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SOUND TOUR OF ITALY Impressions In Sound Of An American On Tour

SOUND TOUR OF ITALY

side 1
ARRIVAL MILANO (Funiculi Funicula)
BELLA ROMA (Ciribiribin)
SORRENTO (Torra A Surriento)
SEASIDE (Santa Lucia)
STREET DANCE
CARNIVAL (Carnival Of Venice) side 2
L'AUTOBUS (O SOLE MIO)
GONDOLA ( Barcarolle)
ROMAN NIGHTS
EARLY MORNING SONG (Mattinata)
SHEPHERD'S SERENADE
ALL' ALBERGO
ARRIVEDERCI ROMA

SOUND TOUR OF ITALY

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ARRIVAL MILANO (Funiculi Funicula)

BELLA ROMA (Ciribiribin)

SORRENTO (Torra A Surriento)

SEASIDE (Santa Lucia)

STREET DANCE

CARNIVAL (Carnival Of Venice)

L'AUTOBUS (O SOLE MIO)

GONDOLA ( Barcarolle)

ROMAN NIGHTS

EARLY MORNING SONG (Mattinata)

SHEPHERD'S SERENADE

ALL' ALBERGO

ARRIVEDERCI ROMA

VERVE RECORDS AND ESQUIRE MAGAZINE
SOUND TOUR OF ITALY Impressions In Sound Of An American On Tour

The music, the sounds, the feeling of Italy, from the teeming crowds on the Via Veneto to the delicious solitude of a moonlight gondola ride in Venice... from the cool dignity of the Colosseum to the brassy neon of Rome's night life.. from pasta and pizza in Naples to osso bucco and zuppa inglese in Milan... here is the Italy that sophisticated travelers savor. Here is Italy to discover and know and revisit with relish again and again.

SOUND TOUR is the new and exciting concept in recording. It wraps into one neat package of superb sound a host of keen impressions of a country cer¬tain to start pleasant trains of memory or to begin the whetting of an appetite that will be satisfied only by a trip abroad.
Here is the feeling of a country. Through the skilled blending of music, sound, and the written word, the SOUND TOUR traveler can know the spar¬kling Mediterranean, the grey-green Seine, the rich smells of food in a Neapolitan market place, the sweet smell of blossoms in a Hawaiian flower grove...
The senses are called into play to savor the coun¬tries as the sophisticated traveler does. He bows, for example, to the Eiffel Tower in France or the Colosseum in Rome, but he seeks out the little restau¬rant or cafe that a Frenchman or an Italian would prize. The man-about-the-world gets off the beaten track where he can feast his eyes and ears and, of course, his stomach. He will take alternate routes so that his trip between cities will be different and filled with the adventure of encountering the unexpected.

Twelve separate channels were utilized in the record¬ing process, and the four panning pots give the music and the sounds a breath-taking movement that is entirely in keeping with the action on the SOUND TOUR.
Finally, Richard Joseph, award-winning Travel Editor of Esquire Magazine, heard the records in raw form and wrote the delightful ESQUIRE TRAVEL GUIDE—the booklets that accompany each album. As a bonus, he included a section in each GUIDE detailing some of the must-see and must-do activities for the sophisticated traveler. There are anecdotes and colorful material about each place of interest covered on the record, too.
SOUND TOUR was created to present, in music and the printed word, as nearly perfect and satisfy¬ing a tour of an exciting foreign country as possible. The only tickets needed for the trip are a phono¬graph and an easy chair, and suddenly you are munching delicacies at a Luau or pitching a coin into the Fontana di Trevi or ordering wine in a cafe in Seville or riding a bicycle in Brittany.
Bon Voyage!

He will ferret out the obscure and include it in his trip so that his range of experience, and memory, will be rich and wide.
To capture the flavor of each country, composer Kenyon Hopkins was commissioned to create a musi¬cal portrait of the sound of the country. He did this by weaving folk songs and popular melodies into the over-all fabric of his compositions, and made every work tell a bit of a story as the SOUND TOUR trip unfolded on the record. Together, the compositions form a delightful kaleidoscope of the country with bright impressions and deep moods flashing through the work.
Actual sounds of each country were then skillfully woven into the over-all pattern of music. The sounds, from steamship whistles to sheep on a road in Nor¬mandy, from steeple bells in a mountainside Italian village to a gondola sliding through the canals of Venice were spot-recorded by Keene Crockett.
Then the music and sounds were mixed on a huge control panel featuring four panning pots so that a train or a bus could actually move from side to side

KENYON HOPKINS is, perhaps, best known as a superb composer of music for films. Among the motion pictures for which he has written scores are Baby Doll, The Strange One, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive Kind, Wild River, Wild In The Country, and The Hustler. In addition he has composed extensively for TV dramatic programs and for phonograph records. He attended Oberlin College, and was graduated from Temple University with a degree in music. Post-graduate studies were completed at the Contemporary School of Music in New York City. He lives and works on his Backbone Hill Farm in Clarksburg, New Jersey.

RICHARD JOSEPH, Travel Editor of Esquire Magazine since 1946, has been called the most honored of American travel writers. In the past 13 years he has won 16 travel and aviation writing awards, given by Trans World Airlines, the American Society of Travel Agents, and the Pacific Area Travel Association. He was recently named Officier of the French Ordre du Merite Touristique and was awarded the Italian Star of Solidarity for his writings about these countries. He is the author of a syndi¬cated newspaper travel column and a series of travel books, and he has covered travel extensively on television, radio and the lecture circuit.