More great tunes from Bruton and other classic music libraries. Recorded onto a 1973 Scotch High Energy cassette for that warm tone with some hiss to simulate a foggy memory of times past.
now that i work at a supermarket, i kinda wish they would play songs like this sometimes. listening to the same 50 pop songs makes you go a little insane 😵💫
YESSSS. I'm in New Zealand and all my supermarket plays is from NZ artists (all the same songs over and over), random weird ones or big artists like Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Adele, Harry Styles etc etc.....lowkey boring but it's alright. Would MUCH rather prefer music like this!
Eh, we have the problem of the same country music. Not really the exact same songs but once you heard one country song you heard them all. I'm in the South US though and it's pretty normal here. ☹️
The choice is yours man. Start your own company. Nothing is stopping you. if you wait for other people to change the world, nothing will happen, and you'll die poor.
"Attention shoppers...the time is currently 8.50pm....this store will be closing in 10 minutes time....please finalise your shopping and make your way to the checkouts....this store will reopen at 9am tomorrow for your convenience."
I worked at a Mervyn's in college... 30 years later, I still can recite the closing announcement. Thank God I eventually graduated from college and got a real job. 🙃
@ingridfitz5677 Haha, that was new for the time. I used to work at London Drugs in Canada during 1st year college and would try to change up my funny announcements on the P.A. system, especially at closing: "...if any customer is locked in by accident, they'll be required to make fresh omelets for all staff in the morning", then the company VP was shopping there one night and told me to make only serious announcements and never to do that again. I guess I wasn't funny either. Miss that music though.
@@mlkennedy67111 LOL I remember Mervyn's. My mom would drag me there for back to school clothes shopping. I was miserable each time but now looking back on it, it's a funny memory.
I wish grocery store chains would experiment by playing this music once again. No one would object …and everyone would stay a little longer browsing the shelves.
Only reason I can think they stopped it was someone kept getting the song stuck in their head making them think about the shop, and said subliminal messaging was being used my the shop having its own theme. Let’s be real it costs to have a radio license to play songs including cds etc not just radio, so my guess is they just thought pop would be more appealing
The depressing answer is that stores use specific bpms to get people to shop faster so they make more money. People tend to subconsciously walk to the beat and faster customers means a higher throughput of shoppers. This music is too slow and would eat away at .000002% of their profits. The use of music speed usually only applies in large chain warehouse stores. Smaller boutiques and age-focused retail (think Claire's or teen-centered Five Below) uses songs to appeal to their specific demo, rather than relying on bpms.
@@jenniferburchill3658 You're right. The change is really a sign of the times. Back then longer strolls along the aisles meant more money. Now the profits are in impulse buying and people want to spend LESS time in stores, not more. So upbeat music keeps them moving (and less likely to think about what they're buying). It's a science now.
We high school students used to joke about this music back in the early seventies, but now I fondly look back at those wonderful times when I took for granted this very music. Every Christmas season, I find the K-Mart Christmas tape of 1974 and play that. I do hope you provide something as well. Thank you for your channel.
I liked the car cassette tapes too for the Oldsmobile Cutless Supreme. It had the Oldsmobile jingle too. I have the tapes and the car sales pamphlets. Those pamphlets are beautiful. Hand drawn car artwork and designs, and amazing photography and graphic design.
@MR Smothers also don’t forget that retail like this is literally becoming a thing of the past. It’s so sad to think about. When you listen to something like this you realize just how much the country has gone dystopian.
It's 1985 and I am in a store that still has avocado-colored carpet and brown walls. Mom is checking out clothes and I am sitting in the middle of a round clothes rack so I can be hidden from everyone in my teepee of solitude. We are going to Chick-Fil-A soon and I will get a new book from Waldenbooks today. School starts soon and I can't wait to see all the new kids and make new friends and learn new things. My cat is at home, waiting for me, and we will play with her favorite feather toy. I will sleep deeply and dream vividly. My entire life is ahead of me and I can't wait to see what it brings. I will never forget. And these songs will help me remember. Thank you for these memories!
