THE SOUND OF MUZAK - GROCERY STORE 1970's
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Muzak is an American brand of background music played in retail stores and other public establishments. The name has been in use since 1934, and has been owned by a division or subsidiary of another company ever since. In 1981, Westinghouse bought the company and ran it until selling it to the Fields Company of Chicago, publishers of the Chicago Sun-Times, on September 8, 1986. Formerly owned by Muzak Holdings, the brand was purchased in 2011 by Mood Media in a deal worth US$345 million. Muzak was based in various Seattle, Washington locations from 1986 to 1999, after which it moved its headquarters to South Carolina in 2000.
The word Muzak has been a registered trademark since December 21, 1954, of Muzak LLC, although it dominated the market for so many years that the term is often used (especially when used with lowercase spelling) as a generic term for all background music. The term Muzak is - at least in the United States - often used for most forms of background music, regardless of its source. It may also be referred to as "elevator music" or "lift music". Though Muzak Holdings was for many years the best-known supplier of background music, and is commonly associated with elevator music, the company itself did not supply music to elevators. Since 1997, Muzak has used original artists for its music, except on its Environmental channel. - Розваги
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Kid of the 70s...my parents are dead, my brother is dead...I still have my sister...but when I hear this music, it reminds me of when everything was okay...and we were a family...
I can certainly empathize with you..I'm also a kid of the 70's and both of my parents are gone..Not much to live for these days
60’s. Out of 4 kids, just myself and brother are left. It was a big deal to shop. People got dressed up and there were not the crowds typically of today. No one wore pajamas to the store. Other than maybe dad picking up something on his way home or a trip to the corner store (which wasn’t shopping), going to get groceries and supplies was reserved for an occasional trip. Everyone spoke in a friendly way and the cashiers were helpful and not rude or rushed. It was like Leave it to Beaver and I’m not having selective memory. Unlike you though, I knew that close families existed but mine was not that type. Still I have a bit of nostalgia for those days.
@@ToddDouglasFox People wear pajamas to the store in the U.S.?
@@00Hendrik00 since covid some people do wear pjs. For a while during covid, it felt like I was walking directly into a hospital ward when going to the grocery store. I didn’t mention that these days there’s more shoplifting than ever in the U.S. Some retailers are thinking about closing all or nearly all of their stores. Many store locations have closed. The most we’d hear back then about theft at grocery stores was small item petty thefts, like under a dollar in today’s costs. Also people were not so judgmental and nosey at the stores. Most people would mind their business and were very friendly, especially to children. That was a welcome relief for me due to the argumentative nature of my home life. Us kids were cool but my parents never did see eye to eye once the fights began. I find myself these days telling parents how well behaved and great their children are in the stores. They are happy to hear it but I can tell it’s extremely rare that any of them have been told that by a random shopper. How things change and if we are honest, in some ways for the worse. What part of the world are you in Hendrick?
I know how you feel. My parents are both gone and I'm an only child. I have a son that lives with me though. I do miss those days.
Turning 60 this year, cancer survivor taking care of my Mom on hospice. I am not of this current world and just have to live in the past to comfort my soul.
I was my fathers caregiver for a few years but had to put him in Hospice about 2 weeks ago but he died 2 days later because of kidney failure. I'm in a fog and don't know what to do now but this helps me to calm down. Take care of yourself.
Mate, Im mid 30s and feel the same. Hope your mum is doing well.
I am 58 and feel the same. Prayers to you.
I am almost 59, both parents recently passed. This takes me back to some happy times.
Stay strong my friend. You're not alone.
Yes, people did get dressed "up" to go out of the house. Tried to look nice. Showered, shaved, haircut and clean clothes that actually covered their bodies. No cursing or screaming. You were expected to be polite. No eating or drinking in the store. This was 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. Life is better when we respect others and ourselves.
Totally agree. What a growing nostalgia!
People still do in many other countries! My friend from Italy was horrified at how many shorts and T-shirts he saw at a pizza restaurant, hahaha
The standards of White society have been erased, just as we are physically being erased by non-white immigration. None of this is on accident.
But you could smoke in the store. All stores. Butts on the floor all the time, smoke smell everywhere. Rose-colored glasses miss a lot.
Some women went out in housecoats with rollers in their hair too.
Does anyone remember going to the bakery section of the store and, if you were a child, being given a free cookie? Those were good times
At Publix where I work, they still do that and also children can get a free banana, mandarin orange, or a small apple in the produce section.
Could you imagine these days? A cookie is what $3, plus the obligatory tip.
No, but I DO remember being threatened in the car before entering the store, to behave, and don’t ask for anything. 😂
Ahh, the old days.
We got a doughnut hole before they were a thing😋…
We got a doughnut hole before they were a thing😋…
I was born in 1970 and came to North America in 1974 with my family. I remember these times discovering how fantastic it was to do mundane things like going to the grocery store. I had never seen that much food in one place before. My grandmother was touching everything like she didn't believe it was real. She was 85 and became a child again "look look" she said in every row pointing stuff in the alleys. She couldn't believe it. She grew up in the soviet union under stalin, and lived through the revolution, second world war. She just couldn't believe there was so much food.
Fantastic times.
I was born in July 1970. Wish that I could go back.
What a beautiful story....thank you!❤
ваша история у меня вызывает слезы...
@@sueelliott4793I am also from July 1970. July 31st. We are from the greatest decade!, greetings from Mexico
THANK YOU for this! My mom used to play this music on the radio in the 70's ..I didn't appreciate it as a teen... Now what I wouldn't give to go back,,,, I'm old and family all gone.... This world in 2024 is so cold ..😢
Radio in the '60s and '70s didn't play musak, even though stores did. Your mom, as did mine, tuned into radio stations whose "lite" favorites would be the non-threatening hits of the day covered by artists like Mantovani, the Percy Faith Orchestra or '50s artists like Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. They would also play an occasional current artist with a softer pop hit. I remember riding in the car and, being low in family rank, having to listen to whatever station a parent chose.
