Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties

Various Artists - Lounge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Scamp
• ASIN: B000000IAX
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,600 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #67 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Instrumental Pop & Lounge

Track Listings

1. Disc a Go Go

2. Pop Promotion

3. The Free Life

4. The Riviera Set

5. Shopping Centre

6. Piccadilly Night Ride

7. Party Shaker

8. Rio Magic

9. Beauty Parade

10. Holiday Commercial

11. Sporting Highlights

12. Convenience Shopping

13. Mexican Ding Dong

14. Chase That Car

15. Rosese Today

16. Pop March

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Title: Music For Happy Shoppers!, August 20, 2001

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Huntan Peck "HuntanPeck" (Retroville, USA, Circa 1967) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties (Audio CD)

This music was originally intended to feed the burgeoning consumer culture, and as such it is supposed to be quaint, crass, and trivial. On the other hand, I defy anyone to listen to this disc and not crack a smile at these wonderful, bright, catchy little melodies, especially my favourite, the playful and bubbly 'Party Shaker'! There is a very comfortable, vaguely familiar, and even poignant quality to this music; sort of the aural equivalent to chicken noodle soup or macaroni and cheese. Anyone who enjoys lounge and retro culture will find it to be a welcome retreat from the harsher elements of today's culture. Buy it and bask in the glow!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars swinging! thrilling! isn't it all so swell?, November 6, 2000

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Mel Stanke (Chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties (Audio CD)

As mentioned in the other review, this is a collection of British 'adverts' music. Fans of the 'Sound Gallery' collections will enjoy this stuff, which is heavy on sixties kitsch in all the right ways. Perhaps the best indication of the type of music here is the list of name-checks in the liner notes: Tom Jones, Ray Conniff, Paul Mauriat, Herb Alpert, Les Baxter, John Steed & Emma Peel, Russ Meyer -- you can form a mental picture of what this music sounds like. It's light, frothy, and wonderful. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that it's only 34 minutes long; I wish it'd been combined with the other volume on a single disc, but oh well. Why quibble when the music is this groovy?

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oy, the schmaltz!, July 7, 2007

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Shaggy Doug (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties (Audio CD)

Unstoppably toe-tapping. Embarrassingly addictive. Evokes memories of carousing Montgomery Wards and S.S. Kresge's in their heyday. Wow. Play the samples and you'll see what I mean.