Deep Breakfast

Deep Breakfast
Studio album by Ray Lynch
Released	December 12, 1984 [1]
Recorded	1984
Genre	New-age, Adult Alternative
Length	40:20
Label	Ray Lynch Productions Music West BMG / Windham Hill Records (reiussue)
Producer	Ray Lynch Productions
Ray Lynch chronology
The Sky of Mind (1983) Deep Breakfast (1984) No Blue Thing (1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Deep Breakfast is Ray Lynch’s third album and was released in 1984. It was the first independently produced album to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), and later was certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A., without the benefit of live performances or videos.^[3] It peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart, behind David Lanz's album "Cristofori's Dream".^[4]

Title

The album's title is taken from a line in The Mummery Book by Lynch's spiritual teacher, Adi Da Samraj: "Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. 'You must be starved, old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.'" The sentence is quoted in the album's liner notes.^[5]

Track listing

Deep Breakfast includes the following tracks.^[6]

	"Celestial Soda Pop" The title track for Deep Breakfast. Lynch won Billboard’s Award for Artist of the Year in his genre for this platinum album. "The Oh of Pleasure" The Oh of Pleasure written by Ray Lynch and Tom Canning from Lynch's second album Deep Breakfast. The Oh of Pleasure appears on Grand Theft Auto IV video game.
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Personnel

All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch except The Oh of Pleasure which was co-written by Lynch and Tom Canning.

• Ray Lynch – keyboards, piano, guitar
• Tom Canning – keyboards on "The Oh of Pleasure"
• Beverly Jacobs – flute
• John Strauss – viola

Production

• George Horn and Fantasy Studios (San Francisco) – mastering

Media featuring tracks from the album

• Several tracks from the album were commonly used during the late 1980s and early 1990s as atmospheric music in Wonders of Life in Epcot and Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
• The Stone Mountain Laser Show in Atlanta, GA used "Celestial Soda Pop" as one of the tracks in the show, set to animated shapes and colors. The segment containing the song retired after its 25th anniversary.^[7]
• "The Oh of Pleasure" is used as the theme song for Dreamland, a radio program hosted by Whitley Strieber, and prior to him, Art Bell.
• "The Oh of Pleasure" can be heard in the video game "Grand Theft Auto IV" on the fictional radio station "The Journey".
• "The Oh of Pleasure" is featured in the film Gentlemen Broncos.^[8] The song was later reused in Jared and Jerusha Hess' other work, the animated adaptation of Napoleon Dynamite, when Kip performs his illusionist trick in front of an audience.

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