The stereos in our house were all set on stations with the “ beautiful music “ format for a long time . Don’t get me wrong here , my music genre was and still is pretty extensive , but there’s just something about this format that takes me back to a good time and place . Heard it in the supermarket , department stores , restaurants , hospitals , doctors offices and of course elevators .
When I was 12, my family moved across country and I lost touch with the current Top 40 songs, so I ended up listening for two years to an "Easy Listening" station. I later moved on to New Wave and alt-rock, but this music still has a place in my heart, and I currently have an EZ-listening playlist on my iTunes that I sometimes listen to while working.
Yes! My Dad's best friend always had the NuTone intercoms throughout whatever gorgeous home he was transferred to by IBM back in the day set to 'beautiful music' day and night. I found it very calming. Good memories....
Well I got into this genre looking for music to listen to while playing Postal 2 and Postal 4 and realized this would be perfect. So if I heard it irl I would probably get irrationally angry.
the McDonalds I worked at had a muzak machine... Sunday mornings we use to play the muzak game... each of working use took a turn turning the volume up a notch at a time and see how loud the music could get before the manger or customer complained... GOOD TIMES.. sometimes got real loud LOL
A few decades ago, a business [I think it was a 7-11] was plagued by 'mall rats' -- teenagers hanging out in front of the business which discouraged business. So the entrepreneur installed loudspeakers at the entrance and started playing Muzak and Lite Rock. Almost immediately, the mall rats disappeared to other venues.
A lot of 7-11's in Southern California are playing classical music loudly outside in front of the stores as it stops the "homeless" from loitering there.
Then maybe you know why they EVER went away from this kind of inoffensive music, and started playing whatever garbage that the music industry threw over the fence last week? My understanding is that there were marketing studies, once upon a time, by which this kind of music was chosen over whatever the, at the time, "60s and 70s Golden Age of Music", music industry had produced. As I see it, the marketing experts knew that the older generation wouldn't like that Beatles, etc, and WISELY chose music like this that wouldn't offend anyone much, or at all. What happened to that industry wisdom??
When I had my McMartin TR-55 SCA tuner at home, I would listen in the wee hours of the morning . There were some interesting songs played....that likely played in empty office corridors, and idle elevator cars. The now-defunct Commonwealth Building here in town, had 5 or 6 Otis Autotronic elevators....Late one night all cars were in the lobby, doors open and the Muzak beckoned you to come on in and take a ride, so I did.
What's wrong with the YT algorithm? I search for this sort of music at least twice a week yet this was uploaded a year ago and didn't find it until now.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 be careful what you wish for in this world! Stranger things have happened. Embrace the intimacy of relative unpopularity before the phenomenon of growing popular worsens! And thank you for the authentico muzak.
@Alvenh look i wasn't expecting that anyone would be searching muzak twice a week but you would be surprised. A lot of subgenres that might previously have been bundled under this category are gaining a sort of cult popularity online. When it comes to the algorithm and search results, a cold search isn't always the best solution. Sometimes it is much better to a) find a video that is what you're after, like this one and b) sift through the recommendations. You can then leapfrog into a sort of algorithmically connected musical/topical rabbithole that isn't necessarily something you could enter from the "search" function. Sometimes it helps instead of a broad category search to search for something a lot more specific, including a particular artist, song, record or record label. Probably a lot of muzak is not labelled "muzak". You could try searching for "library" and "lounge" and selecting a nation, eg Italy, might also help refine results or pull up related results, as might a specific era, eg 60s, 70s. I know there's an album i had stumbled across here recently called "Music for the Supermarket"! Maybe that would be just your cup of tea. (: So you could again try a similar search - "music for X" (although you might get Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" in your results). Hope that helps and good luck in your music quest. Cheers!
Prevailing opinion at the time was that the midnight Muzak was played to run off people like me and my punkish friends after hours. Backfired on me. I loved (and still love) easy listening stuff
This collection is incredible! It reminds me of the Kmart tapes by Mark Davis! If you want me to, I could try to hunt down some of the names of these songs since I have experience with the label.
I also grew up hearing the "Beautiful Music" format in my mom's station wagon (94.9, WPCH, Atlanta). Hated it then, but it's made me a connoisseur of melody all my life, and I deeply appreciate it now. I'm coming to understand a difference between what I would call "Beautiful Music" and actual Muzak- which ^ this^ seems to be. Really fun to hear again.
Thank you! Yes, Muzak is a bit upbeat whereas Beautiful Music is calming and easy as it can be. They're tailored for two different purposes even though they sound similar at first.
