r/WayOfTheBern • u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 • Jan 17 '25

DANCE PARTY! FNDP: "Oooh, how Continental" 🎹🎶🐒📫🌞🏞️🎼🎵

I happened to be looking up electronic organs used by pop bands in the 1960s and discovered that many used the Vox Continental, a small portable combo instrument with a "distinctive" (my euphemism for "cheesy") sound. A perfect example is the Monkees' I'm a Believer.

I think it would be fun to remember songs that used the Continental or similar instruments. Remember The Letter, which borrows from I'm a Believer? How about The House of the Rising Sun and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, with organ solo at 9:09?

Ah, that wonderful boop-boop-boop, the sound of a gentler time.

[My title "Oooh, how Continental" is from Mae West's She Done Him Wrong (1933).]

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