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Re: Pop Instrumentals

To: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>, <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Pop Instrumentals
From: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:24:30 -0500
References: <20021215043025.88000.qmail@web21501.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bob Nelson wrote:

> Also: last week's Thu. night countdown on WODS had the
> Ramsey Lewis Trio doing an instrumental version of
> "Hang On Sloopy" (late '66), though I wonder if it was
> legitimately an instrumental: I thought instrumentals
> had no lyrics at all, but the Lewis rendition had
> singers doing "Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on"
> several times.

If that definition were true, then Tequila (Champs),
Last Night (Mar-Keys), Topsy Part II (Cozy Cole)
and Wipe Out (Surfaris) would fail the litmus test.

Roger "Der Nitpicken Kommisar"

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- Re: Pop Instrumentals
  - From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>

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