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Instrumental Gold

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Great CD with many classic favorites. Here is the track listing:

Disc 1:
1. Theme from A Summer Place - Percy Faith
2. Moonglow and Theme From picnic - Morris Stoloff
3. Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson
4. The Poor People of Paris - Les Baxter
5. Last Date - Floyd Cramer
6. Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
7. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
8. Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
9. Love Theme - Love Unlimited
10. Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
11. Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras
12. Sail Along Silv'ry Moon - Billy Vaughn
13. Joy - Apollo 100
14. Never on Sunday - Don Costa
15. Moon River - Henry Mancini
16. Shangri-La - Robert Maxwell
17. Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman
18. Unchained Melody - Lex Baxter
19. Ruby - Richrd Hayman
20. The Stripper - David Rose

Disc 2:
1. Third Man Theme - Anton Karas
2. The Hot Canary - Florian Zabach
3. Quiet Village - Martin Denny
4. So rare - Jimmy Dorsey
5. Holiday For Strings - David Rose
6. Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield
7. Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter
8. Only You - Frank Pourcel
9. Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
10. Lisbon Antigal - Nelson Riddle
11. Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
12. Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
13. Melody Of Love - Billy Vaughn
14. The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
15. Patricia - Perez Prado
16. White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo
17. A Walk in the Black Forest - horst Jankowski
18. song from Moulin Rouge - Percy Faith
19. Somewhere My Love - Ray Conniff
20. Wonderland By Night - Bert Kaempfert

Great collection of classic instrumentals from days gone by. I got it for "Wonderland By Night," and was delighted to find Floyd Cramer's "Last Date" and Frank Mills' "Music Box Dancer" on it. I grew up listening to these songs, and it's wonderful to have well engineered CD versions of all of them.

Im 23 years old and I first heard this collection at the age of 10. At that time I was listening to punk and rap and all that so I have no idea why I became obsessed with my aunts copy of Instrumental Gold. I borrowed it from her all the time and finally got and wore out my own copy. This is my second purchase of this cd, its all the greatest, right in one package.

This is wonderful full orchestra sound. These conductors made the original recordings. Many times later groups just can't quite capture the exuberance of the first edition. Here you get a cross section of sound because it is not one orchestra playing all the songs. At the time of this review the price is about $70. I bought it for far less and have enjoyed it for years. A good price would be around $30.

This CD is one of the most played CD's at our Senior Center. It is so loved by a few of our members that they asked me to order one for them. One lady says that she doesn't listen to radio stations any more, shd just plays Instrumental Gold.

I also like the CD a lot myself.

I ordered this to be played at the 50th reunion of my high school class (Anoka, Minnesota). I already had a copy and the organizers wanted some music representative of that period, 1959-1961 when we were in high school. This is great music. Unfortunately I missed the last "new" album so we got a used album. I have not heard it but I understand it is very good quality.