The sound was uniform and universal: lush string arrangements (almost never with vocals) of popular songs and show tunes, with minimal announcements. The stations called it "beautiful music" or "easy ...

The Beatles were the biggest and most important act of the 1960s, but you'd never know it by looking at Billboard's Easy Listening chart (now called Adult Contemporary). Easy listening stations wanted ...

Pretty much every major city has an "easy listening" station playing soft rock classics to get you through the work day — typically an anemic blend of lighter-than-air pseudo rock. Such stations ...