The Living Strings was an easy listening studio orchestra, founded in 1959. It was operated by RCA Records on its Camden label. There were also related groups called the Living Voices, the Living Brass, the Living Guitars. All of the Living... records were produced by the same group of people. Ethel Gabriel created "The Living Strings" series of albums, which were easy-listening instrumental string versions of popular tunes, the type of music that came to be known peroratively as elevator music.