5 Instrumental Hits That Were Supposed to Have Words

You probably know them as instrumentals, with few or no words, but these five top 40 hits were actually just skeletons of other songs, songs you could actually sing along with! As so often happened in rock's first golden age, however, the DJs stepped in to make themselves heard -- and silence a few lyricists in the process. Check out this list of hit instrumentals that started out as "real songs."