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Timeless Instrumentals that are Still Great to Hear Today!

Si Zentner- Up A Lazy River
Florian Zabach- The Hot Canary
Helmut Zacharias- When The Lilacs Bloom Again
Vic Shoen- Las Vegas (probably unfamiliar to many unless you were in the Providence, RI listening area in the 60's)
Bobby Gregg-The Jam (don't think that one had been mentioned before in this forum topic)
 
Dale Hawkins - Hawk Blows, Band Plays; Moonshot - Duane Eddy (written by David Gates); Comanche - Link Wray; I Want To Be Happy Cha Cha - Enoch Light; Freight Train - Duane Eddy; Hot Java - Al Hirt (?) almost sure ; Rudy's Rock - Bill Haley
 
Bill Haley & His Comets also had an instrumental, a remake of a big band tune called "Skokkian"....a good one.

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Also under the name Lifeguards, Everybody Out Of The Pool, reportedly they were the Comets. But there's a bit of a vocal there. How about Lord Rockinghams - Hoots Mon? Little vocal there too, like Tequila, but still considered an instrumental. Lord Rockinghams big in Great Britain. Rockin Rebels - Monday Morning; Dicky Doo & Don'ts - Nee Nee Na Na Nu Nu.
 
Ferrante & Teicher/ Midnight Cowboy and Lay, Lady, Lay
Percy Faith/ Theme From "A Summer Place"
The Bob Crewe Orchestra/ Music To Watch Girls By
 
I think we've gotten a bit off topic with all the obscure instrumentals and MOR staples being mentioned here. Do you really consider all of these tunes "timeless"? Are they all "great to hear today"? Just wondering, because I certainly could have listed "Theme from A Summer Place," but I never have liked it at all. Just seems like the tastes here are too broad to be believable for people on a '50s/60s oldies board.
 
Television and movies were a goldmine for instrumentals, particularly in the '70s and '80s. St. Elsewhere was one of my all-time fave TV shows, particularly back in the '80s, and Dave Grusin's theme music for it was great! :)

Also liked the Star Wars theme music (even though I got nothing out of the movie itself), particularly the Philharmonic Orchestra version that is hardly ever played anymore. The disco version by Meco was an obvious attempt at cashing in on the disco craze to have a hit with it.

Also enjoyed John Williams' "Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Hardly ever hear that one anymore!
 
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Breezin' - George Benson
 
amfmsw said:
Close, "Soul Coaxing". Yes, and I still play it on the air. Great tune from '68. It was in regular rotation on the Bonneville E-Z format. Great suggestion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILFsdDcgwdQ
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You're right. Sorry about the misspelling. I don't think anyone in the Cincinnati market played that tune when it was out, until Drake put the Solid Gold format on the old WKRC-FM back in early 1971. I heard it on Louisville radio when it came out in 68 and then never heard it until Drake put in into rotation. One of my all time favorites.
 
Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer in 1985 might have been the last highest charting instrumental hit , #3 on the pop charts, and #1 on the adult contemporary and dance charts. Kenny G's Song Bird in 1987 hit #4 on the pop charts.
 
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