Songs without words

[Geoff Nathan]

I'm not sure if I'm older than Larry (and I'm certainly not as old as my old room-mate Wilson) but I remember Canadian Sunset, which hit the charts in 1956. Arranged by Hugo Winterhalter--a name from the distant past if there ever was one.

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> At 6:50 AM +0100 4/25/10, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> >(I am old, admittedly not quite as old as Wilson, but dredging
> through the
> >tattered remnants of my memory, I can barely recall a time when a
> *purely
> >instrumental* recording achieved popular success in the UK.  That
> would be
> >in the early sixties, with the Shadows, issued on a 45 rpm vinyl
> disk.  Yes,
> >children, there was a time ...  And at that, the Shadows only made it
> into
> >the Top 10 since they were Cliff Richards' backing group.)
> >
> The first such hit song without words I recall making it to the top
> of the [cispondial] pops was Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer
> Place", back in the early 60s.
>
> LH
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