I prefer to go back in the years myself it was simple and warm
"You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past" Andy Griffith
What a nice passage. Andy was so talented. Thanks for this!
While I do miss loved ones who've passed on, I do NOT have nostalgia.
"The past remembers better than it lived." Jackie Gleason
Youth is wasted on the young…is one of the most truthful things I’ve ever heard. I can tell you…you know you’re not young also when depression comes and you STILL wanna live as long as you can. When I was young…I had no respect for my own life when times got hard
@@Heyu7her3 while I may have the appearance of one, I am NOT a human
Reminds me of my childhood and the constant refrain of mom saying "Put that back!" 😁😁
So true! Especially at the register where the candy bars were located or the cereal aisle where we’d look to see which boxes had prizes in them. 😂
Exactly or the ever famous ewe can’t afford that it’s not on the list😂.
@@joesteedman8230 🤣🤣
This takes me back to a time when we didn’t realize how nice it was.
Yup! That about sums it up….
Lmao
nostalgia overload.
*Eww. What are you saying? It was nice because you were 10yo and your parents didn't expose you to the real 1970s.*
Demographics have changed.
I used to not understand this style of music and I wondered why stores would incessantly play it. Now it seems gentle and soft and I found myself tearing up. My family has passed and those days are gone. What I wouldn’t give to be coming home with my dad from the grocery story on an early Saturday morning. Life was family based and we would have those paper grocery bags of family style food to unload. Nowadays I’m finding it anxiety producing to even budget for one small plastic bag of groceries. I miss those days with all my heart.
Use to go to the grocery store with my mom and she would buy like twenty dollars worth of groceries. Alot back then and it would fill up the whole back end of our station wagon and when we got home me and my sisters all had to chip in and carry about 15 brown paper bags from the car to the kitchen. Miss those days. Twenty bucks won't even fill half a plastic bag now.
I totally understand. If we only knew how great those family times were. I’d give anything to go back to those times with my parents (both deceased). 😥
Some part of me has wondered what changed from the 80’s to the 90’s, then from the 90’s to the 2000’s, then the 2010’s, then the 2020’s…
I’ll say this much, regarding grocery store music…
It used to be that going to the grocery store (when I was a little boy) was something quite enjoyable, even though I didn’t really get much in the way of what I wanted the most (candy, brightly colored juices, sodas, sugary cereals, etc.). Still, we did get some food that I liked, a few things that I loved, etc. And the music in grocery stores was particularly inviting in nature…. This stuff. I’ve never felt that it was “Muzak”. This grocery store music is more “listenable” than that.
I don’t know exactly when grocery store music began to change, not for the better. But 70’s and 80’s soft rock was/is still VERY good music, 70’s folk rock, 80’s ballads, etc. When we got into the 2000’s, with time, yeah, grocery store music just got worse and worse. I don’t even listen to music in grocery stores anymore, rare exceptions. I think Trader Joe’s has oldies stuff going on sometimes, I dunno, I mean, you can’t find department or grocery stores that play stuff like this anymore, can you? 🤔🤔🤔 I mean, Nordstroms? Macy’s? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
What has HAPPENED TO AMERICA????
@@kellyspann9845 - Thank Joe Biden & Company...
@@annette9747 Me too !
In Japan they still play music like this in shops. Particularly convenience stores, supermarkets and large chain stores. It makes shopping such a nicer, more relaxed experience. I really miss it.
That third song in this album very much reminds me of the Nyango video of the guy drumming way too hard.
In Germany all I hear is " Buy our cheap offers during super saving weeks".
that’s so awesome
Now in the supermarkets in New York City, they plan rap or whatever the teenaged workers who work there want. Sometimes just the mic of the PA system taped down and set next to some crappy speaker.
But the teens are not even listening to it, they're listening to their ear pods, sometimes jabbering away at someone on their phones. I think the managers are too afraid of them to challenge any of this. Its a total travesty whats happening in American cities now.
My first job was at a supermarket back in 1980. Back then the customer was always right, it was "sir" and "maa'm", and you worked constantly. either stocking shelves, neatening shelves, or cleaning.
None of us could afford walkman's but if they ever caught us listening to one, I'm sure we'd be fired on the spot. Only thing we ever got away with was sneaking beers in the basement. Everyone was pretty liberal about teenage alcohol use back then.
@@RaptorFromWeegeeSpeaking of "liberal," you can blame them for the majority of that problem you're describing. I was never partisan my entire life until I've watched them destroy everything.
I used to call this grocery store music “elevator music” because it also was played in elevators. Miss this time of my life and the overall politeness of society.
Just think of all those musicians who are riding the elevator up and down all day. They are on the roof of the elevator car, you know.😅
Yes! I remember it being called elevator music as well.
Ya, now they play Def Leppard and makes me feel old AF.
Now "elevator" muzak is classic rock. 😢
awwww :) I hear ya.
As busy as the world is today, people might feel calmer if they played Muzak in stores again.
We'd have far fewer confrontations with others...
And in airports. The crap they play now is so cringe it forced me to buy Boze headphones to mute it out. “Music” they play today in public spaces is appalling. Makes people so aggressive.
@@maria617 The "music" they play these days is nothing but noise!!!
@@maria617this is actually true. Music seriously can change behavior- what they play today does not foster calm, civil or focused behavior.
They do it purposely
More relaxing than today's music in stores
UPS store in my neighborhood plays dance salsa in the morning. A bit too much.
@@sunnyd4125 yeah
The age of innocence before the supermarkets got filled with constant electronic beeping. And alarms. Musack really helped to calm the shoplifters down, not that anyone had to worry about back in the day. I have such fond memories of being one of three kids in a trench coat clinking our way from the liquor isle right on past the cashier with a howdy and a cheery wave. Now security use facial recognition to smack folks down as soon as a foot gets past the door.
