Top 100 Instrumental Songs 1960-2015 |
red # = weekly rock chartblue # = pop chart |
1 | The Theme From A Summer Place | 1 | Feb 1960 |
Percy Faith And His Orchestra |
2 | Wonderland By Night | 1 | Dec 1960 |
Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra |
3 | Exodus | 2 | Jan 1961 |
Ferrante & Teicher |
4 | Love's Theme | 1 | Jan 1974 |
Love Unlimited Orchestra |
5 | Chariots Of Fire - Titles | 1 | Apr 1982 |
Vangelis |
6 | A Taste Of Honey | 1 | Nov 1965 |
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass |
7 | Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu) | 1 | Feb 1968 |
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra |
8 | The Hustle | 1 | Jul 1975 |
Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony |
9 | The Good, The Bad And The Ugly | 1 | Jun 1968 |
Hugo Montenegro |
10 | A Fifth Of Beethoven | 1 | Sep 1976 |
Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band |
11 | Last Date | 2 | Dec 1960 |
Floyd Cramer |
12 | Calcutta | 1 | Jan 1961 |
Lawrence Welk |
13 | TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) | 2 | Apr 1974 |
MFSB Featuring The Three Degrees |
14 | Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet | 1 | Jun 1969 |
Henry Mancini, His Orchestra And Chorus |
15 | The Stripper | 1 | Jun 1962 |
David Rose And His Orchestra |
16 | Rise | 1 | Sep 1979 |
Herb Alpert |
17 | Grazing In The Grass | 1 | Jul 1968 |
Hugh Masekela |
18 | Telstar | 1 | Dec 1962 |
The Tornadoes |
19 | Green Onions | 2 | Sep 1962 |
Booker T. & The MG's |
20 | Wipe Out | 2 | Aug 1963 |
The Surfaris |
21 | Walk--Don't Run | 2 | Sep 1960 |
The Ventures |
22 | Stranger On The Shore | 3 | May 1962 |
Mr. Acker Bilk |
23 | The In Crowd | 2 | Oct 1965 |
Ramsey Lewis Trio |
24 | Theme From S.W.A.T. | 1 | Feb 1976 |
Rhythm Heritage |
25 | Frankenstein | 1 | May 1973 |
Edgar Winter Group |
26 | Midnight In Moscow | 2 | Mar 1962 |
Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen |
27 | Miami Vice Theme | 1 | Oct 1985 |
Jan Hammer |
28 | Washington Square | 3 | Nov 1963 |
The Village Stompers |
29 | Scorpio | 4 | Dec 1971 |
Dennis Coffey And The Detroit Guitar Band |
30 | The Entertainer | 2 | May 1974 |
Marvin Hamlisch |
31 | Dueling Banjos | 2 | Mar 1973 |
Deliverance with Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell |
32 | Apache | 2 | Apr 1961 |
Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar |
33 | Feels So Good | 3 | May 1978 |
Chuck Mangione |
34 | Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You | 5 | Feb 1967 |
Jimmy Castor |
35 | The Horse | 4 | Jul 1968 |
Cliff Nobles & Co. |
36 | Outa Space | 3 | May 1972 |
Billy Preston |
37 | Pick Up The Pieces | 1 | Feb 1975 |
AWB |
38 | Soulful Strut | 4 | Jan 1969 |
Young-Holt Unlimited |
39 | Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) | 2 | Jun 1977 |
Bill Conti |
40 | Java | 4 | Feb 1964 |
Al Hirt |
41 | Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) | 4 | Mar 1973 |
Deodato |
42 | Last Night | 5 | Aug 1961 |
The Mar-Keys |
43 | Axel F | 2 | Jun 1985 |
Harold Faltermeyer |
44 | Music Box Dancer | 3 | Apr 1979 |
Frank Mills |
45 | Classical Gas | 4 | Aug 1968 |
Mason Williams |
46 | Time Is Tight | 3 | May 1969 |
Booker T. & The MG's |
47 | Because They're Young | 3 | Jul 1960 |
Duane Eddy |
48 | Cast Your Fate To The Wind | 4 | Feb 1963 |
