The Golden Age of Light Music: Great American Light Orchestras

Leroy Anderson (Composer), David Raksin (Composer), Percy Faith (Composer), Roman / Giordano / Godfrey (Composer), Richard Hayman (Composer), Eugene Ford (Composer), Terig Tucci (Composer), Duke / Parish, Mitchell / Mills, Irving Ellington (Composer), Meredith Willson (Composer), Ray Martin (Composer), Richard Rodgers (Composer), Julian / Terriss, Dorothy Robledo (Composer), Charles Trenet (Composer), Jaffe / Fulton / Bronx (Composer), David [Artwork] Rose (Composer), David [Composer] Carroll (Composer), Louis Alter (Composer), Nick Acquaviva (Composer), Bernie Wayne (Composer), Jerome Kern (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Leroy Anderson, David Raksin, Percy Faith, Roman / Giordano / Godfrey, Richard Hayman, et al.
• Audio CD (April 17, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Guild
• ASIN: B0002PZW74
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,650 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fiddle Faddle

2. Bad And The Beautiful

3. Braziliazn Sleigh Bells

4. Anna

5. No Strings Attached

6. Rain

7. Holiday In Rio

8. Sophisticated Waltz

9. Blue Violins

10. No Other Love

11. Three O'clock In The Morning

12. La Mer

13. If You Are But A Dream

14. Satan And The Polar Beart

15. Carriage Trade

16. Tradewinds

17. Manhattan Serenade

18. Cavalier's Ball

19. Tropicana

20. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure instrumental magic!, June 12, 2007

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Dr. Glenn W. Briggs "MusicDr" (KSC, Florida & Chengdu, China) - See all my reviews
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The purchase of this CD was highly recommended by a fellow member of Yahoo's "Beautiful Instrumentals Group." Containing several formerly unavailable on CD selections, this album is pure instrumental magic! For example, some of you may recall Monte Kelly's mid-1950s rendition of "Tropicana," from the LP of the same name, and other songs from that collection. They are here at last!

I have been waiting since CDs first came out to see "Tropicana" and many other "magical instrumentals" from the US and Europe finally appear on CD, and this is the first in a series of new CDs produced by Guild Light Music to hit the market that feature these wonderful instrumentals.

Perhaps the single greatest accomplishment in the overall production of this and the other albums in the series is the incredible audio restoration and remastering done by my good friend, Alan Bunting of Great Britain. The remastered versions are absolutely flawless, and are certainly better in quality than the originals.

I highly recommend that anyone who loves classic instrumental check this and the entire series out. You will not be disappointed!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Plesant Stroll Down Memory Lane, June 9, 2008

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Ronald England - See all my reviews
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The Great American Light Orchestra CD is a delightful Easy Listening CD. It brings back memories of the great orchestras of the past in a world that is filled with horrific noise that has taken the place of real music.
You will relax and enjoy this CD.

Ron England, Mililani, Hawaii

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars American Light Orchestra, June 7, 2010

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Maxwell J. Wilcomb (Olathe, Kansas United States) - See all my reviews

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A delightful collection, and well performed. I recommend it for those evenings when the world is too much with you, and you feel like a pleasant trip in the past.