VA - Ultimate Instrumental Hits [3CD Set] (2012)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Ultimate Instrumental Hits
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Sony Music [88697973312]
Genre: Pop, Rock, Surf, Jazz, Instrumental, Easy Listening
Quality: CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 2:38:36
Total Size: 374 mb / 961 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Ultimate Instrumental Hits
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Sony Music [88697973312]
Genre: Pop, Rock, Surf, Jazz, Instrumental, Easy Listening
Quality: CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 2:38:36
Total Size: 374 mb / 961 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
A long time coming but worth the wait. Unfortunately there are hardly any instrumental hits in this day and age, but there was a time when some of the biggest chart hits were brilliant instrumentals and most of them are on this 3CD collection. You will know the songs even if you don’t know the artist initially, as a lot of the songs have been used in movies and TV commercials over the years apart from the continuous radio airplay on Easy Listening stations across Australia. Some of the names worth mentioning are: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Hugh Masekela, Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra, Paul Mauriat, Percy Faith & His Orchestra, The Ventures, Sandy Nelson, The Shadows, Van McCoy, George Benson, Marvin Hamlisch and the list goes on.
::TRACKLIST::
Disc 1:
1. Johnny & The Hurricanes - Red River Rock
2. The Virtues - Guitar Boogie Shuffle
3. The Champs - Tequila
4. Al Caiola - The Magnificent Seven Theme
5. Don Costa & His Orchestra - Never On Sunday
6. Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus (Theme From Otto Preminger's "Exodus")
7. King Curtis - Soul Twist
8. Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums
9. The Ventures - Walk - Don't Run
10. Dave "Baby" Cortez - The Happy Organ
11. The Shadows - The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt
12. Henry Mancini - Moon River (From Breakfast At Tiffany's)
13. The Village Stompers - Washington Square
14. Floyd Cramer - Last Date
15. Percy Faith & His Orchestra - Theme From "A Summer Place"
16. David Rose - The Stripper
17. Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - Midnight In Moscow
18. The Atlantics - Bombora
Disc 2:
1. Rob E.G. - 55 Days At Peking
2. Sounds Orchestral - Cast Your Fate To The Wind
3. The Surfaris - Wipe Out
4. Ramsey Lewis Trio - The "In" Crowd
5. Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
6. Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man
7. Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass
8. The Tornados - Telstar
9. Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
10. Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - Wonderland By Night
11. Bill Justis - Raunchy
12. Asia Minor - Kokomo
13. The T - Bones - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
14. Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
15. Mason Williams - Classical Gas
16. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
17. Horst Jankowski - A Walk In The Black Forest
Disc 3:
1. Hank Marvin - Sacha
2. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
3. George Benson - Breezin'
4. Eric Weissberg & Deliverance - Deuling Banjos
5. Marvin Hamlisch - The Entertainer
6. The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
7. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
8. Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
9. MFSB - The Sound Of Philadelphia
10. Kenny G - Songbird
11. Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra
12. David A. Stewart & Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here
13. Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth Of Beethoven
14. Van McCoy - The Hustle
15. Apollo 100 - Joy
16. Hot Butter - Popcorn
17. Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough