How It Was Recorded

Gear · keyboard

Wurlitzer Electric piano (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 9

  • Rehab

    Amy Winehouse · Back to Black, 2006

    • Wurlitzer · InstrumentReportedKeyboard part on its own track, panned hard left in the mix
  • So in to You

    Atlanta Rhythm Section · A Rock and Roll Alternative, 1977

    • Electric Wurlitzer piano · InstrumentVerifiedPlayed in the control room during tracking and kept through to the end of the song, as the signature part.
  • Burnin'

    Bob Marley & The Wailers · Album, 1973

    • Keyboard overdub · InstrumentReportedBrown recalls that Rabbit overdubbed an electric piano or Wurlitzer part on this song, and is not sure which of the two it was.
  • Discovery

    Daft Punk · Album, 2001

    • Keyboards · InstrumentVerifiedThe original Wurlitzer electric piano associated with Supertramp, played on the bridge of Digital Love for a Supertramp feel instead of sampling the band.
  • You're No Good

    Linda Ronstadt · Heart Like a Wheel, 1974

    • Wurlitzer electric piano · InstrumentReportedElectric piano played by Gold in two tracks, one an octave above the other, added after the rhythm tracking.
  • Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Crow · Album, 1996

    • Keyboards · InstrumentReportedAmong the rental gear from Nashville that the engineer arranged to bring in for the sessions; the text does not say what it played.
  • The Logical Song

    Supertramp · Breakfast in America, 1979

    • Electric piano and strings · InstrumentReportedHodgson's electric piano part, played live in the drum booth during the backing track.Position: In the drum booth
  • Be Altitude: Respect Yourself

    The Staple Singers · Album, 1972

    • Electric piano and synthesiser · InstrumentVerifiedBarry Beckett's electric piano at the Muscle Shoals sessions.
  • Mama Told Me (Not to Come)

    Three Dog Night · It Ain't Easy, 1970

    • Wurlitzer and organ pedals · InstrumentReportedJimmy's old Wurlitzer was left untouched for its nasty tone, and its mono output went straight onto a track with maybe a touch of EQ on the way in. (recalled with uncertainty)

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Arturia Wurli V

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Physical model of the Wurlitzer 200A electric piano. The source does not give the model used.

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Yamaha reface CP

A small keyboard whose voices include a modelled Wurlitzer-type reed piano; it imitates the sound and is not the instrument.

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