instrumental more popular than the vocal version?

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i dont know the history of the track or anything, but i always thought it was strange that "The Horse" was 10000% more popular than "Love is All Right"are there any other cases where the instrumental version of a song was more popular than the vocal version, or was this a one time deal?
 
i dont know the history of the track or anything, but i always thought it was strange that "The Horse" was 10000% more popular than "Love is All Right"

are there any other cases where the instrumental version of a song was more popular than the vocal version, or was this a one time deal?
Francine McGee's "Delirium", which was the instrumental version of her "Feeling Good".
 
Take Five had a vocal version?
I think that might have come later - someone like Lambert Hendricks & Ross, maybe? It's not uncommon to have lyrics written for something that started life as a straight instrumental.
 
Soulful Strut
yup...the the vocal version is
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Soulful Strut
Vs. the Barbara Acklin original? You're tripping dude. The instrumental had more legs in the long run (i.e. covered by more groups) but Acklin's vocals are unfuckwittable.
 
i dont know the history of the track or anything, but i always thought it was strange that "The Horse" was 10000% more popular than "Love is All Right"
Especially since Cliff Nobles, from all reports, didn't play an instrument, so at live shows he had to do the Horse dance while the band played.

are there any other cases where the instrumental version of a song was more popular than the vocal version, or was this a one time deal?
"Rock & Roll - Part 2" Gary Glitter
"It's The Real Thing - Part 1" Electric Express
 
Soulful Strut
Vs. the Barbara Acklin original? You're tripping dude. The instrumental had more legs in the long run (i.e. covered by more groups) but Acklin's vocals are unfuckwittable.
the subject is "more popular" not better....i think everyone agrees that the vocal version is dope
 
Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund did a great version of "take five". Awesome really...
I thought he meant instrumental versions of vocals done to the exact same backing track...
 
I did as well, which would severely limit it to Soulful Strut and a few other tunes escaping me at the moment.

BTW Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart is a ripoff of a Bobby Womack tune (backing track). Fucker.
 
BTW Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart is a ripoff of a Bobby Womack tune (backing track). Fucker.
I thought it was a ripoff of a Jorge Ben tune?!?
 
"Tried By 12."

Go ahead and try to defend the rhymes. I'll wait.
Dude. You also are tripping.

I don't need to defend shit; these speak for themselves.



Don't say sticks and stones
They might break your bones
But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome
I'm talkin about the toe-taggin
Huh, the body-baggin
Man, niggas are dyin, huh, mommas are cryin, casket buyin
Who, me dyin, leave my family cryin?
Hell no, I cause, um, bloodbaths and showers
Send me commissary, motherf**k them flowers
Thoughts of slaughter, of leaving my daughters
Hours and hours of fears running through my mind
As I pick up the Zig 9
Beef starts with the shove and ends with the shovel
And niggas standing on your corner reminiscing of you
But your ass is out and you're dead and gone
So who'd you rather be?
The murdered, or the murderer?
Niggas got me stressed - I got my Tek and my vest
And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse
Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse
For we'll be tried by 12
And fertilizing daisies
Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies
Due to the fact that death is a must
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Niggas getting bust
For in God we trust
So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down
You must be casket-bound
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Nigga
I sign my name on the book at your funeral
The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
La-di-da-di
Saturday night and we like to party
The punks are f**king around so we might catch a body
Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody
So what they tryin to get?
I already got it
Chump motherf**kers just a-schemin on my sh*t
But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip
And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Aw sh*t - murder commit
And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic
The witness say I'm wicked
But that's how I kick it
Cause I'll be the bastard who blasts and didn't get blasted
Boy kiss dem casket
I cut your wig back kid
Sucker, look who died
Body will be identified
Momma and poppa will cry, b*tch-ass man says he'll testify
To see me tried, but here's I slide (?)
Upon the same corner that you did
And I'm still facing a bid
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Nigga
I sign my name at the book at your funeral
The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
 
Tried by 12 is the shit. I met them dudes in The Gap in Philly once.

As for Instrumentals that are more popular than the vocals I would have to say MotherFuckingSonofaBitch "Love Is The Message" AKA that REAL BROOKLYN STICK-UP MUSIC.






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Also right here goes the "YA HEARD" graemlin.
 
Soulful Strut
Vs. the Barbara Acklin original? You're tripping dude. The instrumental had more legs in the long run (i.e. covered by more groups) but Acklin's vocals are unfuckwittable.
the subject is "more popular" not better....i think everyone agrees that the vocal version is dope
I actually would wager that the vocal is more popular... despite the many instrumental covers of the tune, as far as radio play goes in my experience the vocal got more. At least, on the oldies shows I grew up listening to that was the version that got played.
 
not knocking the vocals, but i could listen to the instrumental of Outkast's "SpottieOttieDopalicious" all day.