Bongos Bongos Bongos: Tenderly/Bidin’ My Time/Sylvie/All Of Me/Greensleeves/Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea/Blue Moon/Unchained Melody/Don’t Blame Me/Londonderry Air/The Very Thought Of You/You & The Night & The Music - Bongos Flutes Guitars: How High The Moon/Caravan/C’est Si Bon/Friendly Persuasion/My Funny Valentine/ Making Whoopie/Birth Of The Blues/Golden Earrings/East Of The Sun/By The River St Marie/Laura/I Can Dream Can’t I
Los Admiradores were a studio creation of Enoch Light, used as a vehicle to promote his stereo recording techniques aimed at the newly emerging audiophile market. As such they enjoyed considerable success, Bongos Bongos Bongos reaching No. 2, and Bongos Flutes Guitars reaching No. 3, on the US album chart.
“Los Admiradores were another of Enoch Light's all-star studio creations, put together specifically to explore stereo recording techniques and exploit the large emerging market of fanatical audiophiles. It is not a collection of studio ploys and tricks designed to beguile the public with ping-pong sound effects or other stereo gimmickry, but a subtle and deft exploration of texture, colour, and rhythm, with minimal accompaniment of muted horns, double bass, drums; a recording of superlative definition, minimal clutter, afloat in its own ambience.”
“Easy swinging popular songs with a Latin touch, delicate arrangements and a clean sharp production. For every song there is information about the technical sound effects to enjoy the music on your home system. The future shined bright in 1960.”
“You get a bunch of jazz/pop standards with pretty cool arrangements and bongo breaks galore. Bluesy guitar lines and tight orchestration actually make this record quite listenable.”
“This LP harkens back to the golden age when stereo sound was quite novel. Enoch Light was a pioneer of recording big band jazz in tight stereo separation with highly distinctive arrangements. There are familiar old songs, pop standards and what not distributed among the grooves, all given the bongo treatment and the Enoch Light sonic signature. The cover art is in the Command house style, and one can tell at a glance that the cool cats and kittens were purring all over this one.”
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