2009 collection, another fine installment in the excellent Golden Age of Popular Music. This edition contains the orchestral and 'easy' instrumental hits that helped define the Golden Age of Popular Music, an era spanning, roughly 1956-67, when the US charts were brimming with an eclectic cornucopia of sounds and styles that is unlikely to be repeated in today's age corporate, socially engineered music making. 28 tracks including cuts from Kai Winding, Paul Mauriat, the Village Stompers, Al Hirt, Lawrence Welk, Acker Bilk and many others. Ace.
2 Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu) - Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra
3 Washington Square - the Village Stompers
4 Mexico - Bob Moore & His Orchestra
5 Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell
6 Fly Me to the Moon - Bossa Nova - Joe Harnell & His Orchestra
7 Flying Circle - Frank Slay & His Orchestra
8 Image (Part 1) - Hank Levine & Orchestra
9 Alley Cat - Bent Fabric & His Piano
10 Beautiful Obsession - Sir Chauncey & His Exciting Strings
11 Java - Al Hirt
12 The Enchanted Sea - the Islanders
13 A Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski, His Orchestra & Chorus
14 Calcutta - Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra Feat Frank Scott on Harpsichord
15 Moon River - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra & Chorus
16 Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
17 A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra
18 Stranger on the Shore - Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale
19 Summer Set - Monty Kelly & His Orchestra
20 Baby Elephant Walk - the Miniature Men
21 Lost Love - H B Barnum
22 Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline) - Raymond Lefevre & His Orchestra
23 The Dis-Advantages of You - the Brass Ring
24 Summer Samba (So Nice) - Walter Wanderley
25 Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & His Orch, Piano Solo By Eddie Heywood
26 Music to Watch Girls By - the Bob Crewe Generation
27 The Theme from a Summer Place - Percy Faith
28 Bonanza - Al Caiola, Guitar & Orchestra
2009 collection, another fine installment in the excellent Golden Age of Popular Music. This edition contains the orchestral and 'easy' instrumental hits that helped define the Golden Age of Popular Music, an era spanning, roughly 1956-67, when the US charts were brimming with an eclectic cornucopia of sounds and styles that is unlikely to be repeated in today's age corporate, socially engineered music making. 28 tracks including cuts from Kai Winding, Paul Mauriat, the Village Stompers, Al Hirt, Lawrence Welk, Acker Bilk and many others. Ace.