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Does anyone know what would be a good example of 60's folk INSTRUMENTALS? I'm not quite sure what examples would be...



NEW LISTING -- CLASSIC TIME PERIOD INSTRUMENTALS a la 60's Folk Music needed by a very successful Production Music Library who has placements with ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, Disney, Discovery, Lifetime, Fox, USA, etc. Styles and moods can vary - all tempos are welcome. Tracks can range between 1-4 minutes in length and must sound authentic to the time period. Instrumental presentation must be top-notch! Broadcast quality is necessary (excellent sounding home recordings are fine). Please submit one to three instrumentals online or per CD. All submissions will be screened on a YES/NO BASIS - NO CRITIQUES FROM TAXI - and must be received no later than Friday, July 2, 2010.
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Peter, Paul & Mary or Simon & Garfunkel come to mind. Gonna be pretty much acoustic guitars I'm thinking...or acoustic will be the central instrument. That sounds better huh... I'm not sure at the moment why they specified 60s as even today, just about everybody, not all but most, with an acoustic sound like folk singers to me.

Keith

Yeah, I'd probably use a flute and acoustic guitar for this one. And (if it was me) I'd use more room mics. and less close mics. on the drums (eg. Addictive Drums)

Stuart

thx

I couldn't think of any examples of 60's folk INSTRUMENTALS. All I can think of have vocals.

I think I'm gonna call them to get some clarification on this one - I can't think of a single example that doesn't have vocals in it.

Called Taxi about this one - no more info than what is in the listing. Just needs to be something that feels like it would have been played at a 60's folk concert... and is an instrumental. Which I could have guessed at, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

The screener will be looking ONLY at the listing itself, and judging against that.

btw - this particular person said that, for her/him, "instrumental" would mean that there is absolutely no vocal at all, not even nonsense sounds.

Maybe look for instrumental songs on recordings by sixties folk groups; instrumental early-sixties rock usually means surf, which has very little to do with the Beach Boys. It's a pretty tough read, given that folk music is almost never instrumental, barring the occasional Greensleeves, Aura Lee or House Of The Rising Sun cover. There's plenty of instrumental mountain string band, even jug band music, and instrumentals are fairly common in bluegrass, but I'll admit I'm perplexed by this listing.