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easy listening

easy listening: what it is, how it sounds and 18 musicians associated with it.

Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound.

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easy listening musicians

Frank Sinatra 1915–1998 · American singer and actor (1915–1998) Bing Crosby 1903–1977 · American singer and actor (1903–1977) Dean Martin 1917–1995 · American singer, actor, comedian and film producer… Michel Legrand 1932–2019 · French film score composer (1932–2019) Henry Mancini 1924–1994 · American film composer (1924–1994) Sammy Davis Jr. 1925–1990 · American entertainer (1925–1990) James Last 1929–2015 · German musician (1929-2015) Kenny G b. 1956 · American saxophonist Johnny Mathis b. 1935 · American singer Frankie Laine 1913–2007 · American pop singer, songwriter, and actor (1913–2007) Piero Piccioni 1921–2004 · Italian lawyer and film composer (1921–2004) Bert Kaempfert 1923–1980 · German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music… Chris Botti b. 1962 · American trumpeter and composer Billy May 1916–2004 · American composer, arranger and trumpeter (1916–2004) Hugo Montenegro 1925–1981 · American conductor (1925-1981) Billy Childs b. 1957 · American jazz pianist Enrico Simonetti 1924–1978 · Italian composer (1924–1978) Quartetto Cetra 1941– · Italian band