Golden Age Of American Popular Music: Hits With Golden Age Of American Popular Music: Hits With CD

2009 collection, another fine installment in the excellent Golden Age of Popular Music. This edition contains the orchestral and 'easy' instrumental hits that helped define the Golden Age of Popular Music, an era spanning, roughly 1956-67, when the US charts were brimming with an eclectic cornucopia of sounds and styles that is unlikely to be repeated in today's age corporate, socially engineered music making. 28 tracks including cuts from Kai Winding, Paul Mauriat, the Village Stompers, Al Hirt, Lawrence Welk, Acker Bilk and many others. Ace.

1. More - Kai Winding 2. Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu) - Paul Mauriat ; His Orchestra 3. Washington Square - The Village Stompers 4. Mexico - Bob Moore ; His Orchestra 5. Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell 6. Fly Me To The Moon - Bossa Nova - Joe Harnell ; His Orchestra 7. Flying Circle - Frank Slay ; His Orchestra 8. Image (Part 1) - Hank Levine ; Orchestra 9. Alley Cat - Bent Fabric ; His Piano 10. Beautiful Obsession - Sir Chauncey ; His Exciting Strings 11. Java - Al Hirt 12. The Enchanted Sea - The Islanders 13. A Walk In The Black Forest - Horst Jankowski, His Orchestra ; Chorus 14. Calcutta - Lawrence Welk ; His Orchestra feat Frank Scott on Harpsichord 15. Moon River - Henry Mancini ; His Orchestra ; Chorus 16. Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral 17. A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn ; His Orchestra 18. Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale 19. Summer Set - Monty Kelly ; His Orchestra 20. Baby Elephant Walk - The Miniature Men 21. Lost Love - H B Barnum 22. Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline) - Raymond Lefevre ; His Orchestra 23. The Dis-Advantages Of You - The Brass Ring 24. Summer Samba (So Nice) - Walter Wanderley 25. Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter ; His Orch, Piano solo by Eddie Heywood 26. Music To Watch Girls By - The Bob Crewe Generation 27. The Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 28. Bonanza - Al Caiola, Guitar ; Orchestra