Re: 10 most popular mandolin songs
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Re: 10 most popular mandolin songs
The latter half of Piano Man by Billy Joel has some melodic Mandolin intertwining with Billy's Piano.
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Jimi Hendrix once broke a mandolin on stage when he ran out of Strats...
Re: 10 most popular mandolin songs
It's hard to pick it out with all the overdubbing but on some of the Beach Boy stuff Barney Kessel played that mandolin guitar thing he played. Maggie May, The Theme from the Godfather. Lots of people saw "All The Pretty Horses" with Marty Stuart's soundtrack, does that count? Led Zeppelin did something with a mandolin didn't they? I'm not sure I never got past "Creme". All that Union Station stuff from that other movie kind of hit mainstream. But the all time most popular mandolin tunes of all time are "Rawhide" and "Bluegrass Stomp" that and maybe Vivaldi---
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my two cents regarding the most popular mandolin songs based on world wide populairty are in this order:
O Sole Mio- Italian
Blue Moon of Kentucky- Bill Monroe
Concerto in C Major- Vivaldi
Die Zufriedenheit (KV 349)- Mozart
Ripple- The Grateful Dead
Battle of Evermore- Led Zeppelin
Rocky Top- The Osborne Brothers
Uncle Penn- Bill Monroe
Losing my Religion- R.E.M.
Maggie May- Rod Stewart
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Oh My! I've never heard six of those... so I'd better get my 10 in.
Speak Softly Love - movie theme,
Maggie May - Rod Stewart/Ray Jackson,
O Sole Mio - Italian,
Santa Lucia - Italian,
The Blacksmith - Irish (Andy Irvine),
My Lagan Love - Irish (Derek Warfield),
Uncle Noddy's Steamboat - Irish (Derek Warfield),
Pelagia's Song/Theme (Cap'n Corelli),
Losing My Religion (R.E.M),
Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart/Ray Jackson
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Here are 5 pages of rock songs with mandolin; you should be able to find at least 10 that your non-musical friends would recognize -- assuming that they grew up in the Western world, or at least grew up listening to Western popular music. :mandosmiley:
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OK folks. The original criteria was the most popular songs that
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nonmusical people would recognize that have mando.
If that means that nonmusical people would recognize the tune and recognize that there is a mandolin in it - the answer is none. I can't think of one.
There are lots of popular tunes that have a mandolin in them to one extent or another, but I think nonmusical people would not recognize it.