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There seemed to be quite a bit of instrumental music before the 70s. I wondered if anybody had any favourites or opinions on them. Some were great and some were just quirky.

Here are some of my favourites . . .

'Nut Rocker' - B.Bumble and The Stingers
'Telstar' - The Tornados
'Perfidia' - The Ventures
'Kon-Tiki' - The Shadows

Everybody's opinions are welcome.  :D
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"Harlem Nocturne"--forgot name of artist.The Happy Organ--Dave"Baby"Cortez

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There was "Love is Blue" (I can't think who did it and I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up) and "Quentin's Theme" from Dark Shadows (ditto).
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Oh wow, I forgot all about "Quentin's Theme"!

True story, in 1992, I met a guy that was doing some contract work for the military at my base.

He was in his mid 20's, and when he told me his first name was Quentin, I said that his mom must have been a real Dark Shadows fan.

Amazingly enough, he said she was, but I was the first person to realize that.  Talk about making me feel old really fast.  LOL

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Henry Mancini had a great number of hits all by himself:

Pink Panther Theme
Peter Gunn
Baby Elephant Walk
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I like 'Baby Elephant Walk' and 'Peter Gunn'. In fact Art of Noise covered 'Peter Gunn' (which featured Duane Eddy) - a great version. Art of Noise did some bizarre instrumentals, most notably 'Close (to the edit)' and 'Moments in love'.

Does anybody remember the Van der Valk theme tune from the 70s? It was called 'Eye Level' and was by The Simon Park Orchestra - My grandad had it on single and I thought it was great.

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Does anybody remember the Van der Valk theme tune from the 70s? It was called 'Eye Level' and was by The Simon Park Orchestra - My grandad had it on single and I thought it was great.
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Remember that one Bobby...it was used as the theme for the series, but not written for it. 'Eye Level' started off as what was known as a piece of 'library music'...specially written and performed pieces that were not available to Joe Public but were to be used by TV, media and film companies who either couldn't be asked or couldn't afford to have music specially commissioned...

The TV series started in 1972 and almost immediately became popular - so much so that Joe Public did indeed start to enquire about the theme. It was duly issued late in 1972 and shifted a few copies, but it wasn't until series two started the following year that it really took off saleswise...

This rousing piece of music eventually hit the top spot in September/October 1973 and shifted well over a million copies, making it one of the biggest UK sellers of that decade!
Simon Park's still about somewhere, but I've no idea what he does these days...

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"Harlem Nocturne"--forgot name of artist.The Happy Organ--Dave"Baby"Cortez
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I've got 'The Happy Organ' by Dave 'Baby' Cortez. A quirky little number.

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I like 'Baby Elephant Walk' and 'Peter Gunn'. In fact Art of Noise covered 'Peter Gunn' (which featured Duane Eddy) - a great version. Art of Noise did some bizarre instrumentals, most notably 'Close (to the edit)' and 'Moments in love'.
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My favorite Art Of Noise song is "Paranoimia - Max Headroom Edit".

The song and video were absolutely awesome.  I still play this a lot at parties, and is funny because the old farts like me get it immediately, and the younger kids are wondering who this stuttering fool is that is trying to sing to a techno song.

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My favorite Art Of Noise song is "Paranoimia - Max Headroom Edit".

The song and video were absolutely awesome.  I still play this a lot at parties, and is funny because the old farts like me get it immediately, and the younger kids are wondering who this stuttering fool is that is trying to sing to a techno song.
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Ha ha! Max Headroom looked a lot more computer generated than a lot of special effects in films these days. You wouldn't believe it was a man with an excessive amount of make-up and latex would you?

'Paranoimia' was a great track. Very different yet suited to the 'technology period' of the mid-80s. I never saw his TV shows though.

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There was "Love is Blue" (I can't think who did it and I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up) and "Quentin's Theme" from Dark Shadows (ditto).



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There seemed to be quite a bit of instrumental music before the 70s. I wondered if anybody had any favourites or opinions on them. Some were great and some were just quirky.

Here are some of my favourites . . .

'Nut Rocker' - B.Bumble and The Stingers
'Telstar' - The Tornados
'Perfidia' - The Ventures
'Kon-Tiki' - The Shadows

Everybody's opinions are welcome.  :D
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"Wild Weekend" by the Rockin' Rebels
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Blimey! How could I forget this track? This was brilliant! A group called NRBQ decided to add vocals to the track - which was a fine cover.

The group that did 'Apache' was The Shadows.

Does anybody remember Quincy Jones's 'Soul Bossanova'?  It was sampled later on by The Dream Warriors who gave us 'My definition of a boombastic jazz style'. It also featured in Austin Powers at the start - great piece of music.

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Tequila!  Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba - yeh baby!
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Heh heh! The Champs. The most obvious instrumental of the 50s and I missed it. Well done bj26.

They followed that song with 'Too much Tequila' in 1960.

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"popcorn" I forget by who certainly different
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That was by a group called Hot butter. Had a great kettle-drum type riff.

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Cherry Pink and Apple Blossum White...Prez Prado (I think)
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Ah yes 'The Mambo King'. He did Guaglione as well (featured on a well known beer advert in the early 90s) and also Mambo No 5 - Made popular by another beer advert (I think from the same company) and made more popular by Lou Bega in 1999.

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Classical Gas-Mason Williams
Walk Don't Run-Ventures
Hawaii Five-O- Ventures also
The Teaberry Gum song-who did that one?

the 70's:
Frankenstein-Edgar Winter Group
Hocus Pocus-Focus
Love's Theme-Love Unlimited Orchestra
TSOP-The Sound Of Philadelphia(aka the SOUL TRAIN theme)
Sun Goddess-Earth Wind and Fire w/Ramsey Lewis(okay it had some word 'pueyo' or something like that in it)
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From the 80's-Herbie Hancock's "Rockit".That song seemed to inspire lotsa kids to take up break dancing! And the video was cool with the mechanical legs and stuff!