Midnight String Quartet - Christmas Rhapsodies For Young Lovers
If you haven't visited Bongobells recently, you're missing out on some very interesting finds (a Nelson Eddy Christmas album? Who knew?). Many of these finds will be reviewed here over the next several weeks. This is the first. Released in 1968 on the Viva label, not much else is known about the Midnight String Quartet other than a one sentence line on the back cover: " The Midnight String Quartet has now arrived at a position of great prominence among the successful instrumental groups of the world. " Hmmm... To understand all of this a bit further, let's take a closer look at the Viva label and the person behind it - a legendary record producer who got his nickname from chewing tobacco. By the age of 15, Snuff Garrett was already working in the music industry as a producer's assistant. Two years later, he was a disk jockey in Lubbock, Texas, hosted an "American Bandstand" type TV show for a time, and moved west to Hollywood to begin...