I grew up at grandma's house and she was always playing this type of music on the radio. There were stations that played this all day, which was often called " beautiful music format"...listening to this brings back those days at grandma's house. It's great to hear this music again but at the same time makes me miss her so much now...
And with Wich sound at that time? You had no FM. I still Remember the radio programs in the 70 in Switzerland. M'y gosh, it was a revolution when all of a sudden FM came. Waow amazing & clear sound. Now the teenager showed me their very little device mp3 ha ha ha ...i am old i think!!
@@CarolineDupont-wv7js Oh, you think you "might" be old?! We never thought it would happen to us, but "I think" we're all pretty damned old. The Grim Reapers breathing down upon us all. At least those of us lingering on this channel. We had FM in America too but it never had the kind of music most of us liked to hear. ROCK! I spent some time in Switzerland back in the early 1980s, mostly in Zermatt. Such a pleasant, beautiful country. Not too many memories of FM radio. Mostly memories of skiing and swilling beer.
@@TAD1hu Oh god, theres always gotta be a nay sayer. Compared to the depression and the hot war (WWII), the cold war wasn't really that bad. And the vast majority of guys who got sent to Vietnam served in rear echelon postings, you know what I mean? Air conditioned barracks, workshops and offices on giant fully secure military bases. Great food, PX, entertainment, and cookouts, complete with t-bone steaks washed down with cans of Bud. Some guys even volunteered for multiple tours of duty. Eventually they came back to great benefits, great cars, and .25/gallon gas. Plus sexual revolution and a kind of freedom the kids today couldn't even understand. So yeah, they WERE very nice times.
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@@williamg9977 ...but you wouldn't have RUclips.
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@@RaptorFromWeegee ...and what of the guys that didn't come back??? Do you suppose they were as delighted with the times?
Audio prozac. Not an abrasive tone to be found. This is the best era, by the 80's they had updated their sound with drums to reflect the influence of rock and it really kind of killed the vibe. This tape is incredible.
In the 1970's United always had muzak like this at the Youngstown, Ohio Airport. Quiet little airport with more than a few United mainline jets per day. The peaceful music and quiet of the terminal, shaken by the roar of 727 and 737 jets every so often.
When I used to go to Southtown Plaza, I used to like to saunter off to the A and P. I asked if it was a radio broadcast. "It's music that comes over phone wires!! We get music that comes from somewhere else!! It's like a big station that we get, which plays without any commercials or any disc jockeys!!" an employee of the A and P, said to me. "It's Muzak, honey. You know all about it. Daddy took you up to the radio station, and he showed you how Muzak was broadcast throughout the stores, remember?? It was all one room!!" Mom said. -Mark Weintraub.
At one time it was distributed over phone wires. Then it was a hidden broadcast over an FM radio station via SCA at 67KHz. Today many businesses have their own satellite background music feed such as restaurants.
Muzak was also played through Rochester radio station WVOR-FM-100.5, and it was also a special FM radio sideband of WVOR radio. The Muzak had an amplified, hollow sound, because it was all prerecorded music. The radio station was up high in Midtown Tower. United Air Lines, Strong Memorial Hospital, Muzak, Midtown Tower, the lights of the city of Rochester, New York, Djangology, the Loews Pittsford movie theater, Duke Ellington, etc, etc. -Mark Weintraub.
this music is great, i was able to get so much work done today listening to it. its just stimulating enough to make me feel good, just boring enough for me not to notice it. its a nice way to drownout the silence .
I've had to walk out of shops in recent years because the pimply youth put in charge of ambient sounds is cranking out garbage auto-tune pop and hip-hop at 140 db.
When I was little, Dad took me to the radio station where he worked, which was Rochester radio station WVOR-FM-100.5, and the tape machines were built by Teletronix/Muzak, and they had a round speaker, in which the Muzak came from. I was fascinated with Muzak, too. -Mark Weintraub.
Once, I was in Friendly's, and I heard the hollow sound of Muzak from a speaker in the ceiling. I asked if it was a radio broadcast of some sort. "It's music that comes over phone wires!!! We get music from a master station, which plays music all the time, without any commercials or any deejays!!! It's music that plays all the way through!!" our server said. "Honey, remember when Daddy took you up to the radio station, and he took you through the station, so you could see how Muzak was broadcast throughout the stores!!! One room!!!" Mom said. "WBBF was also one room!!" I said. "Well, in the FM station, it was one room, and a great big record library. BBF 95, was a couple of rooms, and an engineering department which looked right in to the main room for the AM side. The AM side experimented with electronic tape echo in like the 60s and the early 70s or so. FM, was all classical music, and AM, was a top 40 station, which played all the hits of the week!!!" Steve said. -Mark Weintraub.
I believe WVOR may have broadcast Muzak on a hidden carrier on their main frequency. You needed a special receiver to hear these signals, broadcast in compressed mono. If you wanted to see huge reel to reel players all lined up in a big cabinet, you should have visited WEZO, which was automated for most of the day with the now-extinct Beautiful Music/Easy Listening format. ALL of their music was shipped to them on large reel tapes.
