The Top 9 HARMONICA Solos in Rock History
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- *2 songs in the list have been removed due to copyright reasons, but the best are still here. Enjoy!
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Hey all. 🙂 These are some of the harmonica solos from ROCK history that in my opinion (and partially in TH-cam's views counters opinions as well) touched the most people, and brought a huge success for the song they were included on. Sure, in blues music you'll find much more impressive solos - technique wise, but blues is not the case in this video. Cheers!
Ever wondered what harmonicas can do in the hand of professionals? Check out this list.
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Whammer Jammer is my all time favorite! Love it !
John Mayall. Stunning. Room to Move!
As a harmonica player myself Whammer Jammer is the ultimate harmonica jam.
Stoop down # 39 was harder for me. He still. Uses Marine Bands to this day. Have an autograph he signed on one case.
Great compilation with many I hadn't thought of.
Stevie Wonder! His phrasing, complementing the melody and most importantly clean notation that was perfect in pitch. Without a doubt the best emotion. Stevie has got the win.
@Leo Clark, take a listen to the harmonica solo on Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues", that's Stevie wonder. John Popper of the Blues Traveler and Indiara Sfair are a couple more you oughtta lend an ear to.
How could you leave out the sublime Stevie Wonder ..any of them … but … there must be an angel (and 100 others)
That's Why I Treat My Baby So Nice: Corky Siegel, Mystery Train: Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite: Christo Redemptor.
Anything By Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson. Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, Sugar Blue, James Cotton, Rick Estrin, Giles Robson.
Peter Ferrydriver As a harp player myself you have listed some of the greatest. Dont forget Sonny Terry, Kim Wilson,William Clarke, Darrell Mansfield (Who was recently voted into The Blues Hall Of Fame and Hohner Hall Of Fame) And Charlie McCoy, Buddy Greene, Mickey Raphael, Jimmy McFadden from The Dirt Band, Norton Buffalo (who played and sang back up vocals for The Steve Miller Band for over 30yrs. Recently passed away a few years ago 😢)
Good to know that. Keep on blowin' mate!
Great!!! Thanks for sharing...
THANKS
excellent list
Wonderful. ...congrats
Amazing song choices
In my opinion, no harmonica players can ever be as crazy as Magic Dick.
4:06 thank you I've been trying to find that song for years
Sorry
Where is Roger Daltrey harmonica solo in Baba o riley or in Magic Bus ?
Talking about rock history
Minute 5:25
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Heart of Gold.
awesome collection....
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Some great soloing in this collection. I wonder how many of you know just how many of the most memorable harmonica solos were played by Stevie Wonder. He’s got to be one of the greatest.
Journey (Greg Rolie) - "Precious Time". INXS (Charlie Musselwhite) - "Suicide Blonde". Culture Club (Judd Lander) - "Karma Chameleon"/"Church of the Poison Mind". Huey Lewis & The News (Huey Lewis) - "Heart Of Rock and Roll".
thanks!
That's mostly pop, not rock. Huey is a great harp player.
I was just thinking of Church of Poison Mind and Suicide Blond, too! Don't Follow from AIC has a good build-up with harmonica, too
Stevie wonder on ‘feel for you’ tops this lot it’s transcendental!
Missing the iconic harmonica in the Rolling Stones.. Gimme Shelter!! The distortion is unmatched!
The band never use the harmonica live (Keith or Ronnie instead replace it with a guitar solo), so I know how you feel.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X yes..is very sad. I learned how to play a harp..the year this song came out! The distortion was amazing!
@@johnhughes3963 I think by the same token, this is why Bryan Ferry's 1976 version of "Let's Stick Together" is also not included here, even though his solo sounds minimalist.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X cut my teeth on harp from the iconic country legend Charlie McCoy. His bending of notes mesmerized me!
In the Sting portion with Shape of my Heart-Larry Adler did play it for the recording;but they showed Brendan Power on the video playing it. He also did it for Sting when Larry Adler wasn't available.
Sadly, Mr. Adler died in 2001.
Glad you cleared that up. As I watched I kept thinking that couldn’t be Larry Adler, because the player looked way too young. When the camera swung around to the front I thought it might be Brendan. The haircut gave it away 😂!
Yes, all those mentioned were undoutably remarkable harmonica
solo's.
I can't believe they left out Creams Jack Bruce! He pushed the harmonica
envelope beyond any of these other players and if you have not heard him,
i suggest you listen to Cream's Wheels of Fire double album, the "track" called "TRAIN TIME", live concert perfection from the 60's with Ginger Baker on drums providing railroad grove syncopation, and Bruce's powerful
Scotsman blues vocals.
