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1955–1972

Crooners & Standards

Velvet voices and the Great American Songbook.

Before rock took over the dial — the smooth balladeers, supper-club orchestras, and easy-listening standards your parents (or grandparents) slow-danced to. Pour a drink, dim the lights, and let that voice do the rest.

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All 92 tracks

92 tracks
Theme from "A Summer Place"
Percy Faith
1960
Stranger On the Shore
Acker Bilk
1961
I Can't Stop Loving You
Ray Charles
2006
Hello, Dolly!
Louis Armstrong
1964
The Stripper
David Rose
2010
The Candy Man
Sammy Davis, Jr.
1972
Hey Paula
Paul & Paula
1963
Everybody Loves Somebody
Dean Martin
1964
This Guy's In Love With You
Herb Alpert
1968
Sukiyaki
Kyu Sakamoto
1967
Calcutta
Lawrence Welk
1968
Java
Al Hirt
1964
Greenfields
The Brothers Four
1960
Palisades Park
Freddy Cannon
1962
You're the Reason I'm Living
Bobby Darin
1963
Where the Boys Are
Connie Francis
1960
The "In" Crowd
Ramsey Lewis Trio
2004
Grazing in the Grass
Hugh Masekela
1967
Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Caliente El Sol)
The Ray Charles Singers
1964
Midnight In Moscow
Kenny Ball
1962
Travelin' Man
Ricky Nelson
1961
Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Sounds Orchestral
1965
Baby (You've Got What It Takes)
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
1960
Ramblin' Rose
Nat "King" Cole
1962
Portrait of My Love
Steve Lawrence
1960
If I Had a Hammer
Trini Lopez
1963

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▸ Did you know

  • A 'standard' is a song so beloved that every singer eventually records their own version — the Great American Songbook.
  • Easy-listening radio was built for the living-room hi-fi: lush, unhurried, and made to fill a room.