Sounds Orchestral

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Cast Your Fate to the Wind 03:16 Tools
Our Love Story 00:00 Tools
Moonshot 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada 00:00 Tools
Soul Coaxing 00:00 Tools
Downtown 00:00 Tools
When Love Has Gone 00:00 Tools
Kissy Suzuki 00:00 Tools
Something's Coming 00:00 Tools
Michelle 00:00 Tools
To Wendy With Love 00:00 Tools
Sounds Anonymous 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie 00:00 Tools
Like the Lonely 00:00 Tools
Black Is Black 00:00 Tools
Love Letters 00:00 Tools
While We Danced At the Mardi Gras 00:00 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No.9 00:00 Tools
Moon River 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Superman 00:00 Tools
Stranger on the Shore 00:00 Tools
Thunderball 00:00 Tools
Image 00:00 Tools
Carnival (Manha De Carnaval) - From 'Black Orpheus' Soundtrack 00:00 Tools
Cast Your Fate To The Winds 00:00 Tools
Superstition 00:00 Tools
Somethings Coming 00:00 Tools
Solitaire 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Fall In Love Again 00:00 Tools
Love is Blue 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
Classical Gas 00:00 Tools
What a Wonderful World 02:40 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No. 9 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Starshine 00:00 Tools
Step Inside Love 00:00 Tools
Words 00:00 Tools
From Russia With Love 00:00 Tools
Smoke Ritual 00:00 Tools
Simon Says 00:00 Tools
I'm a Believer 00:00 Tools
Canadian Sunset 02:44 Tools
Blues For Pussy 00:00 Tools
Coloured Rain 00:00 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No.9 - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
Jennifer Juniper 00:00 Tools
Carnival 00:00 Tools
007 Theme 00:00 Tools
Day by Day 00:00 Tools
Green Tambourine 00:00 Tools
James Bond Theme 00:00 Tools
Wichita Lineman 00:00 Tools
Goldfinger 00:00 Tools
At The Mardi Gras 00:00 Tools
Our Love Story (from TV series 'Love Story') 00:00 Tools
Spectre 00:00 Tools
Pink Panther 00:00 Tools
Me, The Peaceful Heart 00:00 Tools
Charade 00:00 Tools
By The Time I Get To Phoenix 00:00 Tools
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman 00:00 Tools
Ain't that peculiar 00:00 Tools
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother 00:00 Tools
I can take or leave your loving 00:00 Tools
One More 00:00 Tools
Have Faith In Your Love 00:00 Tools
it's too late 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Shores 00:00 Tools
God Only Knows 00:00 Tools
Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00:00 Tools
Vincent 00:00 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No. 5 00:00 Tools
A Walk In The Black Forest 00:00 Tools
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? 00:00 Tools
Half As Nice 00:00 Tools
Love And The World Loves With You 03:58 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No 5 00:00 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No 9 00:00 Tools
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 00:00 Tools
Guantanamera 00:00 Tools
Move In A Little Closer Baby 00:00 Tools
Aquarius 00:00 Tools
Love In The Shadows 00:00 Tools
How Soon 00:00 Tools
Our Love Story (from TV series "Love Story") [1967] 00:00 Tools
Mr. Oddjob 00:00 Tools
So Long My Love 00:00 Tools
Lonely Princess 00:00 Tools
Thoughts 00:00 Tools
The James Bond Theme 00:00 Tools
Goldfinger Theme 00:00 Tools
Baby Elephant Walk 00:00 Tools
Carnival (Manha de Carnaval) 00:00 Tools
The Sweetheart Tree 00:00 Tools
Scarborough Fair 00:00 Tools
Mr Oddjob 00:00 Tools
we've only just begun 00:00 Tools
Kizzy Suzuki 00:00 Tools
Do you know the way to San Jose 00:00 Tools
Cast Your Fate 00:00 Tools
I Love You And Don't You Forget It 00:00 Tools
A Boy And A Girl 00:00 Tools
Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus 00:00 Tools
Two For The Road 00:00 Tools
Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus 00:00 Tools
Mr Lucky 00:00 Tools
you've got a friend 00:00 Tools
if you could read my mind 00:00 Tools
cast you 00:00 Tools
Dear Heart 00:00 Tools
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 00:00 Tools
your song 00:00 Tools
Shackled 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water 00:00 Tools
Prelude No. 20 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String 00:00 Tools
Scarbourgh Fair 00:00 Tools
Something 00:00 Tools
Pretty Flamingo 00:00 Tools
if not for you 00:00 Tools
Call Me 00:00 Tools
007 00:00 Tools
Carnival (Manha de Carnaval) (From 'Black Orpheus' Soundtrack) 00:00 Tools
sweet unity 00:00 Tools
Family Of Man 00:00 Tools
a picture of you 00:00 Tools
Panther Cocktail (Medly From The Pink Panther) 00:00 Tools
Blue Bolero 00:00 Tools
Starglow 00:00 Tools
Carnival (Manha De Carnaval) [From 'Black Orpheus' Soundtrack] 00:00 Tools
Caste Your Fate To The Wind 00:00 Tools
Wigwam 00:00 Tools
Romance on the North Sea 00:00 Tools
Carnival (Manha de Carnival) 00:00 Tools
West Of Carnaby 00:00 Tools
Cast You Fate Th The Wind 00:00 Tools
Soul Trek 00:00 Tools
Soul Coaching 00:00 Tools
(They Long To Be) Close To You 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada [1967] 00:00 Tools
Star Buckle 00:00 Tools
Scarlatti Potion No.9 (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Many Moons Ago 00:00 Tools
