Artists with both instrumental and vocal hits!

[RNH]

The recent death of Billy Preston had me thinking: How many artists can you list that had both instrumental and vocal hits?

Here are a few to begin with!

Herb Alpert (hit #1 with both (only artist to do so!))
The Commodores (instrumental with "Machine Gun")
David Seville (instrumental with "Armen's Theme")
The Allman Brothers (instrumental with "Jessica")
Earth, Wind, and Fire (two minor instrumental hits with Ramsey Lewis)
Kenny G (Yea, I know! That's pushing it!)

Have fun with this everyone!

[Jeffster]

David Foster, Jim Brickman, uhhh..I'm drawing a blank after that.

[cdman71031]

I have a few artists thatwere both instermental and vocals and I'm sure you're not counting artists that didn'ty sing on there tracks such as Jim Brickman so i won't eather. I'm trying to remember this list so correct me if I'm wrong

1. David Foster St elmo's Fire and he sang on Best of Me With O;ivia Newton John)
2 Meco?
3 Average White Band
4 Isaac Hayex Acording to Joel Whitburns Books Shaft is Considered In Instermental)
5 Silver convention I belive Fly Robin Fly or Get and Boggie is Like shaft considered in Instermental)

[RNH]

Found another three!

After reading AWB, during the same time period there was Quincy Jones, Rhythm Heritage, and B.T. Express!

(By the way, be sure to check my message about cartoon acts in this catagory!)

[RNH]

Another one from the seventies!

The Edgar Winter Group!

Hit #1 with "Frankenstein"! All their other chart singles were vocals!

[Adrian]

From 1996, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen of U2 did a remake of The Theme from Mission Impossible.

[Jeffster]

cdman71031 said:

I have a few artists thatwere both instermental and vocals and I'm sure you're not counting artists that didn'ty sing on there tracks such as Jim Brickman so i won't eather.

Actually, Jim Brickman did sing on one of his hits, "The Love I Found In You," so he counts.