Timeless Instrumentals that are Still Great to Hear Today!

[unitron]

Okay, experts, there was an instrumental from somewhere in the '60s, and somewhere in the middle there's a guy who goes "Get it, get it, get it".

I'm thinking it might have been a Willie Mitchell song or Willie Mitchell type song, but that short vocal break is all I can remember, but there is (at least) one other person in the world who also remembers about that much of it.

 

[howardm]

Rocking R's (C Ill group) - Nameless, The Beat, Mustang, Heat, Humbug (Great garage band sound - used no bass guitar at first)

 

[Thomps2525]

Mister unitron, I'm going to tell you what the "Get it" song is...and because it's Christmas time, I'll waive my usual $50 fee.

In the 1960s, KFWB in Los Angeles usually ended each hour with an instrumental, timed to end exactly at :00 when the newscast began. I liked---and bought---a lot of those instrumentals. One of them was Get It. It was by the Silvertones. They recorded several singles for Goliath, Sweet, and Valiant, 1963-64, but never had a chart hit. A scratchy old 45 of Get It is on good ol' YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yrNVvjP7w

 

[CTListener]

Mister unitron, I'm going to tell you what the "Get it" song is...and because it's Christmas time, I'll waive my usual $50 fee.

In the 1960s, KFWB in Los Angeles usually ended each hour with an instrumental, timed to end exactly at :00 when the newscast began. I liked---and bought---a lot of those instrumentals. One of them was Get It. It was by the Silvertones.

A country station I used to listen to during my three years in Arkansas, KLRA 1010, Little Rock, used one instrumental for that purpose, Floyd Cramer's "Last Date." You'd hear it a couple of times a day, when the last song leading up to the CBS news at the top of the hour came up short.

 

[radioman148]

Mister unitron, I'm going to tell you what the "Get it" song is...and because it's Christmas time, I'll waive my usual $50 fee.

In the 1960s, KFWB in Los Angeles usually ended each hour with an instrumental, timed to end exactly at :00 when the newscast began. I liked---and bought---a lot of those instrumentals. One of them was Get It. It was by the Silvertones.

A country station I used to listen to during my three years in Arkansas, KLRA 1010, Little Rock, used one instrumental for that purpose, Floyd Cramer's "Last Date." You'd hear it a couple of times a day, when the last song leading up to the CBS news at the top of the hour came up short.

Dan Ingram used to back time instrumentals into the news on his show on WABC. One of his favorites was "Up The Lazy River" by Si Zentner.

 

[hornet61]

Last Night-The Markeys, Underwater-The Frogmen, and Scratchy-Travis Womack (this one perfect for AM radio reception)

nice call on "Underwater" and "scratchy"

 

[Thomps2525]

Many of these "timeless instrumentals" are from 1960-62. Has anybody mentioned the new CD series The Complete Instrumental Hits Of The 1960s? They're on a label called Complete 60s. Volume 1 (1960) came out in 2011 and Volume 2 (1961) came out in 2012. Next year there will be...well, you can guess. Each volume has every instrumental to make the Hot 100 for the particuiar year, plus many others that never charted. Here is Volume 1: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Instrumental-Hits-Sixties-Volume/dp/B004VWXULE

 

[northwoods]

San Remo Golden Strings- Hungry For Love (1965)
Trumpeteers- A String Of Trumpets (1959)