I was grocery shopping at Kroger and “Welcome To The Jungle” by Guns-n-Roses was one of the songs playing. There’s something to be said for this ambient music instead of “baby, you’re gonna die!” being screamed at you while you put the Cap’n Crunch in your cart…
I was born in 1969 and one of my ever first memories of life was in a department store with my Mum. I must have been about 3 or 4 so around 1973. Fortunately my mum is still Alive. Love you Mum X
Im unfortunately too young to have ever had heard music like this playing in stores, yet it still feels so blissful. Stuff like this provide a really unique sense of serenity that I rarely feel.
This is what people heard when they went shopping. What did they see? Ladies dressed in dresses, men wearing suits, children with clean faces, cheerful and helpful store clerks. Many stores had a popcorn machine in the lobby for the kids (if you behave in the store I'll buy you popcorn on the way out).
Thing is, malls will have to get back in fashion and flourish first. Too many people clicking their mice or tapping their screens to get the world delivered to their door next-day delivery.
I predict that grocery stores (which often played this kind of music) will be in style for the foreseeable future - if legalized shoplifting doesn't push them towards the older model of having a clerk get you things from behind the counter.
We need to find a way to repurpose those spaces according to the functional aesthetic promise represented by this wonderful music. Sears turned into public access craft resale and repair markets. Malls with galleries and woodshops and 3d print shops and greenhouses. With. These. Vibes. Right. Here. We could recreate the society of our childhoods without all the hang-ups we've since learned to move past.
They don't always want people to stay in the stores for a long time. It's more about making people make quick decisions, or feel excited so they forget to stick to their budget 😄
But more upbeat music is designed so people buy more in less time. This is exceptionally handy for popular stores that are naturally more busy to manage multiple flows at the same time. I agree though, slower music is a bit more user friendly for the customer.
Every day I have to play this playlist on loop in a dark room for my chickens so that they will calm down. No other music stops their cries like this one, but it has come to the point where this is the only playlist of department store music they'll ever listen to. Thank you (edit): The dark room in question is just my bedroom. I do this when it's getting dark out and/or the weather is too cold or hot. My chickens, which are just 2 hens, aren't being stripped of their outdoor freedom. They roam around my backyard almost everyday and are spoiled with treats and air conditioning. They sleep in the house.
There are 7 tracks that were played om British TV accompanied by the test card. One of them was on Channel 4 test card tape And I Love Her in 1982. The other 6 were on BBC Tapes. The first of those was the second track on BBC1 test card tape Songs of Life from 1985 to 1987. The remaining 5 all came from BBC1 tape Sunflower from 1982 to 1985 including Sunflower.
@@ThundercoltPictures Chickens prefer calming and soothing things. When they're really small i picked one that I was super nice to and I hugged it and kissed it so now that it's 2, it isn't scared of me and the others follow it to me.
We definitely need this. Imagine how good people would feel in the stores. So much hate and anger now. It used to play in the air everywhere. No words needed just the peaceful uplifting melodies.
As someone who was born in 2003, this playlist of music seems so foreign to me. Whenever my parents and grandparents would talk about the magic of department stores during the holiday season, it was something I could never really wrap my head around. You mean sears and K-Mart were the place to be back in the day? This playlist, somehow, manages to contextualize that. I can imagine these songs playing in a bustling store. I can see why these department store memories are so fondly remembered. Thank you for putting together this little playlist. Its crazy how things like this can bridge the gap between generations!
I was born in 78, so I got all the interesting decades of store shopping. I remember at first it was this light pop music until 1/3 into the 80s, then big pop music but in this fashion, and then it was easy listening / adult contemporary by the original artists, and many times now it's just straight pop music by the original artists. For a while you could go into 3-4 different stores and hear all of them at various stages, plus jazz and whatever else. Check out mallwave on RU-vid, especially mixes of different artists. It's like a mash of the feelings it feels like in my memory. Also check out Hallmark 87 and the Caretaker for a more dreamy sound, and the Kmart tapes someone unearthed are also on here, people used those to make full albums ( Power PCME).
I grew up in the 90s, and by then Walmart was the place to be - so I remember seeing all the Kmarts and other stores slowly becoming decrepit. And by then, Muzak and the like were being replaced with radio beaming into the store’s intercom.