Growing up, I used to listen to WPCH sometimes at night in Birmingham. We lived up on Shades Mountain and could receive the Atlanta FM stations a good bit of the time, especially during the nighttime hours. I contacted Steve Goss, longtime announcer at WPCH, several years ago about him doing some voicework for my internet-based beautiful music radio station here in Birmingham. He was so gracious to do it, and his awesome voice now airs regularly throughout the day. :)
I CANNOT STOP PLAYING THE SELLECTION STARTING AT 14:11 THROUGHOUT THE OVERHEAD SPEAKERS IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE, IT IS STELLAR 👍👍👍, I'M 63 AND PARTYING LIKE I'M 18 👍👍👍
Thank you for this! I have argued with store managers, and corporate customer service know-nothings, about playing GOOD, and INOFFENSIVE music, like this, literally HUNDREDS of times over the past twenty years, to little avail. When I say "argue", actually many agree with me, but those are the ones who generally have little say in the matter. I've explained to the PTB (Powers That Be) countless times that their predecessors, a few generations back, knew what they were doing when they chose Muzak and other inoffensive music for EVERY generation to listen to. And that there were serious and expensive marketing studies behind it at the time. Which have since been forgotten about, to the detriment of everyone, except for the minority who prefer whatever audio garbage that the music industry has thrown over the fence last week. They can't seem to understand that the so-called "music charts" are CONTROLLED by the music industry, which knows it can't sell great classic music time after time, but must instead, brainwash young and gullible people into buying whatever garbage they create every week. And that having commercial arrangements whereby the garbage music they force onto and up "THEIR charts", is forced into the ears of tens of millions of people every single week, in millions of commercial venues, is the ONLY way to guarantee that enough people are literally brainwashed into buying their unpalatable garbage! I have tried, and failed to convince business owners that they are being USED to promote new GARBAGE music that over 90 percent (to put it conservatively) of their customer base is merely TOLERATING, and trying valiantly to ignore! And that they would have more business if they played the mildest classics, from the 60s and 70s. Or for that matter, went back to this charming and inoffensive Muzak that we actually didn't mind businesses playing in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm 55, born in the late 60s. Raised in the 70s and 80s. To say that Muzak or Big Band or light jazz or whatever, light easy listening instrumental music that most businesses played during THAT time was NOT my generations music...is a VAST UNDERSTATEMENT! I've never bought it, and for the vast most part, never, ever sought ANY of it out, even for FREE, online. But, by the same token, I not ONLY don't mind it playing in a business, I fully EXPECT it to be playing. This...or nothing! Unlike many people I suppose, silence is perfectly fine with me. But the music must not be distracting, in order to not bother me while I'm shopping or eating or whatever. The businesses of yore, UNDERSTOOD this! But the ones for the past ~30 years...do not! Some of them try to pretend that it's just MY generations music that I'm wanting. Which is absurd! But Muzak type music was very much NOT our music. But at the same time, it wasn't bad either, and we knew it. Businesses need to rediscover the marketing science behind playing inoffensive and non-distracting music as a way to ENHANCE their sales. They've forgotten something VERY important in this regard over the past few decades. And it is hurting everyone, their bottom line and their customers peace of mind!
But the reason why restaurants especially play annoying, fast tempo music? To get people in and out. To increase profit, in other words. I was born in ‘63 and have also many a time asked managers to turn down the awful music in restaurants. The wrong sound really ruins your experience. Such a shame to live in a deliberately unpleasant world. As if life isn’t already hard enough?
completely agree, I can't stand the pop and rap cancer that is played in store's at least I get a break around christmas where they play music that sounds like this but it generally makes me upset to be forced to listen to it as I would like to forget it exists and never encounter it again
I still find this so amazing here on UA-cam. The genre of music snub-dubbed 'elevator music' & then became a 'pop culture hate fad' since around 1980, NOW, has a huge appreciation following! [:-)] I like many types of music. Many many many genres already, and this has always been one of them. [:-)]
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL MUZAK, I have vintage ceiling speakers 🔊 throughout the entire house and several commercial amplifiers that drive them, it's been a passion and hobby of mine for years !!!
The second cut would have me in a mad rumba, enough to have me ordering a second large fries cuz of the calories I had burned up! I could listen to this all day!
Pocketful of Miracles - arranged by Sam Watmough Three Days of the Condor - arranged by Tony Mottola P.S. there's no such thing as "Muzak Orchestra," it's a fake name, same for "Bones and Fifes."
