Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Jackie Gleason enjoyed lending his
name to a series of best-selling "mood music" albums with jazz overtones
for Capitol Records. He felt there was a market for romantic instrumentals
and his goal was to make "musical wallpaper that should never be intrusive,
but conducive”.

Gleason’s first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the
album longest in the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first ten
albums all sold over one million copies. At one point, Gleason held the record
for charting the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200 without charting
any hits on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Gleason could
not read or write music; he was said to have conceived melodies in his head
and described them vocally to assistants.

Orchestra conducted by Jackie Gleason, Trumpet solo by Bobby Hackett

Robert Joseph "Bobby" Bare, Sr.

Bare’s big break in country music came in 1962 when RCA Records‘ Chet Atkins
signed him. The first song he released on the label was "Shame On Me".

The album Come Fly with Me was released in 1958 and was Sinatra’s
first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May. It reached #1
on the Billboard album chart in its second week, and remained at
the top for five weeks.

                              
                                          Sandy Kozel

The genre for Manson’s album is listed under: Contemporary folk,
psychedelic folk, and freak folk.

Lie: The Love and Terror Cult is the debut studio album by convicted criminal 
and folk singer-songwriter Charles Manson. It was released on vinyl by Phil 
Kaufman, through a label called Awareness Records. After established record 
companies declined to become involved, Kaufman raised $3,000 and had
2,000 copies pressed. The money from album sales was used to help
finance his defense against murder charges.

Although not a commercial success, the album has received critical praise by
reviewers such as those in the All Music Guide, and it retains a following among
people interested in the Manson case, with multiple covers and samples made
by musicians from the album. Examples include artists like Guns N’ Roses and
Marilyn Manson.

The album cover is a parody of the December 19, 1969 Life magazine cover,
which featured Manson. During a 1991 interview with radio talk show host Ron
Reagan Jr.,Charles Manson stated that "That particular album was made off a
little old $7 tape recorder.

Charles Milles Manson turned 79 in November