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I grew up calling it either Elevator Music or Muzak, so it might be a regional thing.

It used to be always 'easy listening' instrumental versions of the popular songs of my parents' generation. I think a group called "101 Strings" were typical of that.

Now I hear a lot of vocal music, pop cuts from the artists in the Baby Boomer generation and beyond played as 'overhead' music. Times change.

I'd love to hear my music in an elevator, as long as I was getting royalties. Ka-Ching laugh

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Notes, the problem there is that the young people now take the stairs so their Fitbit gets more steps in, so we need stairwell music.

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Originally Posted By: eddie1261
young people now take the stairs so their Fitbit gets more steps in

Don't be hatin' Eddie, I resemble that remark..... grin




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Well...I was not going to let it be known that I ware a Fitbit but...

I have gotten to fat a lazy to take the stairs...lol

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Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
I grew up calling it either Elevator Music or Muzak, so it might be a regional thing.

It used to be always 'easy listening' instrumental versions of the popular songs of my parents' generation. I think a group called "101 Strings" were typical of that.

Now I hear a lot of vocal music, pop cuts from the artists in the Baby Boomer generation and beyond played as 'overhead' music. Times change.

I'd love to hear my music in an elevator, as long as I was getting royalties. Ka-Ching laugh

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It appears you may be getting into that "older" category Bob...lol Just sayin...lol

Here you go! 101 Strings Orchestra Major 5-Hour H.D. Easy Listening 1950's Music Album!
https://youtu.be/Anza3FhuVPQ

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“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
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I have a Fitbit that I got to measure how far I walk this dog. One morning I put it on at the start of the day, got on the computer, and an hour later I had recorded 598 steps having never left my chair. I haven't used it since.

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Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
I grew up calling it either Elevator Music or Muzak, so it might be a regional thing.

It used to be always 'easy listening' instrumental versions of the popular songs of my parents' generation. I think a group called "101 Strings" were typical of that.

Now I hear a lot of vocal music, pop cuts from the artists in the Baby Boomer generation and beyond played as 'overhead' music. Times change.

I'd love to hear my music in an elevator, as long as I was getting royalties. Ka-Ching laugh

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It was/is called Elevator Music or Muzak up here also.

Yes one group that did that was called 101 Strings".


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Notes, the problem there is that the young people now take the stairs so their Fitbit gets more steps in, so we need stairwell music.

I'll volunteer. As long as they are listening to my music, that's good. As long as it can be licensed, that'll make it even better.

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It appears you may be getting into that "older" category Bob...lol Just sayin...lol

Here you go! 101 Strings Orchestra Major 5-Hour H.D. Easy Listening 1950's Music Album!
https://youtu.be/Anza3FhuVPQ

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Getting "older" sure beats the alternative wink

Today 101 strings would be a little more than 16 guitars. (I can hear the neighbors "TURN IT DOWN").

They'd start off with "Smoke On The Water".

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I make a lot of jokes about my age. Actually age is just a number. In my case it is less a question of age than mileage.

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My nightmare is to hear my songs as elevator music.


Ha! But how many of you have actually played live in the elevator?

Back in the 60s there was a building which had a coffee bar on the ground floor and a restaurant on the floor above, with an elevator running between the two. Just for fun, they decided that on one Saturday evening they would have live music in the elevator and that was me. So I sat in the corner of the elevator with my acoustic guitar and played a selection of Bach and Scarlatti, plus a few of my own compositions. My excuse? I was seventeen and saving to buy my first Fender.

At least, I only had to play when the elevator (or Lift as we say in England) was occupied and fortunately it wasn't a repeat gig.

You could say the evening was a bit up and down....

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Jezzs ROG, that is funny. The strangest gig I ever played was in Dallas Texas at a strip bar at six in the morning for the night shift from Texas Instruments. The things we do...

That is a completely new definition of elevator music...lol

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Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
My nightmare is to hear my songs as elevator music.


My nightmare would be that I am in a car that has been crushed by a highway overpass during an earthquake and the radio is stuck on an easy listening station and I am 1 inch from reaching the seek button.

"Skyrockets in flight...."

At that point I would likely start praying to a deity in whom I do not believe to let another girder fall...

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I make a lot of jokes about my age. Actually age is just a number. In my case it is less a question of age than mileage.

Billy

I found the secret to eternal youth ... ...













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Originally Posted By: Notes Norton

I found the secret to eternal youth...

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Incorrect, sir! The right answer is "hot wife!"

THAT will keep you young!

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