My Favorite Things By Enoch Light

Enoch Light was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer who was a pioneer of early stereo excellence. He would go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of current state of the art equipment. He pioneered stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong"). He arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, the first to do so. His ensemble of studio musicians was frequently referred to as The Light Brigade.

The first of the his albums, Persuasive Percussion, became the first huge hit based solely on record sales. His songs received little or no airplay on the radio, because AM radio, the standard of the day, was monaural. He released several albums in the Persuasive Percussion series, as well as a Command test record. He doubled the size of his album sleeves but enabled it to fold like a book, thus inventing the gatefold-packaging format. The gatefold sleeve became extremely popular in later decades, and was used on albums such as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

He pioneered many recording techniques such as the use of 35 mm film soundtrack instead of magnetic tape. Recording on 35 mm film soundtrack reduced the effects of "wow" and "flutter", common in early stereo recordings. The recordings were released under the "35MM" series, starting from "Stereo 35-MM" released by Command Records.
Musicians who appeared on his albums include Doc Severinsen, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, and arranger Lew Davies.

In 1965, he sold the Command record label to ABC, who began using the label for their lesser quality releases. He continued recording after the sale of Command with a new label called Project 3, but did not concentrate so heavily on stereo effects.

Category:

Music

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• Stereo
• Light
• Brigade
• Brass
• Menagerie
• Permissive
• Polyphonics
• pop
• standard
• jazz
• big
• band

[Gefreiter44]

Hey! It's Herb Alpert and the TJB on the left channel (sorta). This reminds me of just how great the '60s really were! Those were the days when they actually used musicians in the recording studios. This is a terrific arrangement and that ending is just killer!

[daynebry]

Feels like a 60's album :-) Where's Barbarella.....

[SuperMesada]

fabuloso.........

[bobareebop]

Those French horns at the beginning, wow!

[EmpressDeborah]

Wow! My new favorite christmas song!

[Tempest1816]

Wow this sounds great!!

[Vorrox]

A fantastic bit of arranging, great playing, and brilliant musical direction that all adds up to a piece of music that is something to snigger about.

[chkjns]

@CadillacL - Lane, I'm not necessarily an audiophile, but I am a music lover AND a tightwad.

There may be better systems, but I consider our Bose investment some of the best money ever spent. It's sound fills every room in a 1900 sq' home. With 12' of extensions, it filled our front yard with sound for a block party last year! Our computer became our stereo the day I opened my account here. Chuck

[CadillacL]

@chkjns I've thought about purchasing a Bose but, I've always wondered "is it worth it?" "Does it do what it claims?" Sounds like Bos IS worth it.

[chkjns]

@CadillacL - 3 yrs before ytube, we spent $220 on a nice Bose sound system, 3 speakers w/subwoofer. One of my best decisions EVER ! ! We get tons of bass sound & the one speaker set FILLS our whole home.

I've known his music for 45 years, thank God, but had trouble finding EL's best albums like this until this channel posted 29 whole albums! Was wondering if I'd remembered his 'sound' wrong. No, this is IT ! ! !

My 500 playlists are a tribute to this & a century of music from around the world.

[Baatzinc]

sounds like a quick version of the song that begins "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"