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The charming relaxation of such music after a hard day's work is like putting your tired feet into a nice cold bucket of water . Paradise.
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What about dentist office music, I never somehow forget the music that is being played in the background while I sat in a dentist's office. A rendition of somewhere my love and[not kidding] higher and higher as the Novocain needle goes in [ha-ha]
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One must first understand like any format different stations have various ways of handling such a format. Some of these stations would only play instrumentals . Some would play mostly instrumentals but throw in a few vocal ballads every hour. Then there were some stations who would have more diverse product they would have plenty of tracks from film scores broadway plays, pop etc etc.The thing I found nice about those stations of old is in the mix of those instrumental versions of top 40 pop hits or instrumental versions of old time hit parade songs played by THE LIVING DEAD ORCHESTRA[joking there] were these other diverse obscure items that were ignored back then on radio, by all the other stations. For instance a lot of the top 40 rock oriented stations often were not really taking all the top 40 hits and playing them on a equal basis. They were catering to a youth oriented crowd so they would play a billly joel. Elton john, beatles top 40 hit 500 times before they would play a Perry Como top 10 hit from 1973 or the theme from the THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY-66. A TYPICAL ROCK ORIENTED STATION would play MRS ROBINSON a thousand times over the years but wouldn't bother to play A DANGLING CONVERSATION[A VERY NICE BALLAD] by SIMON AND GARFUNKEL. So a lot of good music. hits or not got exposed on these stations and barely no where else back then, more to come.
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I will along the way mention what these stations did to add to my enjoyment a variety of music that top 40 stations often ignored. RYAN'S DAUGHTER-This lovely theme was played often through the years. I think hearing it on these stations when I was a kid lead me to further investigate the soundtrack. A tradition which I will never forget was WPAT playing on Saturday morning the beautiful song COME SATURDAY MORNING FROM THE STERILE CUCKOO BY FRED KARLIN.My those were warm memories of youth. Those lyrics just hit the right mental chords and one could , for sure relate to it like a hand in glove. Of course anytime of the week playing that song would be nice. For sure on a Friday night, Anticipation, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRIA-71- Richard Rodney Bennett's beautiful theme from the film was played often, as well as the nice vocal version at times by Mr. Humperdinck- more to come
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There is no question early on hearing many nice film themes on these type radio stations help lead the way for my interest in film scores. While compilation film themes were a early influence, hearing the music on these stations that were not played on the other radio stations at the time made me search further. As I mentioned in New York it was WPAT, Another station in New York was WVNJ[LAKE SUCCESS] a station I am sure many successful people listened to. The number of film music themes that came from these stations were very large mixed in with the 100th instrumental version of Yesterday or Stardust and a crooner vocal. There was PAPILLION'S [FREE AS THE WIND] GOLDSMITH, vocal and instrumental versions.SERPICO[THEDORAKIS]-BEYOND TOMORROW- MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS- BARRY-,all standards on these stations.
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Mar 10, 2014 - 8:37 PM
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dan the man
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A bunch of the popular film composers of the day got a lot of their compositions played on these easy listening stations such as MICHEL LEGRAND- The following films-UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOUGH,THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR,HOW TO SAVE A MARRIAGE AND RUIN YOUR LIFE,THE HAPPY ENDING,THE PICASSO SUMMER,PIECES OF DREAMS,THE MAGIC GARDEN OF STANLEY SWEETHEART, THE GO BETWEEN,SUMMER OF 42,BRIAN'S SONG,LADY SINGS THE BLUES,later years, BEST FRIENDS, YENTL ETC.
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Mar 11, 2014 - 7:27 PM
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dan the man
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HENRY MANCINI AND EASY LISTENING STATIONS, went together like hand and glove back in the 60's 70's and 80's. Probably, nearly 50% of his film's, 60 through 70] got exposed on those stations,like,BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, HATARI,DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES,THE PINK PANTHER,CHARADE,A SHOT IN THE DARK,DEAR HEART,THE GREAT RACE,MOMENT TO MOMENT,WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR DADDY,TWO FOR THE ROAD,GAILY GAILY,SUNFLOWER,DARLING LILI,THE MOLLY MAGURES, etc etc
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Mar 12, 2014 - 8:48 AM
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dan the man
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JOHN BARRY was another film composer who got a lot of his music exposed on these stations. Just about all his JAMES BOND theme songs in some variations were played. then there was, -BORN FREE,LION IN WINTER,MIDNIGHT COWBOY,WALKABOUT,MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS,KING KONG, THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING,SOMEWHERE IN TIME, OUT OF AFRICA ETC ETC
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