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" My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went. "
―--- Jeff Beck

More about the Song :
"Say It Isn't So" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates written by Daryl Hall. It was released by RCA Records in October 1983 as the first of two new singles from their compilation album Rock 'n Soul Part 1, released that same year.
The song reached #2 position on the US Billboard Hot 100.

More about the Orchestra :
Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant influence on the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records. Fellow soundtrack composer Felix Ookean has described his contribution to Australian music as 'immeasureable'.
Libaek was born in Norway in 1938, trained as both a pianist and an actor and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. He first achieved international recognition with a role in the Louis de Rochemont film Windjammer in which he both acted and performed as piano soloist with Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra.
Libaek first came to Australia in 1960 as a member of the band The Windjammers, which toured the USA and Australia to promote the film. Shortly after the group broke up, Libaek and his wife returned to Australia.
Libaek's Australian film and TV credits include Nickel Queen, The Set, To Ride A White Horse, Vincent Serventy's oft-repeated nature series Nature Walkabout, the drama series Boney, the Ron and Valerie Taylor underwater documentary series Inner Space, ABC-TV's magazine series A Big Country, The World Around Us, Joe Wilson and The Settlement, as well as dozens of feature documentaries and industrial films. He worked with Maurice Jarre as musical coordinator and orchestrator for the Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously and also hosted his own TV show on ABC-TV, All About Music in 1974.
Libaek lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1977 to 1994 where he orchestrated more than 300 popular songs for US radio stations and artists including Lionel Richie and Neil Diamond, and he also worked for the Hanna-Barbera company, composing the scores for several animated TV specials.

Our (humble) opinion :
Orchestral pop with a disco beat at its best with a good balance between the classical instruments (like the strings) and the more 'modern' instrumentation.
Not an obvious choice for an arranger or orchestrator to pick such a typical eighties pop classic and turn it into a well sounding instrumental. But Libaek does a great job here on the arrangement and catches the listener's attention from beginning to end.

ENJOY !