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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.
Most, if not all, of the Duane Eddy's recordings are instrumentals. "Rebel Rouser" (1958), No. 6 US, [14] No. 8 UK, [15] No. 19 R&B, [16] saxophone by session musician Gil Bernal, yells and handclaps by doo-wop group the Rivingtons. [134] [135] "Peter Gunn" (1959), No. 8 US, [36] No. 6 UK, [15] this was the second charting of the song in 1959
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.
Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. [9] It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.
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.
New Record Mirror. [2] Greatest Hits is a 1963 compilation album by British instrumental group the Shadows. The album spent 56 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 2. [3]
The Routers' first release in September 1962 was the guitar-driven instrumental "Let's Go (Pony)", [3] which reached #19 on the Billboard chart. Its infectious "clap clap clap-clap-clap clap-clap-clap-clap Let's Go!" chant became a favorite of cheerleaders and crowds worldwide. The songwriting credits are given to local singer Lanny Duncan and ...
Official website. Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce, who had been the first presenter of the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1963. From March 1990 until February 2017 ...