Charmaine - Mantovani And His Orchestra 1958

Annunzio Mantovani, the Italian-born British conductor and composer, was the king of light music in the 1950s with million selling albums in the USA.

This recording of Charmaine in 1958 used a 40 piece orchestra and employed the famous cascading strings sound.

Fans of Endeavour will remember the use of this recording in the episode Lazaretto Musings to convey a false sense of night time serenity in an Oxford hospital where strange things were happening.