I definitely agree ! As a child going shopping in the supermarket with my parents there were always pleasant Easy Listening music to enjoy. Today unfortunately some supermarkets have disgusting rap music playing. I have walked out the supermarket several times because of the foul and offensive languages coming from rap music playing in the background. This music is very popular so I am alone in being turned off by rap music. I wish supermarkets would go back to playing relaxing Easy Listening music.
It seems to me that all the grocery stores play breakup music. I think it makes people eat more😂
As someone with no connection to the '70s, this music sounds like what they play in the waiting room to heaven.
I was in high school... So familiar! We hated it then, but it's actually cozy and upbeat...
@@senrab99 Or just going to shopping centers and supermarkets that played pleasant music. LOL
Haven't been to Heaven but if they play this "music " there I don't think I'm interested.
@@chriswebb8775 One way or the other, we all get skinned.
This is how I imagine purgatory to be.😂
My God, what has become of America? This is lovely! I remember going on shopping trips with my mother in the early 90s and enjoying the store music.
I think those of us who grew up in the 70's are able truly understand what a cesspool America has become. It's why I left. But I will always remember that decade as being a magical time.
Where do you live now? USA really is a cesspool with Republicans having ruined this country. Wish we could live elsewhere too
America has always been a cesspool. Make America A Cesspool Again!
Where did you end up?
@@bassethound1I want to know too, is there a haven for us normal people some where in the world?
Where did you move to?
I started working at a grocery store in 1973.
So I haven't forgotten this music...
We used to unload 18 wheel trucks with rollers and stands, all manual labor.
We mopped the floor every night and on Sundays was floor waxed night..
Priceless High School years memories.
We played our radios at night and listened to 70's Roll N Roll..
Everyone so dressed up and their best selves at the grocery store in the 1970s. Shows you how much pride everyone had.
gosh I forgot how mom would get all dolled up to go tothe store and the smell of that hair spray when she opened her bedroom door. Like a cross between rose and mimeograph paper.
...the good kind
Nobody dressed "up" to go grocery shopping that I recall, though they also didn't go in their actual pajamas. Or anything where their booties were in full view.
Born in the early 60s, and yes, I can remember being all dressed up at the age of 2 or 3 with a little coat and tie. It was magical, I miss those days.
Why amI here listening to this 70’s grocery store music ? Idk. 😂 lol
I guess this music never leaves your consciousness. I’m a child of the 1970’s 🥰
Same reason I am. It's like a warm blanket
Ear worms. It gets in your head and stays there.
because you never forgot where you came from. Besides, 70-80's music was absolute on the money and back when music... WAS MUSIC
I remember when grocery stores were really attractive and clean with plenty of checkers. Stores tried to make shopping as pleasant as possible, unlike today.
😂 now it’s a bunch of people who have no self pride / respect in their jobs. Let alone their own image.
Nowadays you have utter foolishness. For example, they build tons of self-checkouts at my grocery store, but now are leaving about 66% of them switched off, presumably saving them for when they're busy. They're finding out people are stealing things when they check themselves out, so now they're stuck with all that equipment, but don't want to use it very much. I don't know why having most of them off is going to cut down on stealing, but they may be getting customers used to it before they give up on it almost entirely, to switch back to true checkouts.
@@charles2241 Yes ! The store chains don't care at all about the customer. It's just give us your money and get out !
@@charles2241 Thats an interesting take on that. My Walmart just remodeled and put in a huge self check area. It's been roped off ever since. It's cashiers only. More registers are open than ever before which is nice, but my Walmart is always a packed disaster so it's not a good experience. But, I would imagine my area is likely high theft.
@@05Forenza I went to Walmart a few days ago, and the complete lack of cashiers was horrendous. ALSO the self checkout was backed up. Really awful wait like ten minutes just in the middle of the day.
These compilations are great, but I find them really melancholy, because that world is gone, and the world we live in now is just so dark....
Agree! I was a 70's/80's kid and this really takes me back to my mom taking my sister and I to the grocery store. It seems like another planet now. People were so calm and not a phone in sight. Such sweet times. I'm thankful I lived it.
But Jesus is the light ❤️ I know that sounds cliche but He’s alive and He brings light and joy. ❤️❤️❤️
@@StephanieB1982Amen.
Yes totally dark and darker but yes Jesus said" I am the light of the world he who follows me shall not walk in darkness."
Also yes these music compilations are FAN tactic. Thanks for the work in making them and posting.
this makes me cry for those simpler times again....
i wish i could travel back in time and stay there, back home with my parents, the world felt small but i was cozy, safe and had everything i needed...
The world wasn't simpler or easier, you were just younger
I truly understand your comment. I was born in 79 and boy do I wish I could go back.
@@David49305Speak for your own life. I don’t know anyone who’s life was better in the 70, 80s or 90s that was just better because they were “young”. I question if that’s how you feel I’d hate to ask what kind of life you’re living.
@@dinky101 I agree with you, all of the people I've known who lived in that decade/era, and said the same thing about those times being better had nothing to do with age, it was just genuinely better.
@@jasminflowerz1710I agree it was a great time.
Born in late 1969 so the 70s were truly the years of my childhood. Most of all, I remember how much calmer it all seemed. Not just for kids, but I remember adults never seemed as stressed, loud or impatient as they are today. And I agree, you never heard anyone swear in public.
I was born in 1961, I was 9 in 1970. I guess the 70s where about me getting closer to being a teenager. I'm 63 now.
Oh, we are living in the toilet now.
Yes same here, some of my greatest memories of my life were from those days. I would definitely go back in a heartbeat but at least we were able to experience it. Miss it now more than ever before.
