Easy Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride through Sixties Psychedelic Pop

A masterful book as scholarly as it is lavishly illustrated! A perfect companion to Joseph Lanza's ELEVATOR MUSIC. If you are a fan of the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music trend, this book is Essential and Mandatory Reading! Good job, Joe!

Another great book from Lanza and an excellent companion to his Muzak book "Elevator music".

A fairly thin book, about an inch deep, on heavy cardstock paper. And some GREAT photos of easy listening mood rock music ripoff albums from 1967 to the mid-1970s. The info makes from some great targets at crate digging trips in the mundane.The photos are a great reference to help locate those not-Beatles, not-Jefferson Airplane, not-Doors, not-Bee Gees mood orchestra albums. Artists featured include the Hollyridge Strings, 101 Strings, Paul Mauriat, Jackie Gleason, David Rose, that all too common Percy Faith Beatles' album, and similar (usually) really cheap dreck you'd find desperately choking out used record shop bins and thrift stores, but the thematic/bizarre Establishment orientation makes them worth searching out if you're a bored-to-death rock music vinyl junkie sitting on an all you'd ever want mountain of harder-edged albums and are finally succumbing to taking a chance on something like Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra PLAYS THE BEATLES' SONG BOOK, an Lp from about mid-1970, or The Enoch Light BEATLES orchestra album from 1974 (which sounds seriously inspired, if that's the word, from the 1965 Elektra Records' album, THE BAROQUE BEATLES). If you finally have EVERYTHING rock you'll ever want and want a break from thrift shop boredom endlessly flipping through those Jim Nabors and Barbra Streisand albums on every treasure hunt, pick up this book for some Twilight Zone with strings ideas twisting the music you love into elevator background sweet sounds from another dimension. The music you'll either love or hate, or love to hate.I already have maybe a quarter of the pictured albums here already, but the most intriguing new-to-me album/info worth looking up is the Peter Knight & His Orchestra album on Mercury, pictured on page 71, turning the Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper album into mood orchestra music (which seems sooooooooooo appropriate for that album). I spied another album that I have, MARIANO & THE UNBELIEVABLES, THE 25TH HOUR, Capitol ST 2875, which was one of those crate digging rock music album mistakes (!!!) I made a few years ago, thinking it was a rock covers album, not something that sounded like Liberace might have "re-interpreted" for his audience. It's one of those albums that reminds me of my grandmother's sometimes bizarre cooking, when I bit into a a turnip in her stew thinking it was a potato: total shock surprise, and not pleasant expecting guitar-oriented '60s hippie culture rock music. OOPS!A coffee table book if your ears are bored with 50 years of '60s counter culture. This is about counter-counter culture.

A box of delights for me as i have always loved psychedelic rock and easy listening music of the 60s.The book is lovely to look at ( complete with groovy 60s album covers) and for me it was very interesting how easy listening responded to the psych rock in the late 60s, sometimes quite haunting and lovely music was made by the easy listening brigade of the time, and this book sent me off to Discogs to check out some of the stuff this book discussed within its pages.One group i would have added to Joseph's book would have been the Voices Of San Francisco , their version of Never My Love is gorgeous.All in all a book that is great fun, just like the music it chronicles.Even if you dont think your a fan of easy listening, still check it out, you may well become a convert.Recommended.