By the way, Alpert is an American-born son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Eventually, Herb Alpert had 14 platinum albums. In 1966, Alpert set a chart record with five of his albums in the Top 20 at the same time! It’s still the record.
Easy listening instrumentals tv#
The title song was used on the TV show The Dating Game. Whipped Cream sold over 6-million copies. Quickly following were “Zorba The Greek”, “Tijuana Taxi”, “What Now My Love”, and “Spanish Flea”, all Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and Top 40 on the Pop chart. His real breakthrough came in 1965, with the above album containing “A Taste Of Honey” (#7 Pop, #1 AC). The sound of a mariachi band and the trumpets at the bullfight inspired his first hit, “The Lonely Bull” in 1962. Herb Alpert (who played trumpet from the age of eight) attended a bullfight in Mexico in the early sixties.
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Easy listening instrumentals movie#
And, a couple of major movie songs that are still used in films half-a-century later, the themes for “James Bond” and “Mission Impossible”.īig sixties instrumentals not on the discs include “Stranger On The Shore” by Acker Bilk, “Peter Gun” and “Pink Panther Theme” by Henry Mancini, “Soulful Strut” by Young-Holt Unlimited, “Grazing In The Grass” by Hugh Masakela, and “Time Is Tight” by Booker T & The MG’s.Ī true instrumental phenomenon of the ‘60’s was the unbelievable popularity of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. There are a couple TV themes, “Bonanza” and “Batman”. A couple of songs were originally recorded for commercials…”Music To Watch Girl’s By” (#15, 1966) for Pepsi, and “No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In) for Alka-Seltzer. “Meditation” by guitar legend Charlie Byrd, is one of those melodies I have trouble remembering from the title, but it’s a sublime listen. Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt’s “Java” (#4, 1963). Some other notable songs from the above collection include: Mason Williams’ virtuoso guitar work on “Classical Gas” (#2, 1968). Another big #1 hit, and the 12th most popular song of the decade was from 1968…”Love Is Blue” by Paul Mauriat, an orchestra leader from France. Despite the British Invasion re-energizing Rock & Roll in 1964, instrumentals didn’t fade away. If you lived through the sixties, you may recognize quite a few of the songs, although since there are no lyrics, it’s sometimes tough to remember which melody belongs to which title. It contains 40 instrumentals in chronological order. The ‘60’s was a huge decade for instrumental hits, and we’ll start with the CD collection Instrumental Gems of the ‘60s. After the instrumental was #1, the song was also released with lyrics…”There’s a summer place, where it may rain or storm, but I’m safe and warm…” Adding lyrics to popular instrumentals was a common practice. “A Summer Place” was arranged and recorded by orchestra leader Percy Faith, and was from a popular movie of the same name. Here’s the listing in the Billboard Top 40 book.
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My guess would have been another Rock song, but it was an Easy Listening instrumental from 1960, ”Theme From A Summer Place”. (My two-disc set featuring classic instrumentals.) I would never have guessed the second most popular song of the decade, but maybe you can. The #1 most popular song from the 1960’s is “Hey Jude”.
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