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The Best Of The Beatles Song Book

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Why cannot we have the rest. Like "The Hollyridge Strings Play the Beatles Songbook" volumes 1-3, or the whole collection as a boxed set? While I'm on the subject of the Hollyridge Strings, how about "The Hollyridge Stings Play the Beach Boys Song Book" by Perry Botkin and Mort Garson (Capitol again,), or if you want numbers: S2654, "Oldies But Goldies"; S2221 Hollyridge Strings play Hits Made Famous By Elvis Presley; S2156 "The Beach Boys Song Book; etc., or, especially Stu Phillips' The Hollyridge Stings and the Geororge, John, Paul and Ringo Songbook (Capitol ST 839) or anything by the Hollyridge Strings? C'mon guys...get into the vaults and feed us... the purists of Stu Phillips' and others' orchestral remakes of the greats. Dr. Scott McVittie smcvittie@utb1.utb.edu

This is one of the finest collections of Beatles music. It stresses some of their best writing.

The arrangements by the Hollyridge Strings is in one word awesome.

I give my highest rating for both the songs and music. "If I fell" and Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) are the 2 best selections on the album.

They define the Easy listening format like no other. Purchase this CD/Album and prepare for a wonderful Easy listening experience.

I have read other reviews of this album and agree that it is great! I have most of the Capitol LP's of the Hollyridge Strings, including Elvis, Simon and Garfunkel,the Beach Boys, and the Four Seasons, and I also hope that Varese Saraband can reissue the others in the "Songbook" series, at least "The Best Of...".The Young Sound of CBS-FM, which I used to listen to in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, as well as on American Forces Radio in Vietnam in the Navy in the late 60's, introduced me to this great orchestra performing popular hits, and I became "hooked". I wouldn't mind seeing the David McCallum Orchestra and George Martin's instrumental albums released on CD, also. The audio quality of this CD,I feel, is also superb, being, I assume, directly from the Capitol master tapes.I highly recommend this CD to anyone who enjoys popular instrumental music.

If your looking for instrumental versions of Beatles songs, you found the right one, in fact the original and (as far as I know) the first to do so. They were recorded in the 60s, they're are just as fresh now as they were then.

At one time considered to be "un-cool" to listen to. Well forget what your friends used to say when browsing through the department store in the record section circa 1967-68, then you'd sneak back later to buy it. Its here again and it will bring back memories.

This is great stuff, my favorites on here are "P.S. I love You" "AHDN", "If I Fell", "No Reply", Michelle, "Penny Lane". But they are all well done for the most part.

If you have a vinyl copy of the "The Beatles Story" on Capitol(Late 1964),they played some of these songs on there.

All I can say is I'm glad I found the "Hollyridge Strings" CD, its well worth the money.

great album!superb instrumental music!never a dull moment,hum along the melodies of the greatest songwriters and band "THE BEATLES"..you won't regret it!grab one now!

The Hollyridge Strings used a host of techniques including pizzicato string treatment, and created the ultimate lush instrumental sound. What made them great, however, was the contrast of the strings with a bold brass section and infectious, assertive percussion. The arrangements are nothing less than brilliant, and make their versions of the '60's popular hits seem almost like different songs. HR owes a lot to the great Percy Faith, but went him one better. It is inexplicable that there is only one HR CD, and this a compilation. Bring on more CD's!

I found this record in an old collection that my grandparents gave me, and it was one of those undiscovered treasures. My favorite is "she loves you".

Though many cashed in on the Beatles with their own instrumental interpretations, Stu Phillips' balanced arrangements are my favorites. Add lush, intelligent engineering that is nothing short of amazing for mid-60's technology. Beautifully remastered. Okay, Capitol, we want more.

I only found this wonderful one. Please include all their collection

Let's see more of these great instrumentals hit the market, PLEASE! Hello Capitol Records, where are you? Listen up! Open up your vaults and dust off all those reels of THS tapes and get all the "Songbooks" out onto the market again.