When Dad worked at Granox, he had Muzak piped in through the factory, and I saw the FM receiver and the amplifier for the Muzak. Dad turned on the Muzak for me to enjoy listening to, which came from a square speaker in the ceiling. The Muzak was a radio sideband of WVOR-FM-100.5. I stood, listening to the rather hollow, amplified sound of the Muzak for at least a while or so, because the Muzak thrilled me and turned me on. "That's that piped in music which certainly fascinates you, doesn't it??" Dad said. "You saw those machines, remember?? Ralph showed you those Muzak machines!!" Dad said. "Those reels turned very slowly, too!" Dad said. "Remember the call microphones at the Arrows restaurant?? They had such a terrible sound!! It was that very loud, harsh metal voice coming from those metal call microphone units, which also frightened you to death! You were very afraid of cameras and flashes- every time you would see the flashcube go off on like maybe a Kodak Instanatic camera, you'd scream and cry, because you were so afraid of a camera!!" Dad said. "You didn't like seeing the words The End, either, because the words The End frightened you, too! When like a movie was over, you would see the words The End on the screen!!" Dad said. -Mark Weintraub.
Makes me think of zooming down a coastal road, by the sea on a warm breezy day back in the 60s. This musics blaring away on the static-y radio of the `66 Pontiac convertible I rented. Picked it up at the airport after my arrival on a Northeast Airlines CV-440. I'll be checking into the Sandpiper Inn, a cheap 2 story motel on the beach. After check-in, I'll shed my sportsjacket, trading it for a plaid madras shirt, and yellow Bermuda shorts. Then, I'll jump back in the convertible and take off down the road to this little tiki bar I spotted on my way over. Its got polynesian grass hanging off everything, lots of fake bamboo, and tiki idols all over the joint. I order myself a Mai Tai and a Pu-Pu platter. Its going to be a good trip!
3A21 - Is also Phil Bodner, and that is almost certainly him playing the piccolo and flute. I have no evidence, but I've listened to a lot of his music and I know it when I hear it
Find memories of listening to this being played over the speakers while shopping with my mom when I was a little girl at the super Swanky outdoor shopping plaza
Just lovely to listen to. Its a rainy day here in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, so this is wonderful. Drowning out the sounds of traffic and trucks outside. Thank you.
RUclips is recommending a lot of Muzak lately. I wouldn't mind some elevator music blasting though my HiFi to give my neighbours something to complain about. It's all good \m/
Timestamps (in all caps for readability) [01] 00:00 - 02:00 FRIENDLY SKIES [02] 02:01 - 04:13 MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED (The Moment You Left Me) [03] 04:17 - 06:42 ~UNKNOWN~ [04] 06:44 - 09:34 ~UNKNOWN~ [05] 09:37 - 11:48 ~UNKNOWN~ [06] 11:50 - 15:03 ~UNKNOWN~ [07] 15:05 - 17:26 ADVENTURES IN PARADISE - Eddie Bush [08] 17:28 - 19:43 CARMEN SUITE No.2 - HABANERO - Earl Sheldon [09] 19:44 - 22:10 ~UNKNOWN~ [10] 22:12 - 24:39 ~UNKNOWN~ [11] 24:40 - 26:32 ~UNKNOWN~ [12] 26:33 - 29:26 THE COURTYARD (from “Zorba the Greek”) [13] 29:28 - 32:29 ~HAWAIIAN~ [14] 32:31 - 35:47 STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT [15] 35:50 - 38:40 LONELY IS THE NAME [16] 38:41 - 41:51 PLAYERA [17] 41:52 - 44:26 ~ITALIAN~ [18] 44:28 - 46:40 THINGS I’D LIKE TO SAY [19] 46:43 - 49:35 HOW INSENSITIVE [20] 49:38 - 52:08 ~UNKNOWN~ [21] 52:10 - 55:12 TRACES (OF LOVE)* - Phil Bodner & His Brass Ring [22] 55:13 - 57:41 ~uNKNOWN~ *Side B* [01] 0:57:45 - 1:00:51 SONG OF THE ISLANDS [02] 1:00:53 - 1:02:55 TRY SOMETHING NEW* [03] 1:02:57 - 1:05:41 MON COUER S’OUVRE A TA VOIX [04] 1:05:43 - 1:08:20 THE LOOK OF LOVE - PHIL BODNER [05] 1:08:21 - 1:11:09 BORN FREE [06] 1:11:11 - 1:13:21 ~UNKNOWN~ [07] 1:13:22 - 1:16:20 OLE O’ CANGAÇEIROS (THE BANDIT) [08] 1:16:22 - 1:18:48 SABOR A MI - Tony Mottola [09] 1:18:50 - 1:21:43 ~XYLOPHONE~ [10] 1:21:46 - 1:24:44 ~UNKNOWN~ [11] 1:24:46 - 1:27:37 ONE PADDLE, TWO PADDLE [12] 1:27:38 - 1:30:27 WHERE IS YOUR HEART?/THE SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE (PERCY FAITH) [13] 1:30:28 - 1:33:04 APRIL AGAIN [14] 1:33:06 - 1:35:37 ~HAWAIIAN~ [15] 1:35:39 - 1:38:14 SAY WONDERFUL THINGS [16] 1:38:16 - 1:40:48 MY LOVE, FORGIVE ME (AMORE, SCUSAMI) [17] 1:40:50 - 1:44:08 MEDITATION [18] 1:44:09 - 1:45:52 BOOM BANG-A-BANG - DAVE TERRY [19] 1:45:56 - 1:48:48 AMAZONAS [20] 1:48:52 - 1:50:33 ~UNKNOWN~ [21] 1:50:35 - 1:53:20 PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER
The opening track sounds exactly like the light, breezy 'vacation spot' music that Barry Gray would write for 'Thunderbirds' and other Gerry Anderson productions.
