[78-L] Top ten instrumental?

[Rjholtin]

Fewer than that when you take out the errors.  Millers Moonlight Cocktail suffers from a vocal chorus and Booker T's Green Onions was 1972 not 1962.  I assume there are other mistakes as well, but this list is cleaner than the one on Wkipedia, anyway

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On Feb 20, 2012, at 5:25 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

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.

Jeff S





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 From: Rodger Holtin<rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:22 AM
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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

Rodger

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--- 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?
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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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