Artist: Mannheim Steamroller
Genre(s):
Vocal
Pop: Pop-Rock
New Age
Other
Classical: Neo-Classical
Discography:
Christmas Song
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Celebration
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Romantic Melodies
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Halloween
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
To Russia With Love
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Christmas Extraordinaire
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Fresh Aire VIII - Infinity
Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
25 Years Celebration Of Mannheim Steamroller Cd2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
25 Years Celebration Of Mannheim Steamroller Cd1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Christmas Live
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Christmas In The Aire
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Fresh Aire 7
Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
Fresh Aire VII - The Mystic
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Yelloustone The Music Of Nature
Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
A Fresh Aire Christmas
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Saving The Wildlife
Year: 1986
Tracks: 13
Fresh Aire VI Greek Mythology
Year: 1986
Tracks: 1
Fresh Aire 6
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Fresh Aire 4
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Fresh Aire 5
Year: 1985
Tracks: 7
Fresh Aire V To The Moon
Year: 1983
Tracks: 1
Fresh Aire 3
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Fresh Aire 2
Year: 1977
Tracks: 13
Fresh Aire 1
Year: 1975
Tracks: 12
Fresh Aire Iv Winter
Year:
Tracks: 1
Fresh Aire Iii Summer
Year:
Tracks: 1
Fresh Aire Ii Fall
Year:
Tracks: 1
Fresh Aire 8
Year:
Tracks: 12
Fresh Aire 1 Spring
Year:
Tracks: 1
Christmas
Year:
Tracks: 11
The alias of composer Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller was among the pioneers of neoclassic electronic music, emerging as one of the drive forces in arrears the New Age phenomenon. Born in Sylvania, Ohio, Davis' father was a heights school music teacher, while his mother was a trombonist with Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra. His nanna was his commencement music teacher, giving the child his initial forte-piano lessons at the age of four-spot; two geezerhood subsequently, Davis composed his commencement slice, a four-part choral written in honor of his heel. He by and by united a boys' choir as well, and spell attention the University of Michigan played bassoon in the school's concert banding. Upon graduating in 1969, Davis was tapped to tour of duty with the Norman Luboff Choir; after five age with the grouping, playacting everything from pop to classic, he returned to Sylvania to teach medicine at the local junior high school, often adapting classical standards to present-day harmonies and rhythms for bookman phthisis.
Jefferson Davis subsequently left education, arranging and conducting an Omaha, Nebraska production of Hair earlier accepting a caper writing publicizing jingles. With colleague Bill Fries, he created the enormously popular C.W. McCall character, later the pattern behind the chart-topping stumble "Convoy; " as the McCall delirium went into heights gear, however, Davis returned to the authoritative adaptations he'd commencement composed piece a teacher, and soon entered the studio to begin transcription what he dubbed "eighteenth c hellenic rock" -- classical music performed on electric bass and synthesizers. He coroneted the resulting record album Fresh Aire, and when no tag would tinct it, he founded his have troupe, American Gramaphone, in 1974, creating a sham band named Mannheim Steamroller to bettor promote the project. Davis initially marketed Refreshing Aire to stereo showrooms, where his state of the art sound proven ideal for demonstrating home stereoscopic photograph equipment; the LP became a smash hit among audiophiles, and a series of popular Refreshed Aire sequels followed in the long time to come.
In 1984, Davis issued Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, which aghast onlookers by selling over 5 trillion copies on the intensity of a Top 40 Adult Contemporary interpretation of "Pack of cards the Halls." It was followed four-spot years by and by by A Fresh Aire Christmas, another unqualified strike. The environment informed 1986's Delivery the Wildlife, the soundtrack to a PBS limited, and was followed terzetto age later by Yellowstone: The Music of Nature, which brocaded over half a billion dollars for the National Parks Service. Although in the early 1990s Davis began recording under his have name for the number 1 time, he too well-kept the Mannheim Steamroller guise for a series of seasonal worker recordings, among them 1995's Christmas Day in the Aire, 1997's Christmas Live and 1998's Christmastide Angel: A Family Story. 1999's two-disc 25 Years famed Mannheim Steamroller's silver day of remembrance. Continuing with their Sweet Aire series, volume ashcan School was released in mid-2000. The albums Romantic Melodies and American Spirit came in 2003.
