Pete and Danny on an elevator?

becca · #1 01-10-2015, 02:58 PM

Ran across this easy listening cover of Albatross which made me laff and had to share it!

SteveMacD · #2 01-10-2015, 03:12 PM

I had to stop at 1:10.

becca · #3 01-10-2015, 03:24 PM

Then you might not be ready for this version of Oh Well then?

SteveMacD · #4 01-10-2015, 03:37 PM

No. Just no.

dansven · #5 01-10-2015, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by becca

Ran across this easy listening cover of Albatross which made me laff and had to share it!

Hahaha!! And when you thought it couldn't get much worse, you get 1:45 !!

And this was released by Decca?!?

becca · #6 01-10-2015, 07:19 PM

These kinds of records seem to have been a staple for most labels from the '50s into the '70s, usually with some Benny Hill girls moonlighting for the cover photos. I've had some of the other 'World Of' range on Decca and Argo and one actually got me more heavily into British/Scottish folk (The World Of Contemporary British Folk and The World Of the Yetties). The sound quality was as good as on any of their other titles.

BklynBlue · #7 01-10-2015, 10:21 PM

Just wanted to say, "Thank You!"
Been a really sh*tty day at work, finishing off a really sh*tty week and hearing that version of 'Albatross' put the biggest smile on my face - absolutely too funny

Saving 'Oh Well' - not sure what next week is going to be like

lazy poker · #8 01-11-2015, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by dansven

Hahaha!! And when you thought it couldn't get much worse, you get 1:45 !!

TRUE, TRUE, TRUE - and if i didn't have to laugh so hard, i would've cried bitterly!

also, i didn't know that one chico arnez tried to squeeze fleetwood mac into mock james bond mode . . . OH WELL!!! at least it goes to show that bad taste is unscrupulous, isn't it?!
thanks a million for postin, becca!

THD · #9 01-11-2015, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by lazy poker

, i didn't know that one chico arnez tried to squeeze fleetwood mac into mock james bond mode . . . OH WELL!!! at least it goes to show that bad taste is unscrupulous, isn't it?!
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very interesting what you are saying lazy P

I just played the Chico Arnez Oh Well verson and thought how tasteless is this ?

,........ but after your comment I listened again !

I then thought, suppose none of us had ever heard the Fleetwood Mac version, and suppose we were watching TV, and this was the soundtrack music for a car chase in , let's say ... er ...Starsky and Hutch - souped up cars careering down narrow alleys knocking piles if cardboard boxes in all directions We wouldn't be thinking about it ,let alone criticising it !It would be in the right context for what this version is.

I hope somebody reads this thread, plays the version and actually uses it in a film I think this would work fantastically in an action sequence and most people wouldn't have a clue what it was but
it would earn Peter few more bob !!

(Quentin Tarantino are you listening ?!)

lazy poker · #10 01-11-2015, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by THD

very interesting what you are saying lazy P

I just played the Chico Arnez Oh Well verson and thought how tasteless is this ?

,........ but after your comment I listened again !

I then thought, suppose none of us had ever heard the Fleetwood Mac version, and suppose we were watching TV, and this was the soundtrack music for a car chase in , let's say ... er ...Starsky and Hutch - souped up cars careering down narrow alleys knocking piles if cardboard boxes in all directions We wouldn't be thinking about it ,let alone criticising it !It would be in the right context for what this version is.

. . . too bad that we DO know the original!

becca · #11 01-12-2015, 02:09 PM

That 'sophisticated' music aimed at more serious or mature record buyers back then usually has great surface and technical skill, and there can be a lot to listen to... sort of musical hairpin turns for a movie stunt driver? It's diametrically opposite of the lone guy in the corner of a furniture storeroom with a cheap Sears guitar in 1929 however. 'Progressive' rock was an attempt to merge the two, jazzy technique with rock feeling, but before long the technique took over with the long solos and pretentions, and so we arrived at punk rock as a reaction to that. Also, the easy listening /hi-fi lounge albums of the '50s-on can often be guilty of what happened in the '30s where a huge Hollywood orchestra of men in tuxedos would be playing an elaborately florid version of Turkey In The Straw. This casts Peter Green though as a bumpkin with the stalk of wheat between his teeth, oops. The overtly arranged and manufactured vs. the authentic or primitive?

Pontification mode ended.

THD · #12 01-12-2015, 02:33 PM

So do you collect Easy Listening albums then Becca ?

becca · #13 01-12-2015, 06:43 PM

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So do you collect Easy Listening albums then Becca ?

I tend more toward the 'exotica' subcategory... Esquivel, Ennio Morricone soundtracks, Martin Denny, The Three Suns (as produced by Charles Albertine), any early synthesizers on vinyl. Groups like The Association, Honeybus, The Free Design or Mamas & Papas sort of overlap a little with easy listening though, and I like a lot of that as I have 'many moods' to borrow a typically cheesy easy listening album subtitle!