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 sam was just a director from what i read, i believe there were a number of arrangers that wrote for the Bones and Fifrs orchestra
@@The4MusketeersYT Can you remember any of their names? I've listened to some Bones and Fifes tunes from a "Music while you work" broadcast and they all had a very similar sound
Tracklist: 1. 0:00 Pocketful Of Miracles - Sam Watmough (Bones and Fifes) 2. 2:22 (Rumba Tune) 3. 5:32 4. 7:58 (Tony Orlando Tune?) 5. 10:44 6. 14:11 Chanter Danser 7. 17:29 3 Days Of Condor - Tony Mottola (Muzak Orchestra) 8. 20:24 9. 24:37 10. 28:14 De Copalamo - Ennio Morricone If you are able to identify any of these unknown tracks please let me know.
@@rollback27 it might be licensed from another artist but im not sure, i messaged rod baum who programmed for muzak around this time to see what artist or labels they commonly pulled from to fill up thier daily programming. I know they used a good amount of William Gardner, Syd Dale, Frank Chacksfield, and some others I Can't recall right now.
The melody at 2:22 is based on Joe Heyne's "La Petite Waltz", with some notes changed to make the opening into a minor key, and note lengths changed to fit the new Latin rhythm - it's a heavily-arranged "La Petite Vals" if anything
Every time that I play EZ Listening, I'm a teenage girl again. What began back then as an eccentric hobby is today something that I'm thankful that I did.
Theo dõi thầy từ những video đầu tiên của thầy. Thấy hiện tại thầy thành công như vậy, đạt được nhiều thành tựu như vậy..... rất ngưỡng mộ thầy. Chúc thầy ngày càng thành công và thành đạt nhiều hơn nữa. Và thầy cũng là 1 hình mẫu, để e cố gắng và phát triển bản thân mk
I was the night manager at the time, so I was able to get on a stepladder and hook up my little recorder and home-brew patch cord directly to one of the outputs on the Muzak box. So, these recordings really are the Muzak as it was actually played in the restaurant - occasional long pauses between songs, trigger tones and all.
@@chrisk8813 I have MP3 dubbed from the original cassette (which I still have), but the quality will be only moderately better because my recording device was a monaural Panasonic portable cassette recorder.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 I would like to hear theses cassettes in better quality I noticed the MP3 rip adds lots of bad digital artifacts, as a Muzak Historian I'm wondering if you could send me a higher quality rip of these two Muzak recordings.
@@MusicMischief111 Sorry I didn't see your question until just now. Odd that I didn't get a UA-cam notification. I can absolutely produce rips of much higher fidelity, limited only by the moderate fidelity of the original.
I miss it, too. Takes me back to being a teenage girl. Today I'm so thankful that I had the foresight to collect this kind of stuff, because now it's gone.
Our McDonalds in Louisville played it ...certain franchises in particular. That is OFF the PHONE LINE!!! You could not hear the 25 HZ tones on SCA. And I hear it comin out of the break. Wonder what sort of recorder was used....even though not much hi end, typical of multi-central office feeds, the quality is too good for a microphone....
I recorded it with a Panasonic portable cassette recorder, using an attenuating patch cord that I made myself and connected it from the Muzak box to the Microphone jack of the Panasonic.
I need to find this Muzak version of Chanter Danser, it's brilliant, the arrangement is luscious, just need a higher quality stereo version. Anyone know?
@@hayamburuk If it was done as an actual Muzak session, for now this is the best known copy of it :( Hopefully some early 80's reels will surface someday. For 60's/70's stuff there are some good reels and the airline tapes, and ULTRAFABUZAK is posting rough-quality airchecks, but @Vintage Miscellany's got the only 80's airchecks i know of. If someone has more early 80's Muzak airchecks please contact me, I'd love (enough to pay!) to see more out there.
I heard something by the Stanley Black orchestra on JIB on the Web today that had a very similar arrangement for the strings, those cascading over each other lines in the chorus here. I wonder if that's a signature style of his, and if so.....
Even though I can't connect a name, it sounds like this is similar to Nelson Riddle's style. There's a chance it could be since he was an incredibly popular composer in the genre back then.
Yes. Muzak is often thought of as elevator music or the Beautiful Music genre, but it's actually a bit different. At first listen, it sounds like elevator music but it's noticeably more upbeat. It's not hard to come to like Muzak!
