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