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Rock Instrumentals have a separate page.
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1 (pronounced minus one). In addition Hip Hop instrumentals are at becoming more popular and more expensive as time passes by. A popular producer in todays hip hop industry is Drumma Boy from Memphis, Tennessee of the indie label drum squad productions. The previous price for one of his instrumentals is $30,000. The instrumentals music for movies can run anywhere from $500,000 to $950,000.
Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard charts during the rock and roll era but before the Hot 100 include
* "Autumn Leaves" - Roger Williams (1955)
* "Lisbon Antigua" - Nelson Riddle (1956)
* "The Poor People Of Paris" - Les Baxter (1956)
* "Moonglow And Theme From Picnic" - Morris Stoloff (1956)
* "Patricia" - Perez Prado (1958)
Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 include
* "The Happy Organ" - Dave "Baby" Cortez (1959)
* "Sleep Walk" - Santo & Johnny (1959)
* "Theme from A Summer Place" - Percy Faith (1960)
* "Wonderland By Night" - Bert Kaempfert (1961)
* "Stranger on the Shore" - Mr. Acker Bilk (1962)
* "The Stripper - David Rose And His Orchestra (1962)
* "Telstar" - Tornados (1962)
* "LAmour Est Bleu (Love Is Blue)" - Paul Mauriat (1968)
* "Grazing in the Grass" - Hugh Masekela (1968)
* "Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra (1969)
* "Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Gro read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental
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