Dear Jerry: My recollection is that there were many more instrumental hits in the 1960s before the British Invasion than after, when singing groups became hot.

All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 is exactly what it says it is. It could be a regular trawl through Motown’s back pages but – obviously – isn’t.

The Ventures’ early hit singles (also 1960’s “Perfidia” and 1961’s “Ram-Bunk-Shush”) had a great impact on the nascent surf-music scene down the West Coast in Southern California.

Let’s start with some familiar 1960s songs, then visit the ’50s for three great pairings and wrap up with a late-’60s soul classic. Some ’60s surprises Here are five early-’60s ...

Singers? Who needs singers? Not these forgotten bands, which collectively make the case for instrumental surf music's pivotal role as pump-primer for the Sixties garage rock explosion. Since ...

An all-female instrumental quartet distinguished by a romping retro sound and 1960s look, the Surfrajettes feature melody-making guitarists Freeman and Nicole Damoff, bassist Abby Jo Powell and ...