@ 14:10 it's actually a muzak version of Gilles Rivard's "Chanter, Danser" from his album in french Quelle belle vie. ua-cam.com/video/734f4jmpmJs/v-deo.html
Back in a time when people took pride in themselves- wearing clothes and Pjs and slippers everywhere, dancing wasn't dry-humping and people were civil. People are toxic now.
Two-part answer: 1) I can't stop you even if I wanted to, and I don't want to. I appreciate the offer of a link-back. 2) What will happen on UA-cam's end is that UA-cam automatically recognizes copyrighted content and, in cases like these, will allow its use with the cautionary statement that any ad revenue generated by the content will go to the copyright holders. That's fine with me, since I'm not trying to make money here.
I was born in 1970 and this music was played in the grocery store, Kmart, Sears, the mall etc etc. Wish I could go back just for a day
The stereos in our house were all set on stations with the “ beautiful music “ format for a long time . Don’t get me wrong here , my music genre was and still is pretty extensive , but there’s just something about this format that takes me back to a good time and place . Heard it in the supermarket , department stores , restaurants , hospitals , doctors offices and of course elevators .
Yes
Great description of a ty gone bye
When I was 12, my family moved across country and I lost touch with the current Top 40 songs, so I ended up listening for two years to an "Easy Listening" station. I later moved on to New Wave and alt-rock, but this music still has a place in my heart, and I currently have an EZ-listening playlist on my iTunes that I sometimes listen to while working.
Yes! My Dad's best friend always had the NuTone intercoms throughout whatever gorgeous home he was transferred to by IBM back in the day set to 'beautiful music' day and night. I found it very calming. Good memories....
I thought I was "strange" liking this stuff as a kid, found out I wasn't alone or peculiar at all !
They need to bring this happy music back in stores and restaurants. It does so much for the mood.
Well I got into this genre looking for music to listen to while playing Postal 2 and Postal 4 and realized this would be perfect.
So if I heard it irl I would probably get irrationally angry.
Good comment! Nowadays, some stores play such depressing music that it actually drives me outa there. I'm a sensitive type.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 I'm the same way. I wouldn't call myself sensitive though. I just have standards.
this type of music is plesent easy when i go to a mc donalds i listen to this type of music on my phone , the music the play in stores today is awfol
@@edlightman6947 I hear ya on the awful music in stores today!
the McDonalds I worked at had a muzak machine... Sunday mornings we use to play the muzak game... each of working use took a turn turning the volume up a notch at a time and see how loud the music could get before the manger or customer complained... GOOD TIMES.. sometimes got real loud LOL
Oh, we did the same thing! Slo-o-o-o-o-owly crank up the lobby music until someone complained.
HA HAA! [X-D]
I'd like to complain in advance.
If I could go back in time and complain to the manager about you, I would...so happily. I don't think I'd come back here.
Just my kind of fun!! Cheers!
A few decades ago, a business [I think it was a 7-11] was plagued by 'mall rats' -- teenagers hanging out in front of the business which discouraged business. So the entrepreneur installed loudspeakers at the entrance and started playing Muzak and Lite Rock. Almost immediately, the mall rats disappeared to other venues.
A lot of 7-11's in Southern California are playing classical music loudly outside in front of the stores as it stops the "homeless" from loitering there.
I wish restaurants would play this kind of music again, as opposed to the music we hear today.
My local McDonald's just switched over from Pop music to instrumental music this year.
@@GalidorquestMine too. Been noticing a resurgence in public faculties using instrumental music such as my local hospital.
@@sunshineimperials1600 Maybe some employees have been watching Muzak UA-cam videos and decided to bring back Jazz music.
Glad you all like this music...I produced it as VP Programming during that period
Fascinating!
Amazing!!
Then maybe you know why they EVER went away from this kind of inoffensive music, and started playing whatever garbage that the music industry threw over the fence last week?
My understanding is that there were marketing studies, once upon a time, by which this kind of music was chosen over whatever the, at the time, "60s and 70s Golden Age of Music", music industry had produced.
As I see it, the marketing experts knew that the older generation wouldn't like that Beatles, etc, and WISELY chose music like this that wouldn't offend anyone much, or at all.
What happened to that industry wisdom??
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER the elder generation is mostly dead, but i agree we should bring this back
Can we PLEASE bring this music back?! So good!!!!
When I had my McMartin TR-55 SCA tuner at home, I would listen in the wee hours of the morning . There were some interesting songs played....that likely played in empty office corridors, and idle elevator cars. The now-defunct Commonwealth Building here in town, had 5 or 6 Otis Autotronic elevators....Late one night all cars were in the lobby, doors open and the Muzak beckoned you to come on in and take a ride, so I did.
