Previous posts for November 15th are here: Mantovani (2019), William Herschel (2020), Petula Clark (2021), Mantovani; William Horsley (2022), and William Herschel (2023)
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Mantovani (15 November 1905 – 29 March 1980) was an enormously popular conductor and arranger of light orchestral music.
Tolerance
"Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles ... the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and [have] six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959". - David Roberts, British Hit Singles & Albums, qtd. at Wikipedia
Try to remember, and if you do
You might be feeling old,
How Mantovani and his crew
Made “easy listening” gold.
It was, admit it, quite a coup,
(So many millions sold!)
And not a thing we should pooh-pooh
For having taken hold.
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