101 Strings - Play the Great Standards and 50 similar items

Catalog Number: SF-4300 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing (front/back). Inner-sleeve is plastic bag; one seam partially split. Spine has no-text and mild-wear. Catastrophic shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners, both edges completely split alongside right corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Release date is approximately 1957. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Close To You There's A Small Hotel You Go To My Head The Touch Of Your Lips Day By Day The Way You Look Tonight You And I The Nearness Of You Alone Together Two Sleepy People About The Record: Play the Great Standards, by 101 Strings, features lush orchestral interpretations of timeless American popular standards from the Great American Songbook. It exemplifies the groups signature style of string-heavy arrangements designed for relaxation and background ambiance, conducted by Wilhelm Stephan with the Northwest German Radio Orchestra of Hamburg. The tracklist includes classics such as Close to You, The Way You Look Tonight, You Go to My Head, and The Nearness of You, all reimagined in a smooth, instrumental format that captures the elegance of mid-20th-century lounge music. Historically significant as one of the earliest releases from 101 Stringsdebuting just a year after the groups formation in 1957it contributed to the explosion of easy listening records that sold over 50 million copies worldwide during the labels run until 1981. While the album itself did not produce any hit singles, 101 Strings achieved broader commercial success with five UK chart-topping albums, underscoring their enduring popularity in the genre.