Johnny Pearson - A Dreamer's Holiday

If you're a fan of classic easy listening instrumentals, you can do no better than to latch on to some of the box sets put out by Reader's Digest in the 1960s and '70s. Many of these turn up regularly in thrift stores or can be purchased online at reasonable prices.

Some of the material on these sets was specially recorded for Reader's Digest, often in Europe or Mexico. Other selections came from the catalogues of the major record companies like RCA Victor, Capitol and Columbia.

Stardust Memories, released in 1976, contains a lot of exclusive recordings, including A Dreamer's Holiday by British pianist Johnny Pearson. He's best known as the featured soloist with Sounds Orchestral, which had a big hit in 1962 with Cast Your Fate to the Wind.

Listen to and download A Dreamer's Holiday from the link below.

A Dreamer's Holiday

Pearson's recording of A Dreamer's Holiday has turned up on a couple of Reader's Digest CD compilations, but they're out of print. The song is available as an iTunes download, but only in several European countries and not in North America. However, both iTunes and eMusic have several of Pearson's albums available for download.

Pearson, who was the musical director for the British TV show Top of the Pops during its peak in the 1970s and who wrote the theme music for the series All Things Great and Small, died on March 20, 2011 at age 85.