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A few songs in nice early stereo:

Elvis Presley - Make Me Know It (Elvis Is Back!; 1960):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJtOXdgzH8

Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (The Bridge; 1962):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuOy-B4gKRI

Ella Fitzgerald - You're My Thrill (Clap Your Hands, Here Comes Charlie!; 1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdjUDxVqdA

Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore (recorded in 1958, released on a single in 1959):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOTv9jY4X5E

Nat King Cole - Stardust (Love Is The Thing; 1957):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc

Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments (The Blues And The Abstract Truth; 1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaGDDbpcQ4
 
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Folk music, kind of... that guy makes some lovely music.

 
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Thrasher said:
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Hey, this melody from 0:53 to 1:13, it sounds familiar, where have I heard that before? :)

Lt. Kijé Suite: IV. Troika

This piece is from a concert suite of the score by Sergei Prokofiev for the 1934 film Lieutenant Kijé. From that same concert suite, another melody was also taken and used in the song Russians by Sting.

Lt. Kijé Suite: II. Romance
Russians

A long time ago a friend of mine bought a "best of" CD of Sting and the song Russians was on it. I liked the song and he told me that according to the credits it was based on music by Prokofiev but it didn't specify from which work. It was around the time I started listening to and exploring classical so I wasn't too familiar with Prokofiev's music. I went to the library and randomly rented one CD of Prokofiev naïvely hoping that that one contained Sting's reference material. Well, I chose the right one and there it was, I recognised the melody…what were the odds :).

(Btw, I didn't know about the Greg Lake borrowing until now).
 
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