Dear Jerry: My recollection is that there were many more instrumental hits in the 1960s before the British Invasion than after, when singing groups became hot. How did the success of those bands ...

It’d be reasonable to assume that there was nothing more to give, that every tape vault everywhere had already been scoured. The download-only tracks which appeared last decade under the banner ...

The 1960s and ‘70s saw a massive rise in studio experimentation that led to some of the weirdest instrumental features to ever grace a reel of tape. To be clear, the instruments themselves aren’t ...

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Picnic in the Park closes out the 2015 season with a concert by The Sharks, who will bring their 1960s rock instrumental music to Central Park from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, alongside the ...

Pre-rock and roll, mid-1950s, the instrumentals ruled the charts. I could rattle off a list that only those of you who go back further than me would remember. Then from 1958 through 1982, each year, ...

Anyone of a certain age remembers the music of The Ventures, the seminal instrumental group whose sound defined a certain 1960s surfer groove. You may not have known it was The Ventures you were ...