Mantovani - Oliver! / Stop the World I Want to Get Off / The Greatest Gift Is Love '1962, 1975 [2006]

Tracks list

Conductor, composer, violinist, and pianist Mantovani was one of the most
popular and prolific easy listening artists of all time. His trademark cascading
strings (or tumbling strings) effect gave him an instantly recognizable sound,
and his heavy reliance on the string section in general helped map out the
blueprint for much of the light orchestral music that followed in his wake. His
repertoire did feature original compositions, but was built chiefly on lush
adaptations of familiar melodies: TV and movie themes, show tunes, pop hits
(chiefly of the MOR variety), classical material, and the like. Starting his
career in the 20s, Mantovani was very much a product of the recording age: he
focused almost entirely on recording, instead of live performance; he was one of
the first artists to utilize the LP as a primary medium for his releases (as
opposed to singles); he was one of the first popular artists to use stereo
recording technology, and likely the first to sell over a million records in the
stereo format. Fascinated by the studio recording process, he experimented
restlessly with miking methods and other technical nuances over the course of an
astoundingly large discography - more than 50 albums from the early 50s until
his death in 1980 (not counting his numerous 78 rpm records, dating back to the
late 20s).


Tracks:

Oliver! (Bart):
01. Id Do Anything
02. Youve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two
03. Consider Yourself
04. Where Is Love?
05. Oom-Pah-Pah
06. Reviewing the Situation
07. Oliver
08. Who Will Buy?
09. As Long as He Needs Me

Stop the World I Want to Get Off:
10. Lumbered
11. Someone Nice Like You
12. Meilinki Meilchick
13. Once in a Lifetime
14. Gonna Build a Mountain
15. I Wanna Be Rich
16. What Kind of Fool Am I?
17. The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift Is Love (1975):
18. The Old-Fashioned Way (Les plaisirs demodes)
19. Si (Go Before You Break My Heart)
20. Solitude
21. Sing
22. Cool Summer Evening
23. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
24. The Day of the Locust
25. The Entertainer
26. Send in the Clowns
27. Love Song The Freak
28. She

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