The bridges of music's county

[arrr&bee]

Pretty snappy[hehe]hey gang it's s-a-t-u-r-d-a-y and you know me always on the lookout for the different shall we say[hehe]now how many of us pay any attention at all to the[bridge]of a song that brief part of a song where one verse ends and a new one begins,do we notice it at all and do any of us have a favorite bridge? How about the mellow [keyboards]of[not on the outside-the moments]..the mystical strings of[i'll try something new-the miracles]..the dramatic [keyboards] of[love is gonna rain on you[archie bell and the drells]..well when you get to the bridge don't for get to listen as you cross it,and i'll meet cha on the other side!!

[soulster]

I'm a music petrson before a lyrical person so I always listen to the bridge. I can't think of any at the moment, though.

[arrr&bee]

That's ok soulster,you can stand on the bridge of music and toss lyrics into the river of song!

[Jerry Oz]

The greatest bridge of all time was in "Jungle Boogie" by Kool and the Gang.

[chidrummer]

Point of Order sir, point of order sir.

In Western pop music the Bridge [[or Middle Eight to our UK members) is defined as follows:

A contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section. The bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a thirty-two-bar form [[the B in AABA), or it may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a contrast to a full AABA section.

Using these perimeters to address your question, here's a list of songs with some of my favorite bridges:

Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
So Ruff, So Tuff
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Ticket To Ride
I Feel Fine
That Girl
Let's Get It On
One Nation Under a Groove
Bootzilla
Is It You?
Let It Whip

And a bunch more I can't think of right now.
If I get some time maybe I'll create a medley of this list

[robb_k]

4447
The greatest for me is from Nina Simone's first version of "Love Me Or Leave Me" on Bethlehem Records. It's the greatest Jazz piano solo I've ever heard [[probably also the greatest of all genres). It blows away even her piano solos in her several other recorded versions of that song. A true piano virtuoso.

[chidrummer]

Try these on for size. They are in the order of my previous post:

bridgemedley.mp3 - 5.88MB [[http://www.zshare.net/audio/991262782908e105/)