Living Voices

Living Voices – Sings Broadway Tunes (1965/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA’s wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices’ albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. As title says, here’s the Living Voices sings the songs from a famous Broadway musicals.

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Living Voices – Sing The Music From The Motion Picture “Paint Your Wagon” (1971/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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The Living Strings were a studio orchestra founded in 1959 by RCA Victor for a series of easy listening recordings issued on the RCA Camden budget label. There were also related groups called the Living Voices, Living Brass, Living Guitars, Living Marimbas, Living Jazz, Living Trio, Living Percussion, and Living Organ.

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Living Voices – The Little Drummer Boy (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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RCA’s wildly successful Living Stereo series spawned a number of ensembles with Living in their titles; the two that folks remember these days are The Living Strings and The Living Voices. Both groups were the brainchild of RCA’s trailblazing female producer Ethel Gabriel, who assembled some of the finest studio musicians, arrangers and vocalists for lush, beautifully recorded albums aimed at a middle America eager to give their newly acquired stereo systems a spin. In particular, the two holiday albums featured on this twofer that she released with The Living Voices remain treasured among Christmas music aficionados for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. The first, 1962’s Sing Christmas Music, had actually come out on the Living Stereo imprint in 1959 as Christmas Surprises from The Ralph Hunter Choir; choir director Hunter garnered two Grammy nominations that year for his album The Wild Wild West. Among the surprises was the introduction of orchestra of toys including the Hunter family s electric train and transformer to Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and an intriguing rendition of The Indian Christmas Carol, which is credited as being the first North American Christmas song dating back to 1643! The second album, 1965’s The Little Drummer Boy, featured the legendary Anita Kerr Singers and production by Anita Kerr herself; the program varies from recent Broadway fare (Be a Santa from Subways Are for Sleeping; Pine Cones and Holly Berries from Here s Love) to warhorses like Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas to modern classics like Blue Christmas and the title tune.

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Living Voices – Living Voices Sing Christmas Music (1962/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Living Voices – Positively 4th Street and Other Message Folk Songs (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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The message folk songs that have become so important in popular music in recent months have been heralded for their timeliness. But everything in this album is not that simple, not that easily categorized–not when one really listens to the extraordinarily meaningful lyrics that are virtually always the thing.

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Living Voices – Nancy With The Laughing Face (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA’s wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices’ albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. “Nancy With The Laughing Face” have been released in 1968 by RCA/Camden label and features the collection of covers, arranged and conducted by Bob Armstrong.

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Living Voices – Living Voices Sing the Music from the Broadway Musical “George M!” (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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George M! is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as “The Man Who Owned Broadway.” The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal. Music and lyrics were, of course, by George M. Cohan himself, with revisions for the musical by Cohan’s daughter, Mary Cohan. The story covers the period from the late 1880s until 1937 and focuses on Cohan’s life and show business career from his early days in vaudeville with his parents and sister to his later success as a Broadway singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, theatre director and producer.

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Living Voices – Angel Of The Morning (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA’s wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices’ albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. “Angel Of The Morning” have been released in 1969 by RCA/Camden label and features the covers of “rock/pop” tunes, arranged and conducted by Bob Armstrong.

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