Ferrante & Teicher
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Biography
[Edit]Piano duo Ferrante & Teicher were one of the best-selling easy listening acts of the '60s, offering light arrangements of easily recognizable classical pieces, movie soundtrack themes, show tunes, and similarly compatible fare. Arthur Ferrante (born September 7, 1921, New York City) and Louis Teicher (born August 24, 1924, Wilkes-Barre, PA.) met while attending the prestigious Juilliard School of Music; both were child prodigies, and they struck up a fast friendship, performing together as a duo even while they were still in school. After graduating as piano majors, they both joined the Juilliard faculty, while developing a distinctive style of their own during their free time. In 1947, they became a full-time concert act, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to classical music with orchestral backing. A switch to popular songs and standards by the likes of Kern, Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers made them mainstays in the pops-orchestra field.
While they were enjoying success on the concert circuit, Ferrante & Teicher had been experimenting with treated pianos, influenced — oddly enough — by the ideas of avant-garde composer John Cage. By adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to the string beds (among other techniques), the duo was able to produce a variety of bizarre sound effects that sometimes resembled percussion instruments, and other times produced a spacy, almost electronic sound (before such a tone even existed). In the latter half of the '50s, they recorded several albums in this vein for Westminster (most notably 1956's Soundproof and Soundblast) and ABC-Paramount (including 1958's Blast Off!). The results were highly unique and quite different from their later work, appealing more to hi-fi enthusiasts and space-age pop fans.
In 1960, Ferrante & Teicher signed with United Artists, where they quickly began to tailor their sound to a more mainstream audience. Many of their subsequent albums featured orchestras conducted by Nick Perito, and their brand of instrumental pop caught on very quickly. They landed a Top Ten pop hit later in 1960 with "Theme From 'The Apartment'," and followed it with their biggest hit, an arrangement of Ernest Gold's epic movie theme "Exodus," which climbed to number two and inspired a popular jazz version by saxophonist Eddie Harris. 1961 brought another pop Top Ten with the West Side Story song "Tonight," which was featured on their highest-charting LP, the number ten West Side Story and Other Motion Picture & Broadway Favorites. A flood of Ferrante & Teicher albums followed over the course of the '60s, with around 30 of them reaching the pop charts up through 1972. They maintained a heavy touring schedule, playing over 100 concerts a year at the height of their popularity. They also managed one final Top Ten single in 1970 with their movie-theme cover "Midnight Cowboy"; the accompanying album of the same name found them experimenting a bit with strange guitar effects.
Ferrante & Teicher's voluminous recording pace tailed off during the '70s, although they did continue to put out albums on a regular basis. In 1979, they left United Artists to form their own label, and in 1989, they left the concert circuit for good, retiring to Sarasota, FL. The lounge/exotica revival of the '90s helped renew interest in their experimental early recordings, and in 2001 led to the first-ever issue of Denizens of the Deep, a set of treated-piano instrumentals meant to evoke sea creatures that constituted their first recorded work. Dating from 1950, it had been scrapped in favor of an extensive concert tour; for the release, Ferrante & Teicher added a few simple embellishments to the archival recordings that completed their original concept for the pieces.
Title: The Ferrante & Teicher Collection
Artist: Ferrante & Teicher
Genre: Lounge, Classical, Easy Listening
Title: Christmas Is So Special (World)
Artist: Ferrante & Teicher
Genre: Jazz, Traditional Pop Music, Smooth Jazz
Title: Exodus (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 1/29/61) - Single
Artist: Ferrante & Teicher
Genre: Pop
Collections
Title: Rock & Roll Doo Wop, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Instrumental Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Instrumental Hits, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: 60 Instrumental Golden Oldies
Genre: Pop
Title: 45 RPM - The Lost Record Collection
Genre: Pop
Title: It's Pop & Doo Wop, Vol. 8
Genre: Pop
Title: Rare Vintage Christmas Songs & Carols
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Greatest Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 49
Genre: Pop
Title: Magnificent Movie Music
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remix (Digital Version)
Genre: Pop
Title: Pure Instrumental Hits, Vol.2
Genre: Pop
Title: Gold Pop Hits Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Kwanzaa
Genre:
Title: 100 Instrumental Versions
Genre:
Title: 100 Best Dance Orchestras
Genre:
Title: A Mix Of Hits Instrumentals
Genre: Pop
Title: Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Vol. 4
Genre:
Title: Ultra-Lounge: The Best of Christmas Cocktails
Genre:
Title: 20 Golden Hits of 1961
Genre: Pop
Title: Popular Music Hits Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Ultra-Lounge / Christmas Cocktails, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Films in Love (And Many More)
Genre: Pop
Title: Merry Christmas At the Movies
Genre:
Title: Ultra Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood
Genre: Pop
Title: Romantic Songs "Piano Bar"
Genre: Jazz
Title: Almost Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 5 (Original Recordings)
Genre: Pop
Title: Easy Listening Instrumentals Top 40 Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Hits of 1960, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Romantic Songs Piano Bar Lounge
Genre: Jazz
Title: Greatest Hits of 1960, Vol. 17
Genre: Pop
Title: Grand Cafe Oriental (1953-1963 Recordings)
Genre: World Music
Title: Seabreeze
Genre:
Title: Hit Instrumentals of 1960, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop, Instrumental
Title: Its Theme Time
Genre: Pop
Title: It's Pop & Doo Wop, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Vintage Relaxing Music
Genre: Jazz
Title: Greatest Big Hits of 1961, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Christmas Music for the Holiday Party
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Top Thirty Film and Television Themes
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Almost Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 9 (Original Recordings)
Genre: Pop
Title: Hits We Remember (Pop & Doo Wop) Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Dreams of Love (Remastered)
Genre: Pop
Title: Gold Pop Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Lifetime Of Romance - Be My Love (CD2)
Genre: New Romantic, Instrumental
Title: Sounds Of The Sixties - 1960 (CD2)
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Super Hits Of The Seventies - Have A Nice Day, Volume 16
Genre: Rock
Title: The LoungeLegends Goes Classic Vol. 6
Genre: Instrumental, Classical
Title: Sound Like Fun Vol. XIII
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Nice And Easy Collection - Edition VIII
Genre: Pop, Instrumental
Title: 101 Christmas Songs (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Rock, World Music, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Title: 101 Christmas Songs (CD2)
Genre: Soul, Rock, World Music, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Title: Hard To Find Orchestral Instrumentals II
Genre: Jazz
Title: Stampede! The United Artists Story 1962 (CD2)
Genre: Garage, Jazz, Rockabilly
Title: Stampede! The United Artists Story (CD3)
Genre: Garage, Jazz, Rockabilly
Title: Easy Listening In The 60's
Title: Dusty Fingers Volume 1
Genre: Soul, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Country, Funk, Instrumental
Title: Instrumental Memories (CD2)
Genre: Instrumental
Featuring albums
Title: Golden Themes from Motion Pictures
Artist: Nick Perito, Teicher, Ferrante
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Lounge
Title: The Golden Age of Light Music: Melodies for the Starlight Hours
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical