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Stu Phillips
" Feels Like Lovin' "
(choral vocals)
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"I like these songs," says Stu Phillips.
"They're good... as good as the people
who made the big hit records with them.
And I think that songs as good as these
should always be recorded in a number of
styles. They deserve variety. So when
Petula Clark's Downtown, The Righteous
Brothers' You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
and the others became hits,
I decided to record them with the Hollyridge
Strings, as I had done with some of the
big Beatles, Beach Boys and Presley songs.
But after some second thoughts, I decided
that love music that's packed with this
much emotion and feeling should be done
at least partially with voices. And, since
the Hollyridge Strings are strictly
instrumental, I realized that this recording
called for something new. A new sound..
a new mood that feels like lovin"."
And here is that new sound that the
talented Stu Phillips has created for the
music that feels like lovin'. It might be
called a fresh, young approach to what
used to be called mood music, except that
Stu's music includes voices that can sing
the words but only some words.
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"The mood words," Stu says. "The
ones that need singing."
Actually Stu's chorus comes in pairs.
There's one group of girls' voices headed
up by Jackie Ward, and a group of male
voices led by Ron Hicklin. Sometimes they
blend together, sometimes they create
contrasting colors. Sometimes they sing
words, sometimes they sing without words
to add something almost like another
instrumental section to the strings and
reeds of the orchestra. They in turn are
supported by a variety of instrumental
sounds a lonely trumpet, a haunting
trombone, and, of course, the ever-present
rhythm, throbbing like a heartbeat,
playing the tempos of love.
Everything about Stu's music is warm
and romantic. It drifts, it pulses, it soars,
it caresses, it sings the songs of love. It's
the great new sound that expresses today's
top tunes in a mood that feels like lovin'.
(see label for correct playing order)
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STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE
YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN'
DOWNTOWN
GOIN' OUT OF MY HEAD
GOLDFINGER
TIRED OF WAITING FOR YOU
I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD
GIRL DON'T COME
COUNT ME IN
000 BABY BABY
(My Baby) FEELS LIKE LOVIN'
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(album notes)
See:
https://reissuewishlist.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/stu-phillips-feels-like-lovin/
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Stuart Phillips (born September 9, 1929) is an American composer of film scores and television series theme music, conductor and record producer. He is best known for composing the theme tunes to the television series McCloud, Battlestar Galactica, and Knight Rider.
Phillips studied music at The High School of Music & Art in New York City, New York, and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. While at Eastman, he began arranging music for the Rochester Civic Orchestra.
In 1958, Phillips began composing for Columbia Pictures' television and record subsidiaries. He founded Colpix Records and produced high-charting hits for James Darren, Nina Simone, The Skyliners, Shelley Fabares, and The Monkees. He also furnished music for Columbia's television series, including The Donna Reed Show with Fabares and The Monkees. Phillips branched out into motion-picture work, and scored Columbia's 1964 movie, Ride the Wild Surf.
In the mid-1960s, he worked for Capitol Records and created, produced and arranged for the easy listening studio orchestra the Hollyridge Strings. Excerpts from the Hollyridge Strings album The Beatles Song Book can be heard on the 1964 Capitol documentary album The Beatles' Story.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Phillips continued scoring films and television series including music for the films Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), The Seven Minutes (1971) and the television series Get Christie Love!.
In 1974, he began working at Universal Studios scoring television series; Glen A. Larson made extensive use of his compositions. During this time, he scored music for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man, McCloud, and Battlestar Galactica. His Battlestar Galactica theme was featured prominently in the film Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). He also composed music for the television series The Amazing Spider-Man (which was for Charles Fries/Dan Goodman/Danchuck Productions) during this time.
In the 1980s, Phillips left Universal and began working at 20th Century Fox, again being a favorite composer of Glen A. Larson, where he composed music for the television series The Fall Guy, Automan and Knight Rider. All programs were Larson productions.
Phillips went into semi-retirement in the 1990s at his home in Studio City, California. Since that time, he has appeared at fan conventions for Battlestar Galactica and has attended cult-film screenings for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
In 2002, Phillips published his autobiography Stu Who?: Forty Years of Navigating the Minefields of the Music Business.
In 2006, he also participated in a documentary film featured on the special edition DVD re-release of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Long a "serious" musician, Phillips has also orchestrated pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Rachmaninoff for Symphony orchestra. ... -- Wikipedia
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Great Instrumental Music
(and Vocal)