Musichound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide to Martini Music and Easy Listening [With Free Music Sampler]

by Steve Knopper

Book Overview

This text delves into the hip lounge music scene, and provides an extended overview of the easy listening genre with a buyer's guide to all the big name singers and groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578590485
• ISBN13: 9781578590483
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Visible Ink Press
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great buy for the CD sampler alone!

The book will open a whole new world to you. Very entertaining to read and informative. Lets you know what's available on CD for the artists, gives cross-references on their movies, LP's, etc. A great purchase you won't regret. Keep it on the coffee table. I've had mine for 6 months and still read the book. The CD is swingin'. Buy this book. You will not be disappointed.

Like a nice, smooth martini...

this book is superbly satisfying. It seems a couple of Four Freshmen fans aren't happy. I say, "lighten up!" And maybe light up a good cigar while you're perusing this fine, fine publication. Finally a book that tells us why Rosemary Clooney is truly famous (and it's NOT because she's related to George!). A book I can use to make wise CD purchasing decisions. And a book that comes with a happening Ultra-Lounge CD. While you Four Freshman groupies may be a bit shaken, I think most people will be stirred (couldn't resist) by Musichound Lounge. It is most definitely an essential guide to one of our most popular genres of music. Another round, please!

Don't use this book as a coaster!!!

From the first article (Abba) to the last (Zamfir), this book gives recommendations on what albums to buy, what albums to avoid, and more. Once I picked the book up, I couldn't put it down. Who knew that Maya Angelou was a calypso singer before becoming a world famous poet? Or that former baseball pitcher Denny McLain recorded an organ version of "The Girl from Ipanema"? Or that the man who wrote "Nature Boy" was homeless and living under the first L in the HOLLYWOOD sign in California when record company execs tracked him down? Great reading. And a great website guide and movie guide (though the movie section could've been much bigger). And the CD has songs by people like Peggy Lee, Julie London, Bobby Darin, Martin Denny, Louis Prima, and Nelson Riddle. If you like lounge music or easy listening, you'll love this book.

What fun!

Boy, is this a fun book! The range of artists covered is pretty wide, but what's wrong with that? Nothing! I didn't know who foreword writer Martin Denny was before I bought this book. But after reading his entry, I'm going right out and buying "The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny." This book is a trip down memory lane, with some current lounge/swing revival thrown in for the younger crowd. And the CD (with a big fat olive on it!) from the Ultra-Lounge people is great, too. If you love music, order this today!

A cornucopia of pop music history

This book covers a whole bunch of artists I haven't seen in other books. The album recommendations will guide you through the massive catalogs of artists who might've intimidated you at the record store otherwise. Lots of great tidbits on people like Sinatra, Esquivel, Martin Denny, Louis Prima, and lots more. Book also comes with a 24 song Ultra-Lounge CD. This is pretty cool stuff. I highly recommend it.