im a huge fan of vintage muzak and jazz music, im very passionate with vintage A/V equipment, classic cars, anything from the mid to late 20th century, and aviation. i love to post uncommon music on different formats online for everyone to enjoy
I worked for a beautiful music station in Seattle and our SCA carried music. I thought Muzak was better than our regular beautiful music from commercial disks. Certainly flowed better. Although in mono, I'd sometimes late at night would switch to the muzak output. No one noticed!
A generation flying from the mainland to Hawaii via jet airliners for the first time! I'm sure this music would have put them in the mood! I recall the flight in 1981 from LAX to HNL. I was 10 an fascinated by everything in the plane, including the dedicated audio feed just for my seat! This music would have definitely featured along with some radio broadcasts and flight communication. The headphones were these orange contraptions that fit like stethoscopes! I also recall...we were in the smoking section! Imagine when THAT was a good idea! Folks were being serve themed meals... loads of pineapple... everything drenched in teriyaki sauce... little packets of macadamia nuts... orchids for garnish... and more than a few mai tais being imbibed. My first kiss from a girl who was not a relative was from the Hawaiian gal who gave us lais upon landing! I felt like James Bond!
The radio equivalent of Muzak was the Beautiful Music format. When the FCC curtailed AM/FM simulcasting in large and medium markets in the 1960's, station owners were faced with having to provide separate programming on their FM stations part of most of the day. Beautiful Music was a cost-effective choice since it could easily run on automation without live operators or announcers. Plus the music-intensive approach was well suited for the high fidelity stereo quality of FM. Many stations with the format became ratings leaders in their respective markets mainly due to the stations being piped through offices and stores (it was Muzak without the subscription fee albeit with commercials). Even up to the mid 1990's you could still find Beautiful Music stations on FM radio although rare by that time. The format may be history but the music remains timeless.
Why this music 🎶🎵 🎼 Be put on 💿 CD’s for everyone to enjoy and pass it on to other generations to learn and educated,This is so Refreshing,I grew up in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 my father was a big fan of Lawrence welk,And to this day still love every Instrumental composition I hear 👂.
I found this music, then I remembered being a kid in the 1970s, now this is all I really want to listen to. I am done with rock. This music is light-years beyond rock.
Let's hope that surviving musicians from back then can enjoy the current enthusiasm for their work as a small comfort. Best transgenerational greetings!
I was born in 1961, my music of choice. I don't understand any of the music after the 70s. I listen to this type of music in my car and home, I nap to this. This is such a breath for fresh air and a great escape from today's craziness.
Give 'Beautiful Instrumentals' a go. Melody instrumental music online. No ads, no news, no talk just easy listening music 24/7 from the great orchestras of the past. Actually, it is better than Muzak because that was a very structured sound.
In love with this type of music - must be from back in my repressed memory of growing up in the 60's and 70's. "Going out of my head" amazing! I can listen to this, and other muzak like this all day. I love hearing gorgeous renditions of popular songs from my youth. And prefer without vocals. After going through so many genres of all kinds of music and enduring so much of life's challenges - this is about all I can stand to listen to anymore. Thanks for uploading this!
Thanks so much for posting this great video. From the opening notes is sweet all the way through! My dream is to someday have a reel to reel Tape deck again and return to listening to lots of great Verve label bossa nova tapes I have. I’ve been into easy listening and exotica music since about 1974, it’s one of my favorite genres of LPs & tapes to collect. HM, founder Highway Cinema
Lovely MUSIC!!!WIT too much calm n so relaxing while you LISTENIN...very thanks a lot for posting n to sharing it... greetings FROM South OF SPAIN!!!❤😊😅
I'm 60 - this used to be considered less than par, here in the 21st century muzak and television show themes beat anything being produced today. Unreal how fast creativity is degrading. Thanks for posting these; great memories.
Very nice! I'm old enough to recall hearing this, as well as the Pop channel, aboard a United flight (DC-8 "Snowbird" service from Seattle, via Denver to Washington/Dulles)...The Pop channel, though only in mono, featured contemporary (December '72) hits, such as "Peaceful, Easy Feeling", "Pieces of April", and the long version of Cashman and West's "American City Suite"...One could listen w/ those stethoscope-style earbud/headsets, which plugged into the armrest. Stereo was available on certain channels (Classical, for e.g.); there must've been two separate speaker-drivers in the armrests. I kept the headsets, and could get better quality sound, from my Radio Shack "Realistic"-brand AM radio, by plugging it into the back of the box...Fun, simpler times!
I’m in my 60’s now- and this is every bank, grocery store, train/ bus station,elevator, cheap hotel lobby in the 70’s! Wow. My new nightly fall asleep soundtrack. (Still works now just as well as then lol)
@@ericFJ I wasn't "hip" to like instrumentals when we were young (but I did) Riding elevators just to hear that magical stuff. I went as far as to get an SCA receiver so I could listen at home. I had stodgy older parents who didn't like rock so much, so they liked this stuff. When you listen to the 'crap" you are subjected to these days in a restaurant, store, etc, this sounds pretty good. When FM one was unveiled (Muzak caved in to the craze of Foreground Music) I hated it. Noisy places, are even noisier, bring it back!...Environmental is still broadcast on MOOD media, but the playlist is stale. I never even hear it anymore, anywhere.
