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Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1 | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy Used: $2.93
You Save: $9.05 (76%)
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 15920
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 55161
UPC: 724385516122
EAN: 0724385516122
ASIN: B000002UJH
Release Date: April 8, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Light My Fire - Densmore, John | | • | Sunshine Superman - Donovan [1] | | • | Incense and Peppermints/A Beautiful Morning | | • | Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Cosby, Henry | | • | Green Tambourine | | • | Tired of Waiting for You | | • | Mellow Yellow/We Gotta Get Out of This Place | | • | Gimme a Little Sign | | • | A Hard Day's Night - Lennon, John | | • | A Whiter Shade of Pale | | • | Heartbreak Hotel/Don't Be Cruel - Axton, Hoyt | | • | As Tears Go By - Jagger, Mick | | • | Evil Ways | | • | Get Back - Lennon, John | | • | Hello, I Love You/Touch Me - Densmore, John | | • | Dizzy | | • | Theme from Shaft - Hayes, Isaac | | • | Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) - Dylan, Bob | | • | A Day in the Life/I Am the Walrus - Lennon, John | | • | Daydream Believer - Stewart, John | | • | Winchester Cathedral | | • | Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Macaulay, Tony | | • | Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - Macdermot, Galt |
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's Retro lounge! Ditch the grouchiness you grouches! May 20, 2007
Kenny Covington (Spartanburg, SC USA)
Oh Man, This cd is so cool! I loved every ineterpretation and rendering! Hey I'm young , but I realize this is lounge and not mean't to usurp or dinegrate the original, so some of you peeps lighten-up! It's fab! These songs do make you think of times when cars were sleek and clothes actually fit people! The 60's were a mixed bag and that's what I love about this music, you could have hard rock, pop and lounge and they all co-existed...what an awesome world to have lived in. I would give this cd 10 stars if possible!
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind September 20, 2004
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
These recordings date from 1964 to 1971. During this time period, there were two kinds of "pop" music. There was the kind for teenagers, which featured the likes of the Beatles, the Doors and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. And then there was pop music for the parents of teenagers, featuring the likes of Julie London, the Letterman and the Hollyridge Strings. This CD features teenage pop songs as performed by pop artists for the older folks. Boy, talk about a style clash! Can you imagine Mel Torme singing "Sunshine Superman", or Julie London singing "Mighty Quinn"? Well, you don't have to imagine it, you can get this CD and hear it for yourself. There are some strange renditions of songs that will be familiar to anyone who ever turned on an oldies radio station. Most of the songs are instumentals, although I wouldn't call it "elevator music", for the most part. I have to make special mention of the orchestral version of "Heartbreak Hotel", which is downright spooky! Fans of "kitsch" should dig this CD.
 A Veritable Smorgasbord of Bad Taste--and that's the idea! November 12, 2003
Anthony H. Young (Miami, FL United States)
4 out of 15 found this review helpful
The 1960s was the most tumultuous decade of the 20th Century. There were a great many events to commend it and condemn it. It produced the Apollo space program to put American astronauts on the Moon and some of the best original popular music as just two commendable events. Assassinations and the divisive Vietnam War were events certainly to condemn the sixties.pListening to Capital Records' "On The Rocks, Part 1"-part of the Ultra Lounge series-- has convinced me there is something else that gave the sixties a black eye. It spawned some of the worst rendition music ever to waste valuable recording studio time. pAs I mentioned before, the sixties produced some of the best popular music, and always sounded best when released by the original artists. However, this left the door open for others deluded into thinking they could take a top 40 hit and resuscitate their lagging career, or take a perfectly successful recording career and sending it into the ground.pThe On The Rocks Part 1 ( Part 2) CD is a compilation of some of the worst the 1960s and 1970s had to offer in rendition music. Better examples of a total lack of judgment probably cannot be found. Take, for example, Mel Torme singing Sunshine Superman, or Peggy Lee singing "Hard Day's Night"-please! Even Julie London took leave of her senses to record "Mighty Quinn'. Most painful to listen to. pThe indignities don't end there. Imagine the Hollyridge Strings performing the Theme from Shaft, or the Lettermen mis-performing the Doors tunes "Hello I Love You" and "Touch Me." Even the impeccable Nelson Riddle can step on the proverbial wet bar of soap, musically speaking of course, and produce their sad rendition of "Winchester Cathedral." pIf you have a morbid curiosity or want a great gag gift for your fellow Loungers, this is definitely the disc to get.
A New Level Of Kitsch June 14, 2003
winkingtiger (Oakland, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mel Torme singing 'Sunshine Superman'? Julie London warbling 'Quinn, The Eskimo'? Exotica Supremo Martin Denny taking on 'Incense Peppermints'? No, you haven't gone insane, you're just listening to the ultimate curveball CD from 'Ultra-Lounge' This may be one of the most mind-warping albums I have ever heard; extremly tasteless and misguided takes on your favorite 60's pop hits by desperate loungeurs trying to be 'relevant' to 'the kids'. They miss the boat entirely, but the result is this strange hybrid; not quite lounge music, not quite rock, not really muzak...but it is (in the words of The Firesign Theatre) 'weirdly cool' . On first listening I didn't know WHAT I was hearing, but this disc has become strangely addictive...pParticular faves are a kinda science-fictiony sounding 'Shaft', Lord Sitar(!) doing a faux Indian take on 'Daydream Believer', Zacharias his spooky violin on 'Light My Fire', and what must be the strangest 'Heartbreak Hotel' since Dread Zeppelin's...plus the vocal numbers mentioned above. If you are an auditory adventurer, and you 'get' the whole 'lounge' vibe...bend your head around this one!
I'm really in the groove, now... September 25, 1998
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
The British Invasion, it should be noted, contained Miss Peggy Lee. That's right, the Peggy Lee of Fever. Peggy Lee, you see, was the 5th Beatle. This disc is evidence of that, as you hear Peggy belt out A Hard Day's Night. Yeah, baby! Oh, and you also get a special version of Light My Fire--a version that I think Ed Sullivan would have approved. Come on baby, light my fire. Mel Torme, Wayne Newton--now THAT's counter-culture, man. So put on your fringe vest, those rose-colored Lennon specs, and take a step back in time to some real anit-Establishment venom!
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