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i know, we could go on for hours about our favorite BB instrumentals...which my favs are Mrs. Oleary's Cow, Let's Go away, passing by, and pet sounds...

but what's everybody else's favs?

i highly enjoy casino royal, sleepwalk, and nikki

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya
and I dig a bunch of Explosions in the Sky stuff...

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anything Duke Ellington has done.  :hat

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for Beach Boys, I love Dennis' Mona Kani.

Favorite Beach Boys instrumental - "The Nearest Faraway Place"

I also like Brian Wilson's "In My Moondreams", even though it has some wordless vocals ala "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow".

Two good oldie instrumentals are "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams and "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited.

those are some goodens...after the game and summer means new love...excellent!

denny's moni is great...

Every Thelonious Monk composition.

Frankenstein by Edgar Winter

I've got loads

Burt Bacharach - Bond Street
Genesis - After the Ordeal
Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise
Beach Boys - Diamond Head
Beach Boys - Trombone Dixie
Steve Hackett - Shadow of the Hierophant
Steely Dan - Can't remember the title, the one off 'Pretzel Logic'
Brian Setzer - Sleepwalk
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Led Zeppelin - Bron yr aur
Salad - Gertrude Campbell
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Genesis - Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
Yes - The Clap
Black Sabbath - Fluff
Burt Bacharach - Raindrops keep falling on my head (off Portrait in music album)

Summer Means New Love


Non BB favorites include

Pipeline , the Chantays
Wipe out, Surfaris
Wild Weekend, The Rebels
Theme from a Summer Place
Walk, Don't Run, The Ventures
Cast Your Fatwe to the Wind, Ramsey Lewis
Grazin inthe Grass , Hugh Masekella

Albatross- Fleetwod Mac
Wonderful Land- The Shadows
Hot as Sun- Mccartney
Walk DOn't Run- The Ventures
Got To Hurry- The Yardbirds

Summer Means New Love

Peter Gunn Theme - Quincy Jones
The In Crowd - Quincy Jones
Boogie Stop Shuffle - Charles Mingus
Goodbye Porkpie Hat - Charles Mingus
Green Dolphin Street

Cannonball Adderly - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

can't believe I forgot that one...

The "In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles (The whole damn album!)
Apache - The Ventures
Any Colour You Like - Pink Floyd
Let's Go Away For Awhile - The Beach Boys

Virtually any Beach Boys backing track is worthwhile listening, IMO.

I forgot:
Blue Rondo a la Turk- Dave brubeck quartet.

in no particular order:
zoot allures-zappa
big swifty -      "
waka/jawaka  "
let's go away for awhile-BBs
one of these days-pink floyd
dance of the maya-mahavishnu orchestra

"La Villa Strangiato" - RUSH
"YYZ" - RUSH
"Duke's Travels" - Genesis
"Riding The Scree" -Genesis
"Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats"- Genesis
"Wot Gorilla" - Genesis
"In That Quiet Earth" - Genesis
"Please Don't Touch" - Steve Hackett
"The Steppes" - Steve Hackett

Lets Go Away For Awhile and any of Booker T's

Great selections!  There are a lot of great ones and many have wrongly become obscure.   

Rock: 

Link Wray - "Rumble"
The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"
Duane Eddy - "South Phoenix"
Jimi Hendrix - "The Star Spangled Banner"
Frank Zappa - "Peaches En Regalia"

Jazz:

John Coltrane - "Equinox"
Miles Davis (sextet) - "Blue In Green"
Oliver Nelson - "Stolen Moments"

In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed: The Allman Bros.
Peaches En Regalia: Zappa
Let's Go Away For A While
Pet Sounds
Passing By: The Beach Boys
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow: Brian Wilson
Bouree: Jethro Tull
Flying: The Beatles
Slip Knot: The Grateful Dead