@@jayonnaj18 - I don't know what people call it now (as most places don't use it), but "Muzak" was the term coined for it in 1934 when the inventor / patent holder of it (G. Squier) combined the word "Music" with his love of the trademark name "Kodak" and formed the company that pushed retailers use that instead of Radio music. Yes, when we were younger most everyone called it "elevator music" (since that is where you'd often find it), overseas some called it "piped music".
I'd preferred to have this in stores, idk about anyone else but shopping is lowkey stressful, having soothing music to help me remember what I need would actually be amazing ❤️
ah yes grocery shopping with music with words so stressful your essentially a victim. You should sue. What do you want to do when you like grow up? i hope you arent into anything stem related. YOu better be some kinda esthetcian or something that like barely exists right. No, wait. Eye brows are intense actually um. Do you like watch seaseme street because avengers is too loud? sesame street might actually be to chaotic. Do you watch paint dry?
If a fire work goes off do you act like a dog with ptsd and run to the nearest thing you can crawl under? i bet you have the cutest sound canceling things for the 4th if your in the states. How did you make it to whatever age you are taking yourself seriously?
All the pics of 1970s stores are wonderful. I was born after those days (Early 80s), so I have no memory of hearing these particular songs while out shopping. A different time. Not necessarily simpler or better. We had problems then and we have problems now. That world is gone, but it lives on in memories and pictures like these. Mundane, everyday, yet beautiful moments frozen in time. These people probably had no idea we'd be seeing them 50 years later. Experiencing just a little taste of what their lives were like. There's something rather beautiful about videos like this. A little trip back in time.
I have very vague memories of hearing music like this in stores. We had a store called Ben Franklin, what my mom called a “dime store.” I heard music like this in there, in the mid-to-late ‘80s. I distinctly recall hearing flute and guitar instrumentals and I was in the frame department. I just don’t know what the specific songs were, or the artists, or if I would recognize specific melodies.
@@marjoriemorris5849 I think I remember having a Ben Franklin store in my hometown of Issaquah back when I was a kid in the early 1990's too. I remember getting parts for my little pinewood car that won 1st place in a pinewood car derby for Boy Scouts there!
Well said! When people say that it was a simpler time it's because they were a child (or young and naive), not because there wasn't strife and conflict. "The good ol' days" comments are terribly skewed. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. 😅
My mother worked in malls her whole life and couldn't afford child care, but the clothing racks and hiding behind the service counters are free! I loved it, I miss all the malls I grew up playing in. Watching them go under and get dozed still stings. Who else was a mall baby??
Mom having you hide behind clothing racks and service counters?!!! Ma’m that is definitely child negligence. Lucky you didn’t get CPS called on you, your life would’ve ended up a lot different.
Played hide and seek in a JC Penney. Must have been 30 min. to closing. I chose a circular rack full of pants. While hiding in the middle a random couple came to browse. I laid low until they were done then decided maybe not such a good idea. Could have given them quite a scare. Good times. Love the Mall
@@superemesean5907 It's odd how you seem to think you and CPS would have had to "do something" about her hanging out at the mall with her mom.and then telling her how much worse that would have been.
