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Wade in the water                 Ramsey Lewis

 

Land of 1000 Dances           Electric Indian

 

My little girl                           Bob and Earl Band (?)

 

6 by 6                                  Earl Van Dyke

 

Whole in the wall                Packers

 

Hey America                     James Brown 

 

Sliced Tomatoes               Just Brothers (?) 

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Always loved instrumentals (got loads), recently played this to one of my pals (Johnny Harris Orch - Lulu's Theme) who went straight on to evil-bay and bought a copy. (i Know a lot a folk don't rate it.)

 

:lol:  My mother had that as a brand new release..

 

The A side is a fantastic piece of music, theme tune to something that escapes me at the mo.

 

Possibly for the BBC coverage of the Apollo program

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:lol:  My mother had that as a brand new release..

 

The A side is a fantastic piece of music, theme tune to something that escapes me at the mo.

 

Possibly for the BBC coverage of the Apollo program

Sure you are right "footprints on the moon" was made especially  for the moon landing, and "lulu's theme" was for lulu's bbc show so makes sense.

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Concentrate Mickey :rofl:  The Gallop has been mentioned(and it is on Carla) maybe reminds you of Yate :hatsoff2: Courtesey of me!!

 

Steve :thumbsup:

You're quite right Smithy. Soulsource Rule No 1 - "don't post when your p*ssed". Doesn't sound anything like Satiron. "Personally" I've no idea where Tetragammaton came from!

 

You're right about Yate, but (apart from the obvious) what reminds me of you at Yate was when you came back form a record hunting trip (States?) with a load of interesting stuff and sold me another verison of "Take me for a little while". Was it Evie Sands?

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Several mentions for 'Hold on Help is on the Way' - flip it over for the sublime 'Bet you're surprised', another instrumental.

 

'Little Bit of Soul' and the flip 'The Cat Walk' by Gerry & Paul and the Soul Emissaries on Fatback.

'Right On' by Al De Lory and Mandango on Capitol.

 

And check out the messy and unashamed R&B meets Jazz style of 'Soul On' by Leon Haywood on Imperial. The combination of organ and piano is brilliant! The other side is a (mainly) instrumental take on '1-2-3'.

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The number 1 for me is All Turned On.

 

I haven't seen The Kid, Andre Brasseur mentioned, and I have not seen The Way You've Been Acting Lately inst. mentioned?

 

The one that is blowing me away at the moment and is not far off being the best instrumental I have ever heard is She'll Be Leaving You by the Pied Piper Band on the Detroit Concept CD from Adey.

 

 

Several mentions for 'Hold on Help is on the Way' - flip it over for the sublime 'Bet you're surprised', another instrumental.

 

'Little Bit of Soul' and the flip 'The Cat Walk' by Gerry & Paul and the Soul Emissaries on Fatback.

'Right On' by Al De Lory and Mandango on Capitol.

 

And check out the messy and unashamed R&B meets Jazz style of 'Soul On' by Leon Haywood on Imperial. The combination of organ and piano is brilliant! The other side is a (mainly) instrumental take on '1-2-3'.

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one great instrumental i recentley discovered is "soulful jerk" by the rumblers dont know anything bout the band though

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. Sounds of Lane - Tracks to your mind is right up there with the best in my book. It brought out the best in the manic fast dancers at The Casino! Although it was first associated with The Golden Torch.

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. As were as previously mentioned Walking the Duck and Hold on help is on the way were also superb old time dancers. Cochise was the ultimate speed freak's instrumental. So from that era Exus trek, Sidra's Theme, Watts 103rd Rhythm Band - Brown Sugar were all good instrumentals that I think most people would feel nostalgic about.

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. One that doesn't get any credit, but was a monster when it come out at Wigan was the instrumental version of  Papa ooh mow-mow - By The Sharonettes (who the actual backing band was?). Cats EyesThe Funk Brothers - All of the time, there are so many that are worth a mention!

