The Best 40 Instrumental Hits

[Deedee]

3 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.  Many a guitar hero fails to do it justice.

 

Beautiful song. Without wishing to bring things down, this will be on my funeral tunes list ☠️

[ubit]

Me at the moment. I am sitting in my music room practising away with my headphones on, even taken to recording but I can't do vocals as we have the omnipresent Son in Law and his French girlfriend who never go out for more than 10 minutes. It's driving me to distraction I tell ya!

[Dov65]

Jessica....Allman Brothers

[SICbass]

12 minutes ago, Dov65 said:

Jessica....Allman Brothers

Good call.

 

[SICbass]

Gordon Giltrap - Heartsong 

 

[SICbass]

Not strictly a hit, but...

 

[phil.c60]

"Wipeout" by The Surfaris although it does have one word at the beginning....it's also better by The Ventures: 

Watch that drummer go man!

[Steve Browning]

12 hours ago, Captain Bassman said:

The Birdie Song.

Definitely not!! I killed a man playing that.

[Steve Browning]

AJ The Housefly by the Barkays.

 

[SICbass]

54 minutes ago, ubit said:

Me at the moment. I am sitting in my music room practising away with my headphones on, even taken to recording but I can't do vocals as we have the omnipresent Son in Law and his French girlfriend who never go out for more than 10 minutes. It's driving me to distraction I tell ya!

Ahhhh, young love 💕 

[Happy Jack]

1 hour ago, ubit said:

Me at the moment. I am sitting in my music room practising away with my headphones on, even taken to recording but I can't do vocals as we have the omnipresent Son in Law and his French girlfriend who never go out for more than 10 minutes. It's driving me to distraction I tell ya!

If he's your son-in-law and he has a girlfriend, how does your daughter feel about this? 

[Steve Browning]

Maybe this is the means to finally be rid of them!!

[mikel]

Wonderful Land by the Shadows. Perfect, and simply beautiful.

[casapete]

18 minutes ago, mikel said:

Wonderful Land by the Shadows. Perfect, and simply beautiful.

Good call. Whilst not being a massive fan of The Shadows stuff, Wonderful Land is (for me anyway) their best tune. Great chord progression and at just a tad over 2 mins long a perfect pop single of the time.

[BassBunny]

Blue Bossa

Chameleon

Cantaloupe Island

Soulfinger

Time is Tight

Starsky and Hutch theme

Cissy Strut

Spain

Think that's half of one of the sets from a Jazz/Funk band I used to play in. Love to get them back together 

[pete.young]

19 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Cissy Strut - The Meters

Colibri - Incognito (presuming that scatting doesn't count as words)

YYZ - Rush

La Villa Strangiato - Rush

Rhayader - Camel (or in fact, the entire Snow Goose album)

Telstar - The Tornados

Oxygene and Magnetic Fields - Jean-Michel Jarre

That should empty the dance floor more quickly than you can say 'Jessica'.

[Mykesbass]

Just now, pete.young said:

That should empty the dance floor more quickly than you can say 'Jessica'.

Played in that order it would certainly leave a lot of people confused (or empty the pub)!

[bassace]

Anyone remember The Spartans by Sounds Incorporated?  In the sixties they were the universal backing band.

 

And Cast Your Feet to the Wind by Sounds Orchestral. Great piano by Johnny Pearson.

[casapete]

16 minutes ago, bassace said:

And Cast Your Feet to the Wind by Sounds Orchestral. Great piano by Johnny Pearson.

Loving the title ......👣

[Kevsy71]

Machine Gun by The Commodores. Bonus points for bassist Ronald LaPread having his name in big letters on his Acoustic head, and for Lionel Ritchie going full on Space Rock at one point on keys:

 

...and my favourite music video of all, space-surf legends 'Man...or Astroman?' with 'Miracle of genuine pyrex'. Caution: not a hit.
 

 

[MacDaddy]

 

[lowdown]

Love 'em, or hate them. These two done well (chart wise).

 

 

[Dan Dare]

This has to be in there:

 

[stewblack]

14 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.  Many a guitar hero fails to do it justice.

 

peerless

[casapete]

So if we're going off piste from the hits, Ry Cooder has done some beautiful stuff including his take on this -