Songs Without Words
A fistful of instrumentals, with one notable exception. And no, I have no idea what she’s looking at.
Track listing for 111064-2:
- The Ventures: Walk — Don’t Run
- Bill Pursell: Our Winter Love
- Nelson Riddle: Route 66 Theme
- The T-Bones: No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)
- Floyd Cramer: Last Date
- Paul Mauriat: Love Is Blue
- Kokomo: Asia Minor
- Cliff Nobles & Co.: The Horse
- San Remo Golden Strings: Hungry for Love
- Duane Eddy: Rebel-’Rouser
- The String-A-Longs: Wheels
- Bert Kaempfert: Wonderland by Night
- Lawrence Welk: Calcutta
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream
- Booker T. and the MGs: Green Onions
- Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Miserlou
- Percy Faith: Theme from A Summer Place
- Hot Butter: Popcorn
- Jorgen Ingmann: Apache
- Love Unlimited Orchestra: Love’s Theme
- Sounds Orchestral: Cast Your Fate to the Wind
- The Viscounts: Harlem Nocturne
- Young-Holt Unlimited: Soulful Strut
- Raymond Lefevre: Soul Coaxing (Ame Câline)
- King Curtis and the Noble Knights: Soul Twist
- The Chantays: Pipeline
- Ferrante and Teicher: Exodus
- The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
“… and His Orchestra” and similar constructions where appropriate.

August 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Stranger on shore sleepwalks through wonderland by night…
It’s fair to say that the period between Elvis Presley’s arrival at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, in 1958 and the day the Beatles touched down at Idlewild in 1964 was the zenith of instrumental pop. This is not Big Band or Western Swing from the ’30s and …