Vince Guaraldi Trio |
49 | Express | 4 | Apr 1975 |
B.T. Express |
50 | Space Race | 8 | Nov 1973 |
Billy Preston |
51 | Soul Finger | 5 | Jul 1967 |
The Bar-Kays |
52 | No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) | 5 | Jan 1966 |
The T-Bones |
53 | Desafinado | 6 | Nov 1962 |
Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd |
54 | Theme From Mission: Impossible | 7 | 5 | Jun 1996 |
Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen |
55 | Wheels | 7 | Mar 1961 |
The String-A-Longs |
56 | Memphis | 5 | Jul 1963 |
Lonnie Mack |
57 | Soul Makossa | 7 | Jul 1973 |
Manu Dibango |
58 | One Mint Julep | 6 | Apr 1961 |
Ray Charles |
59 | Rock And Roll Part 2 | 8 | Sep 1972 |
Gary Glitter |
60 | Soul Twist | 8 | May 1962 |
King Curtis And The Noble Knights |
61 | Theme From The Apartment | 9 | Sep 1960 |
Ferrante & Teicher |
62 | Songbird | 3 | Jul 1987 |
Kenny G |
63 | Watermelon Man | 6 | Apr 1963 |
Mongo Santamaria Band |
64 | Afrikaan Beat | 7 | Mar 1962 |
Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra |
65 | Out Of Limits | 9 | Feb 1964 |
The Marketts |
66 | Star Wars Theme Cantina Band | 4 | Oct 1977 |
Meco |
67 | Yellow Bird | 10 | Jul 1961 |
Arthur Lyman Group |
68 | Don't Be Cruel | 11 | Nov 1960 |
Bill Black's Combo |
69 | Let There Be Drums | 9 | Dec 1961 |
Sandy Nelson |
70 | Jungle Fever | 11 | Mar 1972 |
Chakachas |
71 | Fly Me To The Moon-Bossa Nova | 6 | Feb 1963 |
Joe Harnell And His Orchestra |
72 | Josephine | 11 | Jul 1960 |
Bill Black's Combo |
73 | Joy | 10 | Feb 1972 |
Apollo 100 |
74 | Midnight Cowboy | 8 | Dec 1969 |
Ferrante & Teicher |
75 | Hocus Pocus | 9 | Jun 1973 |
Focus |
76 | Taurus | 10 | Apr 1972 |
Dennis Coffey And The Detroit Guitar Band |
77 | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | 9 | Feb 1967 |
Cannonball Adderley |
78 | Southampton | 11 | Mar 1998 |
James Horner |
79 | Wild Weekend | 8 | Mar 1963 |
The Rebels |
80 | Axel F (The Frog Song) | 21 | Aug 2005 |
Crazy Frog |
81 | Walk-Don't Run '64 | 9 | Aug 1964 |
The Ventures |
82 | White Silver Sands | 13 | Apr 1960 |
Bill Black's Combo |
83 | Asia Minor | 10 | Apr 1961 |
Kokomo |
84 | Quentin's Theme | 9 | Jul 1969 |
The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde |
85 | Never On Sunday | 15 | Oct 1960 |
Don Costa |
86 | I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman | 10 | Jun 1967 |
Whistling Jack Smith |
87 | Our Winter Love | 9 | Mar 1963 |
Bill Pursell |
88 | Maria Elena | 10 | Nov 1963 |
Los Indios Tabajaras |
89 | Tracy's Theme | 12 | Feb 1960 |
Spencer Ross |
90 | Hooked On Classics | 7 | Jan 1982 |
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
91 | On The Rebound | 11 | Apr 1961 |
Floyd Cramer |
92 | Pipeline | 10 | Apr 1963 |
Chantay's |
93 | Percolator (Twist) | 11 | Mar 1962 |
Billy Joe & The Checkmates |
94 | More (Theme From Mondo Cane) | 10 | Aug 1963 |
Kai Winding & Orchestra |
95 | Mexico | 13 | Oct 1961 |
Bob Moore And His Orchestra |
96 | Alley Cat | 15 | Sep 1962 |
Bent Fabric And His Piano |
97 | Mission--Impossible | 11 | Mar 1968 |
Lalo Schifrin |
98 | Auld Lang Syne (The Millennium Mix) | 10 | Dec 1999 |
Kenny G |
99 | San Antonio Rose | 14 | Jul 1961 |
Floyd Cramer |
100 | The Lonely Bull (El Solo Torro) | 14 | Dec 1962 |
The Tijuana Brass Featuring Herb Alpert |