Artist: 101 Strings Orchestra
Genre(s):
Retro
Discography:
70's Hits (cd5)
Year:
Tracks: 22
70's Hits (cd4)
Year:
Tracks: 20
70's Hits (cd3)
Year:
Tracks: 19
70's Hits (cd2)
Year:
Tracks: 19
70's Hits (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 21
One of the virtually prolific and honest names in instrumental easy listening medicine, the hundred and one Strings Orchestra has literally recorded hundreds of albums since its origin in 1957. Their earmark well-grounded is reinforced on a reverence for melody, pristine product, and a pleasant, restful atmosphere; patch occasional albums have concentrated on brass, piano, guitars, and regular balmy rock & wheel rhythms, the strand section -- true to the group's distinguish -- intimately perpetually corpse front and center, because of its lush, soothing healthy qualities. Most of their albums were built about some unifying musical theme, whether the work of a well-known creative person or songwriter, a specific subject (nationalism, holidays, et al.), TV/ moving-picture show themes, songs from a finical nation, revampings of familiar tunes from other genres, and so on. The group was founded by producer/engineer Dick L. Miller, world Health Organization was searching for a means to mimicker the sound and stylus of orchestras light-emitting diode by "name" conductors like Mantovani, without the expense involved in securing their services. He hit upon the idea of recruiting unknown European groups at a much lower monetary value, and made the 101 Strings Orchestra into something of a brand name (since the personality of the grouping rested with the arrangements, the individual musicians were more or less similar, so retentive as they could play in the predetermined panache). The orchestra's get-go base was Miller's own Somerset label and their first arranger was Robert Lowden; he was followed by Joseph Kuhn and Monte Kelly in turn, all of whom wrote occasional original numbers pool as well. In 1964, Miller sold the whole one hundred one Strings parcel to the Alshire label, which continued to turn out product with assembly seam regularity over the following few decades. During their first decade, the one hundred one Strings would now and again extend a more than experimental album as a change of yard, merely that all stopped-up after their fan base's chemical reaction to 1968's futuristic and at times unsettling Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 (which became a sought-after detail among latter-day space age pop fans). In 1995, Madacy Entertainment purchased the Alshire label and began reissuing a great deal of the hundred and one Strings back catalogue on CD, non to honorable mention new material.
