Home >> Arts >> Music >> Styles >> E >> Easy Listening


  Bands and Artists
       

  Lounge
  Traditional Pop
   


Convenient hearing music occurs as style of popular music which emerged in the mid-20th century. About 1980, it was a virtually all listened to radio format around America, although it before long became barely as a format non because its attender were as well couple however because it were having as well old & so less worthy for radio advertizer. This nature & severity of music features elementary, catchy melodies, cool, placed-mellow harmonies and at times rhythms suitable for saltation. When these are mostly subservient music, occasionally singers, like Andy Williams, Jack Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Eydie Gorme had vocal styles which were highly compatible by owning this style. Great deal of the act of another popular vocaliser, including Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, and Mel Torme was too phrenetic or even swing-oriented to become played inside an convenient hearing format. "Mood music" is a second term for this style. Beautiful music is a subset of easy hearing music, since as a radio format it experienced rigid standards for instrumentation (e.g., couple or even there is no sax) & restrictions within how else several vocal pieces can be played in an hour.

A term has another time been applied negatively in the years since this format went away from fashion. These are similar to what is known as lounge or lounge core, but lounge music is tremendously supplementary jazz-oriented & depending on improvisation than easily hearing. Convenient hearing music is near universally orchestrated & is additional analagous to classical music than to jazz. Since convenient-hearing music is like unknown to a immature generations, the term convenient listening is typically incorrectly applied to soft pop or new age music. Real life-listening music is for instance pejoratively known as "Muzak."

Artists and music
Real life hearing orchestras Caravelle Frank Chacksfield Percy Faith Arthur Fiedler Jackie Gleason Hollyridge Strings Quincy Jones Bert Kaempfert Andre Kostelanetz James Last Enoch Light Living Strings Longines Symphonette Henry Mancini Mantovani Paul Mauriat Melachrino Mystic Moods Orchestra, when popular for their sexually expressed album covers as for their music 101 Strings Frank Pourcel David Rose Paul Weston

Convenient hearing vocal groups Ray Charles Ray Conniff Mike Curb Congregation Doodletown Pipers Anita Kerr Lettermen Living Voices Norman Luboff Johnny Mann Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Convenient hearing pianists Ronnie Aldrich Carl Doy Ferrante & Teicher (Arthur Ferrante & Louis Teicher) Joe Harnell Horst Jankowski Henry Mancini Peter Nero Emile Pandolfi Roger Williams

Singers by having high deployment inside easily listening These singers stand smooth voices that blend swell by using a lush strings average of the convenient hearing format. Ed Ames Perry Como, later material Eydie Gorme Robert Goulet Engelbert Humperdinck Jack Jones Steve Lawrence Al Martino Johnny Mathis Matt Monro Anne Murray Roger Whittaker Andy Williams

Singers using medium deployment inside easily listening These singers either own voices that blend less swell using a real life hearing format or even great deal of their poop is non suitable. Tony Bennett Glen Campbell Carpenters Perry Como, earlier material Nat King Cole Vic Damone Sammy Davis Jr. Doris Day John Denver Neil Diamond Dean Martin Olivia Newton-John, earlier material Frank Sinatra Barbra Streisand Jerry Vale Bobby Vinton

Singers non typically heard around convenient listening Whenever this listings seems surprising, mind that 100% music recorded prior to 1960 was neither sonically nor artistically as much as a standards of easily listening Bing Crosby Connie Francis Judy Garland Tom Jones Peggy Lee Liza Minnelli Jim Nabors Wayne Newton Olivia Newton-John, later material Patti Page

More convenient hearing artists Canadian Brass, brass ensemble Lenny Dee, organ James Galway, flute Tommy Garrett, guitar Living Brass, brass ensemble

Implemental creative person world health organization were primarily popular creative person however got a bit of convenient hearing appeal Herb Alpert Chet Atkins Burt Bacharach Mr. Acker Bilk Antonio Carlos Jobim Billy Vaughn Lawrence Welk

de:Easy Listening nl:Lichte muziek pt:Easy listening

Global Suitcase Musical Recordings
Free MP3 songs including smooth jazz, ambient, acoustic instrumentals.

Muzak
Founders of piped music and the science of how music affects the behavior of customers.

Light Music Hall of Fame
A textual tribute to light orchestral music from the 1940s through the early 1960s. Features biographical information on the top composers, arrangers, and orchestrators; lists of their songs and links to other sources.

Easy Listening Music
Music in real audio intended for easy listening while you browse the web or wish to relax.

Space Age Pop Music
An online encyclopedia of exotica, lounge, space age pop, and easy listening music.

Val Productions
Independent label with easy listening instrumental music featuring various artists. English, French, and Japanese sites.

Robert Farnon Society
For fans of light music, including a guide to composers such as Leroy Anderson, Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz.

Topix.net: Easy Listening
News about easy listening, collected from various sources on the web.
Arts: Music: Styles: J: Jazz: Big Band
Arts: Music: Styles: J: Jazz: Smooth Jazz
Arts: Music: Styles: N: New Age




© 2005 GeneralAnswers.org