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WHERE HAVE ALL THE INSTRUMENTALS GONE?...
February 21, 2012 @ 10:24 AM
The 1940s was the decade of fantastic instrumentals, great bands and swell music. Then came the 1950s and the rise of Rock & Roll and that was wonderful, but the fifties still continued to provide us a lot of instrumental hits, with many finding their place in the top 20 and even the top 10. With each passing decade, however, we saw fewer and fewer instrumentals that were memorable and have arrived today at a point where I can't remember when an instrumental made the charts. I don't think it's just because I don't listen as much to the music of the 1990s and 2000s; I think the instrumentals have just gone to their happy hunting grounds. But we have the memories of EARLY AMERICAN BANDSTAND, when in the late 1950s and early 1960s, we ...