A Swingin' Safari

[Pip in a Poke]

Anyone remember Petula Clark? Don't sleep in the Subway? - A Bacharach / David classic, that one.

In fact, a lot of the easy listening classics were Bacharach / David numbers - think The Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, BJ Thomas.

Burt The hitmaker's still alive and performing too at the ripe old age of 89. I must get tickets the next time he's in town.

[Pip in a Poke]

Anything by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

Apparently Herb got his inspiration from the bands he heard when he attended corridas on the Mexican border.

PS Just looked it up, it's Trance - a genre of electronic music that developed during the early 1990s, in Germany!

The Germans again!

I say it's atonement for giving the world Boney M!

Going back to Up,Up and Away - I notice that the version that was a hit in the UK wasn't by the Fifth Dimension but was, in fact, covered by the Mike Sammes Singers.

[xoggoth]

Not sure it's the same thing but I like The Classical Chillout CDs, great for relaxing.

Chicane/Bran Adams:

https://youtu.be/2Lp1D4Otimg

PS Just looked it up, it's Trance - a genre of electronic music that developed during the early 1990s, in Germany!

[billybiro]

I don't know if any of you are into the "Easy Listening" genre (if, indeed, it is a genre) but I saw a really inneresting documentary on BBC 4 the other night all about it.

Couldn't believe how many of the leading lights of easy listening are German - Bert Kaempfert, Klaus Wunderlich, James Last. Even Richard Clayderman is a furriner who can't speak English!

My own favourite has to be Jimmy Webb - wrote some absolute classics with Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon) being my favourite.

What's your favourite EL track?

Anything by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

[BrilloPad]

If you were a better lover, she wouldn't have serviced the Rugby team so often and ended up with Hippo's Yawn for a nickname.

Or WizardsSleeve like ex-mrs-bp-16

[Pip in a Poke]

Does any of you remeber those easy listening compilations from the late 60s /early 70s which were ostenibly for the purpose of showing off your new stereo music centre?

I remember my folks had the Breakthrough album - it was billed as an introduction to Studio 2 Stereo (whotever that was!)

Some absolute classics on that with Poppa Yo Quiero the tandout track for me.

[northernladyuk]

You've overdone your meds today?

Doesn't appear to have stopped the diarrhoea.

[northernladuk]

Geoff Love anyone?

Did all those "Big War/Western/Action Movie Themes" on the Music for Pleasure Label.

Also went under the name of Manuel and the Music of the Mountains.

You've overdone your meds today?

[Pip in a Poke]

Geoff Love anyone?

Did all those "Big War/Western/Action Movie Themes" on the Music for Pleasure Label.

Also went under the name of Manuel and the Music of the Mountains.

[barrydidit]

Don't talk about ex-mrs-bp-6 like that.

If you were a better lover, she wouldn't have serviced the Rugby team so often and ended up with Hippo's Yawn for a nickname.

[BrilloPad]

I went on a swinging safari once. Ended up with Mrs Hippo.

Don't talk about ex-mrs-bp-6 like that.

[WTFH]

I went on a swinging safari once. Ended up with Mrs Hippo.

[OwlHoot]

My favourite swinging is you at the end of a rope.

Hang on, this is a safari don't forget.

Swinging from a tree, where (s)he's been dragged up by a leopard for later consumption

[BrilloPad]

My favourite swinging is you at the end of a rope.

[Pip in a Poke]

I don't know if any of you are into the "Easy Listening" genre (if, indeed, it is a genre) but I saw a really inneresting documentary on BBC 4 the other night all about it.

Couldn't believe how many of the leading lights of easy listening are German - Bert Kaempfert, Klaus Wunderlich, James Last. Even Richard Clayderman is a furriner who can't speak English!

My own favourite has to be Jimmy Webb - wrote some absolute classics with Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon) being my favourite.

What's your favourite EL track?