Who played WHAT?

A brief list of famous bands and artists who have used particular electric pianos, and the names of some well-known recordings where you can hear them being used.
Some of these may be wrong - if you have DOCUMENTARY evidence for any of them (not just "I think it sounds like a..."), please let me know. Thanks to all at the Combo Organ and Wurlitzer Electric Piano e-groups for their help and advice.
Updated 18 January 2004. Special thanks to Ian "Mac" McLagan.


Type of piano
Band or artist(s)
Song (album)
Wurlitzer
Ray Charles
What'd I Say
Wurlitzer
The Chantays
Pipeline
Hohner Pianet L
The Kingsmen
Louie, Louie
Hohner Pianet N
The Beatles

The Night Before
You Like Me Too Much
(HELP!)
I Am the Walrus
(Magical Mystery Tour)

Hohner Cembalet
Manfred Mann
Do Wah Diddy Diddy
Wurlitzer
The Cannonball Adderly Quintet feat. Joe Zawinul
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Hohner Pianet
The Beatles/Nicky Hopkins
Revolution
(B side of "Hey Jude" single)
Baldwin Combo Harpsichord
The Beatles
Because
(Abbey Road)
Fender Rhodes Suitcase Piano
The Beatles/Billy Preston
Don't Let Me Down
Get Back
One After 909
(Let It Be)
Hohner Cembalet
Herman's Hermits
I'm Into Something Good
Hohner Pianet C
The Zombies
She's Not There
Wurlitzer 112
The Small Faces
Lazy Sunday
Tin Soldier
Wurlitzer 200A
The Faces
Stay With Me
Wurlitzer
Three Dog Night
Joy To The World
Mama Told Me Not To Come
Wurlitzer
The Carpenters
Top Of the World
Superstar*
Ticket To Ride*
Wurlitzer
Joni Mitchell
Woodstock
(Ladies Of the Canyon)
Fender Rhodes Suitcase Piano
The Doors
Riders On the Storm
Fender Rhodes
Stevie Wonder
You Are the Sunshine Of My Life
Hohner Electra-Piano
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Down By the Seaside
No Quarter
Hohner Clavinet
Stevie Wonder
Superstition
(Talking Book)
Fender Rhodes
Herbie Hancock
Chameleon
(Headhunters)
Wurlitzer
Steely Dan
Do It Again
Fender Rhodes
Elton John
Daniel
Wurlitzer
Supertramp
The Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
(Breakfast In America)
Yamaha CP-70
Billy Joel
This Is My Life
Fender Rhodes
Billy Joel
Just The Way You Are
Clavinet Pianet Duo
The Boomtown Rats
Like Clockwork
(A Tonic For the Troops)
Yamaha CP-70
The Boomtown Rats
Rat Trap
(A Tonic For the Troops)
Hohner Cembalet
The Stranglers
(Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
Go Buddy Go
(Rattus Norvegicus)
No More Heroes
(No More Heroes)
Fender Rhodes
Ian Dury & The Blockheads
What A Waste!
(New Boots and Panties!!!)
Yamaha CP-70
Buggles
Video Killed the Radio Star
Wurlitzer
The Blues Brothers
She Caught the Katy
(The Blues Brothers original soundtrack)
Fender Rhodes Suitcase Piano
The Blues Brothers/Ray Charles
Shake a Tail Feather
(The Blues Brothers original soundtrack)
Hohner Pianet T
Z Z Top
Cheap Sunglasses

*Lots of acoustic piano as well, but you can hear the Wurly
quite clearly once the song gets going.

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