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Timeless Instrumentals that are Still Great to Hear Today!

Mister jhimbo, Apricot Brandy was by Rhinoceros, a seven-member band from Los Angeles. The song got to #27 on KRLA but KHJ and KDAY didn't play the song at all. As for Image, that song was also played on KFWB in Los Angeles and KDWB in Minneapolis. The similarity of the tune to the radio station jingles wasn't just a coincidence; the song was adapted from the jingles: http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kewb/kewb_theme-song_1961.shtml
 
Magnificent Seven & Bonanza - both Al Cailola I believe
Crossties - Dale Hawkins (actually his band or studio musicians, probably James Burton on lead)
Hawk Blows, Band Plays - Dale Hawkins
 
As a itty-bitty kid, I bought the single of Bonanza, which was odd because I didn't watch the show at the time. I liked Apache and Duane Eddy and the Ramrods and the Ventures---I obviously was a guitar-tune aficionado. The chart single of Bonanza was by Al Caiola and was a follow-up to The Magnificent Seven (the theme of a Yul Brynner movie). Billy Vaughn, Nelson Riddle, Marty Gold and Buddy Morrow also recorded Bonanza. Did you ever see the first tv episode where Ben, Hoss, Adam and Little Joe sang the lyrics? That opening sequence was never shown again. Johnny Cash recorded a vocal version of the theme but with completely different lyrics.

"That's fine, Steve, but you still haven't answered my question."

Okay, David Rose was the arranger and orchestra leader for the show's theme song, which finally came out in late 1961 on a Bonanza "television soundtrack": http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7289397
 
howardm said:
Wasn't David Rose's big hit called "The Stripper"?
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Yes, and it was also used in a shaving cream ad, in which the man shaving with the product was urged to "take it off, take it ALL off." However, I don't recall which brand the commercial was trying to sell, which may put it in the company of "Mamma mia, that's-a some spicy meatball!," the ad for Alka-Seltzer that was so clever that a lot of people didn't remember what product it was for.
 
CTListener said:
howardm said:
Wasn't David Rose's big hit called "The Stripper"?
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Yes, and it was also used in a shaving cream ad, in which the man shaving with the product was urged to "take it off, take it ALL off." However, I don't recall which brand the commercial was trying to sell, which may put it in the company of "Mamma mia, that's-a some spicy meatball!," the ad for Alka-Seltzer that was so clever that a lot of people didn't remember what product it was for.
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The product was "Noxema" shaving cream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEFHbMDPkE8
 
One of my favorites! The Ventures' version of Sleigh Ride may not have sounded Christmassy but it was every bit as musically exciting as Walk Don't Run and Perfidia. It was a single in 1965 (Dolton #312) and should have been a top-ten hit...or was their guitar-based surf-rock style passé in the "Beatle era"?

Another classic Christmas instrumental---although a reference to "snowflakes" and "mittens" does not really make this a Christmas song---is the Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass version of My Favorite Things. ¡Olé!
 
Mister jfrancis, I'll have Hop Sing give you a small glass of vinegar---that is a very effective cure for hiccups. (Really!)

The Cartwrights sang the theme song at the end of the pilot episode of Bonanza, "A Rose For Lotta." (I thought it was at the beginning---I was wrong.) That episode was televised on September 12, 1959, apparently without the song (according to a YouTube post). Since then, though, the song has been shown many times on various tv specials. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpUd9KecPa4
 
LARadioRewind said:
Mister jfrancis, I'll have Hop Sing give you a small glass of vinegar---that is a very effective cure for hiccups. (Really!) The Cartwrights sang the theme song at the end of the pilot episode of Bonanza, "A Rose For Lotta." (I thought it was at the beginning---I was wrong.) That episode was televised on September 12, 1959, apparently without the song (according to a YouTube post). Since then, though, the song has been shown many times on various tv specials. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpUd9KecPa4
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Well LARadio, I just finished viewing that link, and I can say with qualified resignation, :eek: UUUUUUUGGGHH :eek:!!!
 
Mister jfrancis, my apologies for getting off-topic here...but if you didn't like the "Singing Cartwrights," you probably wouldn't like "Singing Sandy" either. In the 1930s John Wayne made eight Westerns for Monogram Pictures in which he played a singing cowboy, Singing Sandy Saunders. Monogram thought they could create a Western star to rival Republic Pictures' Gene Autry, who sang and played guitar. As it turns out, they couldn't. (Wayne didn't do his own singing---it was the dubbed-in voice of the son of director Robert Saunders).
 
"How to make a clever segue and get back on topic in one easy lesson." I found two more Western tv show themes that were released as singles: Gunsmoke by Billy Strange (GNP Crescendo #417, 1969) and The Ballad Of Paladin by Duane Eddy, RCA #47-8047, 1962).
 
Duane Eddy - Because They're Young (Song From Movie of Same Name)
Duane Eddy - Ring Of Fire (From Movie Starring David Jansen)
 
Now we have to also include Duane Eddy's Forty Miles Of Bad Road, which included the screams of someone who was apparently driving (or possibly horseback riding) on that "bad road." Eddy's follow-up to that 1959 hit was Some Kind-A Earthquake. At 1:17 in length, it is the shortest song to become a top-40 hit. In 1961 Eddy recorded the theme song to the James Darren/Deborah Walley movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian. However, I'm not sure that one really fits the definition of "timeless instrumental."
 
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