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"Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues song, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The lyrics relate a westward roadtrip on U.S. Route 66, a highway which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Themes is the thirteenth studio album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle, named for Riddle's theme music from the television series "Route 66". [2] The album was nominated at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental ...
Route 66 is scored for two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four French horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, four percussionists (xylophone/glockenspiel; vibraphone; marimba; brake drum/two cowbells/two bongo drums or timbales/sizzle cymbal/medium ride cymbal/splash cymbal/three triangles ...
Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits (Capitol, 1962) Love Is a Game of Poker (Capitol, 1962) More Hit TV Themes (Capitol, 1963) The Best of Nelson Riddle (Capitol, 1963) Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle with Oscar Peterson (Verve, 1963) White on White, Shangri-La, Charade & Other Hits of 1964 (Reprise, 1964) Original Music from The Rogues ...
The old Route 66 of the '30s and '40s (or at least its buildings) are well-preserved on Williams' main street, and the town's economy benefits from its status as southern terminus of the Grand ...
The sheet music specifies two guitars however, several of the duets can be performed by flute and guitar and versions have been transcribed for harmonica for five of the pieces, namely Aubade, Arioso in Blue, Rimse, Portrait of Miss. L and Velvet Waltz, although the composer states that these pieces can be played in any order with any ...
As previously mentioned, Lancaster's musical road, established in 2008, holds the distinction of being the first-ever musical road in the United States. In October 2014, a musical road in Tijeras, New Mexico, was created, featuring "America the Beautiful" on a two-lane stretch of U.S. Route 66. Unfortunately, the road has faded, and there are ...
Released in April 1963, More Hit TV Themes is a successor to Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits, released the year before.Both albums were outgrowths of the success of Nelson Riddle's instrumental "Route 66 Theme," [2] which spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 playlist in the summer of 1962, peaking at No. 30. [3]