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The Melachrino Orchestra "Music For Daydreaming"
Full-Length 12" Vinyl Album

Album Description: Busty redhead with a far-away look lounging in a see-thru negligee on this classic cheesecake album cover. The vinyl record is in glossy clean very good+ to excellent condition and in the original RCA Victor Records inner sleeve. The cover is in glossy excellent condition, no seam splits. Please see pictures. Check out our other listings for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply. Tracklist and additional album information below.
Tracklist:
1. To A Wild Rose    
2. Serenade In The Night    
3. Barcarolle    
4. In The Still Of The Night    
5. Star Dust    
6. Moonlight And Roses    
7. Dusk    
8. By The Sleepy Lagoon    
9. Indian Summer    
10. Evensong

George Melachrino (1909-1965) was a musician, movie composer, and musical director who was English born of Greek and Italian descent. He was an accomplished player of the violin, viola, oboe, clarinet and saxophone. George Melachrino was born in London, England. As a young boy, he had a love of music. At the age of five, he began composing and by the age of fourteen he enrolled in the Trinity College of Music. In 1927, he began his career by singing and playing at the Savoy Hill Studios in London. For the next twelve years, he played in many different bands and orchestras. In the 1930s, Melachrino started working for bands led by Ambrose singing & playing saxophone with Carroll Gibbons at the Savoy Hotel London, and Bert Firman, and started playing on radio for the BBC. By 1939, he started his own band and secured a contract at the Café de Paris. He joined the Army a year later, and received training at the Corps of Military Police where he became a P.T. Instructor. Melachrino also gained experience as a military musician, at the Army Broadcasting Department, as Musical Director for the recording of entertainment for overseas forces, leading the British Band of the American Expeditionary Forces and the Orchestra Khaki. After the war, in 1945, he formed the George Melachrino Orchestra, an orchestra that became synonymous with sweet and melodious music. From 1945-1947 he conducted for Richard Tauber in most of his Parlophone recordings and BBC broadcasts. In 1956, his orchestra's track, "Autumn Concerto", reached number 18 in the UK Singles Chart, and remained in the chart for nine weeks. Melachrino frequently performed on BBC and American Armed Forces Radio. He vied with Mantovani in trying to dominate the post World War II easy listening audiences. The Starlight Roof Waltz, as performed by the George Melachrino Strings, was the signature tune of the radio programme Moeders wil is wet (1949–1974), the Dutch equivalent of Housewives' Choice. Melachrino has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (web bio)

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