Les Baxter
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Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotic
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Unchained Melody
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"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song by Alex North with lyrics by Hy Zaret. North composed the music as a theme for its namesake 1955 prison film. The version of the song in the film's soundtrack was sun
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…In 1953, he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika. With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits, including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955), and "The Poor People of Paris" (1956), and is remembered for a version of "Sinner Man" (1956), definitively setting the sound with varying…
1990 UK vinyl re-release of the original 1965 recording
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