Sleeve Notes: Five years since it started, and still going strong, Top Tunes has always been a unique radio programme, in that its music is dictated by you, the listeners, through an ever-increasing nationwide postal vote. This album has been … Continued
Sleeve Notes: “THE WORLD OF EASY LISTENING” – how dull the world would be without the magic of music! Though we don’t always realise it with the pace of modern living music is often there in the background, calming our … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Musically, Arthur Fiedler likes to be “where it’s at.” In the winter of 1963 Liverpool was the place, and Mr. Fiedler was there. He was conducting concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, and intrigued by the overnight popularity of … Continued
Sleeve Notes: This beautifully produced album demonstrates the versatile nature of strings, presenting them in both classical and contemporary style. Listen to The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rens Leibowitz, playing Offenbach’s ‘Waltz from the Gaite Parisienne’ showing strings in … Continued
Sleeve Notes: As a child, Raymond Wallbank first learnt to play the piano, but as he grew older became increasingly interested in organ music, and in 1960 greatly encouraged by Robinson Cleaver, he gave his first public performance at the … Continued
The Decca viva! label was a popular one among classical music lovers re-packaging older recordings from the previous decades into a new format for the eighties. Most of the recordings were of a very high quality and the cover notes … Continued
Sleeve Notes: TOP OF THE POPS SOUNDS WHILE THEY ARE HOT ON THE B.B.C. CHARTS, THE ORIGINAL HIT SOUNDS THAT ARE SELLING MILLIONS. LOOK FOR AN EXCITING NEW ALBUM OF UP-TO-DATE HITS EACH MONTH. BUILD THE MOST EXCITING COLLECTION OF … Continued
Hans Carste was a well respected German conductor and composer. Viewers of the most watched TV News show on German TV are probably unaware that the theme tune was written by him and has remained the theme tune over decades … Continued
Not much is known about the International Pop Orchestra and Chorus but what we do know is that their versions of “27 Non- Stop Classics” came “with a beat”. If you know more about them, or maybe you were one … Continued
Ronco Records was a hugely successful label in the seventies and eighties churning out compilations with regularity. Originally a company that sold cheap household gadgets such as those you might see on late night TV after regular programming has ended, … Continued