Sounds awesome!
That's really cool actually
I LOVE IT !!!
You are AWESOME 👌
Now he's lost in the back rooms, forever listening to this 30 minute track on repeat.
What's wrong with the YT algorithm? I search for this sort of music at least twice a week yet this was uploaded a year ago and didn't find it until now.
I must be moving up in the world. Maybe I'll become a 1,000 views a minute thunder god someday.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 be careful what you wish for in this world! Stranger things have happened. Embrace the intimacy of relative unpopularity before the phenomenon of growing popular worsens! And thank you for the authentico muzak.
@Alvenh look i wasn't expecting that anyone would be searching muzak twice a week but you would be surprised. A lot of subgenres that might previously have been bundled under this category are gaining a sort of cult popularity online. When it comes to the algorithm and search results, a cold search isn't always the best solution. Sometimes it is much better to a) find a video that is what you're after, like this one and b) sift through the recommendations.
You can then leapfrog into a sort of algorithmically connected musical/topical rabbithole that isn't necessarily something you could enter from the "search" function.
Sometimes it helps instead of a broad category search to search for something a lot more specific, including a particular artist, song, record or record label. Probably a lot of muzak is not labelled "muzak". You could try searching for "library" and "lounge" and selecting a nation, eg Italy, might also help refine results or pull up related results, as might a specific era, eg 60s, 70s.
I know there's an album i had stumbled across here recently called "Music for the Supermarket"! Maybe that would be just your cup of tea. (:
So you could again try a similar search - "music for X" (although you might get Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" in your results).
Hope that helps and good luck in your music quest. Cheers!
Prevailing opinion at the time was that the midnight Muzak was played to run off people like me and my punkish friends after hours. Backfired on me. I loved (and still love) easy listening stuff
That just proves how punk you are (: not like those part time muzak hating punks
So happy i have found this wonderful music that is bliss to my heart. Thank you. Cape Town. South Africa.
This collection is incredible! It reminds me of the Kmart tapes by Mark Davis! If you want me to, I could try to hunt down some of the names of these songs since I have experience with the label.
Sure! Thanks
Any luck tracking them down?
@@happycube Music medaling left a comment above (from 3 months ago) listing some of the tracks 👍
I like this 👌 🎻🎵🎶 please add more ( like this) as they come available.
I also grew up hearing the "Beautiful Music" format in my mom's station wagon (94.9, WPCH, Atlanta). Hated it then, but it's made me a connoisseur of melody all my life, and I deeply appreciate it now. I'm coming to understand a difference between what I would call "Beautiful Music" and actual Muzak- which ^ this^ seems to be. Really fun to hear again.
Thank you! Yes, Muzak is a bit upbeat whereas Beautiful Music is calming and easy as it can be. They're tailored for two different purposes even though they sound similar at first.
Growing up, I used to listen to WPCH sometimes at night in Birmingham. We lived up on Shades Mountain and could receive the Atlanta FM stations a good bit of the time, especially during the nighttime hours. I contacted Steve Goss, longtime announcer at WPCH, several years ago about him doing some voicework for my internet-based beautiful music radio station here in Birmingham. He was so gracious to do it, and his awesome voice now airs regularly throughout the day. :)
@@WQEZ I'd love to hear that! Link?
I CANNOT STOP PLAYING THE SELLECTION STARTING AT 14:11 THROUGHOUT THE OVERHEAD SPEAKERS IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE, IT IS STELLAR 👍👍👍, I'M 63 AND PARTYING LIKE I'M 18 👍👍👍
I love the idea of overhead speakers. I'm playing the song now. It does have spirit, doesn't it?
@@vintagemiscellany5719 You know it !
Can't remember all the titles, but also sounds like Brno Radio Orchestra....we used a lot of their recordings
@@frostparkway Wow ! Where at may I ask?
The song that start playing at 14:11 : the original is "Chanter Danser" by Gilles Rivard, 1978
Thank you for this!
I have argued with store managers, and corporate customer service know-nothings, about playing GOOD, and INOFFENSIVE music, like this, literally HUNDREDS of times over the past twenty years, to little avail.
When I say "argue", actually many agree with me, but those are the ones who generally have little say in the matter.