I Can't Take Or Leave Your Loving 00:00 Tools
Panther Cocktail 00:00 Tools
Exodus 00:00 Tools
Young Girl 00:00 Tools
Theme from Thunderball 00:00 Tools
(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice 00:00 Tools
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Sounds Orchestral was a British studio-based easy listening group, assembled by John Schroeder with Johnny Pearson in 1964. John Schroeder had worked with Johnny Pearson previously over at Oriole Records, producing Johnny Pearson's first solo album. Moving to Pye, Schroeder was quick to assemble the line-up which would become Sounds Orchestral, intended to be a competitor group to EMI's successful Sounds Incorporated. Johnny Pearson (piano), Kenny Clare (drums and percussion), and Tony Reeves (bassist, who later played with Curved Air) filled out the group. Other members included Peter McGurk on bass, who died in June 1968. McGurk's position was assumed by Frank Clark. Generally in the studio, there would be a trio, backed by other instruments led by Tony Gilbert, who would play violin on many of the tracks. On the second last album in 1975, members had changed to Johnny Pearson on piano, Ronnie Verrell on drums, and Russ Stapleford on bass guitar. Sounds Orchestral's version of Vince Guaraldi's 1962 instrumental "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" hit #1 on the 1–15 May 1965 U.S. Adult Contemporary charts and #10 on the 8 May 1965 Hot 100. With Sound Orchestral's peak that week, the British Commonwealth came closer than it ever had or would to a clean sweep of a weekly Hot 100's Top 10, lacking only a hit at #2 instead of "Count Me In" by the American group Gary Lewis & The Playboys. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" sold over one million copies and achieved gold disc status. The track peaked at #5 in the UK Singles Chart some three months earlier. The follow-up, "Moonglow" (1965) reached #43 in the UK. Sounds Orchestral made one last original album, in 1977 for K-tel, featuring 20 of the most current and popular television and movie themes. By the close of 1977, Sounds Orchestral had released sixteen different record albums, twelve vinyl 7" singles and three vinyl EPs, besides those in the United Kingdom, which had many differently packaged versions of the latter, particularly singles. Pianist Johnny Pearson is featured on all the Sounds Orchestral albums. When Sounds Orchestral had effectively come to an end in 1977, Pearson had already established a successful solo career on other record labels. He was also music arranger on the UK BBC television programme, Top of the Pops. At the end of the late 1980s, the CD era arrived. A number of Sounds Orchestral albums were re-released for the first time on compact disc. Most notable was the reissue in 1991, of the fourth 1966 Sounds Orchestral album, Sounds Orchestral Play Favourite Classical Melodies. Retitled Classical Classics, but with eight new tracks by Schroeder and Pearson, the album was dedicated to the memory of Sounds Orchestral members who had died, including McGurk, Clare, and Gilbert. Pearson himself died on 20 March 2011. Discography Albums 1964 Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Pye) 1965 The Soul of Sounds Orchestral (Pye) 1965 Sounds Orchestral Meets James Bond (Pye) 1966 Sounds Orchestral Plays Classical Melodies (Pye) 1967 Sounds Latin (Pye) 1968 Words (Pye) 1969 Sounds Like a Million (Pye) 1969 Sounds Orchestral Meets Henry Mancini (Pye) 1970 Hits Orchestral, Sounds Orchestral (Pye) 1970 Good Morning Starshine (Pye) 1971 You've Got a Friend (Pye) 1971 Wigwam (Pye) 1974 The Amazing Grace of Sounds Orchestral (Pye) 1974 Clouds (Pye) 1975 Love Me for a Reason (Pye) 1977 Sounds Orchestral perform 20 Great TV Themes (K-Tel) In Australia, some of these were released through Astor, the forerunner to Polygram. Some releases were released in New Zealand through Astor, others through Polygram, New Zealand. In Canada and the US, Sounds Orchestral was released through Parkway and easy listening independent record labels. From 1970, see also Johnny Pearson and his Orchestra. Compilation albums 1968 Portrait in Stereo (Pye) 1970 Sounds Orchestral at the Movies (Pye Marble Arch) 1970 Golden Hour of Sounds Orchestral, Earth Moon and Sky (Pye Golden Hour) 1970 Golden Hour of Sounds Orchestral Vol. 2 (Pye Golden Hour) 1970 Readers Digest Box Set World Record Club (Six album box set UK release) (EMI) All the above were 12" LP vinyl. Cassettes were also issued for the later titles. Some of the above have been repeated on CD. Various releases on CD occur through Castle UK and other labels, starting 1989. Compact disc releases 1988 The Best of Sounds Orchestral (PRT PYC4011) UK 1990 A Golden Hour of Sounds Orchestral (Knight KGHCD136) France - 20 tracks 1990 Images (Castle KNCD 16010) UK 1991 Classical Classics (Castle CCSCD299) UK (included eight new bonus tracks) UK - 22 tracks 1992 The Best Of Sounds Orchestral (Castle MATCD225) UK - 24 tracks 1995 Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Castle NEMCD 617) UK – reissue of Sounds Orchestral's debut album 1997 Sounds Rare (Castle NEMCD 992) UK – Sounds Orchestral 7" Vinyl B-sides 2000 Sounds Chartbound (Castle CMAR662) UK Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.