00:14 Plucking the Strings - David Snell (c) UK 1983 01:34 Day Away - James Clarke (c) UK 1978 03:28 Going Home - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 06:25 Prairie Farm - David Snell (c) UK 1983 08:25 Rural Green - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 10:29 Strolling Around - Irving Martin (c) UK 1980 13:25 Island of Dreams - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 15:20 Manhattan Transfer - Steve Gray (c) UK 1981 18:19 Tattile - Oscar Rocchi/Franco Godi (c) Italia 1972 20:57 Sublime Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 22:47 Magic Moments - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 25:46 Spending Spree - David Snell (c) UK 1983 26:57 Flirtation - Peter Morris (c) UK 1978 29:19 ??? 32:03 Lucky One - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 34:45 Such Sweet Sorrow - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 37:31 Sales Appeal - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 39:37 Blowing in the Wind - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 41:35 Mountain Rose - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 43:32 ??? 47:06 Sentimental Journey - David Snell (c) UK 1981 50:06 Like Summer - David Gold/Gordon Rees (c) UK 1973 53:10 Happy Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 55:56 Over The Hedge Rows - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 59:09 Picture Gala - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1979 1:01:01 Just Passing Through - Valentino (c) ??? 1:03:20 Autumn Gold - Keith Mansfield (c) UK 1978 1:06:00 When I'm With You - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1978 1:09:17 The Swallow - John A Coleman (c) UK 1978 1:11:20 Fun Loving - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 1:13:07 Odyssey - Ron Roker (c) ??? 1:15:08 Halcyon Days - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 1:17:28 ??? 1:20:44 Far Horizons - David Snell (c) UK 1978 1:23:43 Breezing Along - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1979
This is cute . I worked for Sears thru the 1980s. It was all Muzak and the best people I've ever worked with. We had a blast . I sold video game systems (Atari. ColecoVision) and tractors . Back then , you got a free game, with every game system. (PacMan. Donkey Kong. Cosmic Ark). We had a wonderful boss, and great sales numbers. Won awards for sales. Great job, lovely people.
I remember begging my dad to get us a Colelcovision for Xmas. I loved Donkey Kong. That was the only game system I had at that time. My friend had Atari and others! I miss Sears - They just shut down the last store in my state of CT I heard.
I remember Sears had an Atari machine with their own brand on it. I think it was, like $20 cheaper than the real deal, but was really the same daggone thing. That's the one we bought. I think it was $119 or so.
Long time musician here, and yeah, as someone who primarily plays rock and metal music, the importance of "bass melodies" is often really, really understated in those genres, with some exceptions of course. Generally, people from jazz, blues and classical backgrounds write far more interesting basslines
36:45 Thank you Fardemark for making this compilation. And thank you to all the artists who created this beautiful music. Half a year ago, I was laying in a hospital due to heart failure, and I was there for 3 months straight because I had to go for a surgery and later, recovery in the hospital. It was a very hard and tough period in my life, and this video helped me fall asleep during nights in hospital beds. Difficult times for me, but this made it a bit easier to handle, especially since my family friends couldn't come visit me often because hospital was 300 kilometers away from where we lived, and also because of work, so I didn't get that much visitors and to see my family often, this softened the pain and cryings sometimes. Thank you, Fardemark.
Im a loner and prefer no visitors, except for my husband so he can bring me stuff and leave. I hate lots of ppl coming to visit. I also don’t go visit ppl in hospital. Like what can I do, you’re stuck in a bed and I have to stand there looking at u. No thanks, I’ll wait til you’re out. Hospitals are where ppl go die.
My daughter was born in 92 and the Sims was the first thing she mentioned when I sent her this. She loves this genre though. She listens to it when working
I remember how annoyed my parents were the first time a place of business that normally had canned music like this - had that demon rock n’ roll on. And it was like - one popular rock song, a mild one at that (nothing heavy) - and they were offended. Not too long ago, I was in the big chain grocery store and I was surprised when a hip-hop song came on. And I was like “Ohhh - this is how my parents must have felt.”
No, joke this is why they are disappearing. This music was carefully designed to make you feel glamorous. To feel like buying things. That break up song from a band in 2002 is going to make me forget what I came for and walk out.
In the 60s, visiting a good department store was like entering a soft, quiet, plush world that smelled good and felt safe. I always headed straight to the TV section with the banks of screens and cabinet stereo systems.
I feel like that when I go to Harrods in London. Reminds me of going to House of Fraser and occasionally Jenners in Edinburgh with my mum. Though in a way House of Fraser was laid out more like Selfridges.
@@tijankusacic8079 Retro fashions perhaps, you could have a section given over to 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's stuff. Go for it, I think with themed music it would work.😃😅Modern retail shopping is so boring and uncompetitive with online, no wonder it's failing.
weird thing is, I'm 53 and I remember hating this stuff back then, it was the worst part of going to the stores with my mom. Now that I'm hearing it again all these years later... I still hate it
@@rascalthecat7 I dunno, it always grated on my nerves, even as a little kid, I remember asking my mom once why we couldnt shop somewhere with better music. She probably just told me to shut up and kept looking at mushroom themed flour/coffee/sugar containers and napkin holders or something.
