Various Artists - Golden Age Of American Popular Music: Hits With Strings and Things - Hot 100 Instrumentals From 1956-1965

2009 collection, another fine installment in the excellent Golden Age of Popular Music. This edition contains the orchestral and 'easy' instrumental hits that helped define the Golden Age of Popular Music, an era spanning, roughly 1956-67, when the US charts were brimming with an eclectic cornucopia of sounds and styles that is unlikely to be repeated in today's age corporate, socially engineered music making. 28 tracks including cuts from Kai Winding, Paul Mauriat, the Village Stompers, Al Hirt, Lawrence Welk, Acker Bilk and many others. Ace.

1) More - Kai Winding
2) Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat
3) Washington Square - Village Stompers
4) Mexico - Bob Moore
5) Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell
6) Fly Me to the Moon - Joe Harnell
7) Flying Circle - Fray Slay
8) Image - Hank Levine
9) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
10) Beautiful Obsesion - Sir Chauncey
11) Java - Al Hirt
12) The Enchanted Sea - the Islanders
13) A Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski
14) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
15) Moon River - Henry Mancini
16) Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
17) A Swingin' Safara - Billy Vaughn
18) Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
19) Summer Set - Monty Kelly
20) Baby Elephant Walk - the Miniature Men
21) Lost Love - H.B. Barnum
22) Soul Coaxing (Amy Caline) - Raymond Lefevre
23) The Dis-Advantages of You - the Brass Ring
24) Summer Samba (So Nice) - Walter Wandereley
25) Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter (With Eddie Heywood)
26) Theme from 'A Summer Place' - Percy Faith
27) Music to Watch Girls By - the Bob Crewe Generation
28) Bonanza - Al Caiola