[dfwgator]

Trivia Time:

Before the Beatles came along, there were only three songs by British-born artists that hit Number One on Billboard, all were instrumentals. Can you tell me the three songs and who did them.

(No cheating! LOL!)

[fidelis]

Holy smokes! I haven’t a clue. My knowledge of pre-Beatles British acts is just about nil.

[Fiji Hill]

The only instrumental I can think of without cheating is Ebb Tide by Frank Chacksfield (1954), but I'm not sure if that went all the way to number one.

Auf Wiedersehen by Vera Lynn topped the charts in 1952, but that wasn't an instrumental. I like even better Rudi Schuricke's version from two years earlier, which was not a hit in the US.