[Ethan Winer[_3_]]

Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is
and who recorded it? Thanks!

--Ethan

http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy1.mp3
http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy2.mp3

[Mike Rivers]

On Apr 23, 10:33 am, Ethan Winer wrote:
The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure.

The music sounds like it's from the 50s or earlier. I recognize the
melodies. But the instrumentation sounds synthesized and quantized,
which would put it into the 80s or 90s. It sounds kind of like radio
"bumper" music to me.

Not nearly as goofy as what's laughingly called dance music today, to
accompany what's laughingly called dancing.

[D.M. Procida]

Ethan Winer wrote:

Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is
and who recorded it? Thanks!

It's more likely from the 1960s. I'm not sure exactly who it is.

There is a vast quantity of this stuff, vaguely assembled under the
label "space age pop music".

Typically it features some or all of:

* unusual instrumentation or orchestration
* groovy electric bass lines
* wide stereo and dynamic and frequency range (for spiffy hifi playback)
* exotic themes (far away cultures, places, ideas, words)

Also, it really needs to be played back on a reel-to-reel tape recorder,
preferably a Japanese model with wooden trim and brushed stainless steel
front. It also helps to be a bachelor, in an actual bachelor pad.

See http://www.spaceagepop.com for more.

Daniele
--
Wanted: TEAC A-2300SX, Akai GX-4000D

[Frank Stearns]

Ethan Winer writes:

Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is
and who recorded it? Thanks!

Quirky fun.

Have no idea who this might be, but am pretty sure it was recorded wayyyy later than
the 1950s, even though the genre itself could point back several more decades.
(Spike Jones's grand nephew or grand niece, perhaps? g)

Listen to the "flirting with unreal" tightness, focus, and presence, particularly on
the bass. There's very little splatter or room sound in this; sounds much more like
a slick digital multitrack effort, possibly mid/late-1990s, +/- a few years.

Let us know what you find out.

Frank Stearns
Mobile Audio
--

[Ben Bradley]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:42 -0700 (PDT), Mike Rivers
wrote:

On Apr 23, 10:33 am, Ethan Winer wrote:
The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure.

The music sounds like it's from the 50s or earlier. I recognize the
melodies.

The second half of goofy2 has a synthesizer sound that I've come to
think of as typical for the late '60's (perhaps into early '70's). As
a "classic" example I've got Dick Hyman's Moog album, it's well done,
but sounds like a charicature of what a '60's synthesizer album is
"supposed to sound like" (also, from the production values of the
time, it's heavy on reverb). You can hear samples of all the tracks
he

http://www.amazon.com/Moog-Electric-.../dp/B00000150M


But the instrumentation sounds synthesized and quantized,
which would put it into the 80s or 90s.

Maybe, but if so it fooled me, I think it has an "authentic" '60's
sound. It reminds me of the early '60's instrumental Yakety Sax.


It sounds kind of like radio
"bumper" music to me.

Not nearly as goofy as what's laughingly called dance music today, to
accompany what's laughingly called dancing.

[hank alrich]

Mike Rivers wrote:

On Apr 23, 10:33 am, Ethan Winer wrote:
The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure.

The music sounds like it's from the 50s or earlier. I recognize the
melodies. But the instrumentation sounds synthesized and quantized,
which would put it into the 80s or 90s. It sounds kind of like radio
"bumper" music to me.

Not nearly as goofy as what's laughingly called dance music today, to
accompany what's laughingly called dancing.

Heh. Dancing today also includes what folks learn he

http://www.godancestudio.com/


g

--
ha
shut up and play your guitar

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On Apr 23, 11:51*am, Frank Stearns
wrote:

Listen to the "flirting with unreal" tightness, focus, and presence, particularly on
the bass. There's very little splatter or room sound in this; sounds much more like
a slick digital multitrack effort, possibly mid/late-1990s, +/- a few years.


I agree. The fx sound more triggered than laid in on tape or played.