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Can't see all the tracks posted as my work blocks out youtube links, so apologies in advance if any of these have been posted already, but here's some of my faves:

 

East Bay Soul Brass - The Panther

Detroit City Limits - 98 Cents Plus Tax

Dee Felice Trio - There Was A Time

Ray Bryant - Up Above The Rock

Classitors - Gettin T'Gether Man

Alvin Cash - Stone Thing

 

a couple of non-soul ones that I think are oustanding

 

Bobby Shad - I Want You Back

Orchestra Gunter Gollasch - House Of The Rising Sun

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I thought they were just a surf instrumental group, didn't know that.

 

They thought of themselves more as an R&B band. Here's a quote from their myspace page:

 

The Rumblers - named* for Link Wray's Rumble - came from Norwalk, CA, and recorded with Downey Records out of Wenzel's Records up State 42 a few miles in Downey. Founded in 1959 (first gig 1961), they had a hit with Boss on the Downey (local)/Dot (national) labels, made a series of additional singles and an LP, and disbanded in 1965 when guitarist Johnny Kirkland was drafted. They also recorded as the Nylons and the Bel Cantos. Never forgotten, they've appeared since then in numerous compilations and in a major revision of their LP. Like a number of bands now revered as one of the original surf bands, they always considered themselves to be playing R&B and making a few nods to this surf fad thing that had come along. They did some vocals, both covers and a few originals, and did them well, but their repertoire always leaned heavily to instrumentals and their recorded output reveals them to be a particularly fine, in fact, a really boss, instrumental band.

The Rumblers considered All Night Long to be their theme song.

 

Good US and UK discog here:

 

https://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/rumblers.htm

 

and line up details on Dave Rimmer's site:

 

https://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/rumblers.htm

 

I hadn't realised that they were also the Interns on Uptown who recorded the "Gloria" sound-a-like "Hard to Get", a copy of which which I've got somewhere amongst my garage 45s. Never made the connection.

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...or on the local label, Soft. Must admit, I prefer the version by Six Feet Under, 'Soul Over Easy', as it doesn't sound so sparse and the brass is sharper than a knife!

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I have this press for a long time (bought it in a collection in the mid 8T's) and was always dubvious from it's where abouts. Is it a boot, or a another (Berry street station, Six feet under) later press made by Major Bill Smith ? I still can't be sure. I've had different 7T's Le Cam records in hands and they are so many variant typos, colours and designs, it's impossible for me to tell wich is what. Can Someone let me know ?

 

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Agree with others who point out that instruments could deliver high emotion - a good academic account of this is given by Professor David Hesmondhalgh, Director of Media Industries Research Centre at the University of Leeds.

 

Just before coming across this thread I left a comment on Youtube on Bok to Bach... it wouldn't be one of my top five instruments now, the ones that would have been listed... Hold on and Thumb were always up there but I remember travelling to the Mecca just to hear 'Soul Symphony'...

 

I paid £10 for a copy of Bok to Bach on the pink demo in 1973 before it was bootlegged. I took it with me to the mid-week soul club in York, the Hypnotique, and passed it to DJ Alan Rhodes. It went down well when he played it in his set but the best came at the end of the night when only the die hard dancers were the only ones left on the floor... he played it, played it again, and again... each time building the emotions, everyone bouncing around the floor and 'singing' the hook line... it's hard to believe it now listening to it again but it whipped everyone up into a frenzy, the place was jumpin'.
 
When you think about it as much as the lyrics can get deep inside, sometimes, nothing can lift like an instrumental

 

 

Hesmondhalgh D (2013) Why Music Matters. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Agree with others who point out that instruments could deliver high emotion - a good academic account of this is given by Professor David Hesmondhalgh, Director of Media Industries Research Centre at the University of Leeds.

 

Just before coming across this thread I left a comment on Youtube on Bok to Bach... it wouldn't be one of my top five instruments now, the ones that would have been listed... Hold on and Thumb were always up there but I remember travelling to the Mecca just to hear 'Soul Symphony'...

