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The term has sometimes been applied negatively in the years since this format went out of fashion. It is similar to what is called " Lounge " or "lounge core", but lounge music is much more Jazz -oriented and dependent on improvisation than easy listening. Easy listening music is almost always orchestrated and is more analogous to Classical Music than to jazz. Since easy-listening music is rather unknown to the younger generations, the term easy listening is often incorrectly applied to Soft Pop , Smooth Jazz or New Age Music . Easy listening music is also sometimes known as "mood music" or " MOR ", or more pejoratively as " Muzak " or " Elevator Music ".

Adult Contemporary Music is a much more hip form of Easy Listening and is one of the top radio formats in the USA today.

ARTISTS AND MUSIC

Easy listening ORCHESTRAS

--- Burt Bacharach

--- Caravelli

--- Frank Chacksfield

--- Percy Faith

--- Robert Farnon

--- Arthur Fiedler / Boston Pops

--- Jackie Gleason

--- Hollyridge Strings

--- Bert Kaempfert

--- Andre Kostelanetz

--- James Last

--- Enoch Light

--- Living Strings

--- Longines Symphonette

--- Henry Mancini

--- Mantovani

--- Ray Martin

--- Paul Mauriat

--- Melachrino

--- 101 Strings

--- Frank Pourcel

--- David Rose

--- Billy Vaughn

--- Lawrence Welk

--- Paul Weston

--- Charles Williams

Easy listening PIANISTS

--- Ronnie Aldrich

--- Floyd Cramer

--- Carl Doy

--- Ferrante & Teicher (Arthur Ferrante & Louis Teicher)

--- Joe Harnell

--- Horst Jankowski

--- Henry Mancini

--- Peter Nero

--- Emile Pandolfi

--- Roger Williams

GUITARISTS with high deployment in easy listening

--- Earl Klugh

--- Francis Goya

--- Laurindo Almeida

PIANISTS with high deployment in easy listening

--- Antônio Carlos Jobim

Easy listening VOCAL GROUPS

---The Laurie Bower Singers

---The Ray Charles Singers

---The Ray Conniff Singers

---The Mike Curb Congregation

---The Doodletown Pipers

---The Anita Kerr Singers

---The Lettermen

---The Living Voices

---The Norman Luboff Choir

---The Johnny Mann Singers

--- Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

--- The Fleetwoods

VOCALISTS with high deployment in easy listening

--- Ed Ames

--- Perry Como , ''later material''

--- Eydie Gorme

--- Robert Goulet

--- Engelbert Humperdinck

--- Jack Jones

--- Steve Lawrence

--- Al Martino

--- Johnny Mathis

--- Matt Monro

--- Anne Murray

--- Kenny Rogers

--- Frank Sinatra

--- Roger Whittaker

--- Andy Williams

--- James Taylor

VOCALISTS with some deployment in easy listening

--- Tony Bennett

--- Glen Campbell

--- Carpenters

--- Perry Como , ''earlier material''

--- Nat King Cole

--- Vic Damone

--- Sammy Davis Jr.

--- Doris Day

--- John Denver

--- Neil Diamond

--- The Beatles

--- Dean Martin

--- Olivia Newton-John , ''earlier material''

--- Barbra Streisand

--- Jerry Vale

--- Bobby Vinton