Tune In, Turn On (subtitled To the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties) is an album by Benny Golson featuring music from television advertisements recorded in 1967 and released on the Verve label.Benny Golson discography accessed June 27, 2012Jazzdisco: Verve Records Catalog: 8700 series, accessed March 27, 2019
Reception
The Allmusic review states, "the kind of release that serious jazz listeners loathed. For sheer enjoyment, however, one can raise the rating by better than half-it is fun even if it isn't remotely the best jazz, or jazz at all".
Track listing "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin) - 2:54 "Wink" (Paul Murphy) - 2:42 "The Dis-Advantages of You" (Mitch Leigh) - 2:19 "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" (Granville "Sascha" Burland) - 2:21 "Right Any Time of the Day" (John Fox, Barry Ballister) - 2:32 "Music to Think By" (Richard Boyell) - 2:35 "The Swinger" (Mitch Leigh) - 2:35 "The Magnificent Seven" (Elmer Bernstein) - 2:49 "Cool Whip" (Roy Eaton) - 2:35 "The Golden Glow" (Benny Golson) - 2:10 "Fried Bananas" (Gary McFarland) - 2:57 "Happiness Is" (Paul Evans, Paul Parnes) - 2:29
Personnel Benny Golson - arranger, tenor saxophone Art Farmer - trumpet, flugelhorn Richard Tee - piano Eric Gale - guitar Jimmy Tyrell - bass Bernard Purdie - drums Warren Smith - percussion Other unnamed musicians
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