JOHN BARRY
The EMI Years Volumes One and Two (Scamp)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Sound Gallery Volume One (Scamp)
Knowing the susceptibility of the self-consciously hip to reactionary shopping impulses, one mustn't take the sudden popularity of lowbrow instrumental mood music (cf. Martin Denny) as proof positive that taste no longer matters. It does. But neither should one mistake tasteless instrumental mood music for bad instrumental mood music. Take Scamp's collections of the music John Barry made for EMI in the late-'50s, for
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