Id say maybe cause this genre of music was very common and thus in modern times the music i find annoying is a total different kind of music from what we used to have.
I'm 64 years old and as a child I really enjoy this music. I remember when they started changing it. I did not like it and when I spoke up, no one would ever listen. SO REFRESHING READING YOUR COMMENTS
Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, every restaurant, department store, and mall played this easy listening music. It was so relaxing and life was so much easier. You were not stressed out everywhere you go because people didn't have to be entertained with TVs and LOUD OPPRESSIVE Music like is played everywhere you go today.
Listen this playlist as Japanese born and bred in Japan, feels really good like J-city pop boom in this recent years. It’s so relax, and feels enough. If I listen this music in supermarket or department store now, I’m gonna go to ask clerks, “Who decided to play this music?? Keep playing this! This is really good!”
@@joanodom2104 I lost my father 2 years ago.† I lost my grandfather last April.† Joanodom you will be in my prayers tonight, and so will your family.🙏🤎 And Sunshine Clementine, you will be in my prayers, as well.🙏🩷
It removed my comment, so I'm going to write it again. ✍️ I lost my father 2 years ago.† I lost my grandfather last April.† Joanodom & Sunshine, my friends, you will be in my prayers tonight.🙏🌌🌠 Your families and friends will also be in my prayers.🙏🤎
@@NicholasShade-eq1ts Please do not hex me...Err, pray for me. What's done is done. My mom is dead. That is the end. She's either in Heaven or Hell, but do not ever pray for those that never ask. It's something you need to understand, so-as I don't think your post is disingenuous. Remove me from your prayers. Thank you.
Crazy to think without things like RU-vid, this music would probably have faded out of existence. It's nice to see people still have appreciation for it. REAL people playing REAL instruments here!
@@1Thunderfire Yes, someone playing a real guitar and someone playing a real piano, and someone playing a real harp, etc. As opposed to someone sitting at a console and pressing buttons that say "guitar," "piano," "harp," etc.
Odds are there are a lot of electronic instruments in these tracks. Which, like all instruments ever, were designed and played by REAL humans, from scores also composed by real people. Do you really think there’s a big box that just spits out music in whatever style you want at the push of a button?
😆 When I was young I laughed at this type of music and sometimes adults would tell me that I would appreciate the small things in life when I get older. Well, "the snow is on the mountain" and I do appreciate things like this. Thank you for this video. Memories: Wash over me.☺️☺️
That's how I feel about ad infomercials. Never paid attention to the subtleties just watched it to kill time. Looking back, I can't help but laugh when the screen goes black and white and it's shows some screw up they did that makes no sense but is funny to watch lol.
I've put this mix on in my classroom in the background during group or silent work when the students tell me they're sleepy or tired (I teach at a university). They're never as into it as me, and are too "cool" to admit it made them feel better, but it doesn't matter because I can tell from how engaged and focused they are the whole time it's on that they feel the magic deep down.
So thankful that I am Gen X and got to be the tail end of experiencing department stores, and malls. It is truly lost, and seems worlds away now. Everyone lives on Amazon, or orders Instacart for groceries now. Our world ironically, has become less social, the more connected we've gotten on the internet. This is why people found relationships and friends easier as well. You went out, got to know people, talk to others, were familiar with the cashiers, and managers. You wouldn't just grab what you needed and rush out, there was actual shopping and comparing to do, trying stuff on. Browsing, and "window shopping." Christmas was a huge thing! In fact, every holiday was and it was certain the stores would roll out decorations. It got you in the mood and spirit, and most stores had Santa there, and the Easter Bunny. Many of the malls had a haunted house around Halloween. They were very engaging places to be at, and it was a hobby and place to go relax in and of itself really. I met many friends and people just standing around talking, and you'd go hang-out afterwards, or talk to someone who worked there, and then they'd tell you when they got off and you'd go hang-out together, and become friends, or start dating. It was easier for people to connect then, and you got what you see. No catfishing or lying about your location, age, height, weight, where you lived or worked, when you had to be face-to-face with others. I feel like that is why the younger generations, like the Millennials and Gen Z, deal with this slue of mental illness now. Anxiety, depression, awkwardness, being extreme introverts. Living on social media, despite the name , is NOT healthy social human interaction and isn't genuine.
