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Timeless Instrumentals that are Still Great to Hear Today!

Cleo's Mood--Jr. Walker and the All-Stars

And you can't talk about instrumentals without mentioning Willie Mitchell


Has it been long enough since anybody played the Miami Vice theme to drag it out for a spin, or did they used it in the movie?


Never mind, I'll go ask those kids before I chase 'em off the lawn.
 
Silkie said:
Stranger On The Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
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I mentioned this song earlier in the thread, but it's so good that it's worth mentioning again.
And don't forget the "Mr" just as we shouldn't forget "Miss" Toni Fisher.
 
Obviously one's mileage varies on "timeless" or "still great to hear today." "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" has always been my all-time favorite, with "Summer Samba" a close second.

Some of my other favorites from the '50s and '60s:
Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson
Because They're Young, Rebel-Rouser - Duane Eddy
Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet" - Henry Mancini
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) - T-Bones
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny (also the 1981 remake by Larry Carlton)
Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski
Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi, Sounds Orchestral

And favorites from the '70s onward:
Music Box Dancer, Peter Piper - Frank Mills
The Seduction - James Last Band
Feels So Good, Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione
Rise - Herb Alpert
Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Breezin' - George Benson
The Homecoming - Hagood Hardy
Love Theme From "St. Elmo's Fire" - David Foster
Karen's Theme - Carpenters

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the most recent instrumental to hit the Top 40 either "Children" by Robert Miles or "Mission Impossible Theme" by Adam Clayton/Larry Mullen (of U2)?
 
Heather - Carpenters (flip side of "Top of the World")
Theme From Swat - Rhythm Heritage
K-Jee - MFSB
Scorpio - Dennis Coffey
 
CTListener said:
unitron said:
As long as we're going beyond the '60s, does TSOP by MFSB count?
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"Let's get it onnnnnn ... It's time to get down!" Sounds like lyrics to me.
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Think of them as "garnish".

Or else we have to take "Tequila" off of the list, as well as the Montenegro stuff.
 
How about the long part at the beginning of the original theme from the original "Shaft".

The album version, of course.

You can cut it off just before Hayes's voice comes in and it's still amazingly good stuff.
 
What a great thread of Instrumental "Timeless Classics" and just regular old favorites! Here are a couple of mine on my Android phone MP3 player...
BATMAN -1966- Neal Hefti; BUSTIN' SURFBOARDS -1962- Tornadoes; JAMES BOND THEME -1964- Billy Strange; MEMORIES OF MARIA -1962- Jerry Byrd; BUCKAROO -1965- Buck Owens & THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING -1963- BURT KAEMPHERT. There are others, but they have already been mentioned.
 
Don't know if these have been mentioned yet, but -

- Hang 'Em High - Booker & The M.G.'s
- Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline) - Raymond Lefevbre
- Misty - Erroll Garner Trio (gets played on Dial Global's Adult Standards format today along with the more familiar vocal version by Johnny Mathis)
- Just about anything by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass; my faves: A Taste of Honey, The Lonely Bull, Whipped Cream
- Moon Over Naples - Bert Kaempfert (later popularized with lyrics added as "Spanish Eyes")
 
ChrisInMI said:
Don't know if these have been mentioned yet, but -

- Hang 'Em High - Booker & The M.G.'s
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"Melting Pot" by Booker T is a great one too!!
 
I don't think these have been mentioned....apologies if any have....

"Perfidia"-Ventures
"Topsy"-Cozy Cole
"Wheels"-String-a-Longs
"Flamingo"-Herb Alpert (+anything else of his, especially Whipped Cream, Casino Royale, A Banda)
"Cotton Candy"-Al Hirt
"Groovy Grubworm"-Harlow Wilcox & The Okies
"Rock-a-Conga"-Applejacks
"Percolator"-Billy Joe & Checkmates
"Maria Elena"-Los Indios Tabajaras
"Guitar Boogie Shuffle"-Virtues
"Bumble Boogie"-B. Bumble & Stingers
"Rudy's Rock"-Bill Haley & Comets
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"-Cannonball Adderly
"Manhattan Spiritual"-Reg Owen
"Teen Beat"-Sandy Nelson
"Let There Be Drums"-Sandy Nelson
"Chu-wa-wa"-The Pets
"Like Long Hair"-Paul Revere & Raiders
"Truck Stop"-Jerry Smith
"Blues Theme"-Dave Allen & Arrows
"Portugese Washerwomen" Joe "Fingers" Carr, and later Baja Marimba Band
"Swingin' Sweethearts"-Ron Goodwin
"Grazin' in the Grass"-Hugh Masekela
"Big Chief"-Professor Longhair
"Theme from a Summer Place"-Percy Faith
"Limbo Rock-Champs
"Rawhide"-Link Wray
"Let's Go Trippin"-Dick Dale
"Miserlou"-Dick Dale
"Cookin' " -Al Casey Combo
"Meet Mr. Calahan"-Les Paul
"Swingin' Gently"- Earl Grant
"Raunchy"-Bill Justis
"The Hustle"-Van McCoy
"Jessica"-Allman Bros
 
"The Lonely Surfer" by legendary producer/arranger Jack Nietschze (not sure if I spelled that right)
Another great Ventures tune: "Surf Rider (Spudnik)". I believe there is a cover of "Surf Rider" on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack by someone else.
"Slim Jenkin's Place" by the great Booker T & the MG's.
 
Three others not mentioned so far:

Hutch Davie- Woodchoppers Ball
The Carroll Brothers- Sweet Georgia Brown

And since we are now in the Christmas holiday season

Santa's Speed Shop- The Surfaris
 
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