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
"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 Stringsxxxp― ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ (PappaWheelie V), Monday, January 19, 2009 2:40 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
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
― ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ (PappaWheelie V), Monday, January 19, 2009 2:40 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ahhh i love it! thanks! "Star Fire" is like, surreal.
― aaronk, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
A few in this montage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrVgxf9P3k
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 21 June 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― I Love Musing (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 6 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
you can hear "rollercoaster" here btw
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Whats_My_Line_-_Rollercoaster.html
thoroughly enjoyed those drive in movie ads
― lukevalentine, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― borbetomagus, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread makes me think of the category: unexpected ways that 90s may be revived.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(Which probably sounds snarkier than I mean it.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dad a, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SUeE7dpMWg
― fat ass idiot butt munch (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know what this tune is from?<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2N0lfprZ5iU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2N0lfprZ5iU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
― ynot, Thursday, 10 June 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops, that didn't work. Let me try againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0lfprZ5iU
― ynot, Thursday, 10 June 2010 08:56 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
brilliant, thankyou
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
More songs in this style:
Werner Tautz - Off BroadwayHeinz Kiessling - Blue BloodHeinz Kiessling - Hotsy-TotsyWerner Tautz - Derby DayWerner 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Answered my own question about the song in that deadly spiders video.It's Ivor Slaney - Window Gazingfound in "Retro Shopping Vol. 1"
― ynot, Friday, 11 June 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdMOfApad7k
Merry Xmas!!
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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