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Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle , an island paradise or outer space . [ 1 ]
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Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
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 the 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.
Ultra-Lounge is a series of compilation CDs released by Capitol Records, featuring music predominantly from the 1950s and 1960s in genres such as exotica, space age pop, mambo, television theme songs, and lounge. Many of the volumes have since been made available for purchase via digital download.
Lounge, the living room of a dwelling; Lounge, a public waiting area in a hotel's lobby; Lounge, a style of commercial alcohol-bar; Airport lounge or train lounge (e.g., Amtrak's Acela Lounge), a premium waiting area for passengers; Dome lounge, a type of domed railroad passenger car that includes lounge, cafe, dining or other space on the ...
Lounge rock is a style of music that is a fusion of folk, 1950s/1960s rock, and jazz. Other influences come from Brazilian music, primarily the early works of Milton Nascimento. Currently, Norwegian and Dire Straits Sondre Lerche are the best known for this style. Notably, the term has also been applied to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon ...
Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin.Their name means "new wave" in French, and refers simultaneously to the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1960s, to the new wave music movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which provides many of the songs that the band covers, and to bossa nova (Portuguese for "new wave"), a musical style that the band ...