Also a lot of these stores had little coffee shops diners or mini restaurants and you could sit in there and relax, talk to each other, look over your purchases, about the only comparable thing today is that some chain stores have a Starbucks or Mickey D's - oh, isn't it delightful.
yea i am 33 but i hate facebook its not very good for socializing. Its good for making you feel like sh*t about yourself for zero reason and thats about it.
Do you realize that as Millennials we grew up in the same environment, right? The same things you described, we grew up with. Social Media wasn't a thing until our late teens. Also, if you go to one of the big cities like New York and Chicago, I'm pretty sure teens have a more enriching social interactions than in the late capitalism suburban universe you seem to be really into.
I actually keep a spotify playlist of all the old songs my department store I worked in from 94-2006 played over the PA system. It's soothing and brings back good memories.
15:36. That image makes me weep happy nostalgic tears. I could wrap myself up in the obligatory brown/orange/yellow crochet blanket, found on the back of nearly EVERY family room couch of the era, and drift away in the innocent bliss of my 8th year, laying on the couch sleeping and watching one of these TVs on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon......and never want to leave.
Your words make me remember that episode from Roseanne titled "Home is where the afghan is" (I think...), even when they changed new furnitures etc, was the old sofa blanket that made the house feel as their Home 😊
There's something so good about antique audio equipment like this unit here. The switches, dials, levers, and such. Takes me back to my youth, and using my Dad's awesome receiver and turntable and cassette deck in the '70s. The receiver was a solid thing of quality, with a nifty glowing emerald green tuner window. Flipping its _On_ switch was practically a Doctor Frankenstein experience. I can't remember the brand but this machine could've probably caught some kind of audio signal from Saturn if you tried, LOL. Ah, the good old days. Nice to see this kind of equipment being appreciated and used today.
What wonderful memories - thank you for sharing! My dad had a reel to reel tape recorder and taped my piano playing - you reminded me of something so special! Thank you!!
For anyone wondering what this genre this would fit into, it’s in general 1950s~1970s jazz. other words would be lounge, Muzak, airline music, elevator music, oldies, bossa nova,
Gonna add this one to my favorites list. Then when I am at Walmart I can play this on my headphones and be in a. Different better era. An elegant music for a more civilized age.
Why do you think your childhood era (whenever that was) was a better era? I'm sure in some ways, it was. But in many ways, today is much better than any time that came before it. Medicine, health care, technology in general, crime rate and more are the best they've ever been. The only thing i would argue was better in the 50's through 70's is that the rich-poor gap was much smaller, and there was a larger middle class.
I'm too young to remember this from "back in the day", but I've currently got this on a loop in my office for background music. I've already had one visitor give compliment compliments.
I’m only 25 but I discovered easy listening at a young age since I started collecting records at age 6 in 2003. Easy listening was easy to find and I was hooked especially since my grandmother gave me a Lawrence welk and a roger Williams record when I got my first record player
I worked in a department store for almost 10 years many decades ago, and of all the jobs I've had, I actually enjoyed it the most. Great group of coworkers, great discounts, and lots of fun.
Ahh the sounds of hiding in the circular clothing rack with my brothers as my mom yelled for us. Luckily, we were shielded by housecoats and a wall of polyester.
the 70s certainly had their own share of major problems just like we do. when we look back at these times we prefer to see only the good parts. I agree though, those good parts look really special. i wish i could have experienced them.
I never thought I'd miss it as much as I do. True, there were the bad parts that I was very aware of I'd see on tv, the Vietnam war, Watergate, inflation, the George Wallace shooting, the Iran hostages crisis...but cool stuff too. I saw Star Wars in its first run. Superman, Jaws, Close Encounters, disco, WKRP in Cincinnatti, The Waltons, Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart. Society has always had its sick parts but even the 70s retained a basic good vibe between most people. The cultural slide in the last 30 years suprises even me and I predicted it 30 years ago.