All of Birds Of Fire: The Mahavishnu Orchestra
All of Kind Of Blue: Miles Davis

Joy by Apollo 100
I will return by Springwater
YYZ by Rush
Robot by the Tornados

the beatles' flying is only a little above par of Passing by, only because it has all the beatles' on vocals...otherwise, i'm a bigger fan of passing by...actually when i think of instrumentals of the beatles, i think of that one they recorded around rubber soul, cant remember what it was called, it was just a jam really

- "Pet Sounds" as performed by BW's band on August 12, 2005

- Henry Mancini's "The Party" as performed by Wondermints (although the last verse is vocal)

- "Follow Your Bliss" -- B52s, basically "Let's Go Away For Awhile" and "Pet Sounds" rolled into one

- "Misirlou" as performed by Bobby Fuller Four, incorporating "Hava Nagila"

- "I Am Spartacus" by Del Paxton and Guy Patterson

- There's a really raucous version of "Stoked" performed by a girl group -- I think they call themselves Beach Girls -- that I found on youtube.com...really diggable!

- "Emotions" by Love

- "Rockestra Theme" by Wings (although there are a few vocals)

Stranger on the Shore
Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione
Spanish Key – Miles Davis
He Loved Him Madly – Miles Davis
Call of Ktulu – Metallica
Sleepwalk – Santo and Johnny
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Secret Song – Mr. Bungle
Any BW instrumental

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band.

'Wonderful Land' by The Shadows - a wonderfully haunting and evocative piece of pre-Beatles UK guitar pop.  'Atlantis' by the same combo is superb also.  I can almost forgive them Cliff Richard.  Almost...

Montreux Theme - Yes (avaliable on Yessyears '91 boxed set and the Going for the One remaster)
Clap (Studio version) - Yes (This is the official title of the piece, Jon Anderson mistakingly used to introduce it at 'The Clap' and it stuck. The studio version avaliable on the Yes Album remaster includes a rough early version of what later became Mood for a Day)
Peace Frog (live at the Aquarius Theatre) - The Doors (The only proper instrumental ever done by the Doors unless you count the jam at the end of The Mosquito on Full Circle. I can't believe the Doors didn't think to do a jazzy instrumental piece on either of their albums after Jim died. Jim said in interviews that's what he thought the Doors should do if he stayed in Paris for a long time or got locked up in jail, cut an album of instrumentals and maybe try and get on the Jazz festival circut)
Black Napkins - Frank Zappa
Watermellon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
What's New in Baltimore - Frank Zappa
Apostophe - Frank Zappa
Eat That Question - Frank Zappa
The Dark Side of the Mushroom - The Chocolate Watchband
Miserlou - Dick Dale
Experiment in Terror - The Ventures
Come in Number 51 Your Time is Up - Pink Floyd (shorter more intense variation on Careful with that Axe Eugene from Zabriskie Point soundtrack)
Anything by Mogwai
The Process of Weeding Out EP - Black Flag

A beautiful 1962 instrumental by England's Acker Bilk.  He wrote "Stranger on the Shore" for a British television serial series.  His clarinet was backed by the Leon Young String Chorale. The single was not only a big hit in England but on the American charts as well. Bilk was the first British musician to reach the number one position on the U.S.  Billboard charts.  "Stranger on the Shore" was later on the soundtrack to Sweet Dreams, the film biography of country music legend Patsy Cline.  Bilk is considered a first rate player and an innovator (he is said to be the originator of 'Hyung-Tiger' playing). He is now semi-retired but still appears with Chris Barber and Kenny Ball as the 3B's. 

It's funny because you hear that the time between Buddy Holly's death (Feb. 1959) and when the Beatles appeared on Ed  Sullivan (Feb. 1964) was a down and benign period for popular music.  The reality is though that the American pop charts and radio playlists were open to just about anything, in just about any style during this time.  All it had to be was good.  An amazing variety of diverse music charted during this period.  Now days any song that is differs from narrowly defined sound and image criteria has almost no chance.