Monday, February 15, 2010

Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - Discotheque Vol. 2



This one is actually kind of cool in a loungey/easy listening sort of way and it even includes a couple of Beatles covers (Eight Days a Week and I Feel Fine) for all of you Beatles cover collectors. Another highlight is the easy listening anthem, The Girl From Ipanema.

From wikipedia:

Enoch Light (August 18, 1905 - July 31, 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. He is credited with being one of the first musicians to go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of the technical capabilities of home audio equipment of the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong"). He arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, the first to do so. The first of the albums produced on his record label, Command Records, Persuasive Percussion, became the first huge hit based solely on retail sales. His songs received little or no airplay on the radio, because AM radio, the standard of the day, was monaural. Light went on to release several albums in the Persuasive Percussion series, as well as a Command test record.


Link (128kbps VBR MP3)

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