No it wasn't. Vietnam War, Nixon, Ford, energy crises, massive layoffs, recession, inflation, 15% loan rates, Disco music. Hurricane Agnes, the massive railroad bankruptcies, local heavy industries closing.
@@pressureworks Today's music is basically disco but without real instruments....just fake "music"...Disco had some great singers, great arrangements and STYLE! And I never even went to a disco...but it really put you in a good mood, like this music.
Elevator music is nice too. This takes me back to the 70s when shopping was fun and not a hassle and the music has subliminal messages in it. Very calming. Restaurants used to have music to soothe you while you eat. So you can eat calmly. Anger can make you have stomach troubles while you eat.
This music gives off great vibes of togetherness and promising times. I can remember my younger brother pushing the cart and me on the front inside the grocery store while my mother picked stuff for my older brother pass. This was in the latter of the 60s and early 70,'s 1970'. Thinking back the store had this music and it seemed all shoppers were at peace strolling the isles. What a time it was then we had no cell phones..internet..but had 8 track players..for this music.
Sears and Walgreens both had in-store short order restaurants. My mall had a Piccadilly Cafeteria, It was a very popular spot for families dinners. It also had 3 arcades (one was in the spot that Sears restaurant formerly occupied). Golden days!
Marko Same thing happened to me Especially at 34:39 It’s like I can see my mom and I shopping long ago. She’s gone now but these songs bring back my memories of her ❤
Yeah something to combat the confounded fluorescent lighting! lol I can imagine grabbing some coffee at Starbies with this playlist. We need a Muzak renaissance!
as one who was born in the 70's in the suburbs of Boston, and had a mother who loved to shop, I have to say these sounds are embedded in my DNA helix.....my frustration even builds just as it did as a child, with the thought of CAN WE GO NOW!?!
I don't know why YT put this in my feed, but I'm using it as my study music and going back in time with all of the nostalgic comments on how things used to be in the grocery stores back in the days. 😂❤
@@trekkiejunk the fuck you mean 'No,' You aren't in my house. You can't see me. And secondly, the fuck? Really acting like not sleeping for a day is some massive, impossible flex?
This is giving me nostolgia of something I never experienced as I am a 90's baby. Is that even possible? Perhaps it's all of the 70's tv show reruns I'd watch with my Grandma when she'd baby sit me when I was small. All I know is...this is *A VIBE*
"Easy listening" music was torture to me as a teenager. I graduated HS in '74 and it was everywhere in those days. Now I can appreciate how good it was. The musicians in this music are really great.
There's got to be a reason this music has largely been abandoned in grocery & dept. stores and wherever. This music was proven to keep people peaceful and in a good mood while they worked and shopped. Various experiments by industrial phycologists used music , lighting and various other phenomena/factors to determine the best possible work and shopping and learning environment back in the 40&50's and it worked. Now it's the heavy beat and driving beat in our music that I notice in stores and wonder if we are poisoning ourselves or rather our minds and increasing crime, anger, anxiety etc. There's probably something to it.
As a psychologist i would say its now more induced axiery towards time pressured decision makings and feel of loss if you dont buy, and reward when buying, this old music is calming, so you dont need to feel rushed, and if you dont feel rushed tou have better decision making abilities
@@mattpears2472 I think that's part of it but another is that in our tech heavy culture there is an emphasis on modernity. Each generation wants some detachment from the prior. No business owner wants to risk looking dated and middle aged customers feel comfortable when they hear music from their generation because it takes them back to the best time of their lives and because they had to listen to older music growing up so they feel like it's their turn to have their songs played. And so the cycle continues...
@@mattpears2472 I love it and think everyone would benefit from exposure to it although I would hesitate to call it timeless. I think it is very much rooted to a bygone era. That's not a bad thing per se. Music like this is a gateway in to times and places one would not otherwise be aware of and that's a beautiful thing in my opinion.
I can remember shopping with my grandmother at Woolworth’s, Kresge’s, K Mart, EJ Korvettes, and Two Guys from Harrison! Each store had a little bit of everything, and sales people that were actually there to help you, and actually knew what they were talking about!
