50s generic happy modern machine music

pappawheelie - are you able to DL anything off that site? tried and cant...

i failed at the dl also :-(

HUGO WINTERHALTER "VANESSA" "SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY"

xp- "The DoveSong MP3 Library is no longer in Service
Stay Tuned for Further Developments"

The Simpsons has forever altered that as Jasper tries out for the B Sharps with made up lyrics
(eg "theme...from summer place, from summer place, the theme, from summer place, the theme, from summer place...")
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F21.html

At some point, research in the lab gives way to products for consumption.

Ha, after I created the above which includes all of the following titles, I found this site/blurb:

http://www.bobthompsonmusic.com/the_sound_of_speed.htm

"Starfire and Early-Bird Whirly-Bird from The Sound of Speed are among the classic 'music-on-the-move' titles that would include Henri Rene's Rollercoaster and David Rose's Holiday For Strings."
--Joseph Lanza, author, Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong

I didn't realize others put those two songs together before I began posting to this thread, but patting myself on the back here...

as far as i can tell at this point, "Holiday for Strings" is the granddaddy of them (although I'd imagine some film score from the 40s set the template).

It was used as the theme for the Red Skelton show beginning in 1951, the same year Walter Schumann had a hit with it.

also, Henri René's "Roller Coaster" came out the same year as Holiday.

Voices of Walter Schumann - Holiday for Strings

xxxp

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ahhh i love it! thanks! "Star Fire" is like, surreal.

A few in this montage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrVgxf9P3k

http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/redSkelton.html

Main Theme: "Holiday For Strings"
[This was an instrumental hit in 1943 which made David Rose
and His Orchestra a household name; many LP albums followed
on the MGM label;

In the ASCAP Repertoire database, there is also a listing
for "Holiday For Strings Sig[nature] Closing" credited to
David Rose and Jack Lloyd (who also has Red Skelton Show
cues in his ASCAP listings.) Presumably it was Lloyd who
made the most well-known arrangement used on the air in
later years...]

Composers: music by David D. Rose (ASCAP), with
lyric added by Sam ("Sammy") Gallup (ASCAP)

1978 Publisher: Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc. (ASCAP)

1999 Publisher: Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc. (B V C Inc.)
c/o WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Unpublished Copyright Date: 1942, in piano folio book
Published Instr. Copyright Date: May 5, 1943; EP 113 645.
Published Vocal Copyright Date: Mar. 14, 1944; EP 121 201.

Recordings: numerous, including
LP - "David Rose plays David Rose"
MGM E3748
by David Rose and His Orchestra

Re-released on:
CD - "The Very Best of David Rose" (1997)
Taragon TARCD-1015
by David Rose and His Orchestra

CD - "Space Cadets (Ultra-Lounge Volume 3)" (1996)
Capitol 2438-35176-2
by The Voices of Walter Schumann (chorus vocal w/orch.)

Newly recorded on:
CD - "Television's Greatest Hits (Vol. 4):
Black and White Classics" (1996)
TVT Records TVT 1600-2
by an uncredited studio orchestra (not a very good
performance, amateur recording and mix, and an
arrangement that seems to stop in the middle.)

you can hear "rollercoaster" here btw

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Whats_My_Line_-_Rollercoaster.html

thoroughly enjoyed those drive in movie ads

Thanks a lot for this thread.

I was hoping someone might know the music of this recent Post-It Labels commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvYR2RyhFVI

This thread makes me think of the category: unexpected ways that 90s may be revived.

(Which probably sounds snarkier than I mean it.)

xxpost: Asked and answered here. And if you're involved with the Borbetomagus, thanks for the show at Terrastock 1, my ears rang for a long long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SUeE7dpMWg

Anyone know what this tune is from?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0lfprZ5iU

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.

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

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

thanks maresnest! will check it out.

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

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

It's called Puffin' Billy

brilliant, thankyou

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"

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

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

Merry Xmas!!

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

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

Uh, not the second one...

Thanks.

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.

You mean this?

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

Yes, exactly!