SRP EASY LISTENING TAPE 6213 CA

SRP EASY LISTENING TAPE 6213 CA
11-Arthur's Theme - Ron Goodwin (SRP custom track)
12-Only You - Roger Williams (C)
13-Allez Vous En - SRP Orchestra (SRP custom track)
14-Misty - Hugo Winterhalter
15-Feels So Good - Johnny Douglas (BBC custom track)
21-We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye - Frank Chacksfield
22-Isle Of Capri - Franck Pourcel (C)
23-Follow Me - Alshire Singers
24-The Last Waltz - Paul Muriat
25-Smile (Charles Chaplin) - Bert Weedon
31-Behind Closed Doors - Lenny Dee
32-Lemon Tree - Percy Faith (C)
33-Friendly Persuasion - Norman Percival
34-Won't Somebody Dance With Me - Alan Tew
41-There's No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Aldrich
42-Goodbye - Hank Levine Chorus
43-Mean To Me - John Fox (BBC custom track)
44-Here I Am - Tony Mottola
45-Go Away Little Girl - 101 Strings
(C) Removed due to KZbin Copyright restriction.
This video is music from an SRP tape that was distributed to radio stations. WPAT was broadcasting SRP for a few years and this tape may have played on WPAT. The pictures here are of this one of the three SRP tapes I bought on Ebay in 2001 (1368 AC, 3262 CA, 6213 CA). The 10" tapes are recorded at 7.5 ips half track Stereo. WPAT request for 14" tapes at 15 ips was never honored.
The head alignment test and subsonic automation cue tones are on the tape but back in 2001 I did not record the tones, just the music. I have grouped the song list in 15 minute segments (10s, 20s, 30s and 40s) identified by the cue tones. The automation could intermix segments from tape to tape.
The following information was taken from EasyListeningHQ.com
By the late 70s, and certainly the early 80s, sources for instrumental music had virtually dried up in Europe as well as in America. Radio programmers were faced with the problem of how to keep their formats fresh with new music in order to be contemporary. While they had many versions of, say, Begin the Beguine that they could play, the perception was that the stations would be dated and unable to attract younger listeners without being able to air instrumental arrangements of current rock and pop songs.
What to do?
The answer was to hire arrangers and commission orchestras to play and record tunes that broadcasters wanted and in the styles that fit the format. According to Phil Stout, programmer extraordinaire at Schulke Radio Productions (SRP), the very first "custom" project was commissioned by SRP. Phil has provided a very interesting description of the project and a song list, which we present in a very special EasyListeningHQ.com Spotlight feature.
The next documented project was arranged and conducted by Bill Loose in 1975. Bill was largely doing commercial background and musical cue music for Capitol Records at the time. His productions for the Good Music Company were exceptional, having been recorded in Europe on multi-track tapes, mixed down to two-track and purveyed to broadcasters on vinyl records.
Visionary Jim Schlichting of Starborne Productions produced the next project on a grand scale by commissioning Frank Chacksfield to record dozens of tracks that Jim also pressed on vinyl and licensed to syndicators. While those who licensed the music from Jim squealed about the rates, they were in for severe sticker shock when they began to produced and record custom music themselves. They soon found that the musician rates in the United States were too high, and that forced most of the recordings to be done in Europe where the music could be produced more inexpensively. Hence, one finds that most of the projects were done using European arrangers.
Another factor that drove the custom music projects was an association that Jim Schulke had formed with the BBC. He was able to sign a contract that gave him exclusive broadcast rights to certain BBC material. Not to be outdone, Bonneville hitched up with Reddifusion in Europe and was able to license exclusive rights to a large amount of material from the Reddifusion background music library, identified on their service as the "Buckingham Strings."
Back in America...
Stung by their inability to get the rights to the Schulke and Bonneville material, and because those two companies together were fiercely fighting to be "King of the Mountain," the smaller companies and independent stations banded together and formed the "International Beautiful Music Association" (IBMA) and collectively put their money into a pot to record their own sessions with an agreement between them that neither Schulke nor Bonneville would be allowed to license the material.

[@Catloverplayer]

This music is making a comeback in large hospitals. Two near me play it in they're halls,cafeteria and bathroom. Now it needs to come back on the FM Dial.

[@raccoon874]

*This needs to come back at malls, chain stores, big-box stores and especially grocery stores - the GARBAGE played now just makes me want to leave which I often do.*

[@DavieHenry-jz7vs]

It needs to come back

[@Catloverplayer]

Go Away Little Girl is by the 101 Strings with Jack Dorsey conducting the orchestra.. I have that one.

[@Catloverplayer]

The 101 Strings Orchestra also did another instrumental version of this song probably a different conductor was conducting the other version but both are really beautiful.

[@DavieHenry-jz7vs]

Nice

[@HinselScott]

Absolutely some of the most enjoyable music! Thank you for posting.

[@Canada-q6y]

Good years

[@hmichaelkraut7968]

Love the transfer. Thank you!