I worked at a grocery store for years, and there were customers who dressed inappropriately in winter. They'd come to the store in shorts, short-sleeved shirts, sandals and even bare feet!
They were stressed but had better control!
Big hair, big shoes, big cars, low prices. The '70s.❤
And nobody wearing pajamas to the pharmacies/grocery stores!
@@julieerin115who cares if the do
@@ALH072i do, what you going to do about it.
No big hair in the 70's. I was there.
I remember, clogs. And men with perms. That was late 70's.
I play this in my Kinder class. The kids love it as background music and I'm always certain there will be no inappropriate connotations.
Might as well just let them listen to whatever they want, because the world doesn't care about being inappropriate anymore. By the time they're an adult, they'll be neck deep in inappropriate human behavior and navigating that.
I love that!!! Music (or in this case, Musak) both creates and facilitates such a joyful atmosphere. It's off in the background, and more often than not I bet the kids aren't paying much attention to it at all. It's all subconscious, and just part of the fun. Decades from now, they'll hear this Musak and it will automatically trigger nice feelings and memories.
There's a gentleman who does a plane stream from DFW and plays old jingles. The live chat loves it, so keep on playing! It's good.
Great idea!
I love this! You are creating such nice memories for them! ❤️
That CBS Special Presentation brings me back!!
Yes..! As a kid whenever we saw that we expected a Peanuts Gang cartoon to come on or some other cartoon special! Fantastic times!
I am not from U.S my dad died in 2000 when I was 21 but reading all your comments while listening to this music really made me remember very joyful moments I have lived as a kid with my wonderful dad and I understand you all, you romantic baby boomers! LOL
I remember that CBS Special intro in the 70s when cartoons like It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown would come on. It was always SO exciting!
Me too. Whenever that popped up on the screen you knew something really good was coming on.
I still sometimes watch The Great Pumpkin.
This was the comment I was looking for! Yes, it meant an awesome and cozy viewing experience with snacks and pjs!!!
In 1979 I had my 1st child in October. I was so excited to get out of hospital in time to see the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin. Lol
Exactly how I feel,,, I loved that intro, meant something good was coming on...
People mostly dressed well, groomed, clean, mannerly.
Stores looked clean as well and quite orderly.
Back then people took pride how they looked when they went out of the house. My mom never went out without her makeup on..her hair was nice and neat and her clothing tasteful.
That is so true, unlike today most folks don't care how they look (or act).
A lot of sweeping mass generalizations there. Things varied. As far as how people dress and groom, I remember it being about the same then and now.
@@janc8199Ya not wearing stretch pants and slippers like most American women today
@@brianarbenz1329Duh, women wore dresses, skirts, make-up, in the 70s-80s today it's stretch pants, pajamas, slippers and obesity
I'm a 70s kid. Saturday afternoon grocery shopping with my dad and little brother. My mind is flooded with sweet memories, I got a little emotional.The world was a different place. We were a nicer and respectful society in those days. My parents are no longer here. I miss them so much. Wow, what a walk down memory lane. Thank you.
Wow my sentiments exactly!
*Nice? Some of my friends were called the N-word in public when we were kids.*
@@hulkhatepunybanner we were all called nasty things in public when we were kids, we grew up and got over it because some people are mean and that's life
@@geologick *You said, "A society that encourages adults to call kids nasty slurs for no reason at all is a good society."*
@@hulkhatepunybanner No I didn't, and I won't argue the point further because you're clearly approaching braindead in terms of your reading comprehension. Have a better day
It’s funny the mundane in things that you look back on with fondness. This music takes me right back to 1968 when I was four and my mom and I would shop after taking my older siblings to school. For some reason we were the ONLY people in this huge supermarket at that time of day. We’re celebrating her 89th birthday tomorrow and still love spending time together ❤
The flute ruled 60s/70s supermarket music and the sax dominated 80s
I really miss the flutes... 🪈
And nowadays it's basically Hey There Delilah, Wonderwall, and Ordinary World played on repeat.
Moe Koffman
swinging shepherd blues
comes to mind
early 80s was still this kind of music , mid late 80s is when that smooth jazz took over
Joan Baez music pretty much
Ahhhh the good old 70s and Mary Tyler Moore, Love American Style and the Patridge Family, The Brady Bunch etc etc etc
It's funny how I remember my parents worrying about world events back then, but they seem like blissful times compared to now.
True. The worst part is, what is waiting around the corner..! EVERYTHING in this modern world is worse than those happy years.
I think it was because even in turbulent times there were certain societal "guardrails" that kept things on an even keel. Today? Anything goes, and I don't mean the old Tony Bennett song.
Born in '75...I feel so much longing listening to this. I'll search youtube for little ditties , bumper intros... so my soul can remember when the world was so new, and even if there was sorrow and pain, there was a special refuge in gentle music, in the innocent thoughts and dreams of childhood.....
Well said my friend. Well said.
Beautifully stated, thank you
Im born in 75 too and I can totally relate😢
Yes.....all of this.❤
Isn't it strange how a tune, or smell, or a certain light can trigger memories. Maybe those memories are there, waiting for us ? Who knows.
I wish supermarkets, as well as plenty other retail stores, and restaurants, would go back to this good old-fashioned Muzak, as opposed to today's radios-to-speakers.
yes i agree ,every time i go to a wal-mart, they have the music up pretty loud ,i rather listen to elevator music instead
Actually there is some stores I've delivered to. In Massachusetts. Market basket grocery store and donelan's supermarket they play this type of music. Actually I heard donelan's playing classical music as well as stuff on this video. Both of these grocery stores have the old school feeling when like an example market basket you can hear the manager talking about all the deals that they have going on sale over the intercom. And then the way that the workers have certain types of blazers they wear. Like at market basket the regular workers wear blue or the cashier's wear blue aprons. Then the supervisors of the department's wear red and then the other departments like deli and meat dept wear white coats and produce they have green.
