Redd's Roster of Weird Keyboard Hooks On Pop Records

Such as:

Artie Butler's Ondioline line on Tommy James and The Shondells's "I Think We're Alone Now"

https://www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-tommy-james-shondells-i-think-were-alone-now-365955

Or Jacques Loussier's Prophet 5 on The Go-Betweens's "Part Company"

Max Crook’s modified Clavioline he called a Musitron on Del Shannon’s “Runaway.”

Convenience link/bump: theremin: check! next: ondes martenot

Telstar!

Late '60s proto-punk group sometimes eschewing guitar for...electric piano and a Farfisa through a fuzzbox?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dGkBCD0mHU

A lot of the early music of the Korean group Sanulim might fit here. This one is kind of a classic riff, but these guys always sound unique in their execution and overall sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0JVbYEWBM

Crazy Horses!

I guess that horse sound is an organ, though? Damn!

It was one of those keyboards with the built-in theremin - I forget who made them...

Yamaha YC-30. Demo at 7:41 here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYaqJH5qlvU

oh wow cool

There's a lot of ondes martenot on Jacques Brel records, his arranger François Rauber seems to have been fond of using it.

I don't know if I'm playing this game right but what about the break on Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Love" (@2:11)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqeNoi6EmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxD_YIjxTxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c0x6ecpX4

Crazy Horses!

Speaking of "Part Company" there is also the keyboard hook in "Another Hundred People" from Company: Favourite song from Stephen Sondheim's Company. Played on a either a Rock-Si-Chord or an Electra-piano, both from RMI (Rocky Mount Instruments)

Garth Hudson played a Rock-Si-Chord with a telegraph key on "This Wheel's On Fire."

http://www.drunkenwerewolf.com/interviews/interview-quasi/

“A Rock-si-chord is in fact a cool type of keyboard,” states Weiss, as if to dispel any misinformation about the archaic instrument. Featuring heavily on R&B Transmogrification from 1997, as well as 1998’s Featuring “Birds” and1999’s Field Studies, Coomes’ keyboard wizardry more than defines that era of their sound.

Weiss further articulates, perhaps revealing why it hasn’t been heard on later albums: “Invented in the late 60s by a company called RMI, it was intended to sound like a harpsichord used for rock music. Sam bought me the Quasi Rock-si-chord many years ago as a birthday gift, but wound up playing it exclusively himself in the band. Because of its percussive nature, this type of keyboard sounds gritty and gnarled through a distortion pedal. It’s also very sturdy and could withstand a lot of physical abuse. Sam abused ours regularly at shows year after year until it died beyond repair in the late 1990s.”