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Thanks a million. That's some find!
It's amazing as a piece, but do you have the album? I googled the Bright Lights album you mention and it's not on there. It's not another of those mis-titlings on Amazon is it?
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P.S. I found it IS on that album, but there's another album of the same name listed on Amazon. This is the album we want:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/golden-age-light-music-bright/id787555815
And it's by Laurie Johnston .... no wonder it's good!
I see there's an entire series of these 'Golden Age of Light Music' albums, one called 'On the Move', and there do seem to be lots of film-music-related pieces on these. Thanks for finding the series. It's not the sort of thing film-music buffs would go looking for, but they're certainly good albums and totally related to this genre.
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Aug 5, 2014 - 5:48 PM
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manderley
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"The Golden Age of Light Music" albums on Guild Records are fabulous! We have been collecting them for about 10 years now and must have 20-25 at this point though I think there are many, many more. (We can hardly keep up with our inventory of the contents!) They seem to be mastered very well and the sound is excellent, some stereo, some mono, and some releases a combination of both.
Obviously they are falling under the 50 year copyright law in Europe, but instead of releasing an overall album, they seem to be collecting hundreds of old LPs, 78 singles, 78 sets, etc.---and cues from stock music libraries of the period---and systematically culling and organizing single cues from them into appropriate subject matter CDs by a descriptive title (usually named after one cue in the compilation).
There are a lot of light works by English and European conductors and composers (Stanley Black, Mantovani, Walter Stott/Angela Morley, and many, many others), and also many by the American artists who dealt with this kind of light Broadway, Movie or Concert music (Paul Weston, Al Goodman, Victor Young, and others). You never know what you are going to get.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, and long for the days when it was popular and prevalent, then these discs are a must for your library. And it is likely no regular record company has any interest in releasing this kind of material anymore from their vaults---it's strictly a boutique market.
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I've just seen this message. Congratulations! Thank you very much for solving the mystery.
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Thanks for the tips gents. These albums deserve more regular highlighting here.
I think Joseph's 'Great War' mentioned on the WWI thread the other day is actually included (the March Glorious) on one of these albums, by a strange coincidence.
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