[@thy-ine]

Arthur's Theme - Ron Goodwin (SRP custom track) Only You - Roger Williams Allez Vous En - SRP Orchestra (SRP custom track) Misty - Hugo Winterhalter Feels So Good - Johnny Douglas (BBC custom track) We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye - Frank Chacksfield Isle Of Capri - Franck Pourcel Follow Me - Alshire Singers The Last Waltz - Paul Muriat Smile (Charles Chaplin) - Bert Weedon Behind Closed Doors - Lenny Dee Lemon Tree - Percy Faith Friendly Persuasion - Norman Percival Won't Somebody Dance with Me - Alan Tew There's No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Aldrich Goodbye - Hank Levine Chorus Mean To Me - John Fox (BBC custom track) Here I Am - Tony Mottola Go Away Little Girl

[@juancarlosmontes]

Please reply if you can name that tune! Please vote this comment up. 0:00 Arthur's Theme 2:31 5:22 Misty 8:14 Feels So Good 11:20 14:58 Follow Me 17:23 20:23 Smile 22:43 Behind Closed Doors 25:06 28:14 32:01 34:58 Goodbye 37:15 40:23 43:26 Go Away Little Girl

[@gammaron]

17:23 The Last Waltz 40:23 Here I Am

[@russelljones1176]

32:01 There's No Getting Over Me 37:15 Mean To Me

[@thy-ine]

Arthur's Theme - Ron Goodwin (SRP custom track) Only You - Roger Williams Allez Vous En - SRP Orchestra (SRP custom track) Misty - Hugo Winterhalter Feels So Good - Johnny Douglas (BBC custom track) We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye - Frank Chacksfield Isle Of Capri - Franck Pourcel Follow Me - Alshire Singers The Last Waltz - Paul Muriat Smile (Charles Chaplin) - Bert Weedon Behind Closed Doors - Lenny Dee Lemon Tree - Percy Faith Friendly Persuasion - Norman Percival Won't Somebody Dance with Me - Alan Tew There's No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Aldrich Goodbye - Hank Levine Chorus Mean To Me - John Fox (BBC custom track) Here I Am - Tony Mottola Go Away Little Girl

[@rutheliz75]

Love it ! Thanks for posting .

[@FerniDeck]

Qaue lindos temas ! ..yo conozco Misty y el ultimo vals cantado por Engelbert Humperdinck..hermosas ! Te reamo cielinn Ferni🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@60gregma]

Really enjoy these. Are there more coming?

[@CV2200A]

This is one of the only 3 I have. I bought them on ebay quite a few years ago. Here ate the other 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anSnn4GGos-Cp5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGayeIuhfZh_fa8 There are other people who have out up this kind of music on KZbin.

[@Catloverplayer]

Lee Holdrich has a very beautiful instrumental version of Follow Me. He did an album with based on John Denver tunes.

[@The4MusketeersYT]

did these actually come with an official tracklist? it seems as this may be the first reel to reel i’ve seen on youtube where every track has a name lol

[@CV2200A]

No, the tape did not come with track listing. This tape had been up on KZbin for some time but got taken down for Copyright. I have uploaded this with the 3 Copyright offenders removed. Before the previous post was taken down someone posted all the track information in the comments. We'll see how long this stays up before another Copyright claim arises.

[@Catloverplayer]

I believe that hospitals use the Easy Listening Station on Music Choice thru satellite.

[@mikeplott292]

Here's an update on my comment earlier...Song is not "Let's Put It All Together" by John Fox. Song is titled. "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" as recorded by Alan Tew Orchestra and Chorus. This comes from his 1975 album "To The One I Love".

[@CV2200A]

Thanks for the correction to the song title and artist!

[@Tiqerboy]

What is the song at 32:00 ? I see you have a playlist, but it would be helpful to give the time count on the track where each is found. Virtually all this music is unfamiliar to me. *EDIT* I see the playlist has been partially decoded below

[@CV2200A]

The song at time 32:00 is 41-There's No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Aldrich.

[@Tiqerboy]

According to what I found elsewhere on KZbin, it appears Ronnie Milsap sang it.

[@mikeplott292]

Sounds great! That custom instrumental of John Fox in the 3rd quarter hour titled Let's Put It All Together (Stylistics's cover) doesn't sound like that song Let's Put It All Together. The tempo is too fast. Was that title listed on your tape legend queue sheet? Did you veriify that particular musical piece from and enclosed tape legend (cue sheet)? Normally Ebay doesn't include the cue sheets with the half track broadcast tapes for sale due to copyright issues of the cue sheet.

[@Catloverplayer]

One of my favorite beautiful music songs is Come In From The Rain by Frank Chacksfield which isn't played here. I also love Norm Gellar's version of Where Is The Love.

[@Fool3SufferingFools]

Norm Geller used the same arrangement (possibly even the same track) to back up Vic Damone on an album in the Eighties.

[@Catloverplayer]

@@Fool3SufferingFools Yes I meant Norm Geller's instrumental version of the song. I didn't know he was in the background on Vic Damone's Version.

[@AiMR]

Thanks for the re-up 👍

[@marcdale232]

17:23 : The Last Waltz

[@marcdale232]

oops! didn't see the reply below, sorry!