I've explained to the PTB (Powers That Be) countless times that their predecessors, a few generations back, knew what they were doing when they chose Muzak and other inoffensive music for EVERY generation to listen to. And that there were serious and expensive marketing studies behind it at the time. Which have since been forgotten about, to the detriment of everyone, except for the minority who prefer whatever audio garbage that the music industry has thrown over the fence last week.
They can't seem to understand that the so-called "music charts" are CONTROLLED by the music industry, which knows it can't sell great classic music time after time, but must instead, brainwash young and gullible people into buying whatever garbage they create every week. And that having commercial arrangements whereby the garbage music they force onto and up "THEIR charts", is forced into the ears of tens of millions of people every single week, in millions of commercial venues, is the ONLY way to guarantee that enough people are literally brainwashed into buying their unpalatable garbage!
I have tried, and failed to convince business owners that they are being USED to promote new GARBAGE music that over 90 percent (to put it conservatively) of their customer base is merely TOLERATING, and trying valiantly to ignore! And that they would have more business if they played the mildest classics, from the 60s and 70s. Or for that matter, went back to this charming and inoffensive Muzak that we actually didn't mind businesses playing in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
I'm 55, born in the late 60s. Raised in the 70s and 80s. To say that Muzak or Big Band or light jazz or whatever, light easy listening instrumental music that most businesses played during THAT time was NOT my generations music...is a VAST UNDERSTATEMENT! I've never bought it, and for the vast most part, never, ever sought ANY of it out, even for FREE, online. But, by the same token, I not ONLY don't mind it playing in a business, I fully EXPECT it to be playing. This...or nothing! Unlike many people I suppose, silence is perfectly fine with me. But the music must not be distracting, in order to not bother me while I'm shopping or eating or whatever. The businesses of yore, UNDERSTOOD this! But the ones for the past ~30 years...do not!
Some of them try to pretend that it's just MY generations music that I'm wanting. Which is absurd! But Muzak type music was very much NOT our music. But at the same time, it wasn't bad either, and we knew it.
Businesses need to rediscover the marketing science behind playing inoffensive and non-distracting music as a way to ENHANCE their sales. They've forgotten something VERY important in this regard over the past few decades. And it is hurting everyone, their bottom line and their customers peace of mind!
But the reason why restaurants especially play annoying, fast tempo music? To get people in and out. To increase profit, in other words.
I was born in ‘63 and have also many a time asked managers to turn down the awful music in restaurants. The wrong sound really ruins your experience.
Such a shame to live in a deliberately unpleasant world. As if life isn’t already hard enough?
@@3075bridget What they actually accomplish is...keeping people out.
completely agree, I can't stand the pop and rap cancer that is played in store's at least I get a break around christmas where they play music that sounds like this but it generally makes me upset to be forced to listen to it as I would like to forget it exists and never encounter it again
Nowadays I have to wear ear plugs when I shop to avoid horrendous U.S. Top 40.
I still find this so amazing here on UA-cam. The genre of music snub-dubbed 'elevator music' & then became a 'pop culture hate fad' since around 1980, NOW, has a huge appreciation following! [:-)] I like many types of music. Many many many genres already, and this has always been one of them. [:-)]
It seems the old is new again. 🎵🎵
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL MUZAK, I have vintage ceiling speakers 🔊 throughout the entire house and several commercial amplifiers that drive them, it's been a passion and hobby of mine for years !!!
This is gonna make a comeback
This playing in the background of any of the Worldstar McDonald's videos = instant classic.
The second cut would have me in a mad rumba, enough to have me ordering a second large fries cuz of the calories I had burned up! I could listen to this all day!
0:00 pocketful of miracles - bones and fifes
17:30 three days of the condor - muzak orchestra
Pocketful of Miracles - arranged by Sam Watmough
Three Days of the Condor - arranged by Tony Mottola
P.S. there's no such thing as "Muzak Orchestra," it's a fake name, same for "Bones and Fifes."
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 sam was just a director from what i read, i believe there were a number of arrangers that wrote for the Bones and Fifrs orchestra
@@The4MusketeersYT Can you remember any of their names? I've listened to some Bones and Fifes tunes from a "Music while you work" broadcast and they all had a very similar sound
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 ill dm them to you because youtube quite literally hates me
I don't remember hearing stuff like this in McDonald's, but I sure remember hearing it in other places...
I'd be much more likely to make impulse purchases like Vienna Sausages and spray cheese if they still played music like this in the grocery store.
Thanks! Don't remember there ever being muzak in McDonalds.
That was pretty much the idea. If the music was loud enough to get attention, it was too loud.
