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Hey keyboard players, what are some classic examples of both of these electric pianos on record? About all I'm really(?) sure of is Billy Preston using a Rhodes for the "Get Back" solo, and the Supertramp intro to "Bloody Well Right" being a Wurlitzer. Was the piano Ian McLagan played on "Stay With Me" either of these makes?

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* Alan Parsons Project - "Eye In The Sky"
* American Football - "The One With The Wurlitzer"
* Arrica Rose and the ...'s - "Wreck Me"
* Beck - "Where It's At"
* Benevento/Russo Duo - "Play Pause Stop"
* Blood Brothers - "Laser Life", "Set Fire to the Face on Fire", "Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers"
* Booker T. and the MG's - "Chinese Checkers"
* Boston - "My Destination"
* Michiel Braam Wurli Trio - "Hosting Changes"
* Dan Bryk - "BBW (Chunky Girl)"
* The Carpenters - "Top Of the World"
* Carl Weathersby - "Feels Like Rain"
* Charlie Peacock - "Personal Revolution"
* Chicago - "Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
* The Crusaders (and maybe other stuff by Joe Sample - "Tough Talk"
* Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
* The Faces - "Stay With Me"
* David Gray/Lost Songs/Wurlitzer
* Dhani Harrison - "Stuck Inside a Cloud"
* Donny Hathaway - "The Ghetto-Pt 1" & "What's Going On?"
* Gov't Mule - "Soulshine"
* Jellyfish - "That Is Why", "New Mistake"
* Joanna Newsom - "Peach, Plum, Pear" (version on "Walnut Whales"), "This Side of the Blue"
* John Scofield - "Green Tea"
* Joni Mitchell - "Woodstock"
* King Harvest - "Dancing in the Moonlight"
* Little Feat - "Long Distance Love", "Got No Shadow", "Romance Dance"
* Madeleine Peyroux - "I'm All Right"
* Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
* Muse - "Feeling Good"
* Neil Young - "The Old Laughing Lady", "See The Sky About To Rain"
* Panic at the Disco - "Mad As Rabbits"
* Pink Floyd - "Breathe","Money", "Time"
* Quarterflash - "Harden My Heart"
* Queen - "You're My Best Friend"
* Ray Charles - "What'd I Say"
* Richie Kotzen - "Some Voodoo"
* Sheryl Crow - "The Book", "All I Wanna Do"
* The Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday"
* Rick Springfield - "Souls"
* Steely Dan - "Godwhacker", "Do It Again," "Jack Of Speed", "Two Against Nature", "Your Gold Teeth," "Everyone's Gone To The Movies."
* Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago"
* Sun Ra (1956 first Wurlitzer record including) - "India", "Dreams Come True"
* Supertramp - "The Logical Song", "Dreamer", "Goodbye Stranger", "Lady" and countless other songs; their "Breakfast in America" album can be highly considered a treatise on Wurlitzer electric piano's possibilities
* Three Dog Night - "Mama Told Me Not To Come"; "Joy to the World"
* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Breakdown", "You Don't Know How It Feels"
* Tony Toni Tone - "Anniversary"
* Tori Amos - "Tombigbee", "Pancake", "Strange Little Girl"
* Under Byen - "Palads"
* Usher - "Thats What Its Made For"
* Van Halen - "And the Cradle Will Rock" (run through a flanger)
* Your Horrible Smile - "Emancipation"

I don't know about recordings, but Tom Petty's keyboard player Benmont Tench keeps a Wurlitzer onstage with his rig, and I'm pretty sure that's what Cheryl Crow's keyboard player was using too. Mine sounds fabulous, I'd love to have a keyboard amp and room to keep it set up so I could try and practice a little and get halfway decent at playing the thing. Unfortunately I barely have room to walk through and no keyboard amp so it's leaning up in a corner gathering dust...

Our high school jazz band had a Rhodes 73 ( so named because it had 73 keys instead of 88) and the thing sounded even better I think, but that could be my memory playing tricks on me or because the keys player actually knew how to play the thing. I played it quite a few times, I played everything in the band room, and it was really nice. Both have weighted keys so they have something close to the feel of an acoustic piano.

How about Grand Funk Railroad's "Mean Mistreater"? I've always wondered if that was a Wurly or Rhodes. Anybody know?