That retro lounge sound....

The classic scene was from "The Girl Can't Help It".
I like the display of modified London covers on the hi-fi.

 

Thanks. I have never (to my regret) seen the movie.

 

I hate to drag the "retro" thread forward into the '70s, but I just bought this 1973 Percy Faith album for a buck --Super Fly and Dueling Banjos on the same LP...wow.


Side A
1. Clair
2. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
3. Ben (From The Motion Picture "Ben")
4. Sweet Surrender
5. I Can See Clearly Now
6. 2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra)

Side B
1. Nights In White Satin
2. Summer Breeze
3. Super Fly
4. Happy (Love Theme From "Lady Sings The Blues")
5. We Were Havin' Some Fun At The Conservatory, When...
6. Dueling Banjos (From The Original Soundtrack Of "Deliverance")

 

I don't see the issue of dragging the thread into the 70s. I have been puzzled by the thread title but maybe misunderstood it. To me Retro Lounge is something that occurred after the original Lounge period ended. I guess we all have different dates for that but I would put it around the time Sgt Pepper came out. Of course it was dwindling in the mid 60s but the related genre of bachelor pad still had some legs (no pun intended). So any Lounge like album coming out After 1967 to me is Retro Lounge and anything before is original Lounge. I mention again that there was an interesting if slightly deranged article in issue 107 of The Absolute Sound back in the 90s (when HP was the Editor of course) on Bachelor Pad/Lounge and the retro revival.

 

Years ago I went through a Martin Denny obsession and bought a bunch of records. I have a couple Ultra-Lounge cds somewhere. I lost interest, but maybe I should put these on again sometime.

 

Found this today for a dollar. Living Strings, Living Guitars and Esquivel, plus another favorite, Si Zentner & His Orchestra. And we used to have a record player like that when I was a kid, only it was from Monkey Wards.

Sounds Fantastic! (1966) RCA sampler LP
1.Sid Ramin - "Strike Up The Band"
2.Si Zentner - "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)"
3.Marty Gold - "Smile"
4.Claus Ogerman - "Watusi Trumpets"
5.Chet Atkins - "Armen's Theme"
6.Dick Schory - "From Russia With Love"

7.Johnny Douglas/Living Strings - "Love Your Spell Is Everywhere"
8.Al Hirt - "I Had The Craziest Dream"
9.Frankie Randall - "A Wonderful Day Like Today"
10.Living Guitars - "Steel Guitar Rag"
11.The Three Suns - "Love Letters In The Sand"
12.Esquivel - "Bye Bye Blues"

 

All those LPs look good, for a buck. And I had a rekkid player that strongly resembles that machine until 1983.

 

I find the whole retro-lounge-exotica + incredibly-strange-music idea cohesive and delightful.

I enjoyed one of my Friends of Dean Martinez cds last night.

 

This little tune is a real masterpiece.



But I find it hard to get any info regarding Anthony Thurlow, anyone?

 

Nice tune. I almost want to call it Light Classical, or a TV theme program about a farm family?

 

Andy THURLOW (b.1916) real name Harry RABINOWITZ Spending Spree (1957) Dolf Van der Linden and his Orchestra ('Paul Franklin' on disc label) [2:06]

Read more: http://www.musicweb-international.c...lidays_for_Strings_GLCD5189.htm#ixzz3AHxSCJ5X

 

Almost "Shatner-esque"

 

Listening to these samples makes me want to mix a vodka and tonic. But it's only 9 in the morning!

 

I always thought this was gorgeous.Percy got into a real groove here.Wouldn't sound at all out of place in a spy or crime movie soundtrack.

 

I am a sucker for buying anything with Hefti's name on it. (Anyone that gave us the Batman theme should have a life-long pass in my book.) This one in particular is a must for most of you here. The vocals put this one over the top. Hopefully it only sets you back a buck like it did me. However, having listened to it, I would gladly pay 20 times that amount.

 

I was pretty lucky yesterday - a 2 LP set of Tommy Mottola - My Favorite Things. Beautiful selection of songs and arrangements. It's actually quadrophonic, but plays well in stereo.

The real find was SHAKESPEARE AND ALL THAT JAZZ by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Shakepeare's words set to small jazz combo music.

 

It's an OK performance,pretty standard stuff for the era,but I don't hear the "over the top" acting that would place this in the laughably bad final frontier of Shatner.

 

It' all in the eyes.

 

Who needs sound when Julie London is in front of a camera.

 

Well, I feel good about posting this album on this thread when the first cut is the theme for Born Free as performed by Ronnie Aldrich and his two pianos, with the London Festival Orchestra. (It also has the same ensemble doing The Impossible Dream.) These Phase 4's sound terrific on my little set up.

And speaking of Alderich, here he is taking a crack at Simon and Garfunkel (ooof):

 

"The Versatile Henry Mancini".. HM goes 'exotica'. One of my favorites.


And this one (George Cates 'Polynesian Percussion") is great, too...don't let the
"Lawrence Welk Presents..." scare you off.

 

I have some vinyl albums of Les Baxter (no more than a handful), but my CD of his "Moog Rock" album paired with Martin Denny's "Exotic Moog" are both great albums. The CD is a boot though.

 

As much as I hate to go down this road, would this import sound OK? It would probably take me quite a while to find all of these titles on vinyl. Any comments?


http://www.amazon.com/Eight-Classic...cp_9_5PW0?ie=UTF8&refRID=19KKBE1VDDXJMC60M0YR

 

I think it sounds fine. I also have the first 3 volumes of Les Baxter and they sound good too, although a couple of them have a little surface noise from a needle drop. I don't remember any of that on the Denny. They may have been source from previous CD releases. Some of the Les Baxter never was issued on CD so they had to be needle drops. No idea if they did it them selves or found a download online somewhere as their source.

 

Thanks, I might put it on my Christmas list this year.