This Section covers music that isn't Top 20 but nor is it Classical either so you will find not just easy listening but jazz and blues, Irish and Scottish music, Instrumentalists like James Last, bert Keampfert, Richard Cladderman and folk music, like, for example, the recordings of the Native songs and music of the Inca peoples.
DAVID MOREL
THE MAN & HIS GUITARS
Accoustic, Wire or Electric, David Plays Them All Very Well
David Morel is a seasoned trouper who has played at many of New Zealand's tourist attractions Cabarets. David is equally at home with any type of guitar in his hands and on this album he ably demonstrates he can switch from acoustic to wire to electric and back again with great ease. He also shows he can perform classical guitar pieces as well as popular tunes. He even wrote the tracks 'Apeggiotomy', 'Sweet Sorrow', 'What Next' and 'In Reverence' which is the grand finale to this album and probably the best track on the album too.
Issued on the Zeal label in New Zealand, the tracks include : Apeggiotomy, Albatross, Bolero, Have I Told You Lately, Sweet Sorry, Meditation, Calling You, What Next, Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Prelude In C Major, Etudes Opus 111 and In Reverence. Released in 1996, this is highly recommended for people who like the pure sounds of guitars without a full orchestra drowning the soloist out. On CD only.
Barbra Streisand - Peter, Paul & Mary - Marty Robbins
Easy Listening Favourites On Vinyl
Barbra Streisand - Guilty - Special Guest & Producer, Barry Gibb.
CBS (1980) Made in New Zealand. Gatefold cover plus picture inner sleeve. Catalogue # SBP 237506. Medium : Vinyl LP. Side 1: Guilty (with Barry Gibb) / Woman In Love / Run Wild / Promises / The Love Inside. Side 2: What Kind Of Fool (duet with Barry Gibb) / Life Story / Never Give Up / Make It Like A Memory.
All songs written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Recorded in America, a Barry Gibb Production.
Peter, Paul & Mary - See What Tomorrow Brings
Warner Brothers (gold label). Made in New Zealand. Circa 1964 (when years weren't printed on records). Catalogue # WB1615 - MONO and with those outside folding flaps traditional to NZ cover production. Medium : Vinyl LP. Side 1: If I Were Free / Betty & Dupree / The Rising Of The Moon / Jane, Jane / Because All Men Are Brothers.
Side 2: Hangman / Brother, (Buddy) Can You Spare A Dime? / The First Time I Saw Your Face / Tryin' To Win / On A Desert Island (With You In My Dreams) / The Last Thing On My Mind.
Recorded in New York. The Beatles, the liner notes say, called them 'Pizza, Pooh & Magpie' but their music is loved long after folk's time in the charts finished.
Marty Robbins - Everything I've Always Wanted
CBS (1981). Made in Australia. Catalogue # SBP 237600 Stereo. Medium : Vinyl LP.
Side 1: The Women In My Bed / Completely Out Of Love / There's No Wings On My Angel / Holding On To You / Gene Autry, My Hero. Side 2: My Greatest Memory / I'll Go On Alone / Another Cup Of Coffee / An Occasional Rose / Crossroads Of Life.
Recorded in Nashville, features backing vocals by The Jordonaires, Bobby Sykes and Don Winters.
Marty Robbins - The Legend (not illustrated here)
CBS ( 1981). Made in New Zealand. Catalogue # SBP 237 722 Stereo. Medium : Vinyl LP. Side 1: Jumper Cable Man / Lady, I Love You / It's Not Too Hard / Good Hearted Woman / The Air That I Breathe. Side 2: My All Time High / Honeycombe / Simple Little Love Song / I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Teardrops In My Heart.
Recorded in Nashville in Marty's own studios. Backing vocals by The Jordonaires, Don Winters, Dolly Fox, Jeff Chandler and Nancy Chandler.
Demis Roussos - The Incas - Solomon King
An interesting mix of Easy Listening delights
Demis Roussos - The Roussos Phenomenon
Philips (1979). Made in New Zealand. Catalogue # DRTV 1. Stereo. Vinyl LP
Side 1: My Friend The Wind / Fallin' / Frever And Ever / Can't Say How Much I Love You / Loving Arms / I Dig You / Let It Be / Shadows / Funny Man. Side 2: My Only Fascination / Mary Was An Only Child / From Souvenire To Sourenirs / Margarita / Happy To Be On An Island In The Sun / Midnight Is The Time / Maybe Forever / White Wings / Goodbye My Love Goodbye.
The entire back cover is a second full colour photo of Demis and a friend.
The Incas - Music Of The Incas (Tribal Culture)
A Pathe-Marconi recording issued in New Zealand by the World Record Club. Made in New Zealand. Catalogue # SLZ 8540. Vinyl LP. Side 1: Totoras, sikuerda / El Castillo, vals venezolano / Amorosa Palomita, huayno equatoriano / Huambra Ingrata, huayno equatoriano, / Chaburazas, huayno / Munapacuj, ecudor. Side 2: Cuequita Del Jarron, cueca bolivians / Los Mamonales, joropo / Bailadora, vals venezolano /Tiahuanaco, huayno chuguinada / Walaychu, peru.
The Incas were Sun worshippers, and a major part of their religious rituals comprised of songs and dances. This album is an authentic, in-the-field recording of some of those songs. This is a taste of The Incas' musicial heritage. No year of issue has been placed on the record or jacket but we estimate it's a mid to late 1970's release in New Zealand.
Solomon King - She Wears My RIng
Columbia (1968) Made in New Zealand by EMI. Catalogue # SCKM 6250. Stereo. Vinyl LP
Side 1: She Wears My Ring / Happy Again / Stranger In Paradise / Donkey Serenade / Be My Love / Always And Ever. Side 2: When We Were Young /Hava Nagila / One More Mountain To Climb / White Cliffs Of Dover / The Breeze And I / Arrivederci Roma.
Solomon King is in fact an American from Lexington, Kentucky, who moved to England to make his big break in the music business and "She Wears My Ring" was the result.
CAROUSEL
Darker Than Gypsy & Popular
Wellington Band, Carousel have just released their second CD Album and are headed off on a European Tour very soon to promote themselves.
All original material, this "family and friends" group offer something uniquely 'different' to the normal mainstream music. Fresh, exciting and innovative, you will be pleasantly surprised by this New Zealand group of musicians.
Their first CD Album was Self Titled and their latest one is called "Bob 'n' Spin". For more on this new talent, visit their web site at www.carousel.net.nz