Now when I was very young, we used to go to the Arrows, and they would have Muzak coming over the intercom system at the drive in, playing over the call microphones, which were built by Teletronix, and made out of metal- they were all metal call microphones, which had a round fan grille like speaker, and when they came on, they had a terrible,very loud, harsh, angry, screaming, hollow metal voice, which also had a terrible metal echo in the background, which rang out for many,many miles in the distance. -Mark Weintraub.
I don't hear the second track as"If I were a Carpenter" The first 4 or 5 notes sound similar, but the rest is nothing like the song, as I hear it anyway. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this though? And the lyrics are different! Great tape though, thanks for uploading.
@@CV2200A I’m surprised Muzak would cover some Motown hits, but I suppose it was that good/popular of a song for arranger Dave Terry to record. This dates this tape around early 1970
@@GaytanLaytantry something new was from 1962 by Smokey Robinson, this is truer to his rendition than the Temptations and the Supremes. but it could have been later judging by the keys and that organ sound having not been a really popular thing before the mid 60s
I don't have the rights to the Muzak. Many of my videos are free of copyright claims. Then maybe months later the video gets a claim. I don't monetize so often the copyright music can stay but the copyright holder can insert commercials. Thus if you monetize you have to be more careful. The worst that has happened to me is my son's unlisted wedding video got muted when a copyright song was played by the caterer. Luckily no vows were exchanged during that passage. That video is not searchable but anyone with the link can access it.
Definitely the work of Charles Grean. That harp, the organ preset, the saxophones and trumpet usage. Compare it to his cover of Step to the Rear and Ms. Robinson
When I digitized these tapes years ago, at that time I didn't feel I needed to digitize the same song at the beginning of the two United Airlines tapes. So when I made this video, I used the one from the other tape. Sorry.
@@CV2200A BTW - thanks for preserving and uploading these! They are amazingly unique and forgotten. (not to belabor the point but...) It's just the first 2 measures of the melody which sound similar - after that it diverges...
Apparently the iRiver MP3 recorder caused this. I doubt it was on the original tape, but I can no longer check since I have sold all 4 of those tapes. I think I have a VHS HiFi of those tapes. If I find the time I can check the condition of that copy. It is also happening to the song before.
I just played the VHS Hi-Fi version. It plays perfectly. The artifact is from the iRiver MP3 Recorder. I no longer have that model iRiver and I don't believe the newer iRiver I use has that problem. No need to check the reel to reel tapes, they are good.
the artist performing that cover are all unknown and will be until somehow miraculously the masters are released, but it was definitely arranged by Earl Sheldon.
I've tried to wrap my head around Song 2 several times now. It's definitely not "If I Were A Carpeneter." This is also after hearing countless different versions over the years of said song. There are plenty out there.
If you think it’s not “If I were a Carpenter,” just try performing it in public without paying the music rights. Lol. You can bet your sweet bippy on that one. But isn’t it much more peaceful to argue about this than politics? Lol
Two of my 4 tapes were United Airlines and therefore start out with the same tune. Muzak also sprinkled a few other songs repeated among the 4 tapes. The person who I sold the 4 tapes to made a video showing the tape playing in a loop, so some of the 4 tapes are repeated in their RUclips videos.
@@CV2200A speaking of tunes being repeated Ares Armoire just identified the tune that appears on just about every tape to be a cover of Dean Martin’s “April Again”, arranged by what sounds like Nick Perito
@@CV2200A i do believe those are the only three with that title, though i suspect that at one point tape one may have had it but it was cut since its so much shorter than the other three (just speculation)
The speculation that tape 1 was cut short is highly unlikely. Side A starts out with the United "Friendly Skies" tune, so that has to be the beginning of the tape. Side A ends where the last song on that side ends while Side B begins with a complete song which also sounds like a tune they would use as the first song on a side. It is extremely hard to cut a tape short and be just lucky that a complete song will be at the beginning. The length of songs vary, so it is very unlikely that a song doesn't get sliced in the middle when one end of a tape is cut. No one has yet come up with any other of these Muzak airline tapes. If this exact tape number ever comes up then we would know for sure. I made 2 separate RUclips videos of Tape 1 Side A and another for Side B because I didn't know if RUclips would discover a Copyright or prevent such a long video. Tapes 2, 3 and 4 were made knowing I would not have a problem.
To my knowledge I know of any music from Muzak on CD or cassette. There may be LP records floating around. www.ebay.com/itm/115481816792 There may be others on ebay from time to time but a very limited songs.
I know it is late but you can burn the music into the cd? Just searched this up, and i guess you could use (YT to MP3 convertors) be careful however when doing so. Good luck.
