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The Golden Age of Light Music: Strings and Things go Stereo!

Item No. GLCD 5153

Light Music

Price GBP 5.10 / USD


Medium:	CD
Release Date:	01.02.2009

Light Orchestras were much in demand when stereo LPs started appearing in 1957 and 1958. Although the technology had been largely perfected in 1933 by Alan Blumlein at EMI (an early example featuring the Ray Noble Orchestra was featured on the Guild CD "In Town Tonight – The 1930s Volume 2" - GLCD 5116), two decades were to pass before record companies felt the time was right to persuade the public to buy the necessary equipment. Mantovani's first stereo album sold over one million copies, and other famous conductors such as George Melachrino, Nelson Riddle, Robert Farnon, Morton Gould, Frank Cordell, David Carroll, Richard Hayman, Norrie Paramor and Les Baxter (all featured on this CD) were quick to embrace the opportunities offered by the latest technical advances in high-fidelity sound.

Tracklist and soundclips:

	Title	Composer	Artist	Time	Play
01	Around The World (from “Around The World In Eighty Days”)	Victor Young	THE CINEMA SOUND STAGE ORCHESTRA	3:06
02	A Wonderful Guy (from “South Pacific”)	Richard Rodgers	WARREN BARKER AND HIS ORCHESTRA	3:03
03	Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)	Ary Barroso	THE RIO CARNIVAL ORCHESTRA	2:06
04	The Trolley Song (from “Meet Me In St. Louis”)	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin - arr. Conrad Salinger	THE CONRAD SALINGER ORCHESTRA Conducted by BUDDY BREGMAN	3:20
05	Love Is A Many-Splendoured Thing (title song from the film)	Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain - arr. Annunzio Paolo Mantovani	MANTOVANI AND HIS ORCHESTRA	4:01
06	Change Partners, Mandy	Irving Berlin	FRANK DE VOL AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:47
07	Tahiti: A Summer Night At Sea	Les Baxter	LES BAXTER AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:29
08	Harlem Nocturne	Earle Hagen	NORRIE PARAMOR AND HIS ORCHESTRA featuring Patricia Clark	4:02
09	Front Row Centre	Joe Reisman	JOE REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:07
10	Street Scene	Alfred Newman	THE NEW WORLD THEATRE ORCHESTRA	6:59
11	Naughty Nautical	Anthony Tamburello, arr. Bruce Campbell	ROBERT FARNON AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:38
12	There’s No You	Harold S. Hopper, arr. Nelson Riddle	NELSON RIDDLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:20
13	Orchids In The Moonlight (Vincent Youmans, arr. Morton Gould)	Harold S. Hopper, arr. Nelson Riddle	MORTON GOULD AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:52
14	Swinging Sweethearts (Skiffling Strings)	Ron Goodwin	DAVID CARROLL AND HIS ORCHESTRA	1:50
15	Sand In My Shoes	Victor Schertzinger	THE MELACHRINO STRINGS Conducted by GEORGE MELACHRINO	2:33
16	Cornish Rhapsody (from the film “Love Story”)	Hubert Bath	MANTOVANI AND HIS ORCHESTRA with RAWICZ AND LANDAUER at Two Pianos	6:47
17	Lucky In The Rain (from “As The Girls Go”)	Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson - arr. Robert Farnon	ROBERT FARNON AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:43
18	Gemini	Hal Mooney	HAL MOONEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA	3:06
19	Pavement Pigalle	Joseph Kuhn	PARIS THEATRE ORCHESTRA	2:47
20	Canadian Sunset	Eddie Heywood	BILLY VAUGHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:13
21	Saraband	Eddie Heywood	RICHARD HAYMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA	3:00
22	My Evening Star (based on Wagner’s ‘O Star Of Eve’)	Ralph Sterling, Dorcas Cochran	PHIL BOUTET AND HIS ORCHESTRA	2:35
23	La Seduccion	Lara	CLEBANOFF STRINGS	2:35
24	Spring Madness	Leo Shuken	CAMARATA AND HIS ORCHESTRA	3:40
25	The Song Is Ended	Irving Berlin	FRANK CORDELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA with Vocal Introduction by THE DENE BOYS	2:33

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