Description:
33-1/3 LP - Somerset Recording, stereo fidelity. Jacket in good condition, though repaired with wide scotch tape top and bottom due to shelf wear. Sleeve is sound and in very good condition. Recording hole doesn’t appear to have been played much. Fine scratches and buff marks both sides. Needs cleaning. Hasn’t been played in decades.
HISTORY: 101 Strings was an umbrella term for budget pop’s most successful ‘easy listening’ organization. Although many 101 Strings albums are indifferently orchestrated versions of disposable pop hits and overworked show tunes, the early SOMERSET material rates high in the ‘exotica’ and lounge genre. 101 Strings Soul Of The Blues and Back Beat Symphony comprise essential early experiments in symphonic-pop hybridization. The Alshire catalog was sold to Madacy, Inc. in the 1990s. Although 101 Strings compilations were reissued on CD during the ‘lounge revival,’ the new label failed to understand or exploit the post-modern sensibilities of their potential new audience. Few 101 Strings LPs have been released in their original form and many of the more striking originals have not been digitized. Classic 101 Strings material proliferates only through collectors’ markets.
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