Signed, a former McManager of long ago. ;)
@@vintagemiscellany5719 Thanks for the insight. I assume that McDonalds would have eventually switched over to pop music, maybe in the 90s?
I remember it. Then in the 90s it seemed to be more pop oriented. Now I don't think I hear any music in McDonalds.
Tracklist:
1. 0:00 Pocketful Of Miracles - Sam Watmough (Bones and Fifes)
2. 2:22 (Rumba Tune)
3. 5:32
4. 7:58 (Tony Orlando Tune?)
5. 10:44
6. 14:11 Chanter Danser
7. 17:29 3 Days Of Condor - Tony Mottola (Muzak Orchestra)
8. 20:24
9. 24:37
10. 28:14 De Copalamo - Ennio Morricone
If you are able to identify any of these unknown tracks please let me know.
The one at 2:22 is actually really good. It's hard to find the track name. I'm also looking for it.
@@rollback27 it might be licensed from another artist but im not sure, i messaged rod baum who programmed for muzak around this time to see what artist or labels they commonly pulled from to fill up thier daily programming. I know they used a good amount of William Gardner, Syd Dale, Frank Chacksfield, and some others I Can't recall right now.
2, 5, and 9 don't twig anything on UA-cam.
No hits on 3, 4, or 8 either :(
The melody at 2:22 is based on Joe Heyne's "La Petite Waltz", with some notes changed to make the opening into a minor key, and note lengths changed to fit the new Latin rhythm - it's a heavily-arranged "La Petite Vals" if anything
Wish I had heard this in places growing up. Alas, I'm too young 😂😅
This kind of reminds me of the theme song and musical interstitial cues from Family Guy. I'm sure Seth MacFarlane loved this stuff too.
I agree, someone should make a MUZAK compilation video of old standards they sing on Family Guy. 🎵🎵
Wow! Do you happen to have any more of this vintage Muzak, or is it? Regardless, I am thankful for you sharing this with everyone!
I have one more. Same McDonald's. I'll make a point of putting it up.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 I look forward to hearing it!
heck yea. 3days is on this
17:30 just so i can skip to it
I especially love the song beginning around 2:19
Love this! ^^
Every time that I play EZ Listening, I'm a teenage girl again. What began back then as an eccentric hobby is today something that I'm thankful that I did.
Theo dõi thầy từ những video đầu tiên của thầy. Thấy hiện tại thầy thành công như vậy, đạt được nhiều thành tựu như vậy..... rất ngưỡng mộ thầy. Chúc thầy ngày càng thành công và thành đạt nhiều hơn nữa. Và thầy cũng là 1 hình mẫu, để e cố gắng và phát triển bản thân mk
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast. No drums is key.
breast, not beast
MUZAK stuff is great, but I find it best on 16" Transcription discs from the 30s - 40s.
This music makes a happy meal
This is wonderful! Thank you!!!
I was the night manager at the time, so I was able to get on a stepladder and hook up my little recorder and home-brew patch cord directly to one of the outputs on the Muzak box.
So, these recordings really are the Muzak as it was actually played in the restaurant - occasional long pauses between songs, trigger tones and all.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 Oh wow! Impressive, truly! Would you happen to have the audio without the YT compression? Pardon me for asking.
@@chrisk8813 I have MP3 dubbed from the original cassette (which I still have), but the quality will be only moderately better because my recording device was a monaural Panasonic portable cassette recorder.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 I would like to hear theses cassettes in better quality I noticed the MP3 rip adds lots of bad digital artifacts, as a Muzak Historian I'm wondering if you could send me a higher quality rip of these two Muzak recordings.
@@MusicMischief111 Sorry I didn't see your question until just now. Odd that I didn't get a UA-cam notification. I can absolutely produce rips of much higher fidelity, limited only by the moderate fidelity of the original.
LOVE IT !!! 🎵🎵
LOVE IT STILL!!!
THANK YOU 🏙️
Who would have known that my eccentric youthful hobby would become a treasure trove? Thanks for coming by. :)
oh yeah, i remember this
I miss this. Now we have to listen to the crap of today.
I miss it, too. Takes me back to being a teenage girl. Today I'm so thankful that I had the foresight to collect this kind of stuff, because now it's gone.
Lâu lắm rồi mới được nghe lại bài này. Hay lắm ạ 😘
This is AMAZING 😁👊
😊😊😊😊
Never knew McD's was open til midnight back then!?
Some were, but most were not. I was the night manager, so I recorded it after closing.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 Thank you for having the foresight to capture it back then.