If you want that 1970s feel, some rural supermarkets out in the middle of nowhere in poor areas have supermarkets that look the same from 1975
@@ramencurry6672 There's a Shop n Save in McHenry, MD (Deep Creek Lake) that has the older feel to it. I quite liked the atmosphere. It's a small resort town.
Oh yes, Walmart radio 🙄 If I hear Spanish Lullaby one more time gonna gag. Doesn't matter, Spanish English whatever. IT'S TOO LOUD.
The best years of my childhood. The best years of my life.
I couldn't have been the only one who sat on the floor in the periodicals and book section reading comic books while Mom was shopping.
This just made my day, I'm a child of the late 60's and early 70's. I never thought much of any of this when I was a kid, the music, the styles, the wonderful supermarkets but, I wish so much that I could go back to those wonderful glorious days.😊😊
Born in 63, these were the sounds of my youth, the bright, soaring, contemporary orchestral arrangements having the deepest impact on me. Even while just an 8 year old child, haplessly sucked into the throes of a full-blown toy frenzy at the local Kmart, the soundtrack never went unnoticed. And then, when departing these consumer arenas, totally jacked on the colours and excitement-inducing wording of Mattel and Hasbro packaging, there would be the AM radio in the car, polishing the sun and clouds to an impossible shine with songs like My Sweet Lord and Snowbird, amongst hundreds of others. There, in the glowing burn of the chrome and white vinyl interior of my mom's car, my DNA would suck it all in and package it all tightly into my heart. From there it spilled out on the world like a mushy love note.
Music is suppose to leave you feeling like your sitting in a spring forest with birds singing all around you.
Unfortunately, music these days makes you feel like your sitting in a garbage dump listening to back up beepers.
😂😂😂
Born in 63 in a working class family with two parents in the Midwest of America. As a child, I did not realize how poor we were relative to others. Muzak playing overhead in the grocery stores, waiting rooms, and department stores was a constant underscore in the background. I firmly believe the mood of a nation/society speaks to us through the contemporary music of the time. Despite being poor and in living in a small single family home, I was never lectured on studying and working hard through my youth as it was was 'understood' and I truly believed anything was possible if you worked hard and never gave up when adversity was present.
I fear for what I see in America in 2023. Pockets of civility still exist throughout the nation but the general division and sense of hope-lost is disturbing. We are now witnessing children (violent, angry, and morally lost) rudderless and without direction. I no longer see 'statesmen' standing up for what is right but serving as opportunists prepared to leave the next generation worse off.
My world is quite different 60 years later, and have homes on each coast. I travel quite a bit internationally and know of places where civility still holds true and monetary wealth does not drive the moral compass of the nation. I will be transitioning away from the United States over the next 5 years and hope our 'better angels' prevail and regain a foothold on the gifts the nation of my birth afforded me and my family.
Music matters greatly and Muzak was a great comfort during times of strife as it has a wonderful calming effect.
@@chrispnw2547 I understand you perfectly. You hit the nail on the head.
I know. There's not much to say about Walmart, but you walk into the one here in town and it's crappy country-pop or just crappy pop. At Tops and Reid's the music is turned down so low there might as well not be anything at all.
You are an incredible writer...as a child of the 80s...i long for the aura of the era...these days i find the feelings in smells and music usually...if only life were as simple and clear cut as it was in our memories...the world seemed so big and people had hope...these days the world is imploding right before our eyes and the line between good and evil is so blurry that people just dont even know how to deal with it...im thankful for people that can remember when things were better...thank you
Born in 1965. I recall this genre of music, all too well. My dad passed away in 2018. I remember he would listen to the "easy listening" radio station in Colorado Springs back in the late 70s and into the 80s. We need more of that laid back chill vibe.
My father (passed in 2016) used to always play easy listening or “beautiful music”. It was the soundtrack of my childhood 🩷
Mine too. He'd have WEZW FM stereo 104 of Milwaukee, WI on in the car all the time. Unfortunately the station programming changed in the 90's sometime I believe. Great memories!
I definitely agree, as I was born in 1958@
I was also born in 1965🌈
Born in 65 also. Aren’t We lucky to have been born and raised during such a great time. I miss those days, hearing this music definitely takes me back.
Instant transportation back 50 years.
If you've never heard the sound of a manual cash register going CHUNK CHUNK CHUNK BRRRRRUMP then I pity you.
Even someone working on an oil rig, no scratch that, a gas station in Saudi Arabia has experienced more culture than you.
@@ColtraneTaylor Shush, adults are talking.
@@DeadAbeVigoda You really should finish high school first.
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And the sss-WIIICK wicka-wicka-wicka of dialing a rotary telephone.
This music was played impeccably well by the musicians.
To be honest, this kind of music never bothered me in the least. It was non-intrusive and easy on the ears, as well as the soul. Who needs to hear all that horrible junk they force on us today? This was a time when our parents could shop in peace. Guess those days are long-gone. Thank you for posting, and it's nice to know that other folks feel the same way, too!
I don't care if it's for supermarket music, I play it as my lullaby and it works.
Play this in every brick and mortar store, airport, lobby, elevator and hold line in the US for a month. Things would actually start to improve!
someone else said the same thing. I really wish they would
Mass shootings would probably decrease 📉
Right.
So relaxing and peaceful. I remember this music when shopping with mom at Kroger and Farmer Jack's in Michigan from about 1969 onward.
My parents were children of the 40s and 50s, and hated muzak, having been raised on Sinatra, Count Basie, and other actual talented musicians. They complained about the generic, watered down music in stores, and while I hear older generations complain about music today, they're just complaining about modern generic crap while completely missing that they pine for their own childhood's generic crap. Nostalgia really does blind people to the truth.
