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Stardust instrumentals

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I'm trying to put together what would go in my iPod if I had one. And could get the music.

When it was still Stardust, the Worthless Classics format still had all these great instrumentals, and I know what most of them are, but there are a few I can't identify since the DJs didn't tend to say what they were. Someone on this site told me "Strawberry Fields Forever" was by The Hollyridge Strings. There are others by Billy Vaughn, Bert Kaempfert and Nelson Riddle that I know. Also "Canadian Sunset" and the song about the Black Forest. And of course Roger Williams, Henry Mancini and Ferrante and Teicher. Since there are no lyrics, I have no clue how to identify those that I don't know. One sounds sort of like "Born to Lose" by Ray Charles and is part of the music sample I heard online when I had the rare opportunity to try the Muzak and DMX formats.

Dial Global may play some of these and I just haven't heard them. The affiliate played one on the morning show so I should have called the station and asked (the DJ didn't play it at a time when it would be identified), I suppose.
 
That song about the Black Forest would be Walk in the Black Forest by Horst Jankowski. Identifying the instrumentals can be tricky. I would suggest you go to www.allmusic.com and enter the name of the artist. You can than get a list of the most popular songs along with a complete discography. In most cases, there are :30 samples for you to play and listen to. It's a great way to find the songs you're looking for.
 
Some of the great instrumentals, many of which still are played on Dial Global:

"Stranger by the Shore" by Mr. Acker Bilk
"Wonderland by Night" and "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" by Bert Kaempfert
"A Swingin' Safari" by Billy Vaughan
"Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione
"More," "Days of Wine & Roses," "Theme from Exodus," and "Tonight" by Ferrante & Teicher
"Soft Summer Breeze" by Eddie Heywood
"The Homecoming" by Hagood Hardy
"Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills
"Love is Blue" by Paul Mariat
"Route 101," "Rise," "Spanish Flea," "Mexican Shuffle," "Whipped Cream," "Taste of Honey" and many others by Herb Alpert.
"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado
"Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith
"Autumn Leaves," "The Impossible Dream," "Near You," and "Born Free" by Roger Williams
"Love Story," "Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet" by Henry Mancini
"Hungry For Love" by San Remo Golden Strings
"Soul Coaxing" by Tony Hatch
"Canadian Sunset" by Hugo Winterhalter
 
Anything from Percy Faith's "Themes for Young Lovers" album is good.

The songs "Can't Get Used to Losing You" and "Rhythm of the Rain" were in heavy rotation on KPOL and KWST, L.A.'s legendary Beautiful Music stations.

I still have my 4-track reel-to-reel tape of that 1963 album and it still sounds great.

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Two instrumentals, both from 1963, that I remember being played on WILS/Lansing when it was still carrying Stardust: "Maria Elena" by Los Indios Tabajaras and "Washington Square" by the Village Stompers.
 
ChrisInMI said:
Two instrumentals, both from 1963, that I remember being played on WILS/Lansing when it was still carrying Stardust: "Maria Elena" by Los Indios Tabajaras and "Washington Square" by the Village Stompers.
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I believe these are two of the ones I was looking for. Thanks.

That very long post by publisher has a number of songs I already knew about, and some I didn't know the titles of.

Unfortunately, I don't know some of the songs in that long post. I might know them if I heard them, but the titles don't sound familiar.
 
Wasn't sure where to post this but here are some nice factoids for liner notes for the Paul Mauriat intstrumental, "Love Is Blue" courtesy of LA Radio.

"Story Behind The Song: Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat was number one on this day in 1967. Born in 1925 in Marseilles, Mauriat began playing piano at age four. He and Frank Pourcel wrote Chariot, a 1962 hit in France for Les Satellites, a group fronted by Mauriat. Reworked as I Will Follow Him, the song became a number one hit here for Peggy March. L'Amour Est Bleu was written by Pierre Cour and Andre Popp and performed by Greek singer Vicky Leandros as Luxembourg's entry in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, where it finished fourth. Mauriat recorded an instrumental version for his Blooming Hits album. Titled Love is Blue, it topped the Hot 100 for five weeks and sold 5,000,000 copies in the US."

http://www.laradio.com/newsite/index3.htm

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I watched the movie "Loverboy" over the weekend. A college student delivers pizzas and meets a rich woman who is bored with her husband and wants an adventure. The kid satisfies her and she spreads the word. Some of the women don't want sex, though. One woman just likes to dance, and "Blue Tango" by the Claudius Alzner Orchestra is in her collection, according to the list of songs at the end of the movie. That was a really good one.

"They Can't Take That Away from Me" by Fred Astaire is also in the movie.
 
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