Re: Lounge, Cocktail

Kristin Mark
Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:50:08 -0800 (PST)


A while ago I picked up an import called "The Sound Gallery, Vol. 1" . . .
VERY cool psychedelic instrumental stuff from the 70's lounge period.
Almost crosses over as easy listening and the "Lou Grant"-like TV theme
selections. Probably will go on my "best find ever" top 10!

At 03:00 AM 3/15/98 -0500, you wrote:

> Lounge in the 70's was very TV and film oriented and included alot of
>themes to cop shows or sitcoms like Mary Tyler Moore. Alot of this stuff is
>extremely funky and psychedelic and included really weirded out versions of
>songs from bands like the beatles, the who and the beach boys. There's an
>excellent compilation of this stuff called the Loungecore series, or the
>Easy Project. I think that it's only three volumes, but it's
>awesome stuff. It's out on a small label called Sequel records, and they're
>really inexpensive comps if u can find them.
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