Los Brasilios feat. Alberto & the Juan Morales Singers - Easy Rhythms for Your Cocktail Hour: Music for a Bachelor's Den; Volume 4
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Artist: Los Brasilios feat. Alberto & the Juan Morales SingersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-02-20
Music Label: Dcc Compact Classics
Soundtracks:
- The Lively Ones - Mel Henke
- 77 Sunset Strip - Warren Barker
- I Get A Kick Out Of You - Felix Slatkin
- Jazz Pizzicato - Percussion & Guitars
- Swamp-Fire - Enoch Light & The Light Brigade
- Caravan - Ray Conniff & His Orchestra & Chorus
- The Topless Dancer Of Corfu - Dick Hyman
- Swan's Splashdown - Perrey & Kingsley
- The Girl From Ipanema - Richard Hayman
- Carol's Theme - Los Brasilios
- Music To Watch Girls By - Jerry Murad's Harmonicats
- Lust - Les Baxter
- The Twisters - Mel Henke
- Hot Toddy - Julie London
Music reviews of Easy Rhythms for Your Cocktail Hour: Music for a Bachelor's Den; Volume 4
Music Review: Good Effort, but no Ultra-Lounge!
Rating: 4 Stars
DCC has made a fair attempt to offer some swingin' music, although obviously following the lead of Capitol Records' far better series, "Ultra-Lounge". I have about four or five discs in DCC's set, including "Exotica" and both volumes of "Sex Kittens in Hi Fi". Overall, I give DCC a grade of C+, or at best a B- for the Bachelor's Den collection. This disc is a B-.I have to say that the Mel Henke cuts lift this particular disc above the plain, workaday attempt to cash in on the retro Lounge craze. I'd never heard Henke's songs before, and they're a riot. It's always nice to hear "Caravan", and Ray Coniff offers his version here. "Music to Watch Girls By" with the Harmonicats is also featured. "Swamp-fire" is another good choice, as is "Jazz Pizzicato" and this version "I Get a Kick Out of You". The addition of cuts by Les Baxter and Julie London help round things out, although both are already on "Ultra-Lounge".
However, some cuts on this disc are just not swank. "Topless Dancers of Corfu" is just plain annoying. The music is more in the style of '70s electronica pop, which has no business in a Lounge, let alone your swingin' bachelor pad! And the version of "The Girl From Ipanema" on this disc makes me wish the "girl" would fly back there (wherever Ipanema is), never to return.
While not nearly as classy or wide-ranging as Capitol's "Ultra-Lounge" series, DCC does at least try to provide a swanky set of swingin' CDs with their "Music for a Bachelor's Den" collection. This disc is a pretty good one, with a good selection and competent liner notes.
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Description of Easy Rhythms for Your Cocktail Hour: Music for a Bachelor's Den; Volume 4
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