4 COMMAND LPs - PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION 1, 2, 3 & 4 - NM

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ENOCH LIGHT

PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION

4 Albums - Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4

PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION 

1959 Record Album Stereo - Command Record RS 800SD

Jacket/Record - Near Mint + condition

Tracks include: I'm in the Mood For Love, Whatever Lola Wants, Misirlou, I Surrender Dear, Orchids in the Moonlight, I Love Paris, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Tabu, The Breeze and I, Aloha Oe, Japanese Sandman, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.

PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION Volume 2

1959 Record Album Stereo - Command Record RS 808SD

Jacket/Record - Near Mint condition, small light scuff on record

Tracks include: Blue Is the Night, Blue Tango, Miami Beach Rhumba, Yours Is My Heart Alone, In a Persian Market, Mambo Jambo, Dearly Beloved, Lu Cucaracha, Rocka Bongo Boogie, Lady of Spain, Out Of Nowhere, Brazil.

PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION Volume 3

1960 Record Album Stereo - Command Record RS 817SD

Jacket/Record - Near Mint condition, small light scuff 1 side of record

Tracks include: Moments To Remember, All The Way, Theme From Polovetzian Dances, Perdido, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hawaiian War Chant, One for My Baby, Kashmiri Song, When Your Lover Has Gone, Bingo Bango Bongo Baby, Autumn in New York, Don't Worry 'Bout Me.

PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION Volume 4

1960 Record Album Stereo - Command Record RS 830SD

Jacket - Near Mint condition, Record - Very Good + with 1 small light scratch on 1 side

Tracks include: Oh Lady Be Good, I May Be Wrong, It's De Lovely, Hello Young Lovers, Am I Blue, Besame Mucho, Hold Me, You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me, In the Mood, Got A Date With An Angel, Can't Get Enough For My Baby, My Blue Heaven.

DID YOU KNOW...  ENOCH HENRY LIGHT (born in Canton, Ohio, 18 August 1907, died in Redding, Connecticut 31 July 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. As A&R chief and vice-president of Grand Award Records, he founded Command Records in 1959, and later, Project-3 Records. Enoch Light released myriad albums in various genres of music under a variety of names during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The music was intended for older audiences, as opposed to most popular music of the time, which was usually aimed at teenagers. During this time, he pioneered many recording techniques such as the use of 35 mm magnetic film instead of magnetic tape, thereby reducing the effects of "wow" and "flutter". The recordings were released under the "35MM" series, starting from "Stereo 35-MM" released by Command Records. Musicians who appeared on Light's albums included Doc Severinsen, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, and arranger Lew Davies.

Mr. Light is credited with being one of the first musicians to go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of the technical capabilities of home audio equipment of the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong").  He arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, the first to do so. The first of the albums produced on his record label, Command Records, Persuasive Percussion, became the first huge hit based solely on retail sales.

The album covers were generally designed with abstract, minimalist artwork that stood out boldly from other album covers. These pieces were usually the work of artist Josef Albers.  Enoch Light was so interested in the sounds of his music that he would include lengthy prose describing each song's sounds. In order to fit all of his descriptions onto the album sleeve, he doubled the size of the sleeve but enabled it to fold like a book, thus pioneering/popularizing the gatefold packaging format - an LP innovation duplicated by the Beatles (Dr. Pepper), London Phase 4 Records, and others.

Enoch Light continued recording after the sale of the Command label, with a new label called Project 3, but did not concentrate so heavily on stereo effects. Light recorded several successful big band albums with his earlier established band in the Command days, cleverly known as "The Light Brigade", using the original scores, keeping the arrangements as close to the original as possible. The musicianship and sound quality of these efforts have stood the test of time.  Enoch Light retired from music entirely in 1974, and died just four years later.