nova), invented by her husband, and sung by her. With Stan Getz on saxophone. The second most covered song, ever!

Saw them twice in the late 70's. Fantastic live band

Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger ....is a must listen next!

I love this group, they were perfect and this is a really great song, the sax just slices right through me. I like that the drums are up front, it gives the song a good driven force...which manages to keep up with the harmonic vocals. The ambient sounds are interesting on this song too. Sax has run through rock all along and some groups always had sax, Pink Floyd, Tower of Power, etc. Early in rock, like the 50's, sax was nearly always there. Take The Long Way Home is a great song by this group, also. The lyric content on it hits home for all musicians/actors who tour and are away from their families for extended periods of time.

Great song, album, and band, Breakfast In America. You will love the whole album!👍🏻❤️🎸✌🏻🎤🎼🎹

It’s more that certain bands or styles of bands like to include sax. It was kind of a signature sound for Supertramp. In the both the 70s and 80s there was sometimes what I’ve always thought of as the “New York sound” but I never knew what genre it was exactly. Paul Simon, They Might Be Giants and Billy Joel did that a lot, but it was also something they always seemed to use in tv and film. Long shots coming in on an apartment in a New York skyscraper always seemed to have sax.

Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run has a great saxophone player. There is a video made for his fans that shows a number of live performances of the song. It's the best way to listen to it the first time.

The first reaction you did for this group was a live recording wherein I wasn't impressed, nor did you appear to be. Disappointing because they have a wonderful catalogue of great songs. There is so much going on with their music, I highly recommend you stick with the studio versions. Their studio orchestrations are sublime.

Sax has been a rock thing since at least the early 1960's. It's kind of like harmonica or flute. Some bands have it, and others don't. Huey Lewis had it in the 80's. Steely Dan, etc.......... The sax player in Supertramp also played clarinet, flute, harmonica, percussion and keyboards.

Sax was definitely big in both the 70s and into the 80s I think. A couple of the big ones with well timed sax solos are Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street and Bob Seger's Turn the Page. It's popular in prog rock, which Supertramp definitely is under.

The saxaphone was used more, by rock bands, in the 70s, through to the mid 80s. Basically the 'classic rock' period. It wasn't used commonly but definitely more commonly than before or since. Tbh, bands were more open to using a range of instruments back then. The basic rock format, of guitar, bass, drums and voice, was still the dominant template but other instruments were employed often. In fact, until the 80s, you could almost add 'keyboard' to that basic rock format of guitar, bass, drums and voice. Though the guitar has remained the signature instrument in rock, throughout it's history but in the 60s and 70s it was being challenged, with some bands having keyboards, or even the flute, as their lead instrument! Ironically, this was also the age of the 'guitar gods, with virtuosos such as Page, Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Kossof, Blackmore and Gilmour being worshipped by their fans and giving rise to the phenomenon that is the air guitar! :)

Just Another Nervous Wreck by Supertramp is another great song from this album, Breakfast In America

Bill Haley and the Comets used a sax in the '50's

Like with most rock bands, Supertramp is dynamic sounding but from the first note of any song you know it's supertramp, that is the magic of great bands.

Give a little bit by Supertramp is my favorite song by this group breakfast in America is a great album I don't know how many times I've had it

It was 1979, so your instincts are good. "Bloody Well Right" is a real banger, from them, about 1974. There's some fantastic Wurly electric piano at the beginning!

Steely Dan.....AJA....fantastic sax. Pink Floyd....sax on Money.... Certain artists used sax but only certain ones...... 1950’s was the huge sax time period.

Rare Earth, in the '70's had a sax in it. (Get Ready, I'm losing you, Celebrate) Sax is a really versatile instrument that can add a lot of "heart" to the sounds of a rock band. I enjoy your reviews. You seem genuinely appreciative of music in all forms. Keep up the good work.

70's and 80's were epic for sax. Charlie "Mr. Casual" DeChant is a terrific saxophonist for Hall and Oates. Bruce Springsteen classics were iconic for sax. Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street," is one of the most iconic songs featuring the sax. I'd love if you did a One-hit-wonder series. "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash. "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. "Only the Lonely" by The Motels, etc.

An excellent legendary group filled with deep meanings and excellent musicianship!!!!

80’s Duran Duran, Huey Lewis and the News... a lot of bands with sax players. The Stones had Bobby Keys who is one of the best rock saxophone players who ever lived.

Super tramp is awesome!!! You need to explore Frank Zappa, a genius composer who was so far ahead of his time

You are right about the use of saxophones in this era of music - off the top of my head I recall great sax in "Superfreak" by Rick James

Oh....listen to the alternate version of Steely Dan's "FM (No Static at All)" with the saxophone solo at the end of the song instead of the original guitar solo from Larry Carlton! You will NOT be disappointed.

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that's right, somehow I forgot about that song.

