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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Pearls Of Love - The Players

Pearls Of Love (Sample Track)
Full Album
Pearls Of Love
The Players
Liberty LPR 3027
1957

Here's an early Liberty album, number 27 as listed on Liberty's discography. And as usual, for Liberty, this is a fine space age album. Of course, the gem of a cheesecake cover (photo by Gene Lesser) was worth the price of the LP to me.

As you can tell from the sample above, the vibe is sort of Three Suns spacey easy listening. The Players may have been studio musicians assembled to make this one album. I couldn't track down any info on the group.

5 comments:

  1. a slow-tempo waltz with melancholic accordéon - most wunnerful! thank you for posting! (and i wouldn't mind a second soundbite to see if it's as good as the title track *nudge, nudge, grin*)

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    1. I almost posted a tango... but that track and all the remaining track, while in keeping with the spacey vibe... seemed to pale in comparison the mystery carnival tune.

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  2. Hello Pearls of love by The Players Top LP thank you very
    much
    Regards Tom

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  3. Is this music considered Exotica? I think Charles Dant is mostly known as a jazz musician but I found this album while searching for Exotica album covers, so now I'm confused. The accordion makes this music sound almost French. There are no jungle sounds in the background, no congas nor bongos, I don't know what to make of this lol

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    1. Descriptive labels, from the period, tend to overlap. I think this set is "exotic" sounding and is likely labeled by some as exotica due to quality of the cover image. Another good catch-all label would be "mood music".

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