The Hollyridge Strings
arranged and conducted by Stu Phillips
The Hollyridge Strings was a studio orchestra with a group of largely interchangeable studio musicians that specialized in easy-listening music and recorded for the Capitol Records label in the 1960s and 1970s.
The project was masterminded by music industry veteran Stu Phillips, a composer and producer who previously headlined his own series of Capitol easy listening records including Organ and Strings in Stereo before leaving the label in 1960 to become head of A&R for Colpix Records, where he produced a series of pop smashes including the Marcels' "Blue Moon," Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel," Paul Petersen's "My Dad," and James Darren's "Goodbye, Cruel World."
In 1964 he returned to Capitol, where his familiarity and dexterity with the rock idiom made him the logical choice to cash in on Beatlemania with a record targeted at a more mature audience; the first Hollyridge Strings record, The Beatles Song Book, was a Top Ten hit, and resulted in similarly collections of hits by Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, the Four Seasons, and Simon & Garfunkel.
During the week of July 4, 1964, the group's cover version of The Beatles's song "All My Loving" spent a single week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at position #93.
01 Love me Do
02 P.S. I Love You
03 Please Please Me
04 I Want To Hold Your Hand
05 I Saw her Standing There
06 All My Loving
07 Can't Buy Me Love
08 Do You Want To know A Secret
09 A Taste of Honey
10 A Hard Days Night
11 And I Love Her
12 I Feel Fine
13 She's A Woman
14 Eight Days A Week
01 Ticket To Ride
02 I'll Follow The Sun
03 I'm A Loser
04 Help!
05 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
06 Norwegian Wood
07 Michelle
08 I've Just Seen A Face
09 Yesterday
10 Drive My Car
11 Act naturally
12 We Can Work It out
13 Day Tripper
Nowhere Man
Taximan
Eleanor Rigby
Good Day Sunshine
Yellow Submarine
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
Here Comes The Sun
Let it Be
The Long And Winding Road
My Sweet Lord
It Don't Come Easy
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