[78-L] Top ten instrumental?

[Royal Pemberton]

Alpert's 'Route 101' is on the FANDANGO album, from 1982.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The last one I remember playing on the air was about that time (mid-80s?)
> Another measure of the loss of instrumental music would be to see what the
> last instrumental was to win a grammy - beyond the retro-inductions of
> "historical" items.
> I can't remember one
>
> Rodger
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
> .
>
> --- On Mon, 2/20/12, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Top ten instrumental?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, February 20, 2012, 9:48 AM
>
>
> Okay, Jan Hammer's THEME FROM MIAMI VICE has been pointed out as the last
> instrumental to reach #1 (I think that was what the sender meant).
>
> On 2/20/2012 10:29 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> > There was a "Theme From.." something that we were playing in the late
> 80s. I
> > don't think it was Beverly Hills Cop since that was 1984, nor 48
> Hours..they
> > all sound alike anyway.
> >
> > dl
> >
> > On 2/20/2012 10:24 AM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
> >> In 1982 there were a number of "Hooked on" medleys that got airplay.
> >> HOOKED ON CLASSICS - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
> >> HOOKED ON SWING - Les Elgart
> >> HOOKED ON BIG BANDS - Frank Barber
> >> Later than that there was ROUTE 101 by Herb Alpert in 1990.
> >> RayK
> >>>
> >> From: Rjholtin
> >> This week I plan on running a batch of big band instrumentals.  I can't
> >> remember the last instrumental of any kind I heard on top ten radio.
> Disco
> >> or some flick theme, maybe? Anybody know?
> >>
> >>
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