Total Harmonic Ear Candy!
Thanks for the recommendations!
where is John Mayal?
James Taylor - Don't Be Sad Cause Your Sun Is Down.... Another Stevie Wonder treat!
Huey Lewis with Thin Lizzy:
Baby Drives Me Crazy (1978, Live & Dangerous)
My Sarah (1979, Black Rose: A Rock Legend)
With Love (1979, Black Rose: A Rock Legend)
Lewis with Phil Lynott solo:
Tattoo (Giving It All Up for Love) (1980, Solo in Soho)
Ode to a Black Man (1980, Solo in Soho)
Cathleen (A Beautiful Irish Girl) (1982, The Philip Lynott Album)
Yessir! Thanks.
@@HarmonicaJamz No problem.
Jimmy Z Zavala is a great harmonica player and 'Thorn in my Side' with the Eurythmics is a personal favourite
saw blues traveler twice never saw a national//international act play so many medleys and cover songs in concert ever.. john poppet is also one of the best harp players ever
Rolling Stones have a good harmonica too, of these 9 favorites are 6. The Doobie Brothers (Long Train Runnin) 1973 and 2. Neil Young (Heart of Gold) 1972. Good instrument bless it and fine tune it.
HadrianDan The man who played harp for Stones name is Sugar Blue, check him out.
@@jimchumley6568 yep i know he played on "miss you"
Another notable piece is the theme tune of ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’, the seminal, serious music fans rock slot from BBC 2 in the UK. They used ‘Stone Fox Chase’ by Area Code 615, a Nashville band with (Goodtime) Charlie McCoy on harmonica. Most of the band, inc. McCoy played on Blonde on Blonde, Nashville Skyline and my favourite album of all time, John Stewart’s ‘California Bloodlines’.
I also love Dylan’s harmonica on ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’ from Blood on the Tracks.
It is the most expressive instrument when played well....
Junior Wells Give me one reason to stay here,,,now that was solo on the harp
10 is Stevie Wonder. Check "There must be an Angel" by the Eurythmics, that's him too.
And on Chaka Khan's version of "I Feel For You"
As well as Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues." He seemed to be all over the place in the '80s!
Supertramps , train take me home and Blackfoot's train song should be added .
Blues Traveler till the wheels fall off!
I've heard #'s 6, 5, 4, and 2. #1 wow!!
How about: train, train- by Blackfoot?
This right here is probably the greatest harmonica intro in existence...
Not even close. Train chugging is Lesson One in harmonica.
My favorite songs with harmonicas will always go to Mary Jane’s Last Dance by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and The Wizard by Black Sabbath
gotta love me some Tom Petty
Hi. And You don't consider the solo of "There must be an angel" (eurythmics) should be in this top?
got to see blues traveler back in April. john popper can still wail like its nobody business. I am now trying to learn the harmonica
Man, I would love to see him live.
Harmonica Jamz - Alon 30th anniversary tour happening right now.
Thanks all I now have the makings of a great new playlist for my iPod
Christine Richards enjoy(:
I doubt anyone could disagree with #1. Popper is such a legend!
TheJoJ true
@@HarmonicaJamz you need to iisten to little walter or any real blues
Hoppers style always left me a tad irritated. Just way to busy. I was always like stfu with that guy.
@@righteyeartistry156 I just have so rarely seen anyone play single note melody parts at that speed on harmonica. I am currently like stfu with you, guy.
For me the best one absolutely has to be the one from Desolation Row by Bob Dylan, you can feel all the emotion pouring through that harmonica and after 8 minutes of what can only be described as a folk epic it feels so unbelievably earned.
Hey, i got you a great solo, maybe better than some of the list..
Its in the song "Shu Shup" from the band "Los Piojos" and from the same band the song "Fantasma" ..great video
popper rules!!!!
I'd have added Thom Doucette in the Allman Bros "Musta Did Somebody Wrong" and Charlie Musslwhite's "Chrysto Redemptor"
Johnathan Edwards, Fingers Taylor of Jimmy buffet fame?
Supertramp had a good one too, "Take the long way home"
One of my favorites. Sorry it was not in this mix.
No School was Supertramp's best harp piece.
@@jcmiles61 Yes, because it was influenced by Ennio Morricone's "Man with a Harmonica" from the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in the West (1969).
They left out one of the greatest, in my opinion THE greatest solo was was Runaway by Bonnie Raitt live on Midnight Special 1977.
