Non Stop Pepsi Party - Denny Wright and the Hustlers (1974)

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This was one of the first LPs I found when I first started looking round the local charity shops, some years ago, but I have seen it again since, several times, the one ripped here being the one in the best condition.

It is around 54 minutes in length, and top quality from start to finish! Featuring the Shout About Pepsi track, as featured on the first Sound Gallery album, here it appears as part of a medley with Tequila and La Bamba.

Other highlights include fine versions of I Can See Clearly Now, Something, Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, very smooth sounding covers of Without You,Love Is Blue, and Sounds of Silence, with a nice rock 'n' roll medley to finish the album.

Every track is a winner, the album is one of my personal favourites, the track I post as preview, Roll Over Beethoven never fails to have me jiving round the room!

I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment!

Album Preview - Roll Over Beethoven

Christmas Wonderland - Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra (1967)

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Here it is, yet again, the best Easy Listening Christmas album!

For those who do not know this album, it is just the most festive and traditional Christmas album and it never fails to get you into the holiday mood!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Sleigh Ride

Hawaiian Christmas - Wout Steenhuis (1981)

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Here we have a very nice traditional Christmas album from the master of Hawaiian guitar.

Featuring 12 Christmas standards arranged in his mellow guitar style, it is very nice and Christmassy, and it well worth a listen if you have enjoyed the Tijuana Christmas album or my post of the Ron Goodwin Christmas album.

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Out Of The Box (Medley) - The Wright Orchestra (1981)

Rather nice medley of classic UK & US 70's & 80's TV themes, obviously made to cash in on the 1981 craze for medleys, Stars On 45, Back To The 60's, Hooked On Classics being more successful than this, however.

The B side is a storming disco funk track, also well worth hearing, too

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Big TV Themes - Geoff Love & His Orchestra (1984)

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An 80s compilation of some of the best UK and US TV themes of the 70s and 80s, featuring some tracks taken from his previous theme and instrumental albums with at least five tracks specially recorded for this album.

The new tracks being themes from Dynasty, Reilly Ace Of Spies, Hill Street Blues, The Winds Of War, and The Thorn Birds, they blend nicely with the previously recorded tracks, some, such as Chi Mai, Dallas, Eye Level, Coronation Street and Brideshead Revisited appearing on a Geoff Love themes album for the first time.

A must for any lover of TV theme music, and orchestral music of the 70s and 80s in general, I think it contains the last new recordings from Geoff Love (if anybody knows otherwise please let me know).

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

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Joe Loss Plays Your All-Time Party Hits (1971)

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As requested by John, this LP is probably in every charity shop and flea market in the United Kingdom, but it is always entertaining and lots of fun!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Nice 'N' Easy Volume 4 - Various Artists (1975)

Volume Four features great tracks from Easy favourites Paul Mauriat, The Button Down Brass, Chaquito and Ray McVay.

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Help Yourself (Ray McVay And His Orchestra)

Dancing Time No. 8 - Jan Corduwener And His Ballroom-Orchestra

Thanks again to our friend Al Gates of Perth, West Australia for this fine album of ballroom dancing from the 1950s.

He has told me that he found both Jan Corduwener albums while on holiday in the beautiful city of Jakarta, Indonesia! 

He is, as I am too, very appreciative of the many kind comments on all our posts; it is these, more than anything else that keep us wanting to make the effort to record and share our collections with all of you!

So, if you enjoy this album, please comment!

Album Preview - Blueberry Hill

 

Jan Corduwener And His Ballroom-Orchestra ‎– Dancing Time No. 6

Thanks again to Al Gates of Perth, West Australia for this mini gem!

A 10" album from the early 1960s, it does not specify a date, it is a pleasant listen and another nice reminder of a different era!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment, with your name, if you do!

Album Preview - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom

 

The Modern Way - Ray McVay And His Orchestra (1976)

 

Another fine Ray McVay ballroom dancing album from our friend Al Gates of Perth, West Australia!

For now it seems I have been spared, and so I will continue here, in public, until the shut down, if and when it comes!

Thanks to Al for the album; I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Tango For Two 

Could I Have This Dance - Frank Chacksfield And His Orchestra (1981)

Thanks again to Al Gates of Perth, West Australia for another very nice album of Easy ballroom dance music, this time from the legendary Frank Chacksfield!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Xanadu

 

Dance Spectacular - Ray McVay And His Orchestra (1973)

Thanks again to Al Gates, from Perth, West Australia for this big double album of music for Ballroom Dancing from Ray McVay.

