Please help me identify, and then license, this awesome 1970s muzak!
April 11, 2014 6:48 PM Subscribe
We want to license this song for a commercial video production. Please help me identify it and track down the original owner/composer or licensing agency.
Info from the Youtube link:
If you are looking for that classic supermarket jingle then look no further. Sounds For The Supermarket was the title of a tape cassette produced by a Minnesota based Communications company in 1975. It was available by mail purchase to supermarket venders in the US and Canada. The music contains inaudible subliminal recordings that were intended to increase buyer purchasing at grocery stores. Customers were influenced to purchase more products as a result of the brain-wave patterns hidden in the musical notes and sound compositions. Different subliminal tapes were also sold for purposes of advertising and social programming and all contained the title "Sounds For The. . . ." Iv'e held on to this for about 25 years. Musically the sounds are typical easy listening or elevator music. There is no information about the company nor the musicians anywhere that I could find. The label/information has peeled away with time. Each side of the tape had ten songs. All 20 songs are recorded here as 16 separate videos with two tracks bundled together on four of them. Songs 4 and 1 are very classic 70s easy listening.
Barring that, can you guys recommend something similar that we can license?
Thanks!
Info from the Youtube link:
If you are looking for that classic supermarket jingle then look no further. Sounds For The Supermarket was the title of a tape cassette produced by a Minnesota based Communications company in 1975. It was available by mail purchase to supermarket venders in the US and Canada. The music contains inaudible subliminal recordings that were intended to increase buyer purchasing at grocery stores. Customers were influenced to purchase more products as a result of the brain-wave patterns hidden in the musical notes and sound compositions. Different subliminal tapes were also sold for purposes of advertising and social programming and all contained the title "Sounds For The. . . ." Iv'e held on to this for about 25 years. Musically the sounds are typical easy listening or elevator music. There is no information about the company nor the musicians anywhere that I could find. The label/information has peeled away with time. Each side of the tape had ten songs. All 20 songs are recorded here as 16 separate videos with two tracks bundled together on four of them. Songs 4 and 1 are very classic 70s easy listening.
Barring that, can you guys recommend something similar that we can license?
Thanks!
Soundcloud couldn't ID it. :-/
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:21 PM on April 11, 2014
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:21 PM on April 11, 2014
Even if you had the label, it probably wouldn't tell you much. A lot of these background tracks were put together using studio musicians paid by the hour to just crank these things out. If they weren't improvising, they were just covering other people's tunes. Seeburg1000.com is another site paying tribute to this kind of music.
It's also well known that back in the day a lot of up-and-coming Seattle musicians paid the bills by gigging at Muzak.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:29 PM on April 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
It's also well known that back in the day a lot of up-and-coming Seattle musicians paid the bills by gigging at Muzak.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:29 PM on April 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
If you can't find it to license, you can probably find something similar on iStock.
posted by radioamy at 9:50 PM on April 11, 2014
posted by radioamy at 9:50 PM on April 11, 2014
Best answer: Yeah, I could definitely crank out something like this in the next two days. Depending on how close a re-creation you're looking for and how many revisions you'd need I'd probably ask for more than $100 but not significantly more.
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posted by verysleeping at 10:50 AM on April 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
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posted by verysleeping at 10:50 AM on April 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
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