[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Nelson Riddle- Lolita Ya Ya
Percy Faith- Theme From A Summer Place
Henry Mancini- Peter Gunn theme

[DJ Rick]

Find the version of "Girl from Ipanema" by the Brazilian organist Walter Wanderley! Love how he makes that smooth rhythm become nervous and fractured!!

"Theme from a Summer Place" is one of those special songs from childhood that always reminds me of driving to the High Sierra to visit my grandpa. Same with the classic version of "Perfidia," but that's a vocal song.

Some "Now Sound" records from the 60's have some odd appeal. Paul Mauriat rearranged a lot of youth-oriented pop/rock radio hits into smooth music for squares. His records are very consistent.

For kitschy instros otherwise, why not Raymond Scott?

There also much Italian film music on the reissue scene. Riz Ortolani is my fave.

[i am the arm]

Les Baxter- the kitschiest exotica guy ever. brilliant. i've used his music in 3 of my films.

[DJ Rick]

...not if you have a healthy sense of humo(u)r!

[atari 2600]

pot & the kettle?

but, to write about something that interests me, I'll choose the Girl from Ipanema mention...

Stan Getz was loungy swingin' bebop with the latin tip...infallibly so...setting a standard, classic jazz in the classic sense, but for The Girl from Ipanema...you gotta go with the Herbie version...

no one plays those lyrical lines like Herbie...there's lots of players that play more impressive stuff, which Hancock can do with most of the best of them, but Herbie just has (well, had)
it all

(for about a 15 year period)...

[RdTv]

Mancini, Wanderley, Don Tiki, Les Baxter, Stan Getz, Martin Denny....check these out and be owned.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Oh yeah, Martin Denny is great.

This guy P. Myles Bryson did a cool album 2 or so years back:

 

it uses Martin Dennyish music in it. It is really cool.

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Oh yeah, Martin Denny is great.


This guy P. Myles Bryson did a cool album 2 or so years back:

 

it uses Martin Dennyish music in it. It is really cool.

Just had a listen to some of that on the net.
Nice music for the right occasion.

I dont know much from that time.
I think this might be something you'd like, but it's recent.
You probably know it.

 

Arling & Cameron. They are the Netherland's pride and joy.

[!@#$%!]

hm get those "ultralounge" cds that were popular in the... 90's? or whenever it was the martini became fashionable again.

oh yeah lex baxter ha ha.

i can't really listen to much of it.

but out of that era i recovered an appreciation of perez prado who my parents/grandparents generation listened to (mambo was excommunicated by the pope, did you guys know?)

anyway blah blah

[DJ Rick]

Dude, that lounge revival era...what complete bullshit that was! It was like someone figured it would be huge 'cos it was the antithesis of grunge, and even Sub Pop bought into it and signed Combustible Edison. How disingenuous is a song like "Zoot Suit Riot"? The mainstream media had to try really hard with that one 'cos there was no way kids would naturally identify with that sentiment.

If anything, it was a fruitful era 'cos it did uncover a lot of this amazing exotica which was finally being reissued, and it complimented the booming collector interest in original surf guitar records and other early rock & roll instrumental bands that preceded them.

A local fave of mine from the late-50's and early-60's RnR instro daze is a Redding, CA, band called Bailey's Nervous Kats. Their quasi-Eastern song "Cobra" is considered a missing link pre-surf record.

Thanks for recognizing me as the kettle and not the pot! Pots are so petty and contradictory.