Easy listening is a modern label, to describe classic song-standards, exotica and lounge music, which perhaps doesn't do justice to the musical sophistication of its biggest stars – giants of ...
What we now know as easy listening evolved from the rhythmic syncopation of jazz, combined with the helpful invention of the electric microphone and demographic changes in the United States which led ...
TV didn't know how to cope so the 60s viewer was fed a diet of easy listening. Music had always been at the heart of variety, but in the 1950s rock 'n' roll and the concept of the teenager arrived. TV ...