Sounds Orchestral

Sounds Orchestral

Sounds Orchestral was an British studio based easy listening group, assembled by John Schroeder. Schroeder was a record producer at Pye Records; Sounds Orchestral was intended to be a competitor group to EMI's successful Sounds Incorporated. Johnny Pearson (piano), Kenny Clare (drums), and Tony Reeves (bassist, later played with Curved Air) filled out the group, and their cover version of Vince Guaraldi's tune "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" hit #1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart and #10 on the 8 May 1965 Billboard Hot 100 chart. [Joel Whitburn, "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits". 7th edn, 2000] With Sound Orchestral's peak that week, the British Commonwealth came closer than it ever had or would to a clean sweep of a Hot 100's top 10, lacking only a hit at #2 instead of "Count Me In" by the American group Gary Lewis & The Playboys.

The group released several albums and continued to exist in one form or another into the 1980s. [ [http://wc08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3xfuxql5ldse~T1 Sounds Orchestral] at Allmusic.com]

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