Artist: Enoch Light and His Orchestra
Album: Stereo 35/MM & Far Away Places
Genre: Big Band, Easy Listening
Label: Sepia Records
Released: 2012
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Stereo 35/MM (1961)
- Heat Wave (Berlin) - 2:27
- The Man I Love (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 4:18
- I've Got a Crush on You (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 2:56
- All the Way (Cahn-Van Heusen) - 3:48
- My Romance (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:08
- You Do Something to Me (Porter) - 2:55
- Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (Hanley) - 2:34
- Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 3:19
- Love for Sale (Porter) - 3:24
- I'll See You Again (Coward) - 3:05
- I See Your Face Before Me (Dietz-Schwartz) - 3:45
- With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:03
Far Away Places (1961) - Waltzing Matilda (Paterson-Cowan) - 2:16
- Banana Boat Song (Darling-Carey-Arkin) - 2:38
- The Third Man Theme (Karas) - 2:33
- Sunrise over Sumatra (Light-Davies) - 2:33
- Bali Ha'i (Rodgers-Hammerstein) - 3:05
- Mimi (Rodgers-Hart) - 2:13
- Calcutta (Gaze) - 2:20
- The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai (Anderson-Stillman) - 2:40
- Theme from the Sundowners (Tiomkin) - 3:22
- Lisbon Antigua (Dupree-Portela-Galhardo-DoVale) - 2:26
- How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (Harburg-Lane) - 4:02
- The Poor People of Paris (Monnot-Lawrence) - 2:26
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This collection merges two of groovy easy listening pioneer Enoch Light's 1961 albums, the show tunes-centric Stereo 35MM and Far Away Places, a foray into the beginnings of exotica. Coming off of the enormous success of his Persuasive Percussion album series, Light's orchestra utilizes stereo field recording techniques that were pretty mind-blowing for the early '60s on both albums. Stereo 35MM is the stronger half of the collection, offering fully orchestrated instrumental versions of schmaltzy movie songs like "My Romance" and "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" recorded at Carnegie Hall. Far Away Places tends more toward the tiki torch environments of Martin Denny's Quiet Village-era exotica with less interesting results, marinated in vaguely Hawaiian influences with plenty of harpsichord and beatniky bongos.
Review by Fred Thomas