“I’d always thought that if I had a hit with an instrumental, that it would either be a dance tune or taken from a movie score. His label, Arista Records, he claimed, had “pushed for more vocals on ‘Duotones.’ ” That the biggest hit on that album would be the gently melodic, yuppie-jazz-oriented “Songbird,” was a shock, he admitted. While he had racked up modest hits in the past, including the 1984 Kashif-produced “Hi, How Ya Doin’ ” and last year’s remake of Junior Walker’s “What Does It Take to Win Your Love,” both were funky, dance tunes featuring black R&B singers. Nobody was more surprised than R&B /jazz saxophonist Kenny G (ne Gorelick) when “Songbird,” a soothingly airy instrumental from his current “Duotones” album, cracked Billboard’s Top 20 pop chart-and subsequently became the biggest hit of his career.
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