Who Am I? Week #770

I'm surprised no one guessed 101 Strings. They sold more than 50,000,000 albums worldwide. Their recordings are now owned by Countdown Media, a subsidiary of BMG in Hamburg, Germany. Countdown has been re-releasing the albums on streaming platforms and in digital music stores. The most recent is A New Year's Celebration, re-released in December 2025. The 1979 album 101 Strings Goes Disco was re-released in 2024. Here is Disco Fever. It's awful! Listen at your own risk.

 
Channel98 said:
I'm surprised no one guessed 101 Strings. They sold more than 50,000,000 albums worldwide. Their recordings are now owned by Countdown Media, a subsidiary of BMG in Hamburg, Germany. Countdown has been re-releasing the albums on streaming platforms and in digital music stores. The most recent is A New Year's Celebration, re-released in December 2025. The 1979 album 101 Strings Goes Disco was re-released in 2024. Here is Disco Fever. It's awful! Listen at your own risk.

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I have never heard of them. If I saw them in any of my searches, I did not register their name and skipped them.
 
One of their better albums is 101 Strings Orchestra Plays Hits Written By Carole King (1972) – and here it is on good ol' YouTube:

 
The Hollyridge Strings were an instrumental group very similar to the 101 Strings. Between 1961 and 1972, they released ten singles and 17 albums including The Beach Boys Song Book, The Nat "King" Cole Song Book and five volumes of The Beatles Song Book, Their only chart hit was All My Loving, which debuted at #93 on the July 4 1964 Hot 100 – and dropped off the following week. Two weeks later, the B-side, Love Me Do, debuted at #134 on the Bubbling Under chart – and dropped off the following week.

 
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