As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. He was in his prime, but a drug overdose took his life, leaving behind his family and friends. "With or Without You" by U2 is another example of sad The lyric is of course from Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," but there are many more good '80s death songs that deserve to be remembered. Hope you can listen and enjoy how good the older music was.Popular 80s rock songs. The arrangements were also great back then too. All the great melodies have already been written. Since I am now old and disabled and cannot play fast anymore, the slow, easy, beautiful easy listening melodies allow me to still play along note for note and emotionally connect to timeless melodies, which is what is missing in today's music. Instead of the normal high,fast, and loud trumpet playing I loved, I would also listen to the easy listening lp's back in the 60's and 70's. I would stop our conversations so that I could listen to each precious note that his trumpet soloist Bobby Hackett was playing. Just curious to see how if you are a person who connects deeply with music, listening everywhere you go, restaurants, etc.? Being a trumpet player, I would be over to my friends house in high school and his Dad would have Jackie Gleason playing that lush easy listening music most of the time. I guess it really depends on what people think sounds good ? And then Kenny G was mentioned as an alternative. I wondered if he was just unfamiliar with Bopish soloing, or South American rhythms & instruments. I remember some time ago a co-worker heard me listening to Return To Forever's "Light As A Feather" and said it was "way to crazy" for him. But you've heard more of this genre than I have, and I'm interested, like you, to understand the historical mass appeal. I am not a background listener except for occasional long form writing. The purely instrumental Easy Listening is probably much more of a crapshoot. Some artists who have been lumped into the "Easy Listening" include Sergio Mendes & The Brasil '66, Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, Frank Sinatra, The Fifth Dimension, Perry Como, all of which have made interesting music for my tastes. There ends up being so much crossover with the Jazz ,Classical, and World genres, that "Easy Listening" can quickly get interesting. It seems like in the very strictest sense, Easy Listening is not supposed to be very engaging and it's intended for people or businesses who enjoy using 'background music'. Why does easy listening never go beyond elevator music to me? An awful great lot of people were buying these albums- can someone help me understand why? What am I missing? Can somebody explain the attraction? Is it just that the surface prettiness (which is all that I hear) overrides everything else? Can someone recommend an LP or 2 that might convince me something really interesting was recorded in this genre? that maybe I am missing some music of considerable interest for specific reasons? I like jazz, art music, roots music, jazz, old country-western music, any singer-songwriter discs, pop singers, Broadway musicals, opera. Is it a carry-over from the big band era, just like Lawrence Welk was? The Easy Listening LP's I can remember hearing feature tons of reverb shimmer (like the 1960's hit - "A summer place"). what distinguishes a Melachrino strings album from, say, a Ray Conniff album? And, am I entirely wrong to lump them all together? Why did a 1960- 70s record buyer purchase a Kostelanetz instead of a Billy Vaughn LP? Even some I've never seen or heard of before - i.e. In the used records thrifts, there are tons of Kostelanetz, Melachrino strings, Living Strings, Percy Faith, Jackie Gleason, Mantovani, Ray Connif, Bert Kaempfert, Roger Williams, Billy Vaughn, etc. I'm not talking about recording arranging artists like Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, Michel Legrand, C Ogerman - whose album feature unique arrangements, voiceings with jazz, or other authentically played rhythms present. I don't understand the attraction of this genre.
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