[78-L] Top ten instrumental?

[David Lennick]

Here's a list of the top ones from 1940..surprisingly, there seem to be only 45 
#1s.
http://www.squidoo.com/alltimetop100instrumentalsongs

dl

On 2/20/2012 6:12 PM, jeffrey smedbron wrote:
> The last charting instrumental I can think of off hand was the Chariots of Fire Theme.
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>   From: Rodger Holtin<rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Top ten instrumental?
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> 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
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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> --- On Mon, 2/20/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> 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
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> 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).
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>>> 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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