Strange Interlude

By request, here's a re-up of a 1961 album recorded by Lew Davies & his Orchestra for Enoch Light's Command Records label called "Strange Interlude." Unlike your usual Command stereophonic hi-fi upbeat gimmickry, this one's low-key, creepy, with songs like "The Witching Hour," "Old Devil Moon" and "In A Mist". Unusual instruments like the theremin, Ondioline (an early electronic keyboard) and hammered dulcimers were featured. After finding it in the dollar bin of a used record store, I played the heck out of it. I had never heard an album quite like it before. Haven't really heard one since, for that matter. And how often can you say that about an album?

Lew Davies & his Orchestra "Strange Interlude"

Side 1
Riders in the Sky
Strange Interlude
In a Mist
Gone with the Wind
Wild Goose
Intermezzo

Side 2
Old Devil Moon
Ebb Tide
The Riddle Song
The Witching Hour
Laura
Spellbound