Norton....RIP... was a pro, but that is not the greatest solo performance ever.
Partyz_On Thats Buffalo Norton who passed away only a few years ago. Yes he was a master of the harmonica. Norton played harp and sang back up vocals for The Steve Miller Band for over 30yrs. Sad to here about his death. Norton did alot of solo work too
Brendan Power plays the harmonica on Shape of my heart by Sting.Also to add,he plays a special kind of tuned chromatic harmonica here.Hope that gets rectified.
I saw some other information in other places online, you get a source? If it's trustworthy than I'll consider changing it. Anyway, thanks for the comment on it.
Harmonica Jamz - Alon How about you Google Brendan Power once to see what he looks like?I am sure you will believe your eyes more than the words you read.
YES, looks like you're right
He has his own tunings for diatonic harmonicas and even sells them. But I doubt he would have a special tuned chromatic harmonica. A chromatic already has all the notes, no need for a special tuning.
ZZTop 1973, a song called Waitin for the Bus, best ever....
I wonder where Delbert McClinton's solo on Bruce Channel's 'Hey Baby' ranks?
On here I liked Kevin Spacey's the best.
Yea that was a cool surprise for me too
I saw J,Geils Band, France 1982, Warm up band to The Rolling Stones . Get In !
Popper for sure definitely number 1
Not sure you went back far enough: Many early Yardbirds tunes (Train Kept a'Rollin; I'm a Man); early Stones (Going Home); glad folks below spoke up for Stevie Wonder and SuperTramp. Even some early Beatles (e.g., Love Me Do). Cream.
the wizard?
BLUES BERRY black rain beats the wizard all to hell
Absolutly without question the greatest Harmonica song is Majic Dick J. Geils Wammer Jammer. The rest of these were hardly noticed as harmonica riffs.
Where is Tom Petty, Last dance with Mary Jane? Where is Love is Strong, from Stones?
I believe that Brendan Power is playing the solo on the number 3 spot with Sting. Please include Lee Oskar in the top 10 with "WAR" Gypsy Man on your next list.
Whammer Jammer #1!
Steven Tyler on Aerosmith’s debut One Way Street
Wayne Thera really love that one
War - Low Rider w/ Lee Oskar.
I believe that it’s a sax
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@@d-ro3266 An old friend of mine who was a well respected harp player in a blues band back in the 70's. I asked him who his favorite player was. Expecting to pick one of the older legends, he said Lee Oskar, which surprised me.
Gene McCabe ya that was a cover. Also, I love lee Oskar as well. I have his signature harp in the key of Eb.
Larry Adler!
hook deserves 1st place as it was placed. that man was arguably the best player of his time
Heck yes.
Andrew Ortiz Please, please check out Sugar Blue. He was playing harp when Popper was wearing a diaper. You can hear so much of Sugar Blues style in Poppers playing.
Brian Jones on 2120 South Michigan Avenue.
I come from Saxophone, reed instrument...but this instrument is completely different...you have to inspire to make notes, you need to be precise on the single notes....it's very complex...now I am starting my journey into harmonica
Enjoy the journey!
Stevie Wonder is missing from this list and Toots Thielman on Billy Joel's Leave a tender moment alone.
LAZI-Deep purple -Ian Gillian.
Popper slays everyone!
For what it's worth...Keef and Mick said Popper was *too* good 😎
How about Bruce Springsteen’s solo at the end of The River live 1975-1985? It’s kickin!
all good but i have to give jason ricci a nod when any harp playing is mentioned.
kenstogie check out Jason Ricci- The altitude in Colorado sucks!
Johnny Popper? That dude can play very familiar with his work,
a modern day master
kenstogie Jason Ricci indeed and Sugar Blue.
Nice video . If anyone wants to hear another dope harmonica solo. Look this one up . Te lo pido Por favor by Jaguares. When I listen to it gives me goosebumps.
thx
Christian Escobar try listening to pintame de azul by elefante ,great one to
Christian Escobar , thank you, good suggestion!
I think take the long way home should be here
by book Whamber Jammer #1 Live Full House Version by far
Ozark Mountain Daredevils "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" should be on this list
nice one
Mike Hamby yea man forgot about that one. Great musicians in that band.
Kept watching thinking “Finger Tips “ by Stevie Wonder was going to be on the list.
Buddy Green. Terry McMillan. Toots Thielemans.
What about Take The Long Way Home?
I Will include " In the middle of the road " with The Pretenders.
