AVID Easy presents the latest release in our Four Classic Album series with a 2CD release from Ferrante & Teicher, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.
“Broadway To Hollywood”; “Music From The Motion Picture West Side Story And Other Motion Picture And Broadway Hits”; “Golden Piano Hits”, and “Tonight”
Between 1950 and 1980, the piano duo Arthur Ferrante and his buddy Louis Teicher were a major American easy listening act and scored four big U.S. hits: “Theme from The Apartment” “Theme from Exodus” , “Tonight” , and “Midnight Cowboy” They performed popular standards by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and many other and recorded regularly with pops orchestras etc. The pair met while studying at the famed Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1930 and began their professional music career in 1947. If you like easy listening piano music you will love these two! We have selected four early albums from what was arguably the duo’s heyday in the 1960s. However for those with a little more adventurous ears the duo did come over all John Cage when they started experimenting with “prepared piano and assorted noises in the late 1950s when many of the avant garde composers like Cage and Stockhausen were emerging from the underground. Ferrante and Teicher retired in 1989 after an amazingly successful 42 year career and went on to live long lives before dying in 2008 and 2009 respectively well into their eighties. As with all AVID releases, we hope you enjoy this classic set and check out our extensive catalogue for more great music across easy listening, jazz and many other musical genres.
Check out:- Julie Andrews (AMSC1007); Tony Bennett (AMSC1399); Tutti Camarata (AMSC729, 730, 731, 739); Frances Day (AMSC926); Frances Faye (AMSC1177); Robert Farnon (AVHN101); Judy Garland (AMSC1228, 1336 & 1405); George Gershwin (AMSC639 & 641); The Ink Spots (AMSC683); Mantovani (AVC889); Ralph Sharon (AVC862 & 863); Dinah Shore (AMSC649 & 1345); Frank Sinatra (AMSC936 & 1417); Classic Original Soundtracks (AMSC1380); Honky Tonk & Sparkling Piano (AVC986).
CD1
1-12: ‘Broadway To Hollywood’
1. I Love Paris
2. C’est Magnifique
3. The Continental (You Kiss While You’re Dancing)
4. A Foggy Day
5. No Other Love
6. The Last Time I Saw Paris
7. I Am In Love
8. Allez-vous en, Go Away
9. A Very Special Day
10. Marriage Type Love
11. I’m Your Girl
12. Wonderful Copenhagen
13-23: ‘Music From The Motion Picture West Side Story And Other Motion Picture And Broadway Hits’
13. Overture from West Side Story
14. Maria
15. Tonight
16. Somewhere
17. I Feel Pretty
18. Camelot
19. Gigi
20 Theme From Carnival a/k/a/ Love Makes The World Go ‘Round
21. Three Coins In The Fountain
22. Fanny
23. Around The World In Eighty Days
CD2
1-12: ‘Golden Piano Hits’
1. Exodus
2. Canadian Sunset
3. Autumn Leaves
4. Bewitched
5. Begin The Beguine
6. Tchaikovsky Concerto
7. Miserlou
8. ‘Till
9. Warsaw Concerto
10. Nocturne In E Flat
11. Near You
12. Quiet Village
13-24: ‘Tonight’
13. Tonight
14. King Of Kings
15. La Strada
16. The Way You Look Tonight
17. Thousand And One Nights
18. Shalom
19. Moon River
20. Smile
21. Lover’s Lullaby
22. Lili Marlene
23. Twilight
24. I’ll Be Seeing You
