[78-L] Top ten instrumental?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Feb 21 08:07:38 PST 2012


Definitely 1962 for Booker T and the MG's, went to #3. There's no  Green Onions 
charting in '72. His next top ten hits were Hang 'em High and Time is Tight.

dl

On 2/21/2012 11:06 AM, Bud Black wrote:
> There seems to be more than one song called "Green Onions."
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> Bud
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:41 PM, "Ray Kilcoyne"<kil at roadrunner.com>  wrote:
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>> No, GREEN ONIONS definitely was 1962.  But I would scratch GONNA FLY NOW
>> which is filled with vocal choruses.  Still not a bad list, however, as you
>> observed.
>> RayK
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>> From: 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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>> Sent from my iPod
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>> David Lennick wrote:
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>> Here's a list of the top ones from 1940..surprisingly, there seem to be only
>> 45
>> #1s.
>> http://www.squidoo.com/alltimetop100instrumentalsongs
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>> dl
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>> jeffrey smedbron wrote:
>> The last charting instrumental I can think of off hand was the Chariots of
>> Fire Theme.
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