Although it may seem like a contradictio (in so far as a waltz and rock should implicate different rhytyms), I was wondering if anyone could mention any rock or pop song that follows a 3/4 or 6/8 beat.

The only one I can think of is Sonny & Cher's "I got you babe".

Wintertime Love - the Doors

We're Wasting Time has a waltzy type beat.

Doesn't Dear Doctor follow a waltzy beat?

[There'll be no wedding today...]

Interesting post. We can work it out Paul and John wrote it but George changed Johns part to waltz-style.

Backstreet Girl

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"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

Baby's In Black by The Beatles.

JumpingKentFlash

Dylan's hauntingly beautiful waltz Fourth Time Around

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"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

Oh man 6/8 is a GREAT time signature. Sting loves it. (Not that Sting is great tho..) All those 50's doo wop songs that do the C-Am-F-G thing are in 6/8 or even 12/16.
"Dear Doctor" is in 3's.
the Betales are smart when it comes to time sig's. E.g on "We can work it out" the main body of the song (by Paul) bops along in 4's but the bridge by John ("Life is very short"..has a little guitarline at the tag that slips into 6/8).

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

That's How Strong My Love Is has a waltzy tempo

Frank Zappa used to love 3s! When he conducted 3/4 rhytms with his baton (or a drum stick), he used to draw this vertical triangular figure in the air all the time.
"The Idiot Bastard Son"... "Who Are the Brain Police?"... "Holiday in Berlin"... "Sofa"... "Strictly Genteel"... "Nanook Rubs It"...
They seem to get scarcer from the mid 70s on though.

Some Velvet Morning, esp. Nancy's part.
There are some more hit songs from the psychedelic era
but they just dont pop up in my mind right now.

The Waltz You Saved For Me....Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

That'll always bring the curtain down.......



ROCKMAN

Hey; just because you posted, Rockman, I gotta
go & hear Tattoed Lady - man what a song! (OT-post)

The Alvin & The Chipmunks Christmas song.

Ah Bro....Yeah Skeets McDonald classic stuff....

Thought you weren't keen on the country stuff....or has it crept up and grabbed ya from behind...?





ROCKMAN

LOL

Hendrix, Manic Depression!

there's tons of 'em - Winterlude (New Morning) by Dylan is a cute one....

Rockman Wrote:
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> Ah Bro....Yeah Skeets McDonald classic stuff....
>
> Thought you weren't keen on the country
> stuff....or has it crept up and grabbed ya from
> behind...?

-- Yeah... Sort of bite me.
I luuurv the whistelin' in that song.

Golden Brown by the Stranglers.

"We can work it out" the main body of the
> song (by Paul) bops along in 4's but the bridge by
> John ("Life is very short"..has a little
> guitarline at the tag that slips into 6/8).


Johns part yes, but to play it like a waltz is Georges (Harrissons) idea.

What about "She's Leaving Home" by the Beatles? or is my timing screwed?

Midnight Rambler?

Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken
I have also another song in my mind, but I don´t remember the name...
The lyrics has something about "listening to (her? your?) Rolling Stones records".

Odd-beat Wrote:
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> Hendrix, Manic Depression!


In his autobiography Miles Davis blames Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell for playing all the time in 6/8! Slightly off - topic, is remarkable Max Roach's effort to play jazz in 3/4 in his record "Jazz in 3/4", which is really good!

"got to be worked on
don't have no bark nor bite..."

scelsa Wrote:
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> Midnight Rambler?


No thats a shuffle.

I say both Summertime & Little Girl Blue
by my housegod-lady In Rock Janis is performed
in a waltz beat.

Isis (Mr Bob Dylan)


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

Of course, with ssssoul. Thanks