Instrumental Nuggets Vol. 2

Instrumental Nuggets Vol. 2 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Repertoire
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4009910472224
ASIN: B00000JA0G


Release Date: 1998-10-01

Instrumental Nuggets Vol. 2


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Tracks:

  1. And Then There Were Drums - Sandy Nelson
  2. Swinging Creeper - The Ventures
  3. Red River Rock - Johnny & the Hurricanes
  4. Peter Gunn - Duane Eddy
  5. Telstar - The Tornados
  6. In the Hall of the Mountain King
  7. Nut Rocker
  8. Red Cabbage - Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers
  9. Early Bird - Andrrasseur
  10. William Tell Twist - Ricky Brown,
  11. Totenschiff - Rollicks
  12. Cry for a Shadow - The Beatles
  13. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
  14. Avengers - Laurie Johnson Orchestra
  15. Melissa - Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
  16. Happy Times
  17. Man of Action - Les Reed Et Son Orchestre
  18. Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa
  19. Cobra - Quicksilver Messenger Service
  20. Black Bill - Dave Edmunds
  21. Guiding Light - Springwater
  22. Man in Black - Cozy Powell
  23. Barber's Rock - BZN

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Album Description

American rock musicians showed that purely instrumental performances could be honored into hit singles, without any help from lead singers, way back in the Fifties. It was all part of the rock 'n' roll explosion and despite the adulation for stars like Fabian and Elvis, there was room for players like fine young drummer Sandy Nelson in the charts too. His pounding performance of 'And Then There Were Drums' kicks off this consistently entertaining set that focus on bands like Johnny & The Hurricanes, The Ventures and B. Bumble & The Jaywalkers doing their thing. Peter's band was one of the first to feature a double drum kit with flashing lights.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "Nuggets" is the word!.......2002-06-30

You want to talk nostalgia? - in this album you have more interesting "long lost" tracks than you might actually realise. Most of the tracks were recorded in the rock 'n' roll era and therefore have somehow captured that sharp sound of raw innocence and high enthusiasm from that unrepeatable period.

Not only have you got this you also have quite a number of classic tracks which are heretofore unavailable in any form. The Original Les Reed Version of "Man of Action", the longtime signature tune of the ill fated pirate radio station, RNI (Radio North Sea International) and other than "girl on a motorcycle, I have come across no other Les Reed music in 20 years. Then Sounds Orchestral, another excellent DJ signature tune from the sixties.

Other tracks by the Ventures, Duane Eddy on his version of the Petter Gunn theme, Laurie Johnsons' Original Avengers' theme, Cozy Powell's "Man in Black" to name a few are not easy to come by tracks, giving this album added value.

This is a first rate compilation album of original and alternatively quirky and unusual cover version intstrumentals from the sixties when instrumental music was not a cliche, but a serious art form. John Williams is cool - but I love this!

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