A Swingin' Safari

That Jekka Gal · 7 Oct 2019 at 21:58

I don't know if any of you are into the "Easy Listening" genre (if, indeed, it is a genre) but I saw a really inneresting documentary on BBC 4 the other night all about it.

Couldn't believe how many of the leading lights of easy listening are German - Bert Kaempfert, Klaus Wunderlich, James Last. Even Richard Clayderman is a furriner who can't speak English!

My own favourite has to be Jimmy Webb - wrote some absolute classics with Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon) being my favourite.

What's your favourite EL track?

jsmoke · 7 Oct 2019 at 22:25

We used to listen to this in the 80's if that counts.

Tuppy_Glossop · 7 Oct 2019 at 22:30

Pat Boone's version of the Ronnie James Dio classic, 'Holy Diver'.

Muban · 8 Oct 2019 at 09:30

A Swingin’ Safari, my folks used to play this and loads of easy listening when I was wee. I remember there was an episode of Murder Most Horrid (Dawn French black comedy series) where she played a police officer and she listened to all these types of EL tracks in her car. Brought a smile every time she played a tune as each one was in my folks record collection