Anyone heard of Raymond Scott?

I'd say the commercial stuff is still pretty fascinating. That IBM ad, for instance, was a work of genius. The curious can be assured that there are enough truly great moments to make this worth investigating... especially if you're a fan of Broadcast or Plone et al.

Not very many as, according to the sleevenotes, very few records were ever pressed

Gonna go in on Raymond Scott today, any streaming era recommendations?

The Three Willow Park comp from a couple years ago is on Spotify & full of amazing stuff

"Microphone Music" is my go-to Raymond which is "A collection of unreleased titles, radio performances, first-rate rehearsals and forgotten gems by the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded between 1936 and 1939."

Lurve his work!

Big important double CD of his 50s/60s electronic recordings for adverts, Expo etc — called "Manhattan Research Inc." — put out last year. Gimme a day or so and I'll "review" it for you (bit late tonite, esp. when I'm already on a promise re Norman F & Cornelius C over on another thread..)

― mark s, Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:00 AM (eighteen years ago)

on spotify and apple music

yeah Manhattan Research is great, I actually kinda love that it's full of ads because it really does take you to the 1950s

Yeah its a really amazing package. I got it when it came out, I was in high school and it completely rearranged my musical brain

thanks to this bump I'm listening again to it now, I forgot how weird this stuff was. "Limbo: The Organized Mind" is such a cool track, very much an early Twilight Zone sort of thing

I also liked this thing a lot. "Raymond Scott remixed by DJs" is not exactly the most appealing thing but I believe these are all plunderphonics dudes, pretty much everything you hear is directly from the archives

https://www.raymondscott.net/scottrewired/

I attended a NYC Scott tribute show in '97 that featured a Bob Moog lecture/demonstration.

If you like Powerhouse-era Raymond Scott you should definitely check out the similarly very composed but very swinging John Kirby Sextet. Don Byron put out a disk covering tunes from both called Bug Music back in 1996. These days I prefer Kirby's two-disk Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings, lo-fi though it is.

Thanks for the recommendation, there's some stuff on Spotify and it swings hard. 30s and 40s swing just makes me happy!

Speaking of Spotify, there's some Raymond Scott albums on there that I'm not familiar with - "The Uncollected", "Essential Works", and some other later stuff. Anyone have thoughts on these?

New and new to streaming and holy fuck this is really really good!
The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures from 1951 to 1965
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UzRKhet8fwxcv8XMxrEJA?si=JyNDSE9VRmOiwWWFrQ_jfw

Hangover Dirt!

if somebody don't sample "so good, so fresh, so southern" everybody is sleeping

https://raymondscott.bandcamp.com/track/so-good-so-fresh-so-southern-mel-torm-southern-bread