365 Days #336 - Sound 8: Background Music For Your Personal Movies (mp3s)

I'm a huge, HUGE collector of "Music for/Music to" records. This one comes like a piece of collecting heaven, where even the tracks have titles like "Music For Travel Scenes", "Music for Water Activities", "Music for Family Fun", etc.

I have other "music for home movie" records, but this one seems to be the best I've ever come across. The instrumentals are great, and sound like they were ripped off the soundtracks of Mental Hygene films of the 50's. My favorite track is "Music for Children's Activities".

MP3:
01 Music For Family Fun (1:46)
02 Music For Family Fun (0:34)
03 Music For Majestic Scenes (1:16)
04 Music For Majestic Scenes (0:39)
05 Music For Travel Scenes (2:28)
06 Music For Water Activities (1:25)
07 Music For Party Scenes (2:34)
08 Music For Vacation Fun (2:15)
09 Music For Sports Events (1:49)
10 Music For Children's Activities (1:11)
11 Music For Children's Activities (1:08)
12 Music For All Kinds Of Fun (4:41)
13 Traffic (1:07)
14 Laugh, Large Crowd (0:22)
15 Applause, Large Crowd (0:21)
16 Crowd, Large (0:47)
17 Children Playing Outdoors (1:02)
18 Dog Barking, Puppy (0:21)
19 Dog Barking, Full-Grown (0:26)
20 Cat Meow (0:17)
21 Motorboat, Start-Run-Stop (1:00)
22 Diving Board, Children (0:23)
23 Slide Whistle, Three (0:11)
24 Automobile, Start-Pull Away (0:12)
25 Bo-ing Effect, Three (0:13)

There are absolutely no credits for the musicians on this LP, other than the fact that it was put out by the Eastman Kodak Company.

Dig it.

- Contributed by: B.C. Sterrett (The Lost Media Archive)

Images: Front Cover, Label (Side One), Label (Side Two), Back Cover Titles

Comments

[pea hix]

i was going to submit a set of home movie / slide show music records to 365days, but never got around to it. typically the music on these discs was licensed from one of the major production music libraries of the day, ie capitol, etc.

[Katya Oddio]

Bravo, B.C.! I've passed these over
in thrifts, and I'm kicking myself
for it now. This would mix well with
that Kresge record at Oddio and with
the "Music for TV Dinners" CD. Love
this! Thank you, BC, OF and WFMU.

[Aahzekiel]

Tooooo perfect... this is going in the growing "WMFU Oddities" folder of samples to mangle... many thanks for this particular one, it's just what the doc ordered...

[jenjen]

This is FANTASTIC. It's like incidental music straight out of every bad TV show from Family Affair to Bonanza. OK, maybe not the boing sound.

[SM]

I remember a "Music for Home Movies"-type album put out under the Major Records label; perhaps you could dig that up?

[David Holt]

I like Music For Party Scenes because it sounds like the party is at Alfred Hitchcock's house...

oh my god, music for party scenes... that's just too perfect.

[J. Theakston]

This sounds particularly British, so I'm going to guess some of these tracks were licensed from an outfit like AMP/KMP.

[S.Carras]

The composers are Harold Bluestone and Emil Cadkin and the source was the old John Seely/Capitol records library. Many cartoons ("Augie Doggie" particularly) and TV series used tracks like those as well as from other composers...J.Theakston, many were British. Hey, Katya Oddio, loved the S.S.Kresge albums, still trying to figure the cues out only I have I'd some of those (one-I forget whiuch, for example, on the Ksresge one was Robert Farnon's "Seventh Heaven")