Appetite For Distraction

Here we are, about to introduce the truly BIG DOG in the Instrumental #1's Game. This is a song that spent 9 WEEKS at #, almost double t...

Two instrumentals that I'm not at all familiar with, though I am familiar with the artists from SNL and Barenaked Ladies fame, respecti...

1962 saw THREE instrumentals go to #1 and they are all very different from each other. They all set a very specific mood, which is really co...

We've got two songs for the year 1968. I was confused because I thought, "But I know the words to 'Grazing in the Grass'!...

We're into the 60's! That means it's time for some wild, out there, crazy....lovely instrumental themes. :) This song really i...

I totally whiffed on remembering to post this last week, so we're just going to wrap two weeks' worth of content into one week! We...

THREE instrumental songs went to #1 in 1975. Enjoy! Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly (11/29/75-12/13/75) Van McCoy and the Soul...

Another week with two instrumental #1 songs in one year! Pretty crazy. Enjoy! Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven (10/9/76) Rhythm...

It's a movie soundtrack edition for your Thanksgiving Day! Also, the first time in this run where you get TWO instrumentals in one pos...

This song rose (heh) to popularity when it was used as the background music when a woman was raped on General Hospital. And then it was play...

Here's the second of the two instrumental songs that hit #1 in the 80's. An absolute classic for times when you need to dramatically...

So after 2013, we go back almost 30 years before the next instrumental #1! Throwback indeed! We're jumping back to almost exactly this w...

Welcome to the new season (?) of Throwback Thursday! We're going to be looking back at all of the instrumental songs that have hit #1 on...

Well here it is. The crown jewel of the Hot 100. The song with the most weeks at #1. Recently tied, but not defeated. Enjoy! And check back ...

This is the penultimate edition of Throwback Thursday: Backwards Through the 90's! Next week will be the song with the most weeks at #1 ...

Another absolute classic. Enjoy :) Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love to You (8/27-11/26)

We're officially in the SMASH HITS OF THE 90'S area of Throwback Thursday. Remember this classic? Haha of course you do :) Enjoy! ...

Well I scheduled this to go up almost 5 months ago, but here it is! We're getting near the end of this journey through the 90's and ...

Simply a classic. There's basically nothing else to say on the subject, is there? Boyz II Men - End of the Road (8/15-11/7)

It never occurred to me until semi-recently that this was a response to Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney's "The Girl is Mine". ...