The Arthur Lyman Group: The Best of The Arthur Lyman Group - Music For a Bachelor's Den Volume 5 CD Track Listing

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The Arthur Lyman Group The Best of The Arthur Lyman Group - Music For a Bachelor's Den Volume 5 (1996)
1996 DCC Compact Classics, Inc.\nReleased May 16, 1996\n\nAMG Review - For those that are hooked on Martin Denny and want something similar -- or, for those who find Martin Denny just a tad too upbeat and extroverted. This has 18 of Lyman's vintage tracks, including the modest hits "Taboo" and "Love For Sale." Oddly, his Top Ten single "Yellow Bird" is missing, although it's on DCC's More Of The Arthur Lyman Group. -- Richie Unterberger\n\nAmazon.comCustomer Review\nFor Your Blue Hawaii Days and Nights!, July 22,2001 \nReviewer: BritPopTart (see more about me) from Los Angeles, CA \nThis has to be one of my favorite CD's of all time. Beingborn in '67 I was by all acounts, I child of New Wave with all that it came with good and bad so I had ZERO exposure to "TropicalJazz" (for lack of a better term).\n\nRummaging through my grandmother's albums, I came across "Taboo" and adored the cover rightoff the bat, it screamed of kitsch! Since her album was an original, it was full of pops and scratches galore. I went ahead and started my quest to purchase it on CD (this was about 5 years ago).Little did I know what an undertaking it would become. I finallyfound it under the EZ listening section, it wasn't "Taboo" but Ithought it would do the trick.\n\nOnce I put the CD in, it didn't come out for about 3 months. My roomate at the time thought I had completely lost my mind until one day, she asked if I could help her search for a copy of her own (she ended up with the calssic "Taboo"). We spent many a day cha-cha'ing and rhumba'ing aroundthe house after that.\n\nThe lounge/bachelor's den music craze started to hit about a two years later, and we were prepared if not considered hipster experts on the genre. And to think, this allstarted with what I considered to be kind of a kookie purchase!\n\nFor the most part, the tracks are entertaining (Hava Nagila onthe Xylophone is well worth the purchase in itself) and you can'thelp but feel like you are getting ready to pack your bags to fly to the Aloha State and be greeted by Elvis when you get off that plane. This is certainly one of the most enjoyable CD's you will ever own and to this day, I bust it out during the summer as well as to sunny up gloomy days! \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Best Of Arthur Lyman, November 17, 2000 \nReviewer: A music fanfrom Mountain Grove, Missouri United States \nArthur Lyman, backin the late 1950's, was always one of my favorties because his albums, recorded in the Kaisor Aluminum Dome, with its excellent acustics, were among the few reliably making full use of stereo sound. Even when listened to on my computer, this, presumed to be adigitally re-mastered, album, is still exceptional stereo. On our family stereo it's the type of quality sound that makes one's dog look questioningly with head tilted from speaker to speaker and in the middle. Yet this isn't sound effects gimmic: it's hauntingly beautiful music, sometimes using natural sounds, birds, rain, ocean, as instrument.\n\nThe CD had a sticker on it titled "Music For a Bachelor's Den." I'm a married woman, but I think that an appropriate sub-title. It's primarily an extremely relaxing, romantic, collection of music.\n\nIt possibly offers something foreveryone:\n\n#1, "Taboo," #5, China Clipper," and #6, "Bwana A,"are what I think of when I think Arthur Lyman, with exotic Polynesian sounds and rhythms, complete with natural sounds, using native instruments and drums, of course. Those were old familiars tome from LP's. #2, "Love for Sale," and #9, "Busy Port" are jazzypieces. A number of other selections, like #7,"Fire Down Below,"and #8, "Cubana Chant," have South American dance rhythms; others, like #13, "Legend of the Rain," have a Hawaiian sound. # 11, "Hava Nigula," was extremely interesting with these instruments, yet traditional sound and tempo(s)somehow maintained. \n\nThere were only two I didn't particularly enjoy, #4,"March of the SiameseChildren," which although I love the piece, was rendered off keyin what sounded a discordant rendering to me, and #14, "Jungle J
This misc cd contains 18 tracks and runs 62min 5sec.
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