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Easy listening music is a style of Popular Music and radio format that emerged in the mid- 20th Century , evolving out of Swing and Big Band music, and related to Beautiful Music and Light Music . Easy listening music features simple, catchy melodies, soft, laid-back Song s and occasionally Rhythms suitable for couples dancing. The genre includes both instrumental forms (often played on light of tone instruments such as the Hammond Organ , " Lush Strings ," or Ukulele ); and vocal forms featuring Pop Singer s, such as Andy Williams , Jack Jones , Engelbert Humperdinck , Eydie Gorme , Barry Manilow , Harry Conick Jr. , Frank Sinatra , Johnny Mathis , Bing Crosby , Tom Jones and Mel Tormé . Exotica music stylists such as Les Baxter and Martin Denny are often included within the purview of easy listening music as well. __TOC__ USE OF TERM AND RELATED FORMS OF MUSIC The easy listening radio format has been generally but not completely superseded by the "Lite AC" form of is a subset of easy listening music, since, as a radio format, it had rigid standards for instrumentation (e.g., few or no Saxophone s) and restrictions on how many vocal pieces could be played in an hour. It is sometimes called ''Nostalgia'' music. The term "easy listening" has sometimes been applied negatively in the years since it 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 musical Improvisation than easy listening. Easy listening music is usually orchestrated by an arranger rather than improvised by a small ensemble. Since easy listening music as such is rather unknown to the younger generation, the term "easy listening" is often incorrectly applied to other genres such as Soft Rock , 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 ". ARTISTS AND MUSIC
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