I was sitting at work innocently listening to a collection of tracks by The Tornadoes, when Tim The Enchanter, who is our sysadmin, made a comment.. “That’s elevator music, man,” he said.Tim The Enchanter knows how to fix a server, but he doesn’t know squat about elevators.
Now André Kostelanetz, that’s elevator music….
Kostelanetz, he never had an actual hit, so I don’t know what business he had having a Greatest Hits album but have one he did…
André Kostelanetz:
• Bluesette – I don’t have any other versions of this, though apparently Ray Charles did it.
• The Shadow Of Your Smile – A 60s lounge favourite.
• Lara’s Theme – aka Somewhere My Love, from Dr. Zhivago, a hit for The Ray Conniff Singers in 1966.
• Everybody Loves A Lover – A hit for Doris Day et al
• Night Of The Trumpets
• Promenade
• Calito Lindo – I think this is Mexican. Frito’s used this ages ago in an ad – Aye aye aye aye, I am the Frito bandito… they got a lot of heat for it.
• The Blue Danube Waltz – A truncated version of the Strauss waltz
• The Grand Canyon Suite – a truncated version of Ferd Grofé’s American classic
• Fools Rush In – The Tin Pan Alley standard. Rick Nelson did this; so did Brook Benton.
2 comments:
Title should have been, "Other People's Greatest Hits."
Kostelanetz is one of the pioneers of easy listening music.
he actually started making music before there was a genre called "easy listening"
He made numerous recordings which had sales of over 50 million
and this album is only a sample, so yes he did have hits
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