Highly original TV serial produced equally unexpected and eccentric soundtrack that collects ancient pre-WW2 hits and this music can easily be enjoyed and listened even on it's own. Bing Crosby, The Ink Spots, The Mills Brothers and early Ella Fitzgerald are just some of the names collected here and it all suits me fine,as I am familiar with this music.
Famous cartoon artist Robert Crumb went several steps further and later released his own collection of similar recordings titled "That's What I Call Sweet Music" with now-forgoten artist of 1920s and 1930s so if you like music used for "The Singing Detective" you might like that compilation even more as it covers less mainstream gems.
For some reason I always had a soft spot for these kind of old recordings and find them perfectly easy listening and soothing,in spite of old-fashioned recording techniques and this fact might actually give them magic charm missing from some newer music. No tricks,no computer gimmicks, just real musician playing live music in the studio. Besides,where else you can find original recordings by Al Bowlly or Lale Anderson these days?
Favorite (so far): "Dem Dry Bones" by joyous Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians, whoever they might have been. It is a rousing gospel song that would fit perfectly in some early Disney movie sung by band of animated characters.
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