Oh sure, Mall Muzak is just fun and games with you guys. But did you ever think about the sales person who puts shoes on your feet. How about the employees in the Food Court dispensing improperly stored chili on your hot dog. How about the mall sanitation crew that keeps the dining area free of vomit. All this selfless dedication to work while being bombarded by the stores PA playing the "Guantanamo Detention Center's Greatest Hits". TO THE RETAIL WORKERS OF AMERICA - WE SALUTE YOU!
If RUclips were for nothing more than preserving history it would still be the greatest part of the internet
I grew up at grandma's house and she was always playing this type of music on the radio. There were stations that played this all day, which was often called " beautiful music format"...listening to this brings back those days at grandma's house. It's great to hear this music again but at the same time makes me miss her so much now...
My friend's mom used to play this and I thought it was so comforting at the time.
And with Wich sound at that time? You had no FM. I still Remember the radio programs in the 70 in Switzerland. M'y gosh, it was a revolution when all of a sudden FM came. Waow amazing & clear sound. Now the teenager showed me their very little device mp3 ha ha ha ...i am old i think!!
Same with ona-a our grannysnails. She also had a Bearcat scanner for listening to local first responders...
@@CarolineDupont-wv7js Oh, you think you "might" be old?! We never thought it would happen to us, but "I think" we're all pretty damned old.
The Grim Reapers breathing down upon us all. At least those of us lingering on this channel. We had FM in America too but it never had the kind of music most of us liked to hear. ROCK!
I spent some time in Switzerland back in the early 1980s, mostly in Zermatt. Such a pleasant, beautiful country. Not too many memories of FM radio. Mostly memories of skiing and swilling beer.
Today they have taylor swift and smith whatever...
Just incredible orchestration and beautiful harmonies and combinations like sounds totally contrary to the garbage that’s on the radio today
Lmao
What's so funny?
Geezah
Okay buddy, maybe don't listen to just mainstream music then genius.
@@Assfucker0001 such as master of puppets in the sega mega drive soundfont
I love this kind of background music. It reminds me of a much happier time.
Very nice times… cold war, Vietnam’s war, terror artacks.
@@TAD1huhe was talking about the music, style and lack of social media. It was simpler times.. I would do anything to go back
@@TAD1hu Oh god, theres always gotta be a nay sayer. Compared to the depression and the hot war (WWII), the cold war wasn't really that bad.
And the vast majority of guys who got sent to Vietnam served in rear echelon postings, you know what I mean?
Air conditioned barracks, workshops and offices on giant fully secure military bases. Great food, PX, entertainment, and cookouts, complete with t-bone steaks washed down with cans of Bud.
Some guys even volunteered for multiple tours of duty. Eventually they came back to great benefits, great cars, and .25/gallon gas. Plus sexual revolution and a kind of freedom the kids today couldn't even understand.
So yeah, they WERE very nice times.
@@williamg9977 ...but you wouldn't have RUclips.
@@RaptorFromWeegee ...and what of the guys that didn't come back??? Do you suppose they were as delighted with the times?
Back when people sought relaxation instead of endless stimulation.
Audio prozac. Not an abrasive tone to be found. This is the best era, by the 80's they had updated their sound with drums to reflect the influence of rock and it really kind of killed the vibe. This tape is incredible.
Audio Prozac. Exactly. Muzak was developed just for that purpose. Gotta keep the "hairless apes" tranquilized.
"All anxieties tranquilized..."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Amen
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In the 1970's United always had muzak like this at the Youngstown, Ohio Airport. Quiet little airport with more than a few United mainline jets per day. The peaceful music and quiet of the terminal, shaken by the roar of 727 and 737 jets every so often.
The music of my youth in stores. They should bring it back :)
That's what I say too. No lyrics, so you can concentrate or just relax and have a conversation.
This muzak is certainly better than boring Phil Collins or Billy Joel which currently infest shopping centres here Down Under.
When I used to go to Southtown Plaza, I used to like to
saunter off to the
A and P.
I asked if it was a radio broadcast.
"It's music that comes over phone wires!!
We get music that comes from
somewhere else!! It's like a big station that we get, which plays without any commercials or any disc jockeys!!" an employee of the A and P, said to me.
"It's Muzak, honey.
You know all about it. Daddy took you up to the radio station, and he showed you how Muzak was broadcast throughout the stores, remember??
It was all one room!!" Mom said.
-Mark Weintraub.
At one time it was distributed over phone wires. Then it was a hidden broadcast over an FM radio station via SCA at 67KHz. Today many businesses have their own satellite background music feed such as restaurants.
Muzak was also played through Rochester radio station WVOR-FM-100.5, and it was also a special FM radio sideband of WVOR radio. The Muzak had an amplified, hollow sound, because it was all
prerecorded music.
The radio station was up high in
Midtown Tower.
United Air Lines,
Strong Memorial Hospital,
Muzak,
Midtown Tower,
the lights of the city of Rochester, New York,
Djangology, the Loews Pittsford movie theater,
Duke Ellington, etc, etc.
-Mark Weintraub.
this music is great, i was able to get so much work done today listening to it. its just stimulating enough to make me feel good, just boring enough for me not to notice it. its a nice way to drownout the silence .
Speaking as a professional Musician... I actually think this is extremely good music. For so many reasons.
as a instrumentalist of 6/7 years i am forever amazed by how these guys sight read these scores most of the time
100%
A professional musician was Ennio Morriccone, Henry Mancini, Prince.....
