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Vernon Reid
At the end of 1995, Vernon Reid was working on an all-instrumental album
that was not a Living Colour project. His record company, Epic (Sony),
was wary.
Vernon asked us to put together a list of top-selling instrumentals to
show that it could be done successfully--that there was the possibility
of songs with no words charting. Well, true, it hasn't happened lately
in rock, and we didn't look very hard at the jazz, Latin or dance charts.
But we did send him this list--pretty much out of our heads--and then
checked what charted in "Billboard Top Pop Albums" by Joel
Whitburn. The end result, Vernon Reid's "Mistaken Identity."
By the way stay on board the CD for an extra minute or so after the
music ends for the "Who Invited You" promo.
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Title
"Topsy Part II"
"Patricia"
"Rebel Rouser"
"Tea for Two Cha Cha"
"Peter Gunn"
"Guitar Boogie Shuffle"
"The Happy Organ"
"Quiet Village"
"Red River Rock"
"Sleep Walk"
"Teen Beat"
"Summer Place" Theme
"Mule Skinner Blues"
"Walk--Don't Run"
"Wonderland by Night"
"Exodus"
"Calcutta"
"Apache"
"Yellow Bird"
"Stranger On the Shore"
"The Stripper"
"Green Onions"
"The Lonely Bull"
"Telstar"
"Wild Weekend"
"Watermellon Man"
"Pipeline"
"Wipe Out"
"Fingertips Part 2"
"Walk--Don't Run '64"
"Cast Your Fate
to the Wind"
"The In Crowd"
"No Matter What Shape"
"Love is Blue"
"Tighten Up"
"Grazing In the Grass"
"Classical Gas"
"Hawaii Five-O
Love Theme from
"Romeo & Juliet"
Theme from "Shaft"
"Rock & Roll Part 2"
"Dueling Banjos"
"...Zarathustra" (2001)
"Frankenstein
"Love's Theme"
"Tubular Bells"
"The Hustle"
"The Rockford Files"
"Feelings"
Theme from "SWAT"
"More, More, More"
"This Masquerade"
"A Fifth of Beethoven"
"Nadia's Theme"
"Gonna Fly Now (Rocky)"
"Star Wars"
"Star Wars"
"I Feel Love"
"Rise"
"Hill Street Blues"
"Hooked On Classics"
"Pac-Man Fever"
"Chariots of Fire"
"Miami Vice" Theme
"Rock Me Amadeus"
"Songbird"
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Artist
Cozy Cole
Perez Prado
Duane Eddy
Tommy Dorsey
Ray Anthony
The Virtues
Dave "Baby" Cortez
Martin Denny
Johnny & the Hurricanes
Santo & Johnny
Sandy Nelson
Percy Faith
Fendermen
Ventures
Bert Kaempfert
Ferrante & Teicher
Lawrence Welk
Jorgen Ingmann
Arthur Lyman
Acker Bilk
David Rose
Booker T
Tijuana Brass
Tornadoes
Rebels
Mongo Santamaria
Chantays
Surfaris
Stevie Wonder
Ventures
Sounds Orchestra
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Ramsey Lewis
T-Bones
Paul Mauriat
Archie Bell/Drells
Hugh Masekela
Mason Williams
Ventures
Henry Mancini
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Isaac Hayes
Gary Glitter
Weissberg/Mandell
Deodato
Edgar Winter
Love Unlimited Orchestra
Mike Oldfield
Van McCoy
Mike Post
Morris Albert
Rhythm Heritage
Andrea True Connection
George Benson
Walter Murphy
DeVorzon/Botkin
Bill Conti
London Symphony
Meco
Donna Summer
Herb Alpert
Mike Post
Royal Philharmonic
Buckner & Garcia
Vangelis
Jan Hammer
Falco
Kenny G
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