Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday with Far Across The Sea by The Gene Rains Group, released on Decca in 1961.

Ambient Exotica wrote:

"...Released in 1961 about one year after the fan favorite Lotus Land, Rains stays true to his formula and delivers a tropical Exotica record that is as near to the eclectic Jazz scene as it is far away from euphonious Easy Listening shores..."

http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev068_generains_fats/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDRIQforusY

#GeneRains #AmbientExotica #Exotica #SpaceAgePop #Jazz #Music

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after my swim with Lotus Land by Gene Rains And His Group, released on Decca in 1960.

Ambient Exotica wrote:

The Gene Rains Group opens the album with an interpretation of Sammy Fain's Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing...The band captures the Asian flavor with shattering cymbals and Chinese gongs, galloping percussion, distinct piano and vibe notes...

http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev037_generains_ll/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1EEddWYKU&list=PLx1wYMItfH_SQs3gDNeieeUKJLLb4mag3&index=8

#GeneRains #SpaceAgePop #Exotica #AmbientExotica #Music

Ended the weekend Music for Lovers Only (or Jackie Gleason Presents Music for Lovers Only) is a studio album of easy-listening music by Jackie Gleason, wherein he conducted an orchestra performing standards. It was released by Capitol Records on October 27, 1952,..

Music for Lovers Only was widely praised upon its release and became an enduring bestseller..

Hackett's solo trumpet performance drew much critical attention. Walter Winchell said that it set the album's "groove on fire" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbz0aZVs7s&list=RDGTbz0aZVs7s&start_radio=1

#JackieGleason #EasyListening #Lounge #SpaceAgePop #Music #BobbyHackett #Strings

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday after a swim with Infinity In Sound Volume 2 by Esquivel And His Orchestra , released on RCa Victor in 1961

Review by Tony Wilds

All but two tracks here (and possibly those by now) have been plundered for CD compilations. Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 builds on the strength of the first volume and earier successes. Two tracks feature whistling, one of which is the beautiful, exotic Latin tune "Baia." Other standouts include "Anna (El Negro Zumbon)," "Who's Sorry Now," and "Limehouse Blues." This may be the Esquivel album that has it all: his signature style and sound, some experimentation (whistling), and an even mix of Latin and non-Latin standard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I62iJKk14U&list=RD5I62iJKk14U&start_radio=1

#Esquivel #SpaceAgePop #Lounge #Exotica #LivingStereo #Music

Golden Melodies From Japan by Paul Mark, His Orchestra And Voices released on Imperial in 1961.

Ambient Exotica wrote:

"Golden Melodies From Japan by Paul Mark is the Honolulu-based pianist and organist’s second album where he carves out his vision of Japanese Exotica in the whopping amount of 14 tracks. Released on Imperial Records in 1961, it is a very important work (though not many people have heard it, let alone of it), as it embodies an interstitial position: it sits right in-between Mark’s much better known East To West (1961) which is a live recording with a septet at Honolulu’s Oasis Night Club and supercharged with galactic organ textures, koto, shamisen and guitar twangs as well as bongo blebs on the one hand, and his quirkily titled edutainment corker 12½ Geishas Must Be Right (1963) on the other hand which features orchestral strings, harps..."

http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev277_paulmark_goldenmelodiesfromjapan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d62Xm7yUDkM&list=RDd62Xm7yUDkM&start_radio=1

#PaulMark #Exotica #SpaceAgePop #Lounge #Japan #Music #AmbientExotica

Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with Warm Wave an album by Latin jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader fronting an orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman recorded in 1964 and released on the Verve label.

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook stated, "If an album ever betrayed Cal Tjader's affinity for former boss George Shearing's ultra-smooth cocktail style, then Warm Wave would be it ... this is less standard Latin lounge Tjader and more an analog to Jackie Gleason's polished easy-listening sound. Tjader's solos are so smooth, in fact, that they practically disappear into Claus Ogerman's opaque arrangements. If you are in the business of collecting classic lounge records, this rates as a good one". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7KTqpY5NBA&list=RDR7KTqpY5NBA&start_radio=1

#CalTjader #ClausOgerman #Vibraphone #Jazz #Lounge #Exotica #SpaceAgePop #Music #VerveRecords

Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with The Subtle Sound Of David Snell by David Snell released on Decca in 1966.

David Snell (born 12 May 1936) is a British harpist, composer and conductor who has worked across a wide range of genres, from jazz, pop and soundtracks through to library music and classical concert works. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wR5wbJDUsw&list=PLcydzjelTJojUhKHsWL76ZnG4svMOzAcg&index=1

#DavidSnell #Harp #EasyListening #Jazz #Lounge #SpaceAgePop #Exotica #Music

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wendesday with Harp And Soul by David Snell released on Columbia in 1966.

David Snell - Harp And Soul Review

David Snell's Harp And Soul-yeah, that 1966 LP-is one of those records you stumble on while digging through crates, half expecting to hate it, then end up playing it three times in a row. It's not flashy. Doesn't scream for attention. But damn if it doesn't settle into your bones after a while. Snell, mostly known as a session harpist and later a film score conductor, steps out here as both player and co-conductor (alongside Johnny Scott, who also handles flute and orchestra duties). And honestly? He holds his own. First off, the harp. You'd think it'd be twee. Or worse-background noise for a department store in 1972. But Snell doesn't let it get syrupy. He's got this dry, almost percussive touch...

https://david-snellhr.bandcamp.com/album/harp-and-soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbPffD1_dY&list=RDCfbPffD1_dY&start_radio=1

#DavidSnell #Jazz #Harp #JohnnyScott #BritJazz #LibraryMusic #Music #SpaceAgePop

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday after a swim with East To West by Paul Mark and His Orchestra released on Imperial in 1961.

Ambient Exotica wrote:

"There is no Exotica album like Paul Mark's East To West..no other act or orchestra can unchain the same multiplicity of Lounge, Space-Age, Exotica and Far Eastern traces...

The incessant mixture of Paul Mark's Hammond organ and celeste with the gongs, xylophone, koto and shamisen is awe-inspiring and unique in the Exotica landscape. Some tunes are Rock-like and joyful thanks to the simulation of a fairground organ, others bathe in mystique and darker half-tones. Exotica fans who are fond of the Japanese tonality will be happy to know that East To West features two to three tunes that reappear a bit more regularly in their favorite genre. The rest is excitingly alien and deliciously strange.."

http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev205_paulmark_easttowest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoccJKwAUw&list=PLqx8HE-cr3HuxH1xoHvcLOMvsJvoFSkOF&index=8

#PaulMark #Exotica #SpaceAgePop #Music #Lounge

Panic The Son Of Shock by The Creed Taylor Orchestra, released in 1960 by ABC Paramount.

Evil exotica? Death jazz? ‘Orrible orchestral? Whatever you decide to call it, it’s a bit strange that the pair of albums
are presented here back to front, with Panic: Son Of Shock first. That aside, what we have are 24 cues of varying quality, but all following the simple,
brave concept of sound pictures with added horror, terror, madness or just plain good old weirdness. Cues are little
vignettes, with subjects drowning, blowing themselves up, driving into trains, smashing stuff, making intense
anonymous phone calls – all the time set to and accompanied by perfect
instrumental picture music. - Record Collector Mag reviewing a CD reissue of this and the previous Shock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_X_ClWveYQ

#CreedTaylor #SpaceAgePop #Novelty #Music #KenyonHopkins