My parents were violent and abusive. They drove me to two suicide attempts. I hear this and O breathe a sigh of relief that I survived and got through it all, traumatised but still functioning.
I've heard this several times now..
I'm convinced that when I listen, time moves slightly slower.. reminiscent of such innocent moments in time when you were young.
Born in 1968, I was a 70’s kid. My Dad was a grocery store manager here in West Michigan. This is some strong nostalgia! Thanks for posting this!
Grand rapids?
@@nightboattrax3125 Holland
Dad managed Eberhard’s. The Holland location. Back then Eberhard’s was as big or bigger than Meijers.
I would love to see how it looked back in the 70’s
I'm a Michigan girl of the 70's too! Such a great time.
My mom was always so glamorous. This brings back good memories. I miss her.
Easy Listening music from 60's, 70's and 80's is such a warm and emotional music...
I got a chuckle at the big old cash registers you see in a few of the scenes. I can remember the cashier punching in those numbers for each item and mom waitng on the S&H greenstamps when all was done and paid for.
I remember sitting on the floor pasting s&h green stamps into the books.
I remember the racket those mechanical cash registers made and how fast the ladies’ hands and fingers were flying ringing up your order.
@@RepentfollowJesusYep. When I was 5 years old, that was my job. My mother gave me a dish of water to wet my fingers so I wouldn't have to lick the stamps. I don't remember what we got with those stamps, but we sure had a lot of books full. My dad got them at the gas station too.
This is international, i live in Panamá ( the country, not the city in Florida) and we just to have thus music inthe supermarkets, restaurants, elevators, etc, during the 70's and 80's and it brings back memories of childhood for good to everyone who listend to it back in time, when the world was not so mad as today❤
im a 21st century kid and reading all these comments are so bittersweet, soon it'll be us reminiscing today
10:29 the smell of our family's usual 4 bags....4 bags for $20.00 in 1970...smelled like happiness and success.
I have a relative that worked for the Muzak corporation doing repairs of the audio systems. He explained the system to me which was basically a multi-track audio system. The entire system in an of itself was quite elaborate with audio, storage, and remote access. I asked about how Muzak was able to avoid any lawsuits, because I know I had heard several renditions of popular songs, and I was told that Muzak would often change one note or so just to keep it in compliance. Sadly, Muzak is becoming less and less of a thing these days, and bits and pieces of the system can often be found in second hand locations. We found one of the audio systems that was serviced by the company in a GoodWill store. The part was a mixer, and still had the initials and repair dates written on them from a decade earlier.
That's so interesting, thanks for sharing!
I came across a late 60's Tandberg reel to reel player that still had a tape roll on it. I took it home, plugged it in and it worked! I pushed play and it was music exactly like this, only it's CHRISTMAS MUZAK!! It's sooo good, just like you'd hear in KMART, mid 70's, while waiting to see Santa.
There was such a unifying feel to this music. The store aisles were filled with a sense of hope and wonder for what the future might bring.
Up until the mid to latter 80s, every decent sized city had at least one radio station that played “Beautiful Music.” It sucks that those days are gone.
WRWC was the station in Rockford that had this kind of music. Unfortunately it was bought out by a company that changed it to a rock station.
A sad & common story.
I found an Australian radio station online called Golden Days Radio. My workday is their overnight. The music is so peaceful!
This music is quiet and relaxing. Sounds of today are loud and nerve shattering.....😖
today does sound nerve shattering but listening to this is kind of eerie to me because the way I discovered Muzak was by researching 9/11, it just feels weird.
Whoever made grocery jingles back in the day was awesome
Born 1971. Thanks for bringing back my childhood trips to the store with Mom. Both parents are still around, but I miss those days when they were young and strong and mentally sharp.
If I could just find a way to crawl through the monitor and return to the America I knew...but nobody would believe when I told them what our nation is like today.
How right you are.
I'm working on a time machine that will take us back to 1985! ( close enough? )
I've got the DeLorean and the flux capacitor, I just need some plutonium, that's seems to be a real bugger to get!
Same
@@georgehenderson7783 😄😄😄
Nostalgia is the new heroin.
Born in '61, I knew as a kid growing up that these were, for me at least, very relaxing and enjoyable times. Our family was a one income family. There was plenty to go around for a family of five. Department stores were exciting places to visit. Sears was my favorite. Grocery stores had all kinds of products for every taste, literally. Even radio stations played what we called "elevator music". Television stations signed off at 12 midnight. There wasn't a need to have 24 hour news cycles injected into our veins. Cash registers were operated by a lady with incredibly fast fingers who knew the prices of every product in the Commissary. The printed receipt seemed like it was 3 feet long after we filled up two sometimes three grocery carts. And food was cheap, really cheap. We loaded up the gas guzzling Caddy with our purchases placed in paper bags and headed home to unload. I could write even more, but yes, the 1960s and 1970s really were a cool period of time if you were a kid. That's why I still drive my cars made in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Cars and trucks of that vintage drive and feel differently than cars of today. And they are cheap to keep too.
I miss this gentle world.
Eventually you will lose absolutely everything and everyone you love. Your music will become "oldies" and what was new and exciting is now "nostalgia". Life is shorter than you think.
The 70s!!❤❤ You could walk into any store and shop unafraid from morning until night. No cell phones meant no phone conversations until you got home to your landline. Time was a bit slower, and people were friendlier. And the music? It was spectacular!!
This music is so relaxing and happy. It is absolutely better than the crap we have to listen to today. If I had a choice of which music to play in a store, mall etc it would be anything from the 50s-80s and classic rock, hands down. This music is wonderful ❤
I remember when automatic opening doors were a new thing. Lol
Yeah, I remember my Mum being amazed by the "magic eye"! Earlier automatic doors had a mat to trigger them, remember that?
