When I first started to get into space age bachelor pad music, albums that sounded like this perfectly exemplified the aesthetic I was going for. You can imagine what my furniture looks like.
Onya may recall that I tend to be allergic to this kind of vocalise. (Probably because of personal associations from the time this kind of thing was much more prominent in the culture - spurring memories best left unspurred.) But I have to say I'm enjoying this a good deal more than I would have expected (the first one, haven't listened to the second choice yet). Thanks for sharing.
When I first started to get into space age bachelor pad music, albums that sounded like this perfectly exemplified the aesthetic I was going for. You can imagine what my furniture looks like.
I have it. It's from the mid 60's if I recall. I believe it contains the only recording of "Get A Horse" which is "They're Off!" from "The Great Race" with a lyric by Johnny Mercer. Mancini wrote the liner notes and appears in a photo on the back cover. I hope "TGR" gets a release before I assume room temperature. For those of you who don't like scat singing, stay away from Ella Fitzgerald.
When I first started to get into space age bachelor pad music, albums that sounded like this perfectly exemplified the aesthetic I was going for. You can imagine what my furniture looks like.
I have it. It's from the mid 60's if I recall. I believe it contains the only recording of "Get A Horse" which is "They're Off!" from "The Great Race" with a lyric by Johnny Mercer. Mancini wrote the liner notes and appears in a photo on the back cover. I hope "TGR" gets a release before I assume room temperature. For those of you who don't like scat singing, stay away from Ella Fitzgerald.
For those of you who don't like scat singing, stay away from Ella Fitzgerald.
Speaking as someone who is not partial in general to easy-listening vocalise, this is hardly true of me. While I am generally fonder of instrumental music of many genres (including jazz and Mancini), I adore good jazz scatting, and especially Ella Fitzgerald.
But I wouldn't call this album "scat". It's not jazz vocal improvisation. It is very carefully constructed easy-listening light music with chorus - smoothing out rough edges and creating a homogeneous, attractive cloud of sound. This one has more character and interest than most I've heard, but I wouldn't put it on if I were in the mood for something reminiscent of the Queen of Jazz.
For those of you who don't like scat singing, stay away from Ella Fitzgerald.
Speaking as someone who is not partial in general to easy-listening vocalise, this is hardly true of me. While I am generally fonder of instrumental music of many genres (including jazz and Mancini), I adore good jazz scatting, and especially Ella Fitzgerald.
But I wouldn't call this album "scat". It's not jazz vocal improvisation. It is very carefully constructed easy-listening light music with chorus - smoothing out rough edges and creating a homogeneous, attractive cloud of sound. This one has more character and interest than most I've heard, but I wouldn't put it on if I were in the mood for something reminiscent of the Queen of Jazz.
My post was directed to the comments about those who do not like scat. You are right this is not a scat album.
It's surprising that this album was made as late as 1966. The arrangements are straight out of 1958 or 1959, very much like Bob Thompson's late 1950s RCA albums. By 1966, easy listening records were being spiced with other flavors, as aging artists were trying to get hip to the sounds of today.
When I first started to get into space age bachelor pad music, albums that sounded like this perfectly exemplified the aesthetic I was going for. You can imagine what my furniture looks like.
I have it. It's from the mid 60's if I recall. I believe it contains the only recording of "Get A Horse" which is "They're Off!" from "The Great Race" with a lyric by Johnny Mercer. Mancini wrote the liner notes and appears in a photo on the back cover. I hope "TGR" gets a release before I assume room temperature. For those of you who don't like scat singing, stay away from Ella Fitzgerald.
There were other groups like this in the 60's The Swingle Singers being one of them. Another interesting album is "Quire" Christine Legrand's group, she is Michel's sister. It was on RCA, late 60's or early 70's.
