As you know, I was frequenting New Age Music News Groups to find out about new artists and music since I didn’t have any New Age peers. At some point along the way a couple things happened. I signed up for an Easy Listening News Group and Verizon announced that they were discontinuing News Group Support.
I had a month or so before they were going to pull the plug so I checked out some easy listening while I still could. As I scanned the post subjects, something caught my eye. Hawaii 5-0 Theme. If you have been following along from the beginning, you’ll recall that the Hawaii 5-0 Theme was one of my very first favorite songs. So I had to investigate. I downloaded the song and another by the same artist Roberto Delgado.
I had never heard of Roberto Delgado and to be honest, I was not very impressed by his version of the Hawaii 5-0 Theme. The second track though, Mas Que Nada was awesome! It was basically Austin Powers music except that it really was the 1960’s and they weren’t trying to be funny. This is one of my favorite albums of the 21st Century era. It is 20 tracks of groovy lounge style music full of marimbas and vibraphones etc.
It is hard to describe how happy listening to this album makes me feel or why. Whenever I hear it, I’m magically transported to a sunny place in the 60’s where there are those giant artsy flowers like on the old dating game set. I thought this album was a terrific find and it fanned the flames of my interest in that 1960’s FM easy listening lounge stuff. I hope I can find a decent set of samples for you, this album is really cool.
Summer Samba
Well this was disappointing. This was the only track I could find from this album in all of YouTube.