[[email protected]]

spike jones?

[philicorda[_6_]]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:33:02 -0700, Ethan Winer wrote:

Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even earlier,
but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is and who
recorded it? Thanks!

Not sure about the first clip.

The second sounds like the kind of thing Raymond Scott would do, or at
least a homage to him.

I'm sure I recognise the sound at the very start of the second one as a
sample of Raymond Scott. Perhaps the whole thing is constructed from
samples.

If it is him, then it may be older than it sounds... He was very ahead of
his time.



--Ethan

http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy1.mp3
http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy2.mp3

[philicorda[_6_]]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:23:50 -0700, rboy505 wrote:

On Apr 23, 11:51Â*am, Frank Stearns
wrote:

Listen to the "flirting with unreal" tightness, focus, and presence,
particularly on the bass. There's very little splatter or room sound in
this; sounds much more like a slick digital multitrack effort, possibly
mid/late-1990s, +/- a few years.


I agree. The fx sound more triggered than laid in on tape or played.

I don't know about the timing, but a lot of this kind of music has been
re-released over the last few years, and processed with quite aggressive
noise reduction. Perhaps that's where the room sound has gone.

[daph]

I'd not be surprised if an old school (middle of the last century)
noise maker of the animation movie bisnis would plain and simply
declare that it'd been no matter getting the craftsmanship of both
artist and engineer these days without any tech gizmo we got used to.
Asking some veterans of the movies' machine rooms could at least yield
a hint.

noise reduction. Perhaps that's where the room sound has gone.

Room sound?? After xth generation taping and digi compression on top?

I'm impressed with the goof series samples and love trouvailles like
these. More, pleez.

dafe

[Nowhere Man]

Ethan Winer wrote:
Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is
and who recorded it? Thanks!

--Ethan

http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy1.mp3
http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy2.mp3


#2 sounds very much like something from Perrey & Kingsley, or Perrey on
his own.

Of their albums, I have only two in entirety (combined on one CD as VCD
71/72) and issued as "The Essential Perrey & Kingsley". The original
albums (1966-67) were 'The In Sound from Way Out' amd 'Kaleidoscopic
Vibrations'. I don't think #2 is taken from there.

I have only selected tracks from 'Music to Moog By' (1969),
'Moog Indigo' (1972) and 'Moog-Mig-Mag-Moog' (1974), the latter being by
Perrey & Prilly. Goofy #2 doesn't match any of the tracks I have from
those, so I can't give a positive track identification.

But my money would be on J.J. Perrey. He's very prolific if you
Google or do a search on Amazon.

I'm afraid #1 is so heavily compressed and generally messed-with
that I can't identify it as Perrey. Possibly it is something else just
overdubbed by some Perrey sounds, they seem to be sampled into many
pieces of later music.

HTH

--
Peter C

[[email protected]]

On Apr 23, 7:33*am, Ethan Winer wrote:
Below are links to two short clips I recorded a few years ago off the
radio. The music sounds like it might be from the 1950s or even
earlier, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what this music is
and who recorded it? Thanks!

--Ethan

http://www.ethanwiner.com/ftp/goofy1...ftp/goofy2.mp3

Track 1 is "Lonesome Road" by Dean Elliott, from the LP "Zounds What
Sounds" (Capitol Record, circa 1963).

Spike Jones response to this track was: "I'm gonna have to find a
bigger lock for my warehouse."

[Ethan Winer[_3_]]

"The Essential Perrey & Kingsley". The original albums (1966-67) were 'The In Sound from Way Out'

Track 1 is "Lonesome Road" by Dean Elliott, from the LP "Zounds What Sounds" (Capitol Record, circa 1963).

Man, you guys are great! Ted nailed it with Dean Elliot, and Peter too
- the tune is "Swan's Splashdown" from Perrey & Kingsley.

Thanks very much! This has been driving me nuts for years, and I NEVER
would have come across those CDs on my own.

--Ethan