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Thanksgiving: 'Music for Dreaming'

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Marc Myers
Nov 27, 2025
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Sitting by a fireplace? Put your headphones on. I have a treat for you.

Paul Weston was many things—an arranger-conductor during the swing era, Capitol’s first post-war house arranger for the label’s stable of pop singers and the husband of vocalist Jo Stafford. Less known is that he’s the father of mood music, a genre that eventually became easy listeni…

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