DJ Played B-Side Instrumental on ACCIDENT…Became the ONLY Lyric-less Rock #1 EVER!-Professor of Rock

Описание: Here’s a number for you 13… Only 13 Instrumentals have hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100… Of those 13 as you may have guessed most are from Movies or TV shows… but out of that small list of 13 that hit #1 there is only 1 ROCK instrumental that did it in all of music history and it started out as a jam session. the Edgar Winter Group led by the wild and crazy mad scientist of Rock n Roll. He wanted to play his keyboard like a guitar so he put a handle on it and jammed. That instrument became the Keytar…that instrumental became Frankenstein. Once they recorded the song it was an epic 20 minutes long. If radio was going to play it, they would need to pair it down. But the song became the only #1 rock instrumental in history when a DJ played it by accident. Coming up we’ve got the goods. an interview with rocker Edgar Winter. who wrote the song tells us the story along with his massive follow-up hit Freeride… both of these songs are mainstays on classic rock radio.

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It’s time for another edition of our show Revelations where artists give us exclusive behind-the-scenes experiences about their biggest songs and albums. Insight you won’t find anywhere else. Today I’m excited to show you our sit-down interview with the great rock and roll scientist, Mr. Edgar Winter. One of the most interesting interviews I’ve done Mr. Winter is an amazing individual who has written and jammed out several Classic Rock Standards. Including today’s focus, the Rock Instrumental Frankenstein, and the exquisite follow-up Free Ride He tells the story about birthing the classic and recording it and how it rose to the top of the charts as the only Rock instrumental to hit the #1 spot in the rock era. There have been 13 Instrumentals that have gone to #1 from the Theme from Summer’s Place by Percy Faith in 1960 to Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela in 1968 to The Hustle by Van McCoy in 1975. To the Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco in 1977 to the Miami Vice them by Jan Hammer in 1985. But only one rocker so far. There actually hasn’t been a #1 instrumental since 1985. We also get the story of the Edgar Winter group’s massive follow-up Free ride. a song written by the great Dan Hartman though Edgar did make some contributions, but according to him, he didn’t want to be greedy and ask for a co-write knowing that Dan Hartman also made some contributions to other songs that were credited solely to Winter. Actually, Free Ride was released first but it went nowhere. But after Frankenstein went to #1 they re-released Freeride and it went to #14. Many saw the song as a perfect road trip song though Dan Hartman has said it was written as a spiritual journey…

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