Take It Easy/the Four Go Loungecore (2003) (Remastered)

Artist: Various Artists
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Label: Castle
UPC: 00823107214923
Release Date: 9/23/2003
Buy.com Sku: 60613995
Item#: MW3HFG
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. She Loves You - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
2. Ticket To Ride - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
3. Yesterday - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
4. Norwegian Wood - Parrafin Jack Flash ~ Various Artists
5. Michelle - Sounds Orchestral ~ Various Artists
6. Nowhere Man - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
7. Eleanor Rigby - London Pops ~ Various Artists
8. Here, There & Everywhere - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
9. With A Little Help From My Friends - Tony Hatch ~ Various Artists
10. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - John Schroe ~ Various Artists
11. When I'm Sixty-Four - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
12. She's Leaving Home - London Pops ~ Various Artists
13. Fool On The Hill, The - Dennis Lopez ~ Various Artists
14. Back In The USSR - John Schroeder ~ Various Artists
15. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Cyril Stapleton ~ Various Artists
16. Hey Jude - Tony Hatch ~ Various Artists
17. Something - Dennis Lopez ~ Various Artists
18. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - London Pops ~ Various Artists
19. Let It Be - The London Pops Orchestra ~ Various Artists
20. Long And Winding Road, The - London Pops ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Take It Easy: The Fab Four Go Loungecore is cheesy, silly, and totally inessential to all but the most rabid Beatles collector. It is also a hilarious collection of ridiculously smooth easy listening versions of Beatles songs that fans of obscure and strange music will dig. The tracks were cut between 1966 and 1974 and feature some of the cream of the English easy listening scene. Each of these artists treats the Beatles songs with a different style of abuse. Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra absolutely murder classics like "She Loves You" and "Ticket to Ride," smothering them in strings and turning loose an overly enthusiastic vocal chorus. The way they hit the "yeah, yeah, yeahs" in "She Loves You" is a guaranteed side-splitter. Stapleton also manages to turn the aching "Nowhere Man" into a perky cha-cha number that sounds like it came straight off of an Xavier Cugat record. Paraffin Jack Flash drags "Norwegian Wood" to Tijuana kicking and screaming all the while. Sounds Orchestral blend nightclub jazz piano and bass with syrupy strings on "Michelle." The London Pops Orchestra gives the group's more ponderous numbers like "Eleanor Rigby" and "She's Leaving Home" the full swooning orchestra sound for maximum handkerchief-wringing effect. Tony Hatch's contributions are the closest to actual music here. He turns "With a Little Help From My Friends" into an almost legitimate jazz number and gives "Hey Jude" a highly arranged, almost inventive folk-rock meets the orchestra sound. Elsewhere the John Schroeder Orchestra makes an interesting attempt at "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" that may be the best track on the record; at least it is the only one that won't force the listener to chuckle a bit. The orchestra also makes some heavy rock noises on "Back in the U.S.S.R.," which features vocals by a young David Bowie. Not really, but the singer does kind of sound like him. The only group who lets down the side is Dennis Lopez and his Liquid Latin Sound. If by "Liquid" he means unable to carry a tune if it was welded to his hand, then Dennis is very liquid as he mangles "Fool on the Hill" and "Something." Take It Easy: The Fab Four Go Loungecore is not for the faint of heart nor the kind of Beatles fan who thinks of their songs as sacred texts. It is for fans who aren't afraid to get ankle deep in cheese, because the cheese is threatening to flood the whole darn city. ~ Tim Sendra

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/23/2003
Original Release Date : 2003
Catalog ID : 72149
Label : Castle Music Ltd. (UK)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00823107214923

  
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