Korvette's had an unbelievable record department. Specific label sales every week (Columbia, Warner Bros., RCA), and then their "all label" sale which was the entire collection. Picked up many albums back in the 70's there for $3.99 each. Good times!
Back then, we humans weren't so spoiled, and I realize how like a boomer that makes me sound (I'm a millennial). We had to clip coupons and read the paper to know about the deals. Wasn't until a few years after high school that all the digital conveniences we take for granted came into the picture. Now people get mad because it's too much trouble to read a sign, or because you make the odious mistake of forgetting to take down last month's advertising.
This is nastalgic for me because I was raised by my grandparents and my grandfather would play oldies and play songs like these in the car when we'd go for weekend car rides or go to flea markets together. I ttruly miss those amazing moments we shared together but they will always be with me. I came across this today and I can't stop listening bring me peace 😊
Basically the sort of music you would hear when watching BBC1 or BBC2 during the day for several hours. Loved just one programme on BBC2 all day, and just 1hr 15 minutes of programmes at lunchtime on BBC1 but nothing apart from that until about 3.15pm. It's so much better than watching the ghastly daytime programmes on BBC1 and BBC2 today.
Fall semester, 1979. With visions of Three's Company in my head, I shop for dorm room furnishings. I'm shopping with purpose. I want my dorm to look like the kind of place cute co-eds will wanna come over and get into raunchy shenanigans at.
Don't leave us hangin'.! Did you buy the orange bean-bag chair? Or did you need that room for your console 8-track stereo system? Did you get an Aerosmith poster at Spencer.? What about these shenanigans?
@@apathy3399 Furniture turned out to be way more expensive than my green 18 year old brain could ever comprehend. It's strictly bargain bin. Unless I can come up with a wacky and perhaps even excitingly dangerous scheme to make money. Like other TV shows I've seen.
@@XXX_xxxxxxxx Well, here we both are. I guess videos like these also fall under the umbrella, huh? ASMR, ambience, vintage stuff, witch stuff, spiritual stuff, vaporwave, holiday stuff, it's a wide net.
@@HereForTheComments sure is! This is the kind of music that soothes us and allows to enjoy memories of happier days! It's pretty much all I listen to now, except for when I'm in the car driving.
My mom used to drop me off at Korner Plaza in Richfield MN when I was 6 years old in 1976. I would stay in the toy section for up to 2 hours sometimes while she drove across the way to go grocery shopping. She’d do this to at Dayton’s at Southdale Mall in Edina MN. While she shopped. I could just keep busy by looking at all the toys and reading the boxes. Glory years.
I love the stores like piggly wiggly that never changed! I wish we could go back in time to a simpler life but, we can’t. Fortunately we can when we walk into a store unchanged by history. Makes all my troubles feel small like time they go away.
I now play this quietly in my office, right down low, except when I'm doing high-cognitive load work or meetings. This is now part of the daily soundtrack in my office. Really helps me calm down and focus. I also play it at home when I'm washing up after dinner and my wife has gone back to her home office. This is gold.
I am taken straight back to Nottingham John Lewis's 1979, with my mother looking at endless brown sofas and rugs and vases and other things we aren't actually even going to ever buy, for interminably long and agonising hours which felt like days. I think it taught me patience- you don't get that by going to wacky warehouses, oh kids of today. Some of these tunes are very familiar and sound pretty dang funky. Love it thank you ❤
Oh, my!! That Scotch cassette is old just like me! ☺️ 1973!!! What a coincidence ... Thank you so much for this wonderful music, once again, my friend. I do adore it. Those vintage pictures bring me back in time, when I was a little girl, going to the Italian supermarket called "Standa" and spending most of my time there,in front of the make up counter, 🤩✨◀️ like this... admiring all the expensive cosmetics. My parents: "for the red lipstick and dark eyeshadow, it's a no no. But a shiny gloss and a light pink nail polish... well, it's ok!" (Old good rules...) Nowadays on RU-vid,we can see 11/12 years old girls putting on their faces a "drag queen" make up...🙈 Old times... better times? Probably,in my humble opinion. Anyway... let's enjoy the music! ✌🏻🙂🇮🇹💚🎶🎵🎶💚
