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Instrumental version of "Cuando Caliente/With Every Beat"

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JeffM

OK, all you old-school easy-listening mavens, a question. Is there an instrumental version of "With Every Beat Of My Heart"/"Cuando Caliente El Sol" that has the same "bounce" as the Ray Charles Singers' vocal version? I have versions by the 50 Guitars and Martin Denny, but they don't quite "make it." Have done some on line searching but turned up nothing useful. Any clues you can share and I'll start crate digging!
 
JeffM said:
OK, all you old-school easy-listening mavens, a question. Is there an instrumental version of "With Every Beat Of My Heart"/"Cuando Caliente El Sol" that has the same "bounce" as the Ray Charles Singers' vocal version? I have versions by the 50 Guitars and Martin Denny, but they don't quite "make it." Have done some on line searching but turned up nothing useful. Any clues you can share and I'll start crate digging!
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The song is "Love Me With All Your Heart". For an instrumental version that has the same tempo as the Ray Charles Singers version, locate the album "Music For Dancing" by the Living Strings on RCA/Camden.
 
Our fabulous station here in Prescott, AZ, KAHM FM 102.1 plays a version
by Manual of the Mountains which you may like. It is available on You Tube,
posted by Nomie55. Hope this helps......
 
Prescott Joe said:
There's a much faster version, also heard on KAHM, done
by Francis Goya, also available on You Tube.
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Thanks for the info! I liked the Goya version a lot, though what I really want is that 60's triplet-rhythm "Everybody Loves Somebody" style of arrangement, and I'm afraid the only way to find that is to dive into the browser boxes at ye olde vinyl shoppe and drive the clerks there even crazier. I found another nice version on You Tube (under the "Love Me With All Your Heart" title, which I muffed in my original post...) by oldguitarmonkey, who plays his own using karaoke backing tracks.
 
Well, I went browsing as mentioned, and picked a good time too; the guys at the record shop were getting ready to discard several boxfuls of easy listening (they buy collections and pretty much anything that isn't 60's rock gets dumped.) Picked out for free several LPS containing versions of "Cuando Calienta;" have checked them out, and Billy Vaughn's 1963 version is pretty darn good.

I've often wondered if traditional easy-listening might have lasted longer had there been instrumental versions of some of the softer rock songs that were arranged to sound as much as possible like the originals, but with an instrument or a section in place of the vocal. In the 60's, this could have been done with, say, Bobby Vinton or Petula Clark; or in the 70's with Neil Diamond, Cher, or John Denver. All of these singers and others worked with terrific arrangers; and instrumentals with the same "feeling" might have had a lot of potential. Maybe sounds like instrumental karaoke, but it could have added some punch to the format while staying true to its nature.
 
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