Pop Instrumentals

[Richard Chonak <chonak@yahoo.com>]

WNYC's (NPR) "On The Media" has a fun feature this
week on the
disappearance of instrumentals from pop-music radio. 
From
"Tequila" to "Telstar", these songs were a staple of
the surf era, and
the category survived into the disco era ("TSOP") but
what was the last
instrumental to break through as a hit?   "Music Box
Dancer"?

[Here's a MIDI, in case you miss that one: 
 http://www.brainerd.net/~mrm/mid/musicbox3.mid ]

An audio stream of the show is available at
http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/
The piece starts at 44 minutes into the show.

--RC



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