Williamsport Cable Background Music 1975

[@The4MusketeersYT]

According to Lee Jenwin, the first track is Rendezvous in Santa Cruz arr. by Earl Sheldon himself

[@PneumatinisPlaktukas15]

Composed*

[@pony053]

Wow, great quality, generous use of brass section!

[@leejenwin1937]

Tape sounds like Cantata 700 Contempo 300 series. Library is a 100% match

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Thank you again for recording! I've been listening to it on my walks and it helps my mood on an otherwise hot day.

[@rancias]

Love this kind of music ♥️

[@leejenwin1937]

Yep same tape. Track 2 on your recording is PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE the rest should follow

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

Thanks for transferring and posting this, and even more interesting to know that this was a 3M Cantata that the cable system had broadcasting on their cable FM band. Listening to this now while I get some tasks done as I work here at home.

[@juancarlosmontes]

So cool! That's how this music has always been used, at least by some:)

[@jan_harald]

this is pretty dang cool, to just have as generic background music

[@Hobert-v4s]

Before easy favorites that started by 1980 this was public overhead you heard in your local stores!!

[@Hobert-v4s]

Elevator music type? Yes indeed!!

[@leonardmuscato5284]

The 5th track, starting at 6:52 is entitled 'I Know That You Know'

[@CV2200A]

Thanks for the song title!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​​@@CV2200AI see KZbin has ID'd a number of tracks here if that helps.

[@wanggang3885]

Inspired by Herb Albert ...sounds like The Dating Game brass section

[@GaytanLaytan]

1:01:40 is a nice brass version of One Note Samba, in strike contrast with Muzak’s more light version with acoustic guitars and flutes

[@The4MusketeersYT]

im getting déjà vu…

[@The4MusketeersYT]

the brassy nature of How Insensitive (1:11:17) is a stark contrast to the really stringy and flute heavy cover from the muzak tapes

[@totallyfrozen]

Do you think it was selected because the timbre of brass instruments translated better over the limited sonic range of telephone ear pieces; whereas, larger speaker systems in buildings could produce the string orchestrations better?

[@The4MusketeersYT]

@@totallyfrozen that may have been the real reason behind it but muzak at least claimed it has to do with the type of work being done (fairly certain now that it’s actually because of the speakers)

[@hhaden8961]

Britt’s, Yen King, L.L.Stearns, so many Memories.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Why did you take down that WPDH aircheck from the 1970’s? Is it due to copyright issues or something? If you have a WPDH aircheck that you took down, you should put it on either Internet Archive or something.

[@CV2200A]

80 to 90% of the songs on that video had Copyright that blocked anyone from viewing. I am sure the music can be found elsewhere on You Tube. I may convert it to a DJ aircheck with little or no songs. It takes time to do the editing. Often there are copyright songs that they allow which the Copyright holder gets paid from ads that interrupt the video. But most of the songs were blocked.

[@rr-vg6yh]

1:56:19 song title: Peterchens Mondfahrt - Jürgen Hermann und das Große Tanzstreichorchester des Deutschlandsenders

[@CV2200A]

Performer sounds like Horst Jankowski but what song?

[@rr-vg6yh]

@@CV2200A The resemblance to Jankowski is obvious, but it's not him. As I mentioned above, in fact the performer of the requested song is: Jürgen Hermann und das Große Tanzstreichorchester des Deutschlandsenders. Song title is: Peterchens Mondfahrt The recording was released on the LP "Jürgen Hermann & das Große Tanzstreichorchester des Deutschlandsenders" in 1968. You can listen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g52QZWZ5qaqsaLs#t=3m33s Who played the solo piano is not mentioned on the cover album, but it is possible it was the pianist Georg Plathe, who also composed this song.

[@CV2200A]

@@rr-vg6yh Thanks for the details. I have added to the list of songs item 28. Hopefully I listed it as best I could with the space available.

[@leejenwin1937]

@@rr-vg6yh This guy appears on the Mozart Edition library label as George Hermann & His Music (or his Orchestra)

[@GaytanLaytan]

1:03:17 this track sounds very Muzak like it me, plus I think 3M would probably license out a few Muzak tunes here and there it fill the program up.

[@The4MusketeersYT]

1:50:30 thats a delightful low brass part, i wonder what this tune is called 🤔

[@valkilmer329]

If I may ask, wasn't this a much longer recording?

[@CV2200A]

I recorded it to a C120 cassette which holds 2 hours total. So there was only room on that cassette for the 2 hours presented here. There was probably some music missing between side A and side B of the tape, especially if I recorded it on 2 separate days. A 3M Cantata 700 player holds 24 hours but back then I had no intention to record that long. Besides, I had no idea at the time that it was coming from a 24 hour tape nor did I not know when to start recording to catch the beginning of the Cantata tape. Just a random start. The link in my description above has the full 24 hour Cantata tape that someone else put up.

[@valkilmer329]

@@CV2200A hey I'm sorry but I ment to post this message on another video of yours. It's the Poughkeepsie NY one. After listening to it again I thought I remembered it to be much longer.

[@CV2200A]

@@valkilmer329 You probably watched (listened) before KZbin identified the Copyright songs. As usual I had to cut out the Copyright songs and thus considerable shorter.

[@GaytanLaytan]

13:25 is amazing, don’t know if it’s 3M Cantata or Muzak, either way it’s epic

[@totallyfrozen]

Kinda says something when a customer service line needs so many minutes of hold music. Guess they didn’t really want to hear about your problem. LOL!

[@GaytanLaytan]

13:24 is my favorite, a nice Latin track

[@lamsonions_]

Really want to make slow and reverb of this, it has such great composition

[@leejenwin1937]

Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/rarFiWasoNB-fbs

[@CV2200A]

Is there a list of the songs? It would be nice to fill in my list with the names.

[@leejenwin1937]

@@CV2200A 3M never supplied song lists for their BGM tapes (whilst a convenient omission for them at the time, a frustrating one for collectors, enthusiasts and archivists). Large numbers of cover versions seemed to have been commissioned for 3M using groups or orchestras of session musicians, whilst a fair proportion of the content comes from production music libraries where tracks were selected that blend in well with the theme of the tape. Another contributor was the ubiquitous "101 Strings Orchestra" which, although not used in this Contempo tape, provided covers of Simon & Garfunkel songs and others of that ilk. If you were to timestamp the video or provide a timestamped comment (for ease of reference) I'd be happy to fill in those tracks I have been able to identify, although it's not a huge number of them!

[@The4MusketeersYT]

@@leejenwin1937 3M is probably worse than the Muzak Corporation with that stuff lmao. at least some muzak things had a signature piece to start or maybe sometimes a condensed tracklist, albeit a very hard to read tracklist, but still a tracklist nonetheless

[@GaytanLaytan]

11:07 is leisure trip

[@GaytanLaytan]

One Note Samba might be by Enoch Light

[@CV2200A]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5DMnWx9fb56aJo It doesn't sound like Enoch Light's version.

[@GaytanLaytan]

@@CV2200A I realized that shortly after posting the comment

[@GaytanLaytan]

6:53 is I Know That You Know

[@GaytanLaytan]

1:11:17 is an interesting version of how insensitive.

[@GaytanLaytan]

1:05:25 sounds like a man and a woman