Songs For Saturday: Instrumentals by Lindsey Sterling, Booker T & the MGs and more!

 

Today's Songs For Saturday features instrumentals.  

I'm not necessarily a fan of instrumentals; I usually prefer a full musical tableau including singing with intelligible lyrics and stuff.

But there are some instrumental songs that I do very much enjoy. 

Starting off our play list for today is a theme from TV show from the 1950's called Peter Gunn. Mr. Gunn was a hard boiled private eye with a ballsy theme song by Henry Mancini to match. 

Performing the Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini, here is the Qatar Philharmonic Brass.

I tell ya, that drummer and the tuba player needs to put in for overtime, bro. 

Next up is the surf rock group The Ventures. Performing their classic Wipe Out, here are the Ventures with special guest Max Weinberg joining Mel Taylor on drums . 

Max Weinberg is a drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and was the band leader for Late Nite With Conan O'Brien. 

Lalo Schifrin's theme for the classic TV series Mission Impossible remains one of the all time greatest themes ever composed, an iconic composition recognized by millions who may never have seen the TV shows or any of the subsequent movies starring Tom Cruise.

Next up on today's playlist is my favorite dancing violinist Lindsey Stirling team up with  pianist Jon Schmidt and cellist Steven Sharp Nelson from The Piano Guys for a kick ass take on the Mission Impossible theme.

Wrapping up today's playlist is perhaps one of the most popular instrumentals crossing boundaries into rock 'n' roll and R&B.  Here is Green Onions by Booker T & the MG's

That is one of my favorite songs without words from the 1960's.

And the accompanying video is pretty damn cool too! 

That's that for today's Songs For Saturday. Until next time, remember to be good to one another and to always keep the music alive.