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Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:57 pm
by Mala591
OK, let’s kick this off with ‘Wade in the water’ by Ramsey Lewis

https://youtu.be/u2TakQkTl-M

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:02 pm
by jdrobbo
Telstar by the Tornados…

https://youtu.be/k-ee6p4z29Q

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:03 pm
by boatshed bill
"Seven Steps To Heaven" by Miles Davis.

Cool

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:07 pm
by blsclaret
Dave Edmunds - Sabre Dance

https://youtu.be/GpqYU3Nzbts

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:09 pm
by ClaretLoup
Deodato - Also sprach Zarathustra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q

Used in the film "Being There" when Peter Sellers emerges from a stately home into the middle of a beat up ghetto.

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:09 pm
by dougcollins
I caught a bit of an animated version of 'The Addams Family' yesterday and Lurch was playing this on the organ, with a solo from Thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cO ... dutchmanmm

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:12 pm
by gawthorpe_view
Panatella - The Mavericks.

https://youtu.be/lZdGBq8MD7o

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:14 pm
by IanMcL
Albatross

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:20 pm
by ClaretAndJew
IanMcL wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:14 pm
Albatross
Was going to say this. Great song.

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:20 pm
by JanetM
Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:23 pm
by Devils_Advocate

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:30 pm
by Blatherwickstattoo
https://youtu.be/pqashW66D7o


Weather report . Immense

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:46 pm
by Pearcey
Overplayed but still great. Allman Brothers.

https://youtu.be/yRDivUb5EeA

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:53 pm
by SalisburyClaret
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free - Billy Taylor Trio

Older posters will know it as the theme to the Film review series with Barry Norman

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:55 pm
by conyoviejo
Apache...The Shadows.

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:59 pm
by Middle-agedClaret

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:06 pm
by Funkydrummer
IanMcL wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:14 pm
Albatross
For your delectation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeKi6ZkbOw

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:09 pm
by Funkydrummer
Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHY3eRUMsM

Off to see him at Manchester Apollo tomorrow and this is last on his setlist.

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:12 pm
by gawthorpe_view
Middle-agedClaret wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:59 pm
Grooving with Mr Bloe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQWOne1sfo
The harmonica player on Mr Bloe Ian Duck, also played the theme tune for Last of the Summer Wine.

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:16 pm
by CoolClaret
https://youtu.be/Q4AJ3HhPYTk

Steve Vai - The Animal

Incidentally he’s playing at the Ritz in Manchester on Sunday which I’m going to!

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:20 pm
by ClaretLoup
Funkydrummer wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:09 pm
Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHY3eRUMsM

Off to see him at Manchester Apollo tomorrow and this is last on his setlist.

Featuring Johnny Depp on vocals & geetar(?)

Best of luck

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:21 pm
by chorleyhere
Mason Williams - Classical Gas (1968) Brilliant Youtube with him playing all the parts.
https://youtu.be/3NE6X4IQNA4

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:24 pm
by Bosscat
Was gonna say with Groovin Mr Bloe too but....

Booker T and the MG's and Green Onions is a banger

https://youtu.be/_bpS-cOBK6Q

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:28 pm
by A.Claret.Fan
My first ever curry at the Koh-i-Noor they played The Shadows greatest. The pick of my fav's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVIOn-wc6RM

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:31 pm
by Funkydrummer
ClaretLoup wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:20 pm
Featuring Johnny Depp on vocals & geetar(?)

Best of luck
Yeah, I believe he cropped up at the Royal Albert Hall the other Day. Hope he doesn't
rock up tomorrow, I've not paid £65 to watch that prat.

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:34 pm
by northeastclaret
Alan Pace and Bad Company ‘ The Sound of Silence ‘

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:34 pm
by IanMcL
Not my fave (see Albatross above), however, for a bit of nostalgia, the very, very first record I bought as a very young boy, was Side Saddle by Russ Conway.

Number one for weeks!

Even that has a link!

https://youtu.be/MNrJ6To5yWQ

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:35 pm
by Juan Tanamera
Wonderful Land - Thè Shadows.
https://youtu.be/S1dmBUBu9P4

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:37 pm
by Guppyspotter
From those posted Green onions and the shadows followed by Telstar

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:42 pm
by Tricky Trevor
blsclaret beat to it with Dave Edmunds..Sabre Dance. Outstanding.

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:52 pm
by Vintage Claret
Time is tight -Booker T and the MG's

https://youtu.be/50xx1_CbJTI

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:56 pm
by elwaclaret
Selecter - The Selecter

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:58 pm
by BabylonClaret
Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities

Duel.of the Fates from Phantom Menace

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:07 am
by BabylonClaret
Oops forgot this one...

Los Endos Genesis

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:11 am
by yTib
hideaway. a freddie king song and he did many insane versions but clapton did it so good on the beano album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xes9UV ... yall-Topic

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:26 am
by Swizzlestick
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World

https://youtu.be/InFbBlpDTfQ

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:57 am
by FCBurnley
Hurricane Rock. Johnny and the Hurricanes

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:26 am
by The Enclosure
Dave Brubeck- Take Five

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:49 am
by GordonvaleClaret
This used to be played during the adverts at the pictures interval.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOqPq-8g7U

Spanish Armada, Les Reed Combo.

Note: "pictures" is where we went to watch films in the 1960s.

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:22 am
by Chester Perry

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:39 am
by yosserhughes
JUST BROTHERS - SLICED TOMATOES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ05TOj4NYc

THE CHAMPION - WILLIE MITCHEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jD7GsThzU&t=3s

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:52 am
by yatesybase
Simple Minds - Themes for Great Cities from 1981

https://youtu.be/6FfCxLvV2nc

A Awesome Bassline from Derek Forbes Flowless Guitar from Charlie Burchill & Keyboard/ Synth sounds to blow you away from Mick McNeil - Mind blowing and ahead of there time back in 81 !

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:00 am
by THEWELLERNUT70
Soul Limbo - Booker T And The MGs

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:12 am
by Cabbage
Mark Knopfler - Going Home

https://youtu.be/MEgMtw13s9I

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:35 am
by Hipper
A couple of pedal steel ones:

Daniel Lanois - Frozen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn9TsXgRi8

Red Rhodes - Jay's Tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cDgcccDZY

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:36 am
by northendsoul
All Turned On - The San Remo Strings

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:02 am
by Sozturf7
Dueling Banjos

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:02 am
by Ptangyangkipperbang
Could be plenty to choose but the first from the top of my head
AP special by Augusta's Pablo
Rumble by Link Wray
Handling the big jets by the Members
And anything by Brian Eno

Oh and most of Bowie's Low and Hero's

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:20 am
by boatshed bill
CoolClaret wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:16 pm
https://youtu.be/Q4AJ3HhPYTk

Steve Vai - The Animal
"Sisters" off Passion and Warfare, is very good IMO.

Re: Favourite instrumental record...

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:44 am
by Firthy
So many great instrumental tracks.

A few not mentioned so far.

Six by Six - Earl Van Dyke
Love's theme - Barry White Orchestra
The Hustle - Van McCoy
Walk in the NIght - Junior Walker
Aria - Acker Bilk

But ther best of all has to be.

Samba Pa Ti - Santana