@@Gioagla anyone who makes a living off of playing an instrument is a professional musician
This brings back lots of memories I remember listening to this music in various department stores in the 1960s when shopping with my mother.
I've had to walk out of shops in recent years because the pimply youth put in charge of ambient sounds is cranking out garbage auto-tune pop and hip-hop at 140 db.
When I was little, Dad took me to the radio station where he worked, which was Rochester radio station WVOR-FM-100.5, and the tape machines were built by Teletronix/Muzak, and they had a round speaker, in which the Muzak came from.
I was fascinated with Muzak, too.
-Mark Weintraub.
Thanks for you comment! Super interesting! What kind of music was your dad's radio station playing? Which decade did you grow up in Rochester?
Once, I was in Friendly's, and I heard the hollow sound of Muzak from a speaker in the ceiling.
I asked if it was a radio broadcast of some sort.
"It's music that comes over phone wires!!!
We get music from a master station, which plays music all the time, without any commercials or any deejays!!!
It's music that plays all the way through!!" our server said.
"Honey, remember when Daddy took you up to the radio station, and he took you through the station, so you could see how Muzak was broadcast throughout the stores!!!
One room!!!" Mom said.
"WBBF was also one room!!" I said.
"Well, in the FM station, it was one room, and a great big record library.
BBF 95, was a couple of rooms, and an engineering department which looked right in to the main room for the AM side.
The AM side experimented with
electronic tape echo in like the 60s and the early 70s or so.
FM, was all classical music, and
AM, was a top 40 station, which played all the hits of the week!!!"
Steve said.
-Mark Weintraub.
I believe WVOR may have broadcast Muzak on a hidden carrier on their main frequency. You needed a special receiver to hear these signals, broadcast in compressed mono. If you wanted to see huge reel to reel players all lined up in a big cabinet, you should have visited WEZO, which was automated for most of the day with the now-extinct Beautiful Music/Easy Listening format. ALL of their music was shipped to them on large reel tapes.
Hello from Penfield! :) Thank you for sharing this wonderful memory.
Rochester,MN ?
Just pure masterpiece. I would do anything to go back in time to this era
Would you give up your Klondike bar?
When Dad worked at Granox, he had Muzak piped in through the factory, and I saw the FM receiver and the amplifier for the Muzak.
Dad turned on the Muzak for me to enjoy listening to, which came from a
square speaker in the ceiling.
The Muzak was a radio
sideband of WVOR-FM-100.5.
I stood, listening to the
rather hollow, amplified sound of the Muzak for at
least a while or so, because the Muzak thrilled me and turned me on.
"That's that piped in music which certainly fascinates you, doesn't it??" Dad said.
"You saw those machines, remember??
Ralph showed you those Muzak machines!!" Dad said.
"Those reels turned very slowly, too!" Dad said.
"Remember the
call microphones at the Arrows restaurant??
They had such a terrible sound!!
It was that very loud, harsh metal voice coming from those metal call microphone units, which also frightened you to death! You were very afraid of cameras and flashes-
every time you would see the flashcube go off on like maybe a Kodak Instanatic camera, you'd
scream and cry, because you were so afraid of a camera!!" Dad said.
"You didn't like seeing the words The End, either, because the words The End frightened you, too!
When like a movie was over, you would see the words The End on the screen!!" Dad said.
-Mark Weintraub.
the stringy xylophone and accordion tune at 1:18:48 sounds like it could be King Cole’s “Around the World”
this is the best muzak.
love this kind of 60s instrumental music.
Makes me think of zooming down a coastal road, by the sea on a warm breezy day back in the 60s. This musics blaring away on the static-y radio of the `66 Pontiac convertible I rented.
Picked it up at the airport after my arrival on a Northeast Airlines CV-440. I'll be checking into the Sandpiper Inn, a cheap 2 story motel on the beach.
After check-in, I'll shed my sportsjacket, trading it for a plaid madras shirt, and yellow Bermuda shorts. Then, I'll jump back in the convertible and take off down the road to this little tiki bar I spotted on my way over.
Its got polynesian grass hanging off everything, lots of fake bamboo, and tiki idols all over the joint. I order myself a Mai Tai and a Pu-Pu platter. Its going to be a good trip!
So much do I love this kind of music, I created a playlist for it. And this one is definitely on the mix!
3A21 - Is also Phil Bodner, and that is almost certainly him playing the piccolo and flute. I have no evidence, but I've listened to a lot of his music and I know it when I hear it
Thanks for the ID of Phil Bodner as the artist on 2A21 "Traces".
Find memories of listening to this being played over the speakers while shopping with my mom when I was a little girl at the super Swanky outdoor shopping plaza
Just lovely to listen to. Its a rainy day here in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, so this is wonderful. Drowning out the sounds of traffic and trucks outside. Thank you.
Soon there will only be sounds of nature and music and singing. Isaiah 14: 7
1:08:23 is the most beautiful melody my ears have ever heard. Good God
an orchestral version of "Born Free". My favorite track in this compilation as well !