Our McDonalds in Louisville played it ...certain franchises in particular. That is OFF the PHONE LINE!!! You could not hear the 25 HZ tones on SCA. And I hear it comin out of the break. Wonder what sort of recorder was used....even though not much hi end, typical of multi-central office feeds, the quality is too good for a microphone....
I recorded it with a Panasonic portable cassette recorder, using an attenuating patch cord that I made myself and connected it from the Muzak box to the Microphone jack of the Panasonic.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 wow, thanks. I had a little Sony cassette that recorded amazing fidelity too. Well, thanks for posting that//
at 4:30 u can almost hear the "for the great taaaaaste at mcdonaaaalds" lol
oh so that's what it's called... i thought it was elevator jazz or lounge jazz
MUZAK is the company which provided it, some people use it as a generic term for this music, I guess. The term you're looking for is 'easy listening.'
I need to find this Muzak version of Chanter Danser, it's brilliant, the arrangement is luscious, just need a higher quality stereo version. Anyone know?
Nope - it sounds like something the Brno Radio Orchestra might've made, but I couldn't find one there.
@@happycube I'll keep looking. Hopefully someone might know
@@hayamburuk If it was done as an actual Muzak session, for now this is the best known copy of it :( Hopefully some early 80's reels will surface someday. For 60's/70's stuff there are some good reels and the airline tapes, and ULTRAFABUZAK is posting rough-quality airchecks, but @Vintage Miscellany's got the only 80's airchecks i know of.
If someone has more early 80's Muzak airchecks please contact me, I'd love (enough to pay!) to see more out there.
I heard something by the Stanley Black orchestra on JIB on the Web today that had a very similar arrangement for the strings, those cascading over each other lines in the chorus here. I wonder if that's a signature style of his, and if so.....
Your food would have been cold after half an hour…however the burger and fries probably still intact to this day if left since 1981
Chúc c Mây năm mới nhiều sức khoẻ và thật thành công ạ
They dont make music like they used to..
Can anyone identify the song at 10:44?
Even though I can't connect a name, it sounds like this is similar to Nelson Riddle's style. There's a chance it could be since he was an incredibly popular composer in the genre back then.
@@BleusAudioArchive Thank you!
I don't remember the titles of these originals...but this is probably the Brno Radio Orchestra....we used a lot of their recordings
@@frostparkway Thank you!
I believe it is "Singin' In The Rain", performed by the Brno Radio Orchestra.
mewzack
They actually played this? I actually like it. 😊
Yes. Muzak is often thought of as elevator music or the Beautiful Music genre, but it's actually a bit different.
At first listen, it sounds like elevator music but it's noticeably more upbeat. It's not hard to come to like Muzak!
Can I get fries with that?
I like 0:00, 14:11 and 17:29.
@ 14:10 it's actually a muzak version of Gilles Rivard's "Chanter, Danser" from his album in french Quelle belle vie. ua-cam.com/video/734f4jmpmJs/v-deo.html
I need to find that Muzak version, it's just lovely
Much better than the garbage that passes for music played in public places for the past 20+ years.
Absolutely! MUZAK was always upbeat whereas some of the stuff played in stores today can trigger depressive episodes.
Brave Old World
Back in a time when people took pride in themselves- wearing clothes and Pjs and slippers everywhere, dancing wasn't dry-humping and people were civil. People are toxic now.
Were McDonald's even open until midnight in 1981??
I would figure 10 pm
It depends. But I recorded this after closing time. I was the closing manager.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 That makes sense.
I miss when the world closed at 9pm.
Would it be possible to use this as background music for my videos if I link to this video onscreen at the end of the video?
Two-part answer: 1) I can't stop you even if I wanted to, and I don't want to. I appreciate the offer of a link-back.
2) What will happen on UA-cam's end is that UA-cam automatically recognizes copyrighted content and, in cases like these, will allow its use with the cautionary statement that any ad revenue generated by the content will go to the copyright holders. That's fine with me, since I'm not trying to make money here.
@@vintagemiscellany5719 me neither. I’ll link here as soon as it gets done
Wonder whats the first one is, sounds nice
Pocketful Of Miracles by Bones and Fifes - if you search for it on YT you'll find more B&F.
I saw Jesus at McDonald's at midnight
guys the video begines at 0:00 btw
Did Burger King play Muzak in the 80s?
I don't know. Probably.
70’s for sure. Flushing Meadows BK store. The Whaler was tasty!
20:24 nice tune
8 mins