50s generic happy modern machine music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0lfprZ5iU

ynot, Thursday, 10 June 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Glad this thread showed up as I've been wondering about something along these lines for a while.

The futuristic 50s kitchen vibe has been sort of revisited by people like Money Mark, Harmonic 33 and other kitsch/library music fetishists.

But it seems that one of the few retro aesthetics that hasn't been plundered by new music is that '50s American tropical holiday King Creole/Sultana/Hawaii!/Santo & Johnny vibe. The secondhand sound of good looking girls and boys dancing the Technicolor hula on a beach-bound cruiseliner backed by Tijuana brass, swinging cymbals and pedal steel guitar.

Is anyone working with this now? Maybe the last time it was referenced might have been the Cramps, B52s and Pere Ubu, but these were reimagined by punks, where the seaweed rots and the dancers have become toxic mutants.

village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link

its been really bugging me because it's such a well-known theme, but who is this by and where is it from? (Forgive crappy laptop mic and crappier piano playing please )http://vocaroo.com/?media=vvM8OCaq9bjbPWsUb

tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link

XP Dog Latin, Yoshinori Sunahara is the closest thing I can think of, there's lots of his stuff on YouTube but the track I had in mind isn't on YT, here is a soptify link tho'.

spotify:track:2ididn84VeUewdEN6OBygD

disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link

thanks maresnest! will check it out.

tom - arrrgh! i know this so well but it escapes me.

village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.andmas.co.uk/radio/children/favs/puffin_billy.ram

It's called Puffin' Billy

village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link

brilliant, thankyou

tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link

More songs in this style:

Werner Tautz - Off Broadway
Heinz Kiessling - Blue Blood
Heinz Kiessling - Hotsy-Totsy
Werner Tautz - Derby Day
Werner Tautz - Glitterati Party

These can be found in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Theme and Filler Music"

ynot, Friday, 11 June 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Answered my own question about the song in that deadly spiders video.
It's Ivor Slaney - Window Gazing
found in "Retro Shopping Vol. 1"

ynot, Friday, 11 June 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdMOfApad7k

Merry Xmas!!

Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Does anyone know what the first song in this commercial is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKokoCTp1WM

Uh, not the second one...

Thanks.

Borbetomagus, Friday, 4 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link

The moment I read this thread title the exact kind of music popped right into my head.

I like to call it Sims Buy Mode music.

gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Friday, 4 March 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObCgwGR__wE

Borbetomagus, Friday, 4 March 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes, exactly!

gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Friday, 4 March 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link


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