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I'll be honest I adore instrumentals but I'm not keen on backing tracks, especially of Motown stuff, particularly when played out. Anyone agree, or beg to differ?

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  • Rick Cooper
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    Laura Lee does a good job on To Win Your Heart but it sounds like the vocal was just hastily made up to get another release. Ric-Tic/Golden World seemed to do this on a few other tracks, probably due

  • Dobber
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    I only like purpose made instrumentals,not so keen on a simple backing track with the vocal removed,equally I prefer i few instrumentals as opposed to the vocal…exus trek…the Patrick Bradley….tough g

  • Rick Cooper
    Rick Cooper

    I'm also a big fan of instrumentals , backing tracks or made as instrumentals. These are some great examples of backing track instrumentals Duke Browner- Crying Over You Luther Ingram - Exus Trek Do

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I'm also a big fan of instrumentals , backing tracks or made as instrumentals.

These are some great examples of backing track instrumentals

Duke Browner- Crying Over You

Luther Ingram - Exus Trek

Donni Burdick- Bari Track

From the Motown releases any early Supremes tracks with Diana Ross removed sound great.

I only like purpose made instrumentals,not so keen on a simple backing track with the vocal removed,equally I prefer i few instrumentals as opposed to the vocal…exus trek…the Patrick Bradley….tough girl

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4 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

I'm also a big fan of instrumentals , backing tracks or made as instrumentals.

These are some great examples of backing track instrumentals

Duke Browner- Crying Over You

Luther Ingram - Exus Trek

Donni Burdick- Bari Track

From the Motown releases any early Supremes tracks with Diana Ross removed sound great.

Not a fan of browner either way, but it certainly had it's place the other two are definitely exceptions to my rule! 😁

12 hours ago, Shinehead said:

They should have left " Festival Time" as an instrumental, the vocal hurts my ears.

Laura Lee does a good job on To Win Your Heart but it sounds like the vocal was just hastily made up to get another release. Ric-Tic/Golden World seemed to do this on a few other tracks, probably due to the way they and others recorded backing tracks with no vocalist and then added the lyrics later. Motown did this a lot but usually left space for the words so the instrumentals can be a bit sparse.

Another vocal that I've never liked is Ronnie and Robyn- As Long As You Love Me, much prefer the backing track , Sidra's Theme. It sounds like it was always meant to be an instrumental until Sidra's co owner decided his children cut a vocal version.

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5 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

Laura Lee does a good job on To Win Your Heart but it sounds like the vocal was just hastily made up to get another release. Ric-Tic/Golden World seemed to do this on a few other tracks, probably due to the way they and others recorded backing tracks with no vocalist and then added the lyrics later. Motown did this a lot but usually left space for the words so the instrumentals can be a bit sparse.

Another vocal that I've never liked is Ronnie and Robyn- As Long As You Love Me, much prefer the backing track , Sidra's Theme. It sounds like it was always meant to be an instrumental until Sidra's co owner decided his children cut a vocal version.

Agree with sidra's and liberty on BASF, vocal is dire.

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