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Evenings At The Penthouse-Elevator Music Going Down

There is a great book called Elevator Music, A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong By Joseph Lanza and tonight we delve into these songs to relax with strings and beautiful melodies
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Mantovani – Moon River
101 Strings – California Dreamin'
Roger Williams – Days of Wine and Roses
Andre Kostelanetz – I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Hugo Winterhalter – People
Paul Weston – Blue Moon
Hollyridge Strings – Theme from Shaft
Douglas Gamely and Picca – What Makes a Sunset
Stanley Black – Ebb Tide
Denis Farnon – Highballs At Villa Rienza
Morton Gould – Temptation
Les Baxter & The 101 Strings – Love Beat of the City
Ray Conniff – Love Me
Johnny Costa – Holiday for Strings
Percy Faith – Baubles, Bangles and Beads
David Rose – Tenderly
Bert Kaempfert – Where Flamingos Fly
Carlini World of Strings – Plaisir D’Amour
Jackie Gleason – A Thousand Goodnights
Paris Mitchell Strings – Strings Easy to Love

Words With Wellsy-Elevator Music

 
Tonight we are talking Elevator Music as Gary Wells brings brings us another terrific book all about that background music we all love so much 
 
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Messer Chups – Kiss of the Night
The Cramps – Peter Gunn
Mantovani – Besame Mucho
Angelo Badalamenti – Freshly Squeezed
The Martini Kings – Wives and Lovers
David Fleming – Lake Como
Kenny Sasaki – Ripples
Ixtahuele – Mareld 2021
Tiki Delights – San Francisco Samba
Rob Dixon – Sway
Vibexotica – Humboldt To Raoria
Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited – Mysterious Mr Flynn
Mr Moai and the Tikiheads-Rongo Rongo
Jessica Jones Quartet-Manhattan 
Voodoo 5 – Like Young
Allen Dennard – Octavia

Evenings At The Penthouse- Look Up and Around

Time to raise that head from the device and see the world around us!
 
 
Marty Paich- Look Around
Miles Davis- Flamenco Sketches
John Pizzarelli-Beautiful Maria of My Soul
Janet Seidel- Lonely One
James Morrison- Girl Talk
Gerald Beckett- Broken Wing
Georgie Auld- Room with a View
Conte Candoli Quartet- No Moon At All
Chet Baker- These Foolish Things
Bill Evans- If You Could See Me Now
Beegie Adair-I'm a Fool to Want You
Atlantic Five Jazz Band- The Days of Wine & Roses
Art Pepper-Imagination

Anatomy Of A Lounge Lothario-Commodus

Join Kooper for this special series of podcasts where we take a look at the Bon Vivants, Playboys and those who lived a Jetsetter Lifestyle, those tango pirates and just what makes these men who they are. This week Commodus