Which solo did you like best? let us know in a comment
John Popper
Harmonica Jamz - Alon WAMMER JAMMER! Long before the fast playing Popper came along. Check out Sugar Blue on harmonica on utube. Then you will hear where Popper emmulated.
Yeah the Motley Crue version of Smoking In The Boys Room has Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson's harp player) playing the solo.
Nice one! Great recommendation. Popper's still the best tho.
Harmonica Jamz - Alon hard to argue with Popper being the best, I think Blackfoot train train should have been on the list thou.
John Popper? Magic!
magic indeed!
stevie wonder is by far my favourite harmonica player. im not a big fan of the crazy solos on harmonica. stevie keeps it sweet and simple.
Agreed. That's what I said - those solos are not necessarily technically great, but they just work!
Nic Patterson Stevie Wonder rocks on harp.
Stevie wonder is one of the best.Thats why they call it the blues,must be an angel playing with my heart.Iwonder has he made a harmonica album?
He's my favorite chromatic harmonica player. Beautiful. Those crazy solos are usually on diatonic and work better for rock, blues and country.
hello alan! thought i'd pass along that YES, he DID make a harmonica album: ALFIE, by Eivets Rednow (read backwards...)
Where was Paul Butterfield. I would've included Carlos del Junco and Annie Raines.
WHAT?
No Paul Butterfield?
No Corky Siegel?
Some folks may say "they're blues players"...
but they could certainly rock.
I've played with Corky (on piano) and we grooved.
Not rock, but country. Check out Clint Black's state of mind for an epic harmonica intro.
Sorry I meant 'There must be an Angel" oops!
I'm going to put in a plug for Norton Buffalo's incredible solo on Bonnie Raitt's cover of Runaway from back in 1977. Check it out. You’ll be glad you did.
Love's Strong.
Where is Prison song by Graham nash !!!
Thank you in any case.
"The Man I Used To Be" by Jellyfish (feat. the great Tommy Morgan):
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nice one~!
Evidently forgot Paul Butterfield...John Mayhall...lee Oscar....Toots Thielman...few more
Check the Legendary Shack Shakers for some incredible harp.
I guess Stevie Wonder doesn't count as rock. Also, "The Heart Of Rock and Roll" by Huey Lewis, and "Middle of the Road" by The Pretenders.
I just bought a harmonica and so far all I can play is piano man and the Jurassic park theme song
What kind of music would you like to play with it? What's your favorite music?
Hannah LaRue Keep trying young lady. Im 59 and started playing at the age of 13. I have a humorous harmonica solo on utube. Listen and see if you like it. Its under Jimmy C the song is Cycle Time Blues.
@@jimchumley6568 thanks dude I will
@@jjryan1352 lol literally anything
I have a statistics test tomorrow
Jordan Phan how'd it go?
What are the odds of that?
I have it on monday.... WHY???? HAHAHA
what key that the blues traveler play?
high tone of D?
As far as I remember the song is in the key of A. So if he's playing 2nd position that means he uses a harmonica in the key of D for that solo.
I believe it's a regular D harmonica (it's high anyway) on the high octave
Hohner Special 20, Diatonic D
Yeah I can recall seeing John Popper with a Special 20. Makes sense he used it to record this solo as well, have you seen this info written down somewhere about his recording instrument for Hook?
I would have expected Blackfoot's Train Train to be on the list.
Dan Bailey Yeah that was Shorty Medlock.
Well, Rock history begun in 1952 in Cleveland Ohio with Alan Freed's Moondog Concert. and in it, playing was Little Walter Chicago Blues Star . He plays harmonica. he had many harmonica hits. This type of Top10 youtube thing is fine and reflects your taste fine,......... but top in rock history??
peter tee Really surprised the only harmonica player ever inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame Little Walter wasnt anywhere on this list. Very sad!
Haha yes. Didn't you know? Elton John, Ralph McTell, Billy Joel, and Sting were rock acts? Nothing says Rock and Roll like Kevin Spacey in a banker's suit playing the intro to Piano Man.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils ~ If You Wanna Get To Heaven. You need to do another list with this one, plus some of the others suggested by others, especially the Stones and Doobie Brothers' Long Train Running.
The Doobies are already in this one(:
Oops, mea culpa. You are so right, I must have had a brain fart, DB Long Train Running is such a great song that I guess I wanted it on the list twice.
ha, it's worth a double apparance for sure.
I Agree with the Ozark mountain daredevils.
Stevie wonder could fill this list on his own
What about Huey Lewis?