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Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. [9] . It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.
The Billboard Easy listening chart, as it was first known, was born of a desire by some radio stations in the late 1950s and early 1960s to continue playing current hit songs but distinguish themselves from being branded as "rock and roll" stations.
On the first chart of 1970, the number one position was held by "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by B. J. Thomas, which was in its third week atop the Easy Listening chart, [2] and also held the top spot on Billboard ' s all-genres listing, the Hot 100. [3] It remained atop the Easy Listening chart for the first four weeks of the year before ...
Issue DateTitleArtist (s)January 3January 10January 17January 24Kostelanetz may be best known to modern audiences for a series of easy listening instrumental albums on Columbia Records from the 1940s until 1980. Kostelanetz actually started making this music before there was a genre called "easy listening".
1946-1966. Pre-rock pop was a background hum of sound before the trade papers concocted the term Easy Listening. -- Arnold Shaw. As an object of historical elision and nomenclatural confusion, "easy listen- ing" offers us an opportunity to explore the construction of meaning and value for popular music. Although its referents subtly shift from ...
Listening in conversation. Listening is giving attention to a sound. When listening, a person hears what others are saying and tries to understand what it means. Listening involves complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes.
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popula
