Editing Easy listening (section)

==Easy listening singers==
Easy listening/lounge singers have a lengthy history stretching back to the decades of the early twentieth century. Easy listening music featured popular vocalists such as [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Patti Page]], [[Tony Bennett]], [[Nat King Cole]], [[Rosemary Clooney]], [[Doris Day]], [[Perry Como]], [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], [[The Carpenters]], [[The Mills Brothers]], [[The Ink Spots]], [[Julie London]], and many others. The somewhat derisive term lounge lizard was coined then, and less well-known lounge singers have often been ridiculed as dinosaurs of past eras<ref>{{Cite news
 | title = American Notes LAS VEGAS--- Stop the Music!
 | magazine = Time
 | date = August 21, 1989
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}}</ref> and parodied for their smarmy delivery of standards.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/02/06/murray/index1.html|title=Bill Murray|author=Sean Elder|work=[[Salon.com]]|access-date=January 18, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112153311/http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/02/06/murray/index1.html|archive-date=January 12, 2008}}</ref>

In the early 1990s the lounge revival was in full swing and included such groups as [[Combustible Edison]], [[Love Jones (band)|Love Jones]], The Cocktails, [[Pink Martini]] and [[The Nightcaps (Seattle band)|Nightcaps]]. Alternative band [[Stereolab]] demonstrated the influence of lounge with releases such as ''[[Space Age Bachelor Pad Music]]'' and the [[Ultra-Lounge]] series of lounge music albums. The lounge style was a direct contradiction to the [[grunge]] music that dominated the period.<ref>{{cite news|title= Review/Fashion; Chic Prevails Over Grunge|author=Spindler, Amy M. |work=The New York Times |date=March 7, 1995|access-date=December 12, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/style/review-fashion-chic-prevails-over-grunge.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Ring-A-Ding Ding |author=Lacayo, Richard |magazine=Time |date= May 25, 1998 |access-date=January 17, 2008 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988394,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203123148/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988394,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 3, 2008}}</ref>