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Instrumental Gems of the '60s

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Instrumental Gems of the '60s

 

The follow-up of 'Instrumental Gems of the Fifties' now focuses on the following decade - 1960s. This collection proves that even in the rock & rolls era, instrumental records still came strong.

This 40-tracks on 2 CDs fulls with incredibly good, but rare, music from the rock decade. The selections are pretty various; from the orchestral (David Rose's "The Stripper") to the electric guitar (Mason William's "Classical Gas"). There are No.1 hits like Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta" and Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue". There are 3 top10 hits from Ferrante & Teicher ("Exodus", "Midnight Cowboy", and "Theme from the Apartment"). There are several hard-to-find one-hit wonders such as Robert Maxwell's "Shangri-La", Whistling Jack Smith's "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman", Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", and Don Shirley Trio's "Water Boy". Many great themes of the decade also presents including Nelson Riddle's "Route 66 Theme", Neal Hefti's "Batman Theme", Billy Strange's "James Bond Theme", and Percy Faith's "Theme from 'A Summer Place'".

Amazingly, although this album does miss several key instrumental artists such as the Ventures or the Shadows, it doesn't weaken the whole album even one bit. Probably because the selections are great and the styles are varied enough to cover every listeners' tastes.

Too bad that this album was out-of-print long time ago, and now can only available as used items. (The minted one is very expensive and really hard to find.) But if you don't mind the used album, it is a really good purchase for instrumental fans.

 
Track Song
Disc 1  
1 Wheels - The String-A-Longs
2 I Want to Hold Your Hand - Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops
3 Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
4 Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
5 Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat
6 Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski
7 Music to Watch Girls By - Bob Crewe Generation
8 Phoenix Love Theme - The Brass Ring
9 Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn
10 Shangri-La - Robert Maxwell
11 Fly Me to the Moon - Joe Harnell
12 Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell
13 Desafinado - Donald Byrd, Stan Getz
14 Stripper - David Rose & His Orchestra
15 Forever - Pete Drake
16 Never on Sunday - Don Costa
17 Theme from the Unforgiven - Don Costa
18 Java - Al Hirt
19 Last Date - Floyd Cramer
20 Classical Gas - Mason Williams
   
Disc 2  
1 Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman
2 I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith
3 Walk on the Wild Side - Jimmy Smith
4 Batman Theme - Neal Hefti
5 Bonanza - Al Caiola
6 Theme from the Magnificent Seven - Al Caiola
7 Lazy River - Si Zentner
8 No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) - The T-Bones
9 Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi
10 White Silver Sands - Bill Black Combo
11 Mission: Impossible - Lalo Schifrin
12 James Bond Theme - Billy Strange
13 Water Boy - Don Shirley Trio
14 Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher
15 Midnight Cowboy - Ferrante & Teicher
16 Theme from the Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher
17 Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
18 Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith
19 Washington Square - The Village Stompers
20 Meditation (Meditação) - Charlie Byrd
 
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