songs featuring a theremin

[Tom Kitten]

"Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys
"Electricity" by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band...


Okay my earlier songs featuring a guitar totally stumped you guys...

Here's an opportunity to redeem yourselves !

Name any song with a theremin! Except for the two I already mentioned!

[jdots]

1. " The acid flashback Polka "

by Zippy Bongwater and the Polka Savants Zippy was the first person to play the theremin thru a wa-wa pedal into an electric blanket......okay i give up name that tune...... i can't think of any real well known stuff except for Good Vibrations and most of the 50s sci fi & horor flick sound tracks...the theremin is really hard to play,but there were some masters.

[Tom Kitten]

2. You're nice...

You provided me with information I did not know so I thank you!

[murielm99]

3. Are you a Beatrix Potter fan?

I know this is off topic, but I am curious.

[Tom Kitten]

6. Not really....

No more a fan of Beatrix Potter than I am of any other writer and /or illustrator that encourages young people to read...as it goes a hopeless task I suppose but then again I am hopelessly anachronistic...but I loved the stories as a kid and the old illustrations could use some work! :)

[bloodyjack]

4. VELOURIA

How does lemur skin REFLECT THE SEEEAAAAA

edit: this is a Pixies song, in case you didn't know.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Theme music to "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

and other theme music by Dr. Samuel J. Hoffma.

[Squeech]

7. Lothar and the Hand People

Band from the '60s that had a theremin. They made two albums and a few extra singles in 1968-69, but remain largely unknkown except to electronic music geeks. Their best known songs were "Machines," a sci-fi concept number that they didn't actually write, and "Sex and Violence," a very silly repeating chant of the title.

More recently there was a band in Boston named, in their honor, the Lothars, which consisted of three or four theremins and one guitar for rhythm. I saw them once; they were a lot of fun, and more musical than you might think.

[China_cat]

8. Buddy Holly used a theremin on most of his albums.

And Tim Burton used one in his early films.

I know those aren't song titles, but....

[emulatorloo]

9. "I Just wasn't made for these times" Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

Interview w Paul Tanner, who played on the session and many others in Hollywood

http://www.electrotheremin.com/ptanner.html

[Squeech]

10. Cul de Sac, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

Forgot to mention this one before. When I was playing bass with the band Cul de Sac, we used to do this huge guided improvisation piece called "Sands of Iwo Jima." It started with the guitar player doing a solo on electric bouzouki, then I'd come in with a dirge-like bass lick and the rhythm would build up, and Robin would start wailing on theremin. (Then we'd just get more chaotic until we thought the song had had all the juice wrung out of it. The recorded version, on the CD called Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall, is 12 minutes long, which was pretty typical.)

Also Erik Lindgren, the pianist and main composer of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, has a theremin, but only uses it on special occasions, and I don't think there are any Birdsongs recordings where he plays it.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin

The theremin part is what turned me into a Zep fan.

[EstimatedProphet]

12. The soundtrack to Mars Attacks!

Very 50ish scifi-like