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Examples
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"I have embraced the easy-listening genre," she jokes.
A Singing Comeback Helps Shelter Melanie Grayce West 2011
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In 1969, he was recruited by the pianist's manager "to arrange an album for him that would get played on the easy-listening stations."
Smiling With Song Will Friedwald 2011
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One of the tracks on the playlist was the Dead Kennedys' Too Drunk to Fuck, originally a thrashy ode to a mispent evening, as covered by the band Nouvelle Vague in an ironic easy-listening style.
Dead Kennedys cover pulled from lager campaign over binge-drinking fears 2011
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An easy-listening station helps put him to sleep.'
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Owen Bradley created the Nashville Sound in the 1950s by adding strings and other elements of pop and easy-listening tracks to cut smooth, urbane recordings, which increased greatly the sales and reach of country music.
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One of the tracks on the playlist was the Dead Kennedys' Too Drunk to Fuck, originally a thrashy ode to a mispent evening, as covered by the band Nouvelle Vague in an ironic easy-listening style.
Dead Kennedys cover pulled from lager campaign over binge-drinking fears 2011
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Letters: I applaud Peter Maxwell Davies for having a go at this easy-listening government Queen's composer berates philistine Blair, April 11.
Royal composer Peter Maxwell Davies attacks 'lazy' conductors 2011
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Monro's easy-listening style is not greatly to my taste (though "From Russia with Love" is one of the great Bond themes).
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For much of his long lifetime, he was also one of the 20th century's most successful entertainers, a purveyor of supersmooth easy-listening music that was distinguishable from Muzak only because he played it with perfect taste.
Both Good and Popular Terry Teachout 2011
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Radio 2's head of programming, Lewis Carnie, said the easy-listening station remained in "rude health" with a record audience of just over 2 million listeners for Vanessa Feltz, the new presenter of the early breakfast show.
Chris Evans loses half a million listeners from Radio 2 breakfast show 2011
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