 

I paid £10 for a copy of Bok to Bach on the pink demo in 1973 before it was bootlegged. I took it with me to the mid-week soul club in York, the Hypnotique, and passed it to DJ Alan Rhodes. It went down well when he played it in his set but the best came at the end of the night when only the die hard dancers were the only ones left on the floor... he played it, played it again, and again... each time building the emotions, everyone bouncing around the floor and 'singing' the hook line... it's hard to believe it now listening to it again but it whipped everyone up into a frenzy, the place was jumpin'.
 
When you think about it as much as the lyrics can get deep inside, sometimes, nothing can lift like an instrumental

 

 

Hesmondhalgh D (2013) Why Music Matters. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Yep - totally agree - an instrumental can sometimes have SO much atmosphere - and you can concentrate on the groove, the sound and the playing.

 

btw  'BOK' to Bach.... 'BARI' Track where the hell do these titles come from? - would love to know.

Top thread by the way.

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Yep - totally agree - an instrumental can sometimes have SO much atmosphere - and you can concentrate on the groove, the sound and the playing.

 

btw  'BOK' to Bach.... 'BARI' Track where the hell do these titles come from? - would love to know.

Top thread by the way.

 

Bari comes from Baritone Sax.

I did ask about Bok To Back years ago and someone answered, I'll see if I can find the thread.

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  • NO ONE TO LOVE no not that one,it is a sweet Motown thing I have on tape and always thought is there a vocal to this,i even wrote some lyrics out for my self,took me many years to discover its the backing to an LP track by Tommy Good of the same title.Brill. Already mentioned but if some one was to ask me to name an instrumental that is typical of the Detroit sound I would answer Never in a million years it just oozes with Detroit
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Yes.. All For You - and 6 by 6... Wade in the Water

 

Googie Rene Combo Smokey Joe's La La has always been one of my favourites since I happened across a copy on black Atlantic... this, like some of the others mentioned suggest a distinction between different instrumental tracks. 

 

I can think of sounds that fit the instrumental category, most obviously versions of vocals like - can't believe it isn't on the list - The Horse... it is one of those that makes you notice the segment where the words should be!  Whereas sounds by artists like Earl Van Dyke and Googie Rene are simply part of the genre... that goes for the rich seam we had in the 1970s... from Mike Post to Silvetti - at the time Spring Rain hit the mark... just listened to it again, it's like it predicted the rave scene! 

 

The Simon Soussan tracks were mostly pseudo instrumentals - apart from Double Cookin' (Strings A GoGo)

 

https://youtu.be/YGYVB1i3KE4

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Love how some of you guys pull a record apart, disect it, discuss it, elaborate on it and then give your final verdict on it......and I mean that in a complimentary way  :thumbsup:

 

Then there's me.......play it, like it, dance to it......that's it. Easily pleased me....lol  :P  :D

 

 

 

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Soul Sauce - Cal Tjader - Verve

 

Sounded great over a good system in a big venue.

Memories - sold mine to Richard S ... used it as his Sheffield soul show theme tune!

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Contentious stuff!!! I deleted the Spring Rain link but actually leaving it in would mean that the three sounds captured the heat of the Winstanley v Levine debate! As most of you know debate doesn't capture the heat of the moment. 

 

As for the sounds - always walked of the floor for Joe 90, wanted to for 5.0 but usually I was so far gone (as in stimulated dancing) that the intro would get me... if I wasn't gone I'd walk... I wasn't a purist but there was a limit to my tolerance of dilution.  

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Two I've been listening to recently king Curtis heard it thru the grapevine and Ramsey Lewis Saturday night after the movies both brilliant and one of my very first instrumentals I listened to back in 72. Sandy Nelson sock it to um jb

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Love how some of you guys pull a record apart, disect it, discuss it, elaborate on it and then give your final verdict on it......and I mean that in a complimentary way  :thumbsup:

 

Then there's me.......play it, like it, dance to it......that's it. Easily pleased me....lol  :P  :D

 

In the end, when the talking's done, that's what counts!

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