Mount Rushmore - instrumental pop songs

[SirFozzie]

Axel F (Theme From Beverly Hills Cop)

[albionmoonlight]

This has been a really great thread. Wish that I'd saved my Mount Rushmore for later because I have learned a lot.

[CrimsonFox]

I do like

YYZ - Rush
Frankenstein - Edgar WInter
Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
The Pink Panther theme - Henry Mancini
Walk Don't Run
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

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[Kodos]

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

[britrock88]

Challenging myself to nominate a foursome not previously mentioned in the thread:

The Shadows - Apache (#1 in UK/IR/NZ/SA)


---(Honorable mention here to the Incredible Bongo Band version.)


Steely Dan - East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (On "Pretzel Logic," #8 US Album)
---A personal favorite, and a nice Duke Ellington rendition.


Emerson/Lake/Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man (#2 in UK)
--- ELP's other Copland rendition, Hoedown, would also be a worthy choice.


Bob James - Angela/Theme from "Taxi" (On "Touchdown," #1 US Jazz Album)

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

yup

[thesloppy]

Apache is a good call!

[Uncle Briggs]

Some I'm surprised nobody has mentioned:

Metallica - Orion
Theme from Magnum P.I.
Theme from A-Team
Imperial March from Star Wars

If the last one doesn't fit, then just the Star Wars theme; I know that got airplay when the movie came out.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Apache is a good call!

I wasn't familiar with that version.

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[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Apache is a good call!

A great one.

[CrimsonFox]

I kinda feel there could be a category or two for just theme songs alone. Maybe this should be nontheme songs

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Carman Bulldog

Allan Parsons Project - Sirius

....Introducing.....YOUR.....CHICAGO BULLS!......

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

....Introducing.....YOUR.....CHICAGO BULLS!......

I always have that same reaction too. That shit is burned in your brain if you're a dude of a certain age.

AT STARTING GUARD OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA

[thesloppy]

Mount Rushmore of Maynard Ferguson instrumental freakouts:

The Theme from Shaft:


The Theme from Star Trek:


Gonna Fly Now:


Sesame Street:

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Shit...I haven't even considered The Streetbeater.

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Originally Posted by thesloppy

[thesloppy]

I had no idea that song had a proper name.

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[CrimsonFox]

we sure have forgotten a classic rock staple!

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

we sure have forgotten a classic rock staple!

That is a good one! That song is like 5 minutes of constant, epic intro, and I keep waiting for it to settle into something that never happens.

Here's a sludgy 70s version of this classic:

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I always have that same reaction too. That shit is burned in your brain if you're a dude of a certain age.

AT STARTING GUARD OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA

sloppy I am POSITIVE YOU are the one that inspired me to do that hehehe

Because I think it was you that did it to me some time back when I posted that song.

[thesloppy]

Ha. It's like a pavlovian reaction.

[CrimsonFox]

Here's what I call the Fallout 3 Mt Rushmore of this category!

Rhythm For You - Eddy Christiani and Frans Poptie



Boogie Man by Sid Phillips




Swing Doors by Allan Gray





and my personal favorite...


Fox Boogie by Gerhard Trede

[thesloppy]

I don't think we've hit this one yet either. I remember hearing it a bunch when I was a kid and it always stuck out to me with the corny/awesome harpsichords and harps and shit.

[SirFozzie]

The entertainer (From the movie the Sting)

[CrimsonFox]

Let's get some Frank Zappa in here!

[thesloppy]

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

The entertainer (From the movie the Sting)

That is a good one, and also something I remember hearing constantly as a kid.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Here's a sludgy 70s version of this classic:

Holy fuck! That was the song in PUlp Fiction! I never knew! THANK YOU!

[CrimsonFox]

well then!

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

this reaction made me laugh as it was so appropriate

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[SirFozzie]

As a wrestling fan of a certain age, I forgot about this one till just now.

Midnight Express (Chase Theme) - Giorgio Moroder - YouTube

[Vince, Pt. II]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

This has been a really great thread. Wish that I'd saved my Mount Rushmore for later because I have learned a lot.

+1. Though I'd imagine several of the excellent new entries defied most peoples' internal definitions of "pop" and as such weren't considered. And this is not at all to discourage said submissions or say that they are wrong / bad - I heartily agree with Quik's initial sentiment of keeping this to the user's imagination so we don't bog it down into a semantic discussion.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

I've always loved Flying, tho most consider it a throw away tune.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

I would not have guessed that Also Sprach Zarathustra reached #2 while The Chase only got to #33 (I guess it beat The Entertainer [#3] as well).

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

The entertainer (From the movie the Sting)

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

As a wrestling fan of a certain age, I forgot about this one till just now.

Midnight Express (Chase Theme) - Giorgio Moroder - YouTube

Well I guess I now know Foz has me on ignore!

[SirFozzie]

Nope, just scanned through.

Who are you again? (kidding )

[CrimsonFox]