46:43. How insensitive
49:38. 3A20
52:10. Traces of love
57:45. 1B01
1:05:46. 3B04 The Look of Love
1:08:21. 3B05 Born Free
17:29. Carmen
Thank you for this! It reminds me of happy times growing up.😊
I love Muzak.
RUclips is recommending a lot of Muzak lately. I wouldn't mind some elevator music blasting though my HiFi to give my neighbours something to complain about.
It's all good \m/
Great stuff! And, song #
3b17, is actually, "meditation",
Written by ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM.
Thanks
Miss you uncle.....😢 rip July 2024
If that first selection sounds familiar, it’s because it’s an instrumental of the UAL jingle - “Fly the Friendly Skies of United”
Timestamps (in all caps for readability)
[01] 00:00 - 02:00 FRIENDLY SKIES
[02] 02:01 - 04:13 MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED (The Moment You Left Me)
[03] 04:17 - 06:42 ~UNKNOWN~
[04] 06:44 - 09:34 ~UNKNOWN~
[05] 09:37 - 11:48 ~UNKNOWN~
[06] 11:50 - 15:03 ~UNKNOWN~
[07] 15:05 - 17:26 ADVENTURES IN PARADISE - Eddie Bush
[08] 17:28 - 19:43 CARMEN SUITE No.2 - HABANERO - Earl Sheldon
[09] 19:44 - 22:10 ~UNKNOWN~
[10] 22:12 - 24:39 ~UNKNOWN~
[11] 24:40 - 26:32 ~UNKNOWN~
[12] 26:33 - 29:26 THE COURTYARD (from “Zorba the Greek”)
[13] 29:28 - 32:29 ~HAWAIIAN~
[14] 32:31 - 35:47 STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
[15] 35:50 - 38:40 LONELY IS THE NAME
[16] 38:41 - 41:51 PLAYERA
[17] 41:52 - 44:26 ~ITALIAN~
[18] 44:28 - 46:40 THINGS I’D LIKE TO SAY
[19] 46:43 - 49:35 HOW INSENSITIVE
[20] 49:38 - 52:08 ~UNKNOWN~
[21] 52:10 - 55:12 TRACES (OF LOVE)* - Phil Bodner & His Brass Ring
[22] 55:13 - 57:41 ~uNKNOWN~
*Side B*
[01] 0:57:45 - 1:00:51 SONG OF THE ISLANDS
[02] 1:00:53 - 1:02:55 TRY SOMETHING NEW*
[03] 1:02:57 - 1:05:41 MON COUER S’OUVRE A TA VOIX
[04] 1:05:43 - 1:08:20 THE LOOK OF LOVE - PHIL BODNER
[05] 1:08:21 - 1:11:09 BORN FREE
[06] 1:11:11 - 1:13:21 ~UNKNOWN~
[07] 1:13:22 - 1:16:20 OLE O’ CANGAÇEIROS (THE BANDIT)
[08] 1:16:22 - 1:18:48 SABOR A MI - Tony Mottola
[09] 1:18:50 - 1:21:43 ~XYLOPHONE~
[10] 1:21:46 - 1:24:44 ~UNKNOWN~
[11] 1:24:46 - 1:27:37 ONE PADDLE, TWO PADDLE
[12] 1:27:38 - 1:30:27 WHERE IS YOUR HEART?/THE SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE (PERCY FAITH)
[13] 1:30:28 - 1:33:04 APRIL AGAIN
[14] 1:33:06 - 1:35:37 ~HAWAIIAN~
[15] 1:35:39 - 1:38:14 SAY WONDERFUL THINGS
[16] 1:38:16 - 1:40:48 MY LOVE, FORGIVE ME (AMORE, SCUSAMI)
[17] 1:40:50 - 1:44:08 MEDITATION
[18] 1:44:09 - 1:45:52 BOOM BANG-A-BANG - DAVE TERRY
[19] 1:45:56 - 1:48:48 AMAZONAS
[20] 1:48:52 - 1:50:33 ~UNKNOWN~
[21] 1:50:35 - 1:53:20 PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER
Side A [18] is 'Things I'd Like To Say'
@@ishkanei thank you very much.
@@ishkanei Thanks for the song title.
@@CV2200A 3B17 has been identified as “Meditation”
1:45:56 sounds like it was arranged by Tony Mottola.
Thank you for this great music
The opening track sounds exactly like the light, breezy 'vacation spot' music that Barry Gray would write for 'Thunderbirds' and other Gerry Anderson productions.
2:01 could be david ruffin’s “my whole world ended”
Thanks for the correct song title. I also corrected the same song on my Muzak Tape 2.
@@CV2200A feels great to finally solved this mystery👍
Now when I was very young, we used to go to the Arrows, and they would have Muzak coming over the intercom system at the
drive in, playing over the call microphones, which were built by Teletronix, and made out of metal- they were all metal call microphones, which had a round fan grille like speaker, and when they came on, they had a terrible,very loud, harsh, angry, screaming, hollow metal voice, which also had a terrible metal
echo in the background, which rang out for many,many miles in the distance.
-Mark Weintraub.
It makes life into a forgotten movie.
TRACK "3A-10", AT (22:12) IN,
IS "THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR". I ONLY KNOW THIS BECAUSE JULIE LONDON SINGS MY FAVORITE VERSION....
Thanks for the song title.
