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Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing. An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics , or singing , although it might include some inarticulate vocals , such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.
The positions of all songs are based on week-end sale totals, from Sunday to Saturday, [4] but pre-1987 the charts were released on a Tuesday because of the need for manual calculation. [5] Since inception there have been more than 1,400 number ones; of these, instrumental tracks have topped the chart on 30 occasions for a total of 96 weeks.
The Return of the Los Palmas 7. Rockit (instrumental) Round and Around (Pink Floyd song) Route 101 (song)
Instrumental rock was most popular from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, with artists such as Bill Doggett Combo, The Fireballs, The Shadows, The Ventures, Johnny and the Hurricanes and The Spotnicks. Surf music had many instrumental songs. Many instrumental hits had roots from the R&B genre. The Allman Brothers Band feature several instrumentals.
Warwick Records (United Kingdom) Warwick Records is a British record label active in the 1970s and early 1980s, established by Ian Miles, which specialised in producing song compilations that were sometimes given away as 'promos' with other products, such as magazines. Warwick was also a TV-advertised budget record label, and was distributed by ...
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the pre- Beatles era from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours.
A Walk in the Black Forest. Walk, Don't Run (instrumental) The War Lord (instrumental) Washington Square (composition) Watermelon Man (composition) Wheels (The String-A-Longs song) Whipped Cream (song) White Summer. Wiggle Wobble.
The Ventures Play the Classics / Latin Album. (1996) Mashed Potatoes and Gravy / Going to the Ventures Dance Party! (1996) Where the Action Is! / The Ventures Knock Me Out! (1997) Guitar Freakout / Wild Things! (1997) Wild Things! / Fabulous Ventures. (1998) Back to Back (7 out of 14 tracks) [w/The Shadows.]