Sounds Orchestral

Sounds Orchestral was an British studio based easy listening group, assembled by John Schroeder. Schroeder was a record producer at Pye Records; Sounds Orchestral was intended to be a competitor group to EMI's successful Sounds Incorporated. Johnny Pearson (piano), Kenny Clare (drums), and Tony Reeves (bassist, later played with Curved Air) filled out the group, and their cover version of Vince Guaraldi's tune "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" hit #1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart and #10 on the 8 May 1965 Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[1] Were it not for Gary Lewis & The Playboys' "Count Me In" at #2, Sounds Orchestral's peak would have completed a clean sweep of the Hot 100's top 10 that week for the British Commonwealth, which never came closer to achieving the feat. The group released several albums and continued to exist in one form or another into the 1980s.^[2]