Lonnie Mack: The Instrumental Influence and Hit Star
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 24 August 1963
BEAT instrumentals are probably at a higher degree of popularity in the States than ever before. Discs like 'Wipeout', 'Tips Of My Fingers', 'Pipeline', 'Hot Pastrami' and 'Wild Weekend', have all burned up and down the chart with astonishing frequency.
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