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They had a lot of tough instrumentals.

This one here is the theme they did for a VD film called Damaged Goods (IMDB), the only feature film by king of the high school scare film, Sid Davis.

(hear a snippet at...) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:hbfqxxeald0e

They also had a feature film in the 1960s (made in Japan),Beloved Invaders (IMDB) that is on a region free, NTSC DVD in Japan.

In their prime, which lasted, I guess, through the 80s, they rocked harder live than on disk, where the put out asn instrumental version of every damned pop ditty on the charts throughout the sixties and early seventies. McArthur Park by the Ventures? Bobby Goldsboro's Honey? Yeah, all that and more. Original instrumental were hard to come by, so who can blame them.

More recently, when I saw them for the second time with the son of Mel Taylor on drums, they were pathetic fuddy daddies, barely able to remember the chords. (I recall a review of their re-recorded "hits" a few years back, that said they sounded like a high school band trying to imitate the Ventures.) They toured Japan forever, six monthe a year, Don Wilson told me, and put out a whole buncha albums there never released here.

Also, Nokie Edwards appeared with them in the U.S. where they rarely played in recent years, but in Japan he was a solo artist, and the lead was played by Gerry McGhee.