Re: Pop Instrumentals

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Darude's "Sandstorm" did fairly well of the CHR charts



--- Richard Chonak <chonak@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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