Mantovani - Oliver! / Stop the World I Want to Get Off / The Greatest Gift Is Love (2006)

• Title: Oliver! / Stop the World I Want to Get Off / The Greatest Gift Is Love
  
• Year Of Release: 1962, 1975 [2006]
  
• Label: Vocalion [CDLK 4324]
  
• Genre: Easy Listening, Instrumental
  
• Quality: FLAC (*images + .cue, log, scans)
  
• Total Time: 01:17:12
  
• Total Size: 371 mb (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

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. I'd Do Anything
02. You've 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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