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Top 100 Instrumental Songs 1960-2015



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Song List for Top 100 Instrumental Songs 1960-2015

brown # = weekly rock chart peak      blue # = pop chart peak

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
  The 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
  Average White Band  

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 (He's The King) 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 And The Rebels  

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 & His Orch. & Chorus  

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
  The 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