Al hopes everyone doesn't get too bored with too much Ray McVay, but there's no way you would if you like this kind of music, which I can tell, most of us here do!

A full side each of foxtrots, waltzes and quicksteps, and a fourth side with latin and jive, it is a good listen as a whole, or to pick a smaller, personal selection.

I have more McVay which I will be posting very soon!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Help Yourself

 

Ray McVay And His Orchestra Play For Sequence Dancing (1970)

 

Our thanks again go to Al Gates from Perth, West Australia for this fine 1970 album of Ballroom dancing from Scotland's Ray McVay.

Highly prolific with his albums for dancing in the 1960s and 70s, Ray McVay began his career as Musical Director for Larry Parnes, backing all the rock'n'roll stars from Parnes' stable on tour, later leading the Glenn Miller Orchestra (UK) who I understand he still leads today.

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Love Is Blue

 

Come Dancing To The Pops - Ray McVay & His Orchestra (1970)

Another very nice album of Ballroom dance music courtesy of Al Gates of Perth, West Australia!

Featuring a tracklist of 60's pop songs arranged for Old Time and Modern Sequence dancing.

Thanks again to Al, please comment if you, like me, have enjoyed it!

Album Preview - Return Of Django

Return Of The Champions - Ray McVay & His Orchestra (1969)

Another fine post from someone rapidly turning into this blog's best friend, Al Gates from Perth, West Australia!

This is an album I have seen a few times in the charity shops I go to locally, but so far I have not took a chance; I always seemed to have a few doubts about it.

These doubts have been well and truly quashed by this album rip I was recently sent by Al!

A fine album of Old Time and Modern Sequence dance music, it is also a great listen if you enjoy instrumental Easy listening or Big Band music!

Thanks again to Al for his efforts, and please comment if you enjoy this one, as I have!

Album Preview - Rock Around The Clock - Jive

Hollywood Hits Vol. 1 - Ray Davies Orchestra (1984)

A happy new year to all!

We kick off the new year with a great album from the Ray Davies Orchestra thanks to our regular contributor Al Gates from Australia.

The album is a nice mix of ballroom dancing music with all the usual dances included.

It is always nice to hear a Ray Davies / Button Down Brass album, and it is particularly good to hear this one from later in his career!

The most contemporary track on this album is a Cha Cha version of the theme from Fame, recently included on Lounge Legends' collection The Best Disco In Town, I had wondered which Ray Davies album it had originated on!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - Little Brown Jug

Off Beat Cha Cha - All Star Orchestra (1965)

Here comes another great post from our friend Al Gates from Perth, West Australia!

A very nice 60s dancing album from Asia, it is quite the curio, and a very interesting listen, as most of the albums shared here and elsewhere are from Europe and North and South America!

Highlights include fine versions of You Belong To My Heart, Sukiyaki, Moon River, and a song made famous by one of my dad's favourites, Jim Reeves, in He'll Have To Go.

Thanks again to Al for these posts, and best wishes for the festive season, too!

Should anyone else reading this, like Al, have some albums they would also like to share, but do not have a blog of their own, please do send me the links, and if they are in keeping with the tone of the rest of the blog's material, could well end up on this blog being shared with hundreds of other Easy Listening enthusiasts!

I have more treats to share over the holiday, so please stay posted!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - He'll Have To Go

I'm In The Mood For Dancing - Mick Urry & His Orchestra (1985)

 

Courtesy of our friend Al Gates of Perth, Australia comes this rather nice album of ballroom dance music from the 1980s.

If you like Joe Loss, Ray McVay and others you will like this, too!

Thanks to Al for another fine post and please keep them coming!

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - I'm In The Mood For Dancing

Instrumental Favourites - Geoff Love & His Orchestra

 

I recently came across the seven volumes of Geoff Love's Instrumental Favourites collection, so I thought it would be good to make a compilation of the tracks on them recorded especially i.e not the tracks off previous albums (which have generally been blogged themselves).

I think it makes for a good collection, it should come to three volumes when finished, so here is the first one.

I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!

Album Preview - In The Mood

 

Say It With Music - The Wally Mackenzie Orchestra

A must for those who enjoy big band or ballroom dancing music, this is a very enjoyable album from a band which I understand were very popular locally to where i live in East Manchester.

The arrangements are traditional but with energy, and very well recorded for a release which was clearly designed to be sold at the concerts and dances themselves.

I hope you enjoy it and please comment, leaving your name, if you do!

Album Preview - Hooked On Swing