Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A track from the Reader's Digest 10-LP album, "Magical Melodies for Listening, Dancing, Relaxing, Dining" issued in 1969.
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"Does Your Heart Beat For Me" was written by Arthur Johnston and Mitchell Parish. It was famously recorded and used as the signature theme song by Russ Morgan & His Orchestra, who released it in 1936.
The song has also been recorded by several notable artists over the decades:
Patsy Cline: Recorded in the early 1960s and officially released on her 1988 posthumous album The Last Sessions.
Waylon Jennings: Released his rendition on his 1985 album Waylon's World.
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Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and children's concerts, and stage musicals.
Leslie Hulme (9 January 1933 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Ken Barrie, was an English voice actor and singer. He was best known for voicing the titular character and several other characters in the children's television series Postman Pat, as well as singing the theme tune. He also sang the theme tunes of the BBC Television programmes Hi-de-Hi! and Charlie Chalk.
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The vinyl LP was played on a Pro-Ject turntable, recorded directly to computer using a NAD digital pre-amp and VinylStudio software then processed to CD-quality using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a vinyl LP takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish.
One side of a six-track-per-side LP therefore takes around ninety minutes to create.
A track from the Reader's Digest 10-LP album, "Magical Melodies for Listening, Dancing, Relaxing, Dining" issued in 1969.
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"Does Your Heart Beat For Me" was written by Arthur Johnston and Mitchell Parish. It was famously recorded and used as the signature theme song by Russ Morgan & His Orchestra, who released it in 1936.
The song has also been recorded by several notable artists over the decades:
Patsy Cline: Recorded in the early 1960s and officially released on her 1988 posthumous album The Last Sessions.
Waylon Jennings: Released his rendition on his 1985 album Waylon's World.
________________________________________
Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and children's concerts, and stage musicals.
Leslie Hulme (9 January 1933 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Ken Barrie, was an English voice actor and singer. He was best known for voicing the titular character and several other characters in the children's television series Postman Pat, as well as singing the theme tune. He also sang the theme tunes of the BBC Television programmes Hi-de-Hi! and Charlie Chalk.
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The vinyl LP was played on a Pro-Ject turntable, recorded directly to computer using a NAD digital pre-amp and VinylStudio software then processed to CD-quality using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a vinyl LP takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish.
One side of a six-track-per-side LP therefore takes around ninety minutes to create.


![People Get Ready, by Eva Cassidy.
A track from the CD, Songbird, a collection of ten songs (recorded by Eva in 1996) and issued in 1998, two years after she died.
People Get Ready is a 1965 single by the Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album.
The single is the groups best-known hit, reaching number three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing.
In 2021, Rolling Stone named People Get Ready the 122nd greatest song of all time.[3] The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
People Get Ready was named as one of the Top 10 Best Songs of All Time by Mojo music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2015, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its cultural, historic, or artistic significance.
Martin Luther King Jr. named the song the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and often used the song to get people marching or to calm and comfort them
Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) was an American singer and musician known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music, sung with a powerful, emotive soprano voice.
In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley.
Although she had been honoured by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. area at the time of her death from melanoma at the age of 33 in 1996.
Much more information may be found at these two web-sites:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Cassidy
evacassidy.org/
This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process. People Get Ready, by Eva Cassidy.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RvUuSw99h1M/mqdefault.jpg)







