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Enoch Light was one of the most influential music producers of the 60s and 70s. Enoch Light was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording e...
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Enoch Light was one of the most influential music producers of the 60s and 70s. Enoch Light was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer who was a pioneer of early stereo excellence. Light would go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took advantage of current state of the art equipment. Light pioneered stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong"). Light arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, the first to do so. His ensemble of studio musicians was frequently referred to as "The Light Brigade". One of the first of Light's albums, "Persuasive Percussion", became the first huge hit based solely on record sales. Light's songs received little or no airplay on the radio because AM radio, the standard of his day, was monaural. Light released several albums in the "Percussion" series as well as a Command test record. Light doubled the size of his album sleeves but enabled it to fold like a book, thus inventing the gatefold-packaging format. The gatefold sleeve became very popular, and was used on albums such as The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Light pioneered many recording techniques such as the use of 35 mm film soundtrack instead of magnetic tape. Recording on 35 mm film soundtrack reduced the effects of "wow" and "flutter", common in early stereo recordings. The recordings were released under the "35MM" series, starting from "Stereo 35-MM" released by Command Records. Musicians who appeared on Light's albums include Doc Severinsen, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, and arranger Lew Davies. Many of the selections on his albums were arranged by Dick Hyman, known for the 50's hit song "Moritat". In 1965, Light sold the Command record label to ABC, who began using the label for their lesser quality releases. Light continued recording after the sale of Command with a new label called Project 3, but did not concentrate so heavily on stereo effects. Enoch Light And The Light Brigade, using the original scores, released albums of the hits of the big band era, keeping the arrangements as close to the original as possible.
This selection first appeared in "Bobby Hackett - A Time For Love" released in 1968. Bobby Hackett's trumpet was frequently heard on Jackie Gleason's "Mood Music" albums. Many say that Hackett was really the arranger and conductor for almost all of Gleason's albums.
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Los Índios Tabajaras began as two guitar-playing brothers from northern Brazil. They initially claimed to have found a guitar in the Brazilian rai...
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Los Índios Tabajaras began as two guitar-playing brothers from northern Brazil. They initially claimed to have found a guitar in the Brazilian rain forest and taught themselves to play. Both were actually quite accomplished classical guitarists, having spent several years in serious classical studies. They changed their names to Natalicio and Antenor Lima and dressed in ceremonial Indian costumes for their performances. In 1943, RCA's Latin American arm first signed them to a recording contract, although little from that period is still available. Their first (and only) major hit was "María Elena", recorded in Mexico in 1958 and released in the U. S. in 1962. "María Elena" spent 14 weeks in the U. S. Top 10 and became an international hit. They followed with "Always In My Heart", their only other single to reach the top 100. Antenor retired from performing due to health, but Natalicio continued to perform into the 1990s with his wife, Michiko. They released a series of albums of mostly popular music that enjoyed worldwide success. Nato and Antenor's classical interpretations are considered by many to be the purest ever recorded. They were especially fond of the works of Chopin, Bach and Beethoven. Their classical recordings also included the works of Rimsky-Korsakoff, de Falla, Villa-Lobos and Tchaikovsky. Nato built a guitar with 26 frets instead of the standard 19 so that he could achieve higher tones. With a fatter string on Antenor's guitar to give it lower tones, together they could play all the notes of a full-size piano. After the retirement of Antenor, Nato took 2 years off to teach his wife, Michiko, a classical pianist, to play guitar. This selection is from their album "Guitars On The Go" released in 1983.
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Chet Atkins was an American guitarist and record producer who helped create the music style known as the Nashville sound. While mostly associated ...
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Chet Atkins was an American guitarist and record producer who helped create the music style known as the Nashville sound. While mostly associated with country music, he also recorded and performed most other genres, including jazz and classical. He received 14 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and 9 CMA Instrumentalist of the Year awards. Atkins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Les Paul was an American jazz, popular and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible". He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and they sold millions of records with 16 top-10 hits. Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. While not the first to use the technique, his experiments with overdubbing were the first to attract widespread attention. His innovations extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing. This selection is from the album "Chester & Lester" which reached #11 in 1976 and #27 again in 1978. "Chester & Lester" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance of 1976.
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Enoch Light was one of the most influential music producers of the 60s and 70s. Enoch Light was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording e...
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Enoch Light was one of the most influential music producers of the 60s and 70s. Enoch Light was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer who was a pioneer of early stereo excellence. Light would go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took advantage of current state of the art equipment. Light pioneered stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong"). Light arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, the first to do so. His ensemble of studio musicians was frequently referred to as "The Light Brigade". One of the first of Light's albums, "Persuasive Percussion", became the first huge hit based solely on record sales. Light's songs received little or no airplay on the radio because AM radio, the standard of his day, was monaural. Light released several albums in the "Percussion" series as well as a Command test record. Light doubled the size of his album sleeves but enabled it to fold like a book, thus inventing the gatefold-packaging format. The gatefold sleeve became very popular, and was used on albums such as The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Light pioneered many recording techniques such as the use of 35 mm film soundtrack instead of magnetic tape. Recording on 35 mm film soundtrack reduced the effects of "wow" and "flutter", common in early stereo recordings. The recordings were released under the "35MM" series, starting from "Stereo 35-MM" released by Command Records. Musicians who appeared on Light's albums include Doc Severinsen, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, and arranger Lew Davies. Many of the selections on his albums were arranged by Dick Hyman, known for the 50's hit song "Moritat". In 1965, Light sold the Command record label to ABC, who began using the label for their lesser quality releases. Light continued recording after the sale of Command with a new label called Project 3, but did not concentrate so heavily on stereo effects. Enoch Light And The Light Brigade, using the original scores, released albums of the hits of the big band era, keeping the arrangements as close to the original as possible.
This selection is from his album "Brass Menagerie, Vol. 1" released in 1969.
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The Pied Pipers was a popular singing group in the late 1930s and 1940s who continued performing into the 1950s. Originally they consisted of eigh...
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The Pied Pipers was a popular singing group in the late 1930s and 1940s who continued performing into the 1950s. Originally they consisted of eight members: Jo Stafford (from The Stafford Sisters) and seven male singers. The group reduced to a quartet: Jo Stafford, her husband John Huddleston, Chuck Lowry from the original 8, and Billy Wilson. In 1939 they joined Tommy Dorsey's band in Chicago with Clark Yocum replacing Billy Wilson. In 1940 Dorsey hired vocalist Frank Sinatra who teamed with The Pipers for a major hit, "I'll Never Smile Again". "There Are Such Things" sung by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers was the #1 record on the charts in 1942. The Pied Pipers had twelve more chart hits with Dorsey, ten of them with Frank Sinatra. Jo Stafford herself had several solo hits and eventually left the group to pursue a solo career. The Pied Pipers was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. This selection first appeared in their 1957 album "A Tribute to Tommy Dorsey". "A Tribute to Tommy Dorsey" was remastered and released as a CD in 1997.
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