Favorite instrumentals? (rock, classical, AM radio, easy listening, etc.)

[retrorussell]

Hey Badmovies.orgers.
Throw down your favorite instrumental tunes.  They can be of the classical era (Bach, Beethoven, etc), they could be ragtime tunes, rock tunes of the 60s/70s/80s/Kenny G./whatever.. just know that there CAN be some words to it, but they must be at a minimum.  I like these:
PICK UP THE PIECES- Average White Band (1974)
Great sax-driven instrumental with only the title being spoken.
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HOCUS POCUS- Focus (1973)
Classic guitar/organ/yodel song from a rockin' Dutch band.
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And one of my favorite songs of all time:
FRANKENSTEIN-Edgar Winter Group (1973)
Hard-rocking tune with Edgar jamming on not only the keyboards but the sax and timbales as well!
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What have you got for me, folks?  I hope this topic hasn't been threaded before..

[BoyScoutKevin]

I got . . .
and I won't name my favorite classical instrumentals, as there are too many to name. Neither will I name my favorite classical composers, as there are almost as many. Though many of both can be found on the Hooked on Classics compilation. What I will name is my favorite TV instrumental themes, as there are only a half dozen.

The Yellow Rose
The Tribe
Second Noah
Hill Street Blues
Flash Forward
Doctor Who
and while there have been several different ones, my favorite, and I don't remember when it was, I believe that it was the one that used a theremin in the theme.

And these film themes from

Flash Gordon (1980)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Medicine Man
Rat Race

and . . .
Colonel Bogie's March from
--Bridge Over the River Kwai
Duelin' Banjos from
--Deliverance
Lara's Love Them from
--Doctor Zhivago

and while not written for the film
In the Mood from
Chronicles of Narnia : the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
That is a film series I wish they'd complete, as while they have done 3 theatrical films, as far as I know, there are more books than those 3 in the book series.

[Allhallowsday]

BERT KAEMPFERT "Wonderland By Night"   
http://youtu.be/NnU_nMYb0C4   

THE HARMONICATS "Peg O' My Heart"    Their re-recording is the one...here 'tis:
http://youtu.be/ax0neb8QcIw

YOUNG HOLT UNLIMITED "Soulful Strut" 
 
http://youtu.be/yX1XSOzDPik

[javakoala]

My all-time favorite instrumental:

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Probably my second all-time favorite:

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In my top five all-time favorites:

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[Allhallowsday]

"Moonglow and Theme from Picnic"  MORRIS STOLOFF  
http://youtu.be/iAxJ93LzaaA  

"Shangri-La" ROBERT MAXWELL  
http://youtu.be/k6zfj9jATWE

MARTIN DENNY "Quiet Village"
http://youtu.be/w9C2tHYZ3R8

[Rev. Powell]

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[Allhallowsday]

THELONIUS MONK... good idea...  "Epistrophy"

http://youtu.be/cv2wxsQtLEQ 

CHARLIE PARKER QUINTET "Scrapple From The Apple" 
http://youtu.be/9b2AOlCGpKY 

DIZZY GILLESPIE and CHARLIE PARKER "Groovin' High"  
http://youtu.be/lvZOS8LxvNU

[retrorussell]

RISE- Herb Alpert
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MORNING DANCE- Spyro Gyra
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MUSIC BOX DANCER- Frank Mills
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BREEZIN'- George Benson
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FLY ROBIN FLY- Silver Convention (just the title and one other line are spoken)
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[Rev. Powell]

http://youtu.be/rRgXUFnfKIY

http://youtu.be/w53sagJ4FbQ

http://youtu.be/vCHREyE5GzQ

[Allhallowsday]

VLADO PERLEMUTER  plays RAVEL... Miroirs... 

http://youtu.be/vF2QSx25DLQ

[Allhallowsday]

http://youtu.be/UjfJ8H0guO4

[RCMerchant]

Dave Bruebeck-Take Five

http://youtu.be/PHdU5sHigYQ

Flatt and Scruggs-Foggy Mountain Breakdown

http://youtu.be/6RvI6ZI2JWc

[RCMerchant]

I love this!

http://youtu.be/PDeU42u2s2Y

[retrorussell]

ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA- Deodato
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The disco nut in me likes this:
A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN- Walter Murphy

[Allhallowsday]

There are at least a few recordings of FATS WALLER "Tea For Two" as a piano solo.   I have yet to hear one that is not sublime.  

http://youtu.be/b9C83jtfOcI 



I could listen to FATS all night...   

http://youtu.be/7Z8EVAnHiRk 

http://youtu.be/kIFoAwJPtm4