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Monday, August 14, 2017

The Smart Set!

This 1958 LP offers an astounding amount of smug, self-assured, astoundingly unimpressive-but-competent MOR music.  It was a project of Ralph Carmichael.

Carmichael was an interesting soul.  He was an arranger for Nat King Cole, among others, and the musical director for I Love Lucy for that show's final years.  He composed the scores for The Blob and 4D Man.  But besides being a music arranger, he also wrote several then-contemporary gospel songs like "He's Everything to Me" and "The Savior Is Waiting."

Still, this album is a fine compilation of aggressively non-intrusive background music.  It fits perfectly into the cultural trope "easy listening."




I hope somebody out there likes it.

The Smart Set!
 

2 comments:

  1. I like it too much! Thanx............

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  2. Please pace yourself, you don't want to get too mellow, too quickly ... :)

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