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I've had a few requests for the rest of the 'A's so here they are. Personally I think they are both better than the other two albums. I've got a feeling the above album had something to do with a Datsun promotion judging by the cover.
Arakawa Yasuo & Shiji Shiroo - Breaking Pop Hit News 1972
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10 comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I was so disappointed when none of these were voted in first time around but now it's turned out fine again.
Superb, these are excellent. I appreciate them greatly!
So glad to see these! Thanks Xtabay - you're tops:-)
Terry in SoCal
was gonna ask for this but fig'd it'd be too much trouble - paid off! (yes i'll buy a datsun now!)
Getting into Breaking Pop Hits.
Terrific - I wanted to hear this since missing out on it originally.
Maybe you could be asked to post more old stuff from Kristof's blog?
let me know which ones you want
I'm afraid I don't remember any names but I guess they were all tasty shares. There was e.g. an obscure Belgian library that I haven't seen anywhere else. If you think anything from before c. '97 is especially worthwhile I'd be happy to see it. Tho I guess it'd be tough for you to pick out now.
This request also goes for forgotten gems from other sites that haven't been reposted for years.
Thanks for keeping an excellently exotic and always exciting blog!
Xtabay,
Your blog is one of the best things going. I've visited a few times in the last year or so, and always find a treasure trove of new discoveries and information. I have visited many blogs and don't always post comments either. I've regretted that and reading here now that you seem to be lamenting the lack of feedback on yours affected my own conscience. Not only because of my own sometime lack of participation on blogs, but because one of the first things I discovered once I got into this music was that many of the best sites and shares were already defunct.
I felt that I had missed out and gotten in on this great music too late. I know that there are others that feel the same way. I don't know if those other blogs went away due to lack of positive feedback or what, but I do cherish places like this that are still going strong, and don't want to lose them. It is an irreplaceable resource. The further away we get from the 'space age', the less likely it seems that they'll ever reissue artists like Perrey-Kingsley, Jackie Gleason or Ferrante and Teicher commercially so that everyone can discover, or rediscover them. The original audience for this music is aging and dwindling, and the only link to it is people like us who continue to seek it out. You're doing your part by providing a forum for doing so and sharing information, and we need to do our part out here as well by sharing this music with the people in our lives so that it will continue to live on...and by reminding the forum moderator that these efforts are not unappreciated. Thank you.
Jacko
Thanks for your well written comment Jacko and it is true that the classic lounge/exotica music is fading into the sunset.
It seemed for a while in the 90s that the music was making a comeback but compilation albums for Les Baxter etc were deleted all too soon mainly because as you say the audience is naturally aging and dwindling.
Its also hard to keep coming up with new stuff for this blog being that the music is mostly over 50 years old and there's only so much archive material available.
There's some promising new artists on the block like Waitiki and Martini Kings but its for a very specialised and I suspect quite small audience.
Still there's always more stuff to explore I've just gotten into the Ella Fitzgerald Songbook series of albums albeit at quite a low bit rate. Even so they're great listening and I just didn't realise how good those records were. How could they not be good with people like Nelson Riddle involved.
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