@@lundswedenYes. So Star Trek lol!
We used to play on them to get them to open and close. It was great fun until the busy adults came over and stopped us. 😂
Little did we know those were the best days of our lives. 😢
Funny- I play these and pray .. about those in the past , the present and the future .All those loved ones it takes me back to then and especially now. Thanks for these . Really .
They played Muzak in every store we shopped in from grocery stores to department stores. I'm a 70s kid too born in 1966.
1965 here and that was such a great era to be a kid. I miss that so much.
That intro is one of the most comforting bits of visuals ever. Those who lived through the 70's and 80's in America saw that 'CBS Special' clip countless times. Takes me right back.
There was ALWAYS something good to follow that intro.
Who could sit and play this for hours on end!
Im a child of the 80's who worked in Corporate for 24 years. I loved playing this musicnin my office, it gave me peace, and helped me focus on my work and projects. I remember one day a couple of co-workers came in and started laughing at me saying "haha!!! Why are you listening to elevator music, you're so weird and old that's boring how does it not put you to sleep" man I felt so dumb and stupid and more than anything old and humiliated, that I immediately changed my music to todays crap, just to please others.
Listening to this now reminded me why I listened to it back in Corporate. It was nostalgic, it put my mind and soul at ease. It took me back to a place where I felt safe, where I was around people that truly knew and loved me. And not around people like today, fake, confused, negative with so much darkness and hate in their hearts.
I miss the good old days.
Any music makes your work, learning less effective. If you get tired take a break and better listen to birds songs or sound of forest for 5 min.
I’m one of the guys who fixed those Muzak systems around Chicago for over 30 years. One supermarket chain here even had their own custom built vacuum tube Muzak SCA receivers (tuner amp combo units) made by McGohan Electronics.
I had an sca receiver unit installed in a police-band radio but it isn't working. Do stations still use it?
I will forever believe that we were a better society and people during these years.
Twitter users will see this comment and then go "murder and bad things existed then, you're deluding yourself! Be miserable like me! You're bad!"
@@SpookyDollhouse
The ones who have been on there unfettered. But now the rest of us are allowed to have our say too.
@@SpookyDollhouseoh yea like when segregation existed and women were getting they ass beat😂 right
@@Lmvtthivz but segregation was ended in 1964....
Same here. We were not fighting against the insanity we live under at the present time
This is so cool. As a child musician, I was very aware, intrigued and affected by what I call "the 70's Public Sound System".
Born 1968, remember shopping Fedmart, Alpha Beta, Safeway, KMart and feeling good, happy in the store. Always hunting for Disney comics on the magazine racks, good times.
Back then the adults were in charge of the music. Now the teenagers have taken over and pump whatever special music proclaims their personal angst and emotions to a un-impressed or irritated public that just wants to buy a few things and go home.
I used to be one of those ‘angry’ teenagers myself, and used to listen to thrash metal or punk rock or whatever was the extreme music of the time. And I used to scoff at this type of music too. Now I am one of the ‘oldies’ and probably some emo or gangsta or wax head will laugh at me for being ‘old’. But these are ‘modern times’ now and things change.
I remember shopping with my mom at Luckys, Alphabeta, Safeway, and our small Los Angeles chain grocery store, Johnsons, and they all played this sort of music. I remember hearing it, but at the same time not hearing it. It was something pleasant in the background that wasnt a distraction or annoyance.
Unfortunately, these days when you go shopping you hear some of the most obnoxious screeching, repetitive lyrics and beats, and horrible voices that tge shopping experience becomes torture to the ears and mind. You just want to flee the store as quickly as possible! It would hurt to bring back this muzak today!
Thank you for sharing this video. It brought back very nice memories ❤
The saddest thing ever is to think that most music you hear on the radio today as well as music that get international prizes, is far lower in quality than supermarkets and elevators music in the 70s and 80s.
Lol so true
Absolutely right.
Music from the old days was typically recorded live in the studios. A lot of modern music is patched together using computer software so it will feel less natural
All designed to demoralize you.
That was a time when music was made by musicians.
I'm pretty sure there's not a single person left on this Earth who stocks shelves like this anymore. All of the products facing out, completely full looking beautiful. I was born in 76 and I remember a time when music like this played in the stores
Exactly notice how the lane is completely empty today's supermarkets you have to slice your way around like a running back to avoid carts and displays.
Also the shelves stocked with real foods not all the GMO keto fads the hype overshell retail shoves on you today.
Backed then the stores managers etc cared about their customers wanted you back in their store There's nothing close to that today You might know a certain checker but it's all supply chain take it or leave it yeah food's double in price from two years ago too bad so sad somebody will buy it ....
I dub this my home cleaning playlist!
Right!? I could totally zone out to this while cleaning and putzing about my home.
This music is cute and peaceful. I am born in the early to mid 90s and not even in the US, but I can relate to these sounds. They remind me of the simpler times when technology was not mature enough and small town communities were more physically connected... times when we would meet up more and when we would use the landline phone just for brief phone calls, because phone calls were more expensive back then.
Yes, I remember after my mom would finish talking long distance, she would then hand me the phone and tell me, "Make it quick." I had 10 seconds to sum up my little life to my grandparents..57 yrs old.
When I turned 13 (1967) I got my working papers and got a job at Miniers grocery store in Big Flats NY. I started out packing bags and stocking shelves. Each item had to be stamped with the price. It was all quite different from todays modern computerised inventory. Later I took on mopping floors starting at 5:30AM! Later I worked up to assist our Italian baker making pizzas and washing dishes. It was hard work but it gave me a sense of responsibilty and cash to spend on dates, stuff for my single Mom and anything I wanted. I wish I could somehow tell Henry and Sam how much they've influenced my life for the better. They get YT in heaven right? :) I'm grateful Especially when i remember the paths some of my friends chose. Small town life can be very nasty when dope and bad players come to town. Martha.. do you know who this is? heh
Henry and Sam. Two great, traditional names from a traditional time....☺.