@@CV2200A No problem👍
Thank you so much for sharing these tapes. They are wonderful trigger to bring back fond memories of childhood memories that are happy and warm.
Pure Magical.
Beautiful music 3AK
This is musiic! It's so much better than the caterwauling of Mariah Carey.
SO BEAUTIFUL!!
THANK YOU!!!💎
I don't hear the second track as"If I were a Carpenter" The first 4 or 5 notes sound similar, but the rest is nothing like the song, as I hear it anyway. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this though? And the lyrics are different! Great tape though, thanks for uploading.
That is the closest melody that matches until someone identifies the correct song title. Muzak has no lyrics to help.
@@CV2200A Yes, I take your point. The lyrics comment was just a joke!
Love it ❤️👍
I used to think this store-music was pretty silly. Store-music now is so seedy and mean that I really miss this gentle sound. What have we become?
Spoiled entitled monsters.
I LOVED these.
Just excellent
Meant to relax your soul, Stay real.
I wonder if this was played on N7001U
What is this beauty?
1:00:53 is a cover of I’ll Try Something New by the Supremes and the Temptations from 1969
Thanks for the song title.
@@CV2200A I’m surprised Muzak would cover some Motown hits, but I suppose it was that good/popular of a song for arranger Dave Terry to record. This dates this tape around early 1970
@@GaytanLaytantry something new was from 1962 by Smokey Robinson, this is truer to his rendition than the Temptations and the Supremes. but it could have been later judging by the keys and that organ sound having not been a really popular thing before the mid 60s
Anyone know song at 55:13 name ?
it's beautiful 🥰🥰🥰
also, the song that begins at 38:40 is "Spanish Dance No. 5" by Enrique Granados
Saving this for myself 17:27
Its muzak version of carmen opera by Bizet
Just lovely...so peaceful and not a hint of nastiness...
Does anyone know the title of the Hawaiian Song at (29:27)? Its track "3A13"
Somebody bake that tape - I can hear it shedding as it plays lol
Kmart /Sears vibe
May I use this as background music for my videos if I link to this video onscreen at the end of the video?
I don't have the rights to the Muzak. Many of my videos are free of copyright claims. Then maybe months later the video gets a claim. I don't monetize so often the copyright music can stay but the copyright holder can insert commercials. Thus if you monetize you have to be more careful. The worst that has happened to me is my son's unlisted wedding video got muted when a copyright song was played by the caterer. Luckily no vows were exchanged during that passage. That video is not searchable but anyone with the link can access it.
I’m back at KMart!
3A22 (55:13) it sounds kinda like Melodie D’amour but I’m not sure thats the right tune🤔
Maybe what Muzak did is what Victor Borge did, play the sheet music upside down!
ruclips.net/video/jPwNwNdE7pE/видео.html
@@CV2200A thats a thought 😂 i wonder would a tune still be recognizable like that🤔
oh yeah
Carmen (17:28) is got to be one of their best renditions from these 4 tapes
I was *just* going to comment that! It really is a nice version of the original!
@@MrPacMan36 i know, right , its immediately recognizable
Definitely the work of Charles Grean. That harp, the organ preset, the saxophones and trumpet usage. Compare it to his cover of Step to the Rear and Ms. Robinson
3B15 (1:35:39) is a take on “Say Wonderful Things” originally by Patti Page
Thanks so much for the song title!
@@CV2200A you’re welcome
Play this on your phone at full volume as you stroll the aisles at the supermarket.
3B07 (1:13:22) - song title is "Ole O 'Cangaçeiro, this version sounds familiar to me, I'll try to find who's playing it.
Good catch! Muzak played so slowly compared to the Bert Kaempfert version. AKA "The Bandit" ruclips.net/video/r0KyMVPWXjQ/видео.html
it sounds like it could have been frank hunter and his orchestra but it could have been something else like jane jarvis or sid bass
@@The4MusketeersYT It doesn’t sound like Jane Jarvis or Sid Bass (maybe some of Sid’s old 1950s arrangements are similar)
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 yes possibly sid, as well as the 50s sounding 50s sounding one before Traces (Of Love)
@@The4MusketeersYT That one very well could be Sid. All 1950s MUZAK arrangements sound the same to me.
i think Traces (Of Love) may have been by Phil Bodner
It sure sounds like it.
3B01 (0:57:45) is Song of the Islands by Andy Williams
Thanks for the song title!
@@CV2200A you’re welcome
how does friendly skies have a skip in the same place on two different tapes?
When I digitized these tapes years ago, at that time I didn't feel I needed to digitize the same song at the beginning of the two United Airlines tapes. So when I made this video, I used the one from the other tape. Sorry.
@@CV2200A oh..that makes sense i guess
@@CV2200A but strangers in the night has a skip here thats not on tape one
@@The4MusketeersYT i think he only reused friendly skys, which is why the skips are different
@@stevetree7249 that makes more sense
3A02 Isn't "If I Were a Carpenter" - it just has a similar initial melody (the first half of the first phrase anyways)
It sure sounds like the same melody.
ruclips.net/video/YH3zX-Tmx5c/видео.html
@@CV2200A BTW - thanks for preserving and uploading these! They are amazingly unique and forgotten. (not to belabor the point but...) It's just the first 2 measures of the melody which sound similar - after that it diverges...