Well....prog rock and fusion used sax....but to my mind it just depended on the band and the individual song....if the band thought a sax would fit: Think Pink Floyd....great sax occasionally. Chicago also used sax I believe. And Urgent by Foreigner has a wonderful sax part.

One of my favorite 🎵 ❤

Back in the very early days the saxophone was relevant but not during most of the 1960’s When Clarence Clemons njoined The E Street Band In ‘75 on The Born to Run album and a little before that with Southside Johnny And The As Urey Jukes sax playing re-emerges and was important for some bands until around 1980.That was pre MTV era when the music was much more important than how one looked on video!

This song goes on my play list of the top ten songs i would pick if i only had l hour left on this planet.

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to when the weather is nice again so I can sit on the porch and listen to some great tunes.

Great Band and tune, check out the Crime of the Century album classic.

I think it just depends if a band member plays the saxophone and who ever arranges the music (or is it produced). There are some 80's songs that have the saxophone, such as, Duran Duran's "Rio", Wham "Careless Whisper", but I can't recall other songs of theirs that have a sax. INXS has a band member who plays the saxophone, so it is incorporated in many of their songs. Just like, I believe, The Marshall Tucker Band has a band member who plays the flute and their songs have the flute.

Love your show! Bro I'm so old I remember when you couldn't listen to the new thing.. "F.M. Radio without hearing Supertramp 3 times an hour.

A great fun track, but if you want to hear something more amazing from the album Crime of the Century - the track School is outstanding!

I’m new to your channel, I enjoyed this reaction as your expression changed from serious to a smile. Supertramp always makes me smile too!

I'd forgotten how amazing this song is. A master piece, really.

In the late 60's, you had bands like the Beatles and the Stones, Pink Floyd, the Doors, the Bee Gees, etc who all used horn sections sometimes, and the sax of the mid-70s showed up in music from Billy Joel, John Lennon--sort of piano/ballad-y stuff. But i think the later 70's to the mid/late 80's was a kind of 'second heyday' for horns. From David Bowie and Phil Collins to larger full-bands like Bruce Springsteen's E. Street Band or Huey Lewis and the News, there's a TON of big-horny (horn-ey?) music to dive into. If you hear that brass rockin', don't come a-knockin' :)

Yes n the 80s the saxophone was a mainstay of many bands

The early 80s is when the sax started appearing a lot in Rock songs.

Different bands use the sax. Thinking back it seems like it was more common with progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion bands. But there were always a few who used brass and/or wind instruments, mostly sax. I don’t think there was a specific time when it was more popular, though.

Yes in the 70's early 70's......it came from The Rock band Blood Sweat & Tears.....a successful Jazz Rock Band with was formed in the 60's which influenced a lot of bands in the 70's.

The sax has always been there. Rock and roll was added later. ;)

HUGE radio hit in the day. Supertramp is a great band, please continue!! Start with "Crime of the Century" from beginning to end. Simply a masterpiece of progressive rock!

Sax was big from the beginning of "studio rock" in the late 1970s, the same time orchestras started to get used a lot. The sax carried on into the 1980s in a more punk/new wave mode, less smooth and more wild, but the 1980s sax solo was definitely a thing. This song was 1979, so near the beginning of the trend. I think the sax represented, along with horns, the sort of "sophisticated" vibe of big bands. Having horns and a sax guy automatically makes you more legit as a rock artist.

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Late 70s/early 80s was a good time for sax in rock (a big exception - early 70s with Traffic) - Hall & Oates, Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd, Huey Lewis, Supertramp, Steely Dan tp name a few you might recognize.

School, Child of Vision, Gone Hollywood, Crime of the Century...So Many others to choose from.

I'm assuming that Stones tune was Can't You Hear Me Knocking? Few more great tunes that include the sax: Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs Guns N' Roses - Move to the City (Live in Tokyo '92) Mark Lanegan - Sunrise Mad Season - Long Gone Day (Live at the Moore) Enjoy yourself and keep up the good work man

Wow the memories that fill my mind with this song.. Absolutely amazing.. Wonderful time of my life... Thank you for reacting to this one!!!

"Goodbye Stranger"..is my favorite of theirs.

'1950's, 1960's, 1970's Sax has been in there all along Not every band and not every song, but it is so distinct and the usual choice is tenor or alto, though in rare instances baritone,

Listen to Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street that my favorite sax

Saxes were always popular ever since I remember from the 1920s thru the 80s at least. Maybe they only went out of style when synths became more popular. I say, bring back the sax!

You can hear another superb Sax performance in "urgent" by FOREIGNER

The arrangement, vocals and musianship on this song is amazing. Holds up so well now. Songs this good just don't happen now.

If you like sax, check out Candy Dulfer's "Lilly was here", Hall and Oates used a lot of sax in their songs, and Dave Matthews Band "Crush" has awesome sax sounds.