Wurlitzer electronic piano
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The Wurlitzer electric piano was one of a series of electromechanical stringless pianos manufactured and marketed by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, Corinth, Mississippi, U.S. and Tonawanda, NY. The Wurlitzer company itself never called the instrument an "electric piano", instead inventing the phrase "Electronic Piano" and using this as a trademark throughout the production of the instrument. See however electronic piano, the generally accepted term for a completely different type of keyboard instrument today. Wurlitzer did manufacture a type of orchestrion which it called an "electric piano" during the early 1900's, but it was unrelated to this instrument.
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Recorded examples
- The Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky", "The Voice"
- American Football - "The One With The Wurlitzer"
- The Animals-"Around and Around
- The Archies - "Sugar Sugar"
- The Beatles - "Let It Be"
- Beck - "Where It's At"
- Belle & Sebastian - "The Boy with the Arab Strap", The BBC Sessions, "Don't Leave The Light On Baby"
- Benevento/Russo Duo - "Play Pause Stop"
- Big Boi - "Turns Me On"
- The Black Crowes - "Remedy" and other songs on the album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
- Blood Brothers - "Laser Life", "Set Fire to the Face on Fire", "Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers"
- Bob Dylan - "'Til I Fell In Love With You"
- 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"
- Chester French - "Wurlitzer Interlude"
- Chicago - "Feelin' Stronger Every Day", "Poem 58"
- The Crusaders (and maybe other stuff by Joe Sample) - "Tough Talk"
- D'Angelo - "Brown Sugar"
- Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
- Dave Barnes - "Someday Sarah"
- Death Cab for Cutie - "Photobooth"
- The Doors- "Queen of the Highway"
- David Gray/Lost Songs/Wurlitzer
- Dhani Harrison - "Stuck Inside a Cloud"
- Donny Hathaway - "The Ghetto-Pt 1" & "What's Going On?"
- Eels - "Agony"
- Elton John - "Lady Samantha", "Take Me Back"
- Faces - "Stay With Me"
- Gentle Giant - "Proclamation" Live in Brussels, Belgium, 1974
- Gov't Mule - "Soulshine"
- The Guess Who - "These Eyes"
- 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"
- Kevin Ayers - "Rheinhardt & Geraldine/Para Dolores"
- King Harvest - "Dancing in the Moonlight"
- Little Feat - "Rock and Roll Doctor" "Long Distance Love", "Got No Shadow", "Romance Dance"
- Madeleine Peyroux - "I'm All Right"
- The Mars Volta - "Inertiatic ESP"
- Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
- Money Mark - "Hand In Your Head"
- Muse - "Hate This and I'll Love You"
- Neil Young - "The Old Laughing Lady", "See The Sky About To Rain"
- Norah Jones - "What Am I to You?, "In The Morning", "Chasing Pirates"
- Panic at the Disco - "Mad As Rabbits"
- Paul McCartney - "Ram On"
- Paul Weller - "Broken Stones"
- 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"
- The Rolling Stones - "Miss You"
- Sheryl Crow - "The Book", "All I Wanna Do"
- The Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday"
- Rick Springfield - "Souls"
- Steely Dan - "Black Friday", "Godwhacker", "Do It Again," "Jack Of Speed", "Two Against Nature", "Your Gold Teeth," "Everyone's Gone To The Movies."
- Stereolab - "Infinity Girl"
- Stevie Wonder - "Love Having You Around", "Sweet Little Girl", "Tuesday Heartbreak"
- Styx - "Lady"
- Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago"
- Sun Ra (1956 first Wurlitzer record including) - "India", "Dreams Come True"
- Supertramp - "The Logical Song", "Dreamer", "Bloody Well Right", "Goodbye Stranger", "Lady" and countless other songs; their "Breakfast in America" album can be 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", "New Age"
- Under Byen - "Palads"
- Usher - "That's What Its Made For"
- Van Halen - "And the Cradle Will Rock..." (run through a flanger)
- Wilco - "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart", "War On War", "Jesus, etc.", "I'm The Man Who Loves You", "Poor Places"
- Joe Zawinul - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
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