Can you name the artists who performed these Billboard top 40 instrumentals?

Song Title	Artist	Position/Year
Axel F		#3 1985
Chariots of Fire - Titles		#1 1982
Rise		#1 1980
Feels So Good		#4 1978
Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band		#1 1977
Nadia's Theme (the Young and the Restless)		#8 1976
Theme From S.W.A.T.		#1 1976
The Rockford Files		#10 1975
The Hustle		#1 1975
The Entertainer		#3 1974
Love's Theme		#1 1974
Duelling Banjos		#2 1973
Frankenstein		#1 1973
Rock and Roll Part 2		#7 1972
Outa-Space		#2 1972
Midnight Cowboy		#10 1969
Green Onions		#3 1962
Soulful Strut		#3 1969
Grazing in the Grass		#1 1968
The Horse		#2 1968
Classical Gas		#2 1968
Harlem Nocturne		#39 1966
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)		#3 1966
The Pink Panther Theme		#31 1964
Out of Limits		#3 1964
Memphis		#5 1963

Song Title	Artist	Position/Year
Wipe Out		#2 1963
Night Train		#35 1962
Alley Cat		#7 1962
Telstar		#1 1962
The Stripper		#1 1962
On the Rebound		#4 1961
Apache		#2 1961
Wonderland By Night		#1 1961
Walk - Don't Run		#2 1960
Bongo Rock		#14 1959
Teen Beat		#4 1959
The Happy Organ		#1 1959
Rebel Rouser		#6 1958
Honky Tonk, Parts 1 and 2		#2 1956
Songbird		#4, 1987
Miami vice Theme		#1, 1985
Gonna Fly Now		#1 1977
Star Wars (Main title)		#10 1977
A Fifth of Beethoven		#1 1976
Autobahn		#25 1975
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)		#1 1974
Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)		#2 1973
Hocus Pocus		#9 1973
Popcorn		#9 1972
Stranger on the Shore		#1 1962
Tubular Bells (Theme from The Exorcist)		#7 1974

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Instrumental Songs Quiz

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Created by: caramba -
Contributed: September 28th, 2009
Published: November 18th, 2009
Category: Music
Plays: 17,993

Tags: Artist Quizzes, Song Quizzes, Football Quizzes, top, billboard, performed, instrumental, Editor Pick, title

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	rockgolf:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT	3 points
	BTW, "The Happy Organ" is not what you think it is.

	michael1:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	11 points
	Chuck Mangione I got from watching King of the Hill.

	Matt32:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	5 points
	Whoa, never thought I'd see Harlem Nocturne on Sporcle. Sweet.

	Malpaso:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	9 points
	The Hustle had lyrics ("Do The Hustle" about 1000 times) so it's not a true instrumental.

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	caramba:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:28 GMT	5 points
	I was happy (and surprised) to see this published today, but I will say the this is a very tough quiz for anyone under 30 or not a rock history fanatic, but if you want more of the same, my sequel is at http://www.sporcle.com/games/caramba/instrumentals2

	qbsamoa:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT	5 points
	"Green Onions" should be on here

	jaymc:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:39 GMT	3 points
	Cool quiz. However, I'd have liked to have seen Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer Place" (#1 in 1960), Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" (#25 in 1961), Hot Butter's "Popcorn" (#9 in 1972), Deodato's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (#2 in 1973), Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (#7 in 1974), and Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme" (#1 in 1985). (If only because I would've done better!)

	jaymc:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:41 GMT	3 points
	Oh hey just saw the sequel! Never mind!

	JayO:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT	1 point
	How many people do you think guessed "Classical Gas" right by trying to guess the Star Wars one? (I did. Shhh!) It's by far the most guessed.

	caramba:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:45 GMT	3 points
	@jaymc They are all over on #2, except for Oldfield (how did I miss that one) and Brubeck, which I didn't think was as well known, but then they are all not that well known, are they? I appreciate this quiz being published, but it would also be nice to have had some heads-up from the Sporcle Admins, as I would have combined the most-guessed from my 2 quizzes into a single quiz, to make it easier. Hopefully a few people will seek some of these tunes out on the net to check them out. Like I said in the archived comments, it is a dead musical art form, as far as mass popularity is concerned, but it used to be huge! There are a lot of #1's

	mjenks:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	4 points
	Any quiz that features Chuck Mangione is A-OK with me!!! Thumbs up all around!

	alwsdad:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz, though my memory failed me. I typed Williams, thinking John of Star Wars fame, and got Mason instead. I'm old enough to remember that on the radio, but would have never remembered the artist.

	Commodore:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	1 point
	5 correct - 93rd percentile...I knew listening to that crystal diode radio set for hours at night would pay off someday! QBsamoa - love Booker T.

	rockgolf:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	1 point
	@Caramba: As the music editor, I can make adjustments to quizzes after they are published. If you want, I can add the 20 or so most often recognized answers from "/instrumentals2" and add them to this game (eliminating duplicated artists of course).

	Dutchguy:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:27 GMT	3 points
	I tried The Shadows for Apache. Never heard of Jorgen Ingmann.

	caramba:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:28 GMT	2 points
	@rockgolf - thanks for the offer (and the nomination!) - my thinking is may as well let it ride, now that it's up, but if you think it would improve the quiz greatly, go for it!

	yippeeyappee:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	2 points
	Keep the music quizzes ccming!

	rockgolf:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	1 point
	Okay, I've added the most popular from the sequel and the one Caramba couldn't believe he'd forgot.

	American:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:57 GMT	-2 points
	I think it would be better if you had to guess the song name :\| and what's wrong with stranger on the shore? It came up as 0 and 0 for me

	rockgolf:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	1 point
	@American: Sorry about Stranger. You probably caught the quiz in mid-update. It should be fixed now. Flipping it to get the song name has two problems. 1) Many of these artists had several instrumentals. Look at the chart history of Herb Alpert or The Ventures! 2) It's awfully difficult in many cases to come up with the name of instrumental. For example, you know that sax music that plays in Benny Hill when people are running around like crazy? You may have heard it a thousand times, but never have known that it was called "Yakety Sax". How would you know? How could you know?

	dudemanbearpig:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	0 points
	Needs YYZ, Jessica, Moby Dick, Interstellar Overdrive, and The Call of Ktulu.

	rockgolf:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT	4 points
	@dudeman: Good instrumentals (I'm sitting on a YYZ flightpath right now), but not singles, which is what caramba was going for.

	mybeaglebelle:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 21:08 GMT	3 points
	Hocus Pocus has lyrics. There's yoldeling.

	Hope:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	-3 points
	I was under the impression that Mason Williams AND Mannheim Steamroller both did Classical Gas. I'm looking at the CD right now on my desk....

	nickisposh:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	1 point
	I only got 2, but one of those was Hocus Pocus by Focus. I also tried the Shadows for Apache.

	ShampooCell:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 22:20 GMT	0 points
	"Popcorn" was released by Gershon Kingsley in 1969. It wasn't covered and released by Hot Butter until 1972.

	3ismorethan2:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	1 point
	Hocus pocus the best song Ever but it has yoldoling and a yip yip yipity yip part but other wise ROCKS :):):):):):):):)

	The_Snakes:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	0 points
	No 'Eye Level' by the Simon Park Orchestra? #1 for four weeks here in the UK, the most succesful instrumental of all time.

	dudemanbearpig:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 22:34 GMT	3 points
	@rockgolf: Oh, now I see in the title that he wanted Billboard Top 40 hits. @The Snakes: This quiz is for the US chart only.