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One STORMY NIGHT

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ONE STORMY NIGHT was a landmark album. Released in 1965, this was a first time attempt to blend music and nature sound effects, specifically, a California thunderstorm. The album was a great success, and spawned a whole series of MYSTIC MOODS LPs over several decades. Another "first" this one can lay claim to is the earliest use of a fully transistorized mixing board.

At various moments throughout ONE STORMY NIGHT, thunderclaps, cloudbursts and other sounds blend perfectly with the tone of the songs. The orchestrations are appropriately restrained and pensive. A sound collage of freight train and rain is quite effective, as well. This is still a most lovely set of easy listening music, and is highly recommended.

I have owned this album for forty years and have never tired of it. The sound effects are spectacular. You can almost feel the thunder rattling the windows and the sound of the rain falling can cool you on the hottest summer night. The music is perfectly blended into the sounds of the thunderstorm. Just delicious!

This CD is actually a reissue of an LP released in 1965. It was nearly 3 years in the making and many of the selections are original. The basis for this album is the recording of a freak summer thunderstorm over L. A. that raged from midnight to 4 A.M. in 1961. The number 1 track "A DREAM", was a very big hit on the easy listening radio stations around the country. Although we have had this LP since the late 1960s, I am considering purchasing the CD as well.

This recording, in my opinion, accomplished everything it was meant to do. It is relaxing, dreamy, and totally enthralling in its ability to let you drift in mindless abandon.

First listened to this when a friend purchased this album in the mid sixties. The sounds and the images it created were really wonderful and exciting and new. Over the years I collected 5 different albums by Mystic Moods Orch. Stormy Weekend is a classic and I hope it comes out on CD soon. Turn the lights out and listen up, you will be carried away by the "Storm".

I am updating my LP's to CD's and have to have this series by the Mystic Moods Orchestra.

They take movie themes, love songs, and popular melodies, play them in a full orchestra setting and dub in parts of a freak four hour thunderstorm over Los Angeles. Brad Miller included various sounds of trains to enhance the audio experience.

Fine music, great effects with a real "Man and a Woman" quality.

There are 17 albums listed, but the best are:
One Stormy Night
Night Tide
More Than Music
Mystic Moods of Love
Emotions
Stormy Weekend
Highway One
The Storm and The Sea

Gotta add the cd to my collection-have this on 8 track, cassette and lp! First heard on an unlabeled 8 track and fell in love-living in Texas, this is a favorite during long, hot summer days.

old album but the best mood music ever i still love it even if it is 30 yrs old

In 1964 a San Francisco d.j. played Brad Miller recorded sound effects on one turntable and an instrumental on the other. The phones lit up, listeners love it, and the Mystic Moods Orchestra was the ultimate result. Released in early 1966, "One Stormy Night" was the first of twenty plus MMO releases. Through many years and at least four record labels "One Stormy Night" is a favorite of many middle aged music fans who made love to the sonic mixtre of rain, thunder, trains, and a number of other ambient sound effects, skillfully combined with the lush orchestral efforts of Brad Miller & Don Ralke's studio group. The MMO sold millions of records through the years and though this was the first album it wasn't the best. "One Stormy Night" remains a sentimental favorite even though "Nighttide", "Stormy Weekend" and "More Than Music" were superior, yet with this effort a star was born. Many folks now alive in their twenties and thirties owe their conception (quite literally) to the romantic spells cast by the Mystic Moods Orchestra and "One Stormy Night". The best of the Mystic Moods catalog have been long out of print. The orchestra that it seems no one has ever heard of has enough fans that their lps and cds (especially if they remain factory sealed) command hefty prices when they turn up on e-auctions. The best of the MMO remain rare and precious to those who have tender memories of their youths and loves of long ago. While "One Stormy Night" does not represent the very best of the Mystic Moods Orchestra, it is certainly good enough scarf up if you are lucky enough to acquire a copy. Sadly, Brad Miller (the co-founder of Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs) died in 1998 of cancer. Unless those who own the rights to the MMO catalog have access to the master tapes and decide to give them new life with re-issues, the surviving copies will continue to command collectors prices. I have copies of OSN on lp,cassette, and cd and I would't part with any of them.

I've been enjoying this "album x3' tape x2, untill they won't play anymore. My first one was purchased in 1967. It is the most relaxing collection of sound I have ever owned. The combination of the beaitiful music, the sounds of the storm in the background and the effect of horses troting all combined treat the senses in away that meditation does. Try this musical treat and you'll never forget it. I'm trying to find another copy with in my affordability range. Till then I can only depend on my memory.