[78-L] Mitch Miller Horrifies

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

The Terror from Tupelo would have been thrilled to learn that his roots 
were in mood music or whatever it was called in those days !

BC
Le 30 mars 09, à 16:35, GENE JOSLIN a écrit :

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> Mitch Miller could never be classified as Easy Listening.
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> How Columbia permitted him to run amok with established,  tremendously 
> popular attractions like Rosemary Clooney, must be an earlier 
> manifestation of the corporate financial greed that haunts the daily 
> news.
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> Easy Listening was a generic name for increasingly unimaginative 
> arrangements played by uninspired groups whose efforts greased the 
> skids for the decline and fall of popular music as we knew it.
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> There were some exceptions:  Andre Kostelanetz could never have been 
> described as monotonous.  The elusive and mysterious Allen Roth 
> Orchestra provided transcribed radio music that could get up and wail, 
> or provide lovely transparent sounds that lent new charms to 
> everything they did.
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> Dating back to Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Salon Groups, there 
> was a gradual change toward more and more strings, as the parade of
> concert pop orchestras sawed their way through the standards, reaching 
> a new low point with Mantovani.
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> No wonder we were musically vulnerable to the terror from Tupelo.
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> --- On Sun, 3/29/09, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>> From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mitch Miller Horrifies
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 10:20 PM
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>> -------Original Message-------
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>> From: David Lennick
>> Date: 3/29/2009 10:52:34 PM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mitch Miller Horrifies
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>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>
>>> "Easy Listening" music...an actual radio format of
>> those days...was
>>> simply music selected to be as INoffensive as
>> possible!! Something
>>> like a restaurant run along the same lines..."Oh,
>> no...we DON'T
>>> serve chili...it's WAY too spicy, and someone might
>> object on
>>> those grounds! Have a dish of oatmeal instead...?!"
>>>
>>> ...stevenc
>>>
>> Actually, well arranged easy listening music is far more
>> complex than 99% of
>> pop and rock of the last 50 years, even though much of it
>> was meant NOT to
>> be
>> noticed. Muzak, on the other hand, was as bland as possible
>> and as limited
>> in
>> dynamic range as could be accomplished without filtering
>> everything entirely
>>
>> Has anyone noticed that while the term "elevator music" is
>> still universally
>> understood, elevators haven't had music in them for years?
>> Except in
>> Airplane
>> II" of course.
>>
>> Dl
>>
>> Also in "The Blues Brothers."
>>
>> Bud
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