Muzak’s First Big Dream It’s always been amazing to me that a company like Muzak would open up shop for the first time during the depths of the Great Depression. Was Muzak’s inventor, Gen. George Squier, a visionary or just a wild dreamer? By 1934, the year Muzak was founded, the Great Depression had forced [...]
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Repost from: Bruce McKagan’s Blog
Posted: March 8, 2011 in Archives, Ben Selvin, Bruce McKagan, Master Recordings, Music Industry, Muzak0
Repost: The First Hillbilly Heart-Throb
Posted: February 23, 2011 in Archives, Ben Selvin, Bruce McKagan, Master Recordings, Music Discoveries, MuzakTags: Ben Selvin, Frank Luther, Muzak, Shoes, Slippers, Transcription, Zoyra Layman
The First Hillbilly Heart-Throb Originally Posted on www.muzakblog.com by Roberta Keener on 2/23/11 • Frank Luther When Ben Selvin, Muzak’s executive producer in the ‘30s and ‘40s, called on bands and musicians to record for Muzak, he seemed impartial to their musical styles or genres. He booked big bands, jazz, gospel, opera and everything in [...]
Not The Muzak You Thought (repost from www.muzakblog.com)
Posted: January 9, 2011 in American Pop Culture, Archives, Ben Selvin, Bruce McKagan, Master Recordings, Music Discoveries, Music Industry, MuzakTags: American Pop Culture, AMP, Ben Selvin, Blogging the Archives, broadcasting, elevator music, Galli Sisters, licensing, music transcription, Soundtrack
Posted by Brittany Lyke on 1/06/11 • Categorized as Blogging the Archives, New I’ve spent the last few posts getting you up to speed on the Muzak recording sessions held in our Manhattan during the late 1930’s. But why did Muzak need to record so much music… and in so many genres? Wasn’t Muzak primarily [...]
