Songs that have musician "shout outs" on them. "Play it, Steve!", etc.

Yes, it probably was, but you had to love REM in those early days.

 

Why that song isn't on any CD is beyond me. Love it.

 

Sproingsteen's version of Hearts Of Stone" (Big Man)

 

For some reason the one that sticks in my mind is "Roy!" from the first song "Rave On" from the 1978 Roxy show.

 

Paul Simon: "I've dropped my harmonica, Albert" at the end of A Simple Desultory Philippic (Simon & Garfunkel)

 

The Chameleons (UK) cover of David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing" from '86. Toward the end of the song, the singer Mark Burgess substitutes "Reg" (their guitarists name) for "John..."I'm only dancing." Incidentally, this could be a potential twofer, since the drummer's name was "John" also.

 

I'm pretty sure it's "I lost my harmonica, Albert." Mostly everyone knows this, but Paul is making fun of Bob Dylan, and Albert is Dylan's then-manager, Albert Grossman.

 

Even better is "Ramrod," where he simply says "Big Man!" going into the sax solo.

 

On "Eagles Live," either Don or Glenn says "Step on it, Joe" as Walsh prepares to deliver the final guitar solo in the song "Life in the Fast Lane."

 

On the '77 tour, Robert Plant would regularly cry out "Oh Jimmy... OH JIMMY!" just before Page would take his guitar solo in "Nobody's Fault But Mine."

 

He (Phillips) begins the song with "Hit it, Hal"

 

Met both those guys (Ashford and Babbitt). Didn't know they played on Scorpio.

 

Another one from the always sly Champion Jack Dupree, during the drum solo when he shouts out to Oliver Jackson, "Call Your Mother-In-Law!"

 

Since the E Street Band reunion, Bruce seems to call out to Steven during concerts more than he ever did during Steven's first tenure in the band (75-81?).

I like it!

 

'You Got The Touch' by Dirk Diggler.

"Solo, Reed!"

 

Keith Don't Go by Nils Lofgren

 

This!

 

Kokomo Arnold was a master of shout-outs to himself. Ride it, Kokomo, RIDE IT!

 

I've read it was Roy Hallee, I had thought it was Paul Simon saying: "So long already, Artie"
on So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

"go skydog!

The Hawk shouting to Duane Allman"

That is on Matchbox by Ronnie Hawkins, and I believe Hawkins also shouts King Biscuit's name.

 

Maceo - Soul of a Black Man

James Brown is practically in tears pleading Maceo Parker before his first killer sax solo:

"Get here quick and bring that funky licking stick"

One of the greatest tracks I have ever heard James Brown on.

 

Ringo shouts out "allright John!" before the guitar solo on "Matchbox" from "Live at the BBC"

 

Francis Dunnery. Tall blonde helicopter album.... "this is a song about severe emotional problems"!

 

"Dig it, Doris, on the vocal chorus!"

 

Frank Zappa, Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic, 200 Motels Suite [a bootleg issue, Trademark of Quality, mid-seventies].

"Hit it, Zubi!"