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Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties

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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!

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?

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.

This effervescent bit of production music hits can't help but charm!
Can't help but awaken that feeling that today the sky is gonna be blue, I'll meet the woman of my dreams, life is gonna be a cream-cherry pie and yes, I CAN have it all!
That's precisely what the music was meant to do and it works so well it's scary. A masterpiece of American cheeze, to be eaten in your hip pad with the thick pile carpeting and the orange couch. A blast!

What can be said? Instrumental Dreaming ... every track
puts you in a 60s-70s movie trailer..a great way to
start any day...A must cd...

So you're getting ready to head over to the multiplex to catch Michael Myers' newest "Austin Powers" flick. This album will put you in the mood immediately. It's the second in Caroline/Scamp's anthology of music from the Associated Production Music library, this group mostly from the mid-60s to early 70s and very mock-rock, with title cuts like "Pop March," "Disc a Go Go" and "Party Shaker." You've heard the music a million times on TV shows, commercials and movies ("Shopping Centre" is heard very faintly in the "oh the power of cheese" commercial in the supermarket), but here it gets center (or, considering that the majority of these cuts were written and recorded in the UK, centre) stage. Of course, it all sounds like middle-aged blokes trying to get hip with the kids. But it's fun, extremely catchy and guaranteed to brighten you day--and a few of the cuts are guaranteed to put a little something extra in your shagging sess--oh, *behave!*

If you are fourty years old or over this music will bring back many good memories from your childhood.The yearly trips to the department store to buy schoolwear.Playing on the wooden escalators.Going to the grocery store on friday after school.Eating at the red barn and burger chef.This was the background music to our lives growing up in the sixties and seventies.

i've always had an affinity for production music. half of my career in radio was spent in the studio laughing at it.
this glorious little cd, captures some great vintage moments from kpms' storied music library. loungey, interesting, and occaisionally hysterically funny. "shopping centre" sounds like the theme to a brady bunch hosted game show. "rio magic" would be the perfect accompaniment for a look out of the airplane window, on an approach to rio. (or trenton, for that matter)
brilliant music for brilliant people.

the Skaggs Alpha Beta/TG&Y(now Albertsons and Wally world) anti-depressent for shoppers to "think" by. nuff sed. Gotta rate it five, always heard this stuff in stores as kid and didn't even realize the music is no longer played.(in wally world). Of coure don't think these guys were contracted to compose themes played in countless mini malls, grocery stores and department stores accross the country, they were just teenie boppers who loved working as songsmiths of thier time(circa 1960's). If you like this upbeat catchy mayjor key stuff, try also "Peter Thomas" and "Domanic Frontiere"(asside from Outer Limits -dim minor- he was a mayjor keyer in that Hollywood stuff).

If only shopping malls STILL played this kind of groovy stuff, shopping would be fun instead of tedious or irritating! Each track has its own style but it all gels. My only gripe is that there's not enough. I want MORE MORE MORE! They could have fit almost twice as much music on this CD. Anyway, if you like lounge music or a groovy 60s vibe, you'll be playing this over and over and over and over....