Having spare money to spend on stuff was probably nice. A lot of people, if they live on their own, end up having to pay most or all of their money on rent and groceries with nothing leftover. And that's going on an extreme budget for grocery shopping. Here's a good reference for how screwed things are in the states. In 1980 minimum wage could buy you 6 Big Mac's working 1 hour of min wage. Now in 2023 working 1 hour of min wage buys you 1 Big Mac. It's a travesty what's happened to our country over the past 40+ years
@@ADreamingTraveler My dad died at 37. I was 8. Mother raise 3 feral boys and went to work at the same factory my dad had. Spare money? I take your point but we all can vote. We all are responsible for this horror, no one but us to blame
I'm down here in Olean NY listening to this. I remember when the Big N department store was in West Allegany next to the old Reid's Food Barn. Reid's had the first automatic door I'd ever seen, and as a little kid I always thought there was a man back there operating it. I remember the old department store mannequins and how freaky they were. And the promotional toy tractor trailers for Shur Fine used to be on the top shelves, we'd hope with our eyes whenever we went by them. Reid's also used to have a conveyor belt system across the front of the store where the bag boys would put your groceries into numbere bins. The belt would take everything outside, where you'd back your car up and they'd load your groceries. All the time, the Muzak would be playing. Sometimes we'd stop at the Red Barn or McDonald's and the Muzak would be there as well. Soft and welcoming, everywhere.
@@2nostromoVotes never counted. Politics is fake.
If you ever shopped in the grocery store, 🛒 were put on hold over the telephone ☎️ or rode an elevator 🛗 in the 1970s and 80s, you would here this type of 🎶 . I never thought much about it back then but now I kind of miss it because its very soothing compared to the stuff they play today. Brings back happy memories. ❤
I consider myself lucky to have been born in the 70's.
I was born in the 1940s
@@glennso47 Nothing beats the 60s
Born in '76 and remember these. Remember eating at the Woolworth's restaraunt with my Mother and late Grandma while shopping. Really miss these shopping days.
I was born in 65. Yes we would do the same. My Mom always ate the meatloaf platter. My sisters and I would laugh about that. We still talk about it today and laugh, don’t ask Us why we laughed. Those were wonderful times.
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Funny because Woolworths vanished by the early 1980s ....
@LannieLord so a 3, 4 old can't go there? I did. And no invalidation needed or taken. Trolling comments are a reflection of the commenter >> LannieLord
Many Woolworth's shut their lunch counters down in the late 1970s . Even though the stores stayed open. The ones that kept the lunch counters open were in big cities. Generally. Not all. @@StormyJP
I miss going to Associated with Mom Dukes on Saturday mornings...'70s GOOD Memories!!!
I often sit and fantasize about finding some hidden little town where life is exactly like it was in the 70s. I'd move there in a heartbeat if it existed.
Please bring this back to stores. It so relaxing unlike the hip hop and rap they play loud now.
😂 Ain’t it tho !! I’d even vote for Disco over that.
@@blossom1643 your push it wanting to bring back Disco lol. The clothes yes, disco music RIP lol
The problem with hiphop and rap is they perform to awful, lack of or no melody and it just sounds awful compared to earlier rap and hiphop that had nice melodies. Muzak is great because it has a nice melody. Music with an awful melody is like a dry stale sandwich.
hating on hip hop and rap is giving racism
Nah where I go grocery shopping, all they got is pop music, and most of the time it’s.. not the good kind (y’know, top 40s hits that have been popping off on tiktok, those sort of vibes). Very rarely do we get a good one.
That’s why I usually just zone out or listen to my own noise. It’s much more enjoyable for me 😂
the old prices... *curls up into a ball of despair of 2023*
I was in college in 1973-Supermarkets had WIN? posters about price freezes. (Nixon Administration.) Bottles of ketchup, etc. could have multiple price stickers. Out of desperation, people would pull off the later, higher price stickers. This was also 1974-76. PLUS there was a bad recession.
The intro - CBS Special Presentation, brings back a feeling of the ole days when life was simple and TV was Fantastic...
I realize two things every time I look up and see these photographs, while listening to this music: the food actually looks like food, versus GMO items…and there was more of it than processed food in the store. The other thing I realize is everyone was so meticulously dressed, I miss being a kid just because of that people seem to really care more about their parents and keeping proper space between each other and it shows in these photographs.
Gen X from '72 here, used to listen to such as this all the time at the likes of Safeway, Giant, A&P back in my native MD/DC Metropolitan shopping with my parents & grandparents. Fun.
I'll still listen to this very MUZAK here on UA-cam Music😌.
I remember grocery shopping at Giant food in MD too! Grew up in Burtonsville/Colesville and some in Kemp Mill.
@@celestialstarseed111 😌Yay memories.
Where have all those easy listening radio stations gone? Back in the 70s and 80s my daddy used to laugh when I teased him about his taste for musak and MOR sound. Congrats for this fabulous programming and Kostelanetz Dave Grusin old west coast vibes.
Herb Alpert also.
Being a 00 kid i love traveling to a time I never knew but feeling the comfort of a slower American through this optimistic and calming music.
I wasn't expecting that CBS bumper intro, but it immediately put a smile on my face and I loved it.
Charlie Brown!
Rudolph the Red nose reindeer coming on..
The peanuts or Christmas shows that come on.
That ment either the Hulk or Dukes of Hazard wasn't coming on and SOME STUPID GROWN UP SHOW WAS!!!! I SAT THROUGH WONDER WOMAN ONLY TO WATCH THE HULK!!!! NOW THIS F -ING SHOW ABOUT BENJI IS COMING ON!!!!
I liked the Benji movies, and the book!