Good God. This sounds like Disneyland meets psychological warfare.
That's because in a way it is. The CIA knew what they were doing.
Do you have this available to download anywhere?
If you are using a Windows based PC, you can download videos from RUclips with Video Download Helper
www.downloadhelper.net/
I wish I knew the song at 4:17 😢
I remember the silly earphones we'd plug in to listen to this awfulness near the ashtrays. "extinguish cigarettes during take off"
3B03 (1:02:57) is a cover of “Mon Coeur S'ouvre a ta Voix”
Thanks for the song title.
@@CV2200A you’re welcome
i find it interesting that the Hawaiian piece at 29:28 is in 3/4 time
What year would this be from? Thanks.
We would guess late 1960s or early 1970s.
what happened at 9:39, 9:46, and 9:59?
Apparently the iRiver MP3 recorder caused this. I doubt it was on the original tape, but I can no longer check since I have sold all 4 of those tapes. I think I have a VHS HiFi of those tapes. If I find the time I can check the condition of that copy. It is also happening to the song before.
@@CV2200A i know the guy you sold them to so i can just ask them to send an audio clip of that section. i wonder how iRiver would have done that
I just played the VHS Hi-Fi version. It plays perfectly. The artifact is from the iRiver MP3 Recorder. I no longer have that model iRiver and I don't believe the newer iRiver I use has that problem. No need to check the reel to reel tapes, they are good.
@@CV2200A thats good to know, that the history in these is not lost
17:18
I need that track info for Carmen! Man it's so good...
the artist performing that cover are all unknown and will be until somehow miraculously the masters are released, but it was definitely arranged by Earl Sheldon.
1:43:41 that same lick is in welcome back, kotter.
i love traces at 52:10. just here so i can skip to it
A more simple time in this journey 😑⌛️
I've tried to wrap my head around Song 2 several times now. It's definitely not "If I Were A Carpeneter." This is also after hearing countless different versions over the years of said song. There are plenty out there.
If you think it’s not “If I were a Carpenter,” just try performing it in public without paying the music rights. Lol. You can bet your sweet bippy on that one.
But isn’t it much more peaceful to argue about this than politics? Lol
Didn't you already so a video with this music? I recognize the first tune.
Two of my 4 tapes were United Airlines and therefore start out with the same tune. Muzak also sprinkled a few other songs repeated among the 4 tapes. The person who I sold the 4 tapes to made a video showing the tape playing in a loop, so some of the 4 tapes are repeated in their RUclips videos.
@@CV2200A speaking of tunes being repeated Ares Armoire just identified the tune that appears on just about every tape to be a cover of Dean Martin’s “April Again”, arranged by what sounds like Nick Perito
I found the song on 3 of the tapes. 2A14, 3B13 and 4A13, check if you agree. Also let me know if you find it on tape 1. Thanks all for the song title
@@CV2200A i do believe those are the only three with that title, though i suspect that at one point tape one may have had it but it was cut since its so much shorter than the other three (just speculation)
The speculation that tape 1 was cut short is highly unlikely. Side A starts out with the United "Friendly Skies" tune, so that has to be the beginning of the tape. Side A ends where the last song on that side ends while Side B begins with a complete song which also sounds like a tune they would use as the first song on a side. It is extremely hard to cut a tape short and be just lucky that a complete song will be at the beginning. The length of songs vary, so it is very unlikely that a song doesn't get sliced in the middle when one end of a tape is cut.
No one has yet come up with any other of these Muzak airline tapes. If this exact tape number ever comes up then we would know for sure.
I made 2 separate RUclips videos of Tape 1 Side A and another for Side B because I didn't know if RUclips would discover a Copyright or prevent such a long video. Tapes 2, 3 and 4 were made knowing I would not have a problem.
starting at 56:52 it skips a lot
I forgot what the problem at the end of the reel was but only a note or two got off pitch.
@@CV2200A it could be worse
@@CV2200A that isn’t the same problem in the middle of tape one is it?
Any idea of where we might find this music on CD or cassette?
To my knowledge I know of any music from Muzak on CD or cassette. There may be LP records floating around. www.ebay.com/itm/115481816792
There may be others on ebay from time to time but a very limited songs.
I know it is late but you can burn the music into the cd? Just searched this up, and i guess you could use (YT to MP3 convertors) be careful however when doing so. Good luck.
Step 2 than one 1. Cause you know, you need the music first, then step 2. The first paragraph is like building a 2,000 piece build lego.
1:08:21
Born Free, it sounds like it was arranged by Nick Perito
French Horn players were more valuable then...
You’ve been “slightly“ misinformed. No reels were ever on the aircraft.
The boarding area more likely. Audio could have been on the aircraft but on an FAA flight approved reproducer
Oh sure, Mall Muzak is just fun and games with you guys.
But did you ever think about the sales person who puts shoes on your feet. How about the employees in the Food Court dispensing improperly stored chili on your hot dog. How about the mall sanitation crew that keeps the dining area free of vomit.
All this selfless dedication to work while being bombarded by the stores PA playing the "Guantanamo Detention Center's Greatest Hits".
TO THE RETAIL WORKERS OF AMERICA - WE SALUTE YOU!