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...after 20 years of hit making, is still climbing the pop charts (Make the World Go Away; What's He Doin' in My World). His mellifluous, high tenor voice is as sweet as ever, but the Nashville Sound is beginning to take on the airs of the Melachrino Strings...
Died. George Melachrino, 56, British orchestra leader who made it big in the late 1940s and '50s by putting violins into the big-band bounce with his 40-piece Melachrino Strings, sold more than 3,000,000 albums and started the rash of "music for . . ." records, among them his Music for Reading, Music for Relaxation, Music for Inspiration; of an apparent heart attack; in London...
...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...
...Netherlands Chamber Choir) to Children go Where I Send You (ColPix) in which Songstress Nina Simone belts out the story of the "little-bitty baby was born in Bethlehem." In between are gaudy packages by the industry's perennial carolers : Arthur Fiedler, Fred Waring, Mitch Miller, George Melachrino. Among the more notable Christmas tinsel...
...Mood music-most of it consisting simply of old favorites and not-so-favorites warmed over-currently accounts for roughly a third of several major companies' album sales. Such old grads of the whipped-cream-and-syrup school as André Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half a million copies. For the hi-fi convert whose interest was less in music...