Hawaiian Christmas - Wout Steenhuis (1981)

#Repost#

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)

#REPOST#

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!

Download Theme from Dallas for free from pleer.com

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

 

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

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

 

Latin - The Modern Way - Carlos Romanos & His Orchestra (1980)

 

Big thanks to our friend Al Gates once more with this very nice latin dance album.

I would like to say how much I am enjoying Al's contributions, and would love to see more!

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

Album Preview - La Bailaora

Screen Action / Crime Busters - The Power Pack Orchestra [1986]

Here, especially for darnall42, is a fantastic collection of 35 great 80s TV and film [but mostly TV] themes played by the Power Pack ''Orchestra'', mostly synth and drum machine again, but it must be said that it is very of its time.

There are 25 tracks on the original CD ''Screen Action'', but I also have an LP called ''Crime Busters'', which also contains some of the tracks from ''Screen Action'', so I have added the tracks that were not featured on that to this download.

Highlights aplenty, but I can't quite believe the way they did the ''Hart To Hart'' theme!

I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment!

I ripped this CD some time ago, and cannot find it at the moment to scan the covers from it, so I'm afraid this will have to do for now!

I'll be back soon with more classic Easy from the 60s and 70s!

Track List:

1. Superman
2. Miami Vice
3. Magnum
4. Hunter
5. The Professionals
6. Starsky And Hutch
7. Shoestring
8. Hawaii 5-0
9. Dempsey & Makepeace
10. Indiana Jones
11. TJ Hooker
12. James Bond
13. New Avengers
14. Rockford Files
15. Street Hawk
16. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
17. The A Team
18. Knight Rider
19. Crazy Like A Fox
20. Mike Hammer Theme
21. The Fall Guy
22. The Sweeney
23. The Chinese Detective
24. Highway Patrol
25. Airwolf
26. Cagney And Lacey
27. Scarecrow And Mrs. King
28. The Gentle Touch
29. Miss Marple
30. Remington Steele
31. Hart To Hart
32. Murder She Wrote
33. Juliet Bravo
34. The Bill [Overkill]
35. Z Cars

ALBUM PREVIEW - CAGNEY AND LACEY



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