The Best Of Les Baxter [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Les Baxter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Special Products
• ASIN: B00000DGKZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Unchained Melody

2. Because of You

3. Blue Tango

4. April in Portugal

5. The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song)

6. Ruby

7. Wake the Town and Tell the People

8. The High and the Mighty

9. I Love Paris

10. Tango of the Drums

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Baxter, October 19, 2000

By 

Wayne P Warmack - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best Of Les Baxter (Audio CD)

I remember this wonderful Les Baxter instrumental album from the early 1970's when I was employed as an image announcer at a Beautiful Music radio station in Houston, KODA AM/FM. Although there is a number of outstanding cuts on this disc, my favorite will always be the "Medic" theme. "Medic" was the first of television's doctor/hospital drama series, and it featured Richard Boone, who was later to star in the long-running western series "Paladin". The "Medic" theme had another title - "Blue Star". This is what I feel is the centerpiece of this totally wonderful album. It is brim-full of romantic passion and pathos, and it really plays on your heart-strings. This album is a collection of some of the finest and best-arranged themes from that wonderful era of what was then called "beautiful music" radio. As a veteran of that broadcast medium, I whole-heartedly recommend "The Best of Baxter."

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool feel good music, November 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best Of Les Baxter (Audio CD)

The master Les Baxter, no one does arrangements like him

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sickly-sweet, over-orchestrated bilge, November 23, 2002

By 

David F. Nolan (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Of Les Baxter (Audio CD)

I dimly remembered some of these tunes from my childhood, so I thought I'd give this disc a shot. I guess Baxter's arrangements were OK in their time, but that time is long gone. Unless you like your music WAY overblown, with over-the-top instrumentals and sighing choruses, skip this one.