Back To Muzak 2-The Continuance

Here's another remastered album of Christmas music from Muzak for your enjoyment.  As far as I am aware, they only ever released three of these to the public.  I gave you one in remastered form yesterday, and the third one I shared with you back in 2016 (the download link in the comments should still be good). So if you download this one, you can have the whole set. Took a long time to track down all three of those, and I can't tell you which one is the best.  They all have their high points, so you really need the whole set.  And with this one tonight, you can have the whole set in my best sound ever.  So grab 'em all!  This is Muzak-Stimulus Progression Number Three-Christmas (Muzak S-2563, Stereo).  No year on this one that I know of.  Anybody got a definitive source that says when this came out?

1. O, Holy Night
2. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
3. O Come, O Come, Emanuel
4. As With Gladness, Men Of Old; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
5. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
6. Joy To The World
7. O, Come, All Ye Faithful
8. Silent Night
9. We Three Kings Of Orient Are
10. Once In Royal David's City; Watchmen, Tell Us Of The Night
11. The First Noel
12. Angels We Have Heard On High; Good Christian Men Rejoice

Whoops, this one is on Spotify. Gotta take it down.  I'll find something else to put up, promise.  :)

Back To Muzak

I think the plan this season is to share out a new record each day, and then a new remaster as well.  I've been doing this sharity thing since 2005, and there are a lot of records that I shared out at the beginning that I need to revisit. Whether I have a cleaner new copy, or I can use my new software tricks to make it sound a little better, I want to go back to some of those old shares and do something a little better. And I'm going to start that for this year with this old share from year one, a great record from the fine folks at Muzak. People like to make fun of Muzak, and they've certainly been guilty of making a lot of really bad music over the years, but I'm a fan of their Christmas music, a few albums of which have been released over the years. This one actually came with the names of the musicians attached, a rarity in the world of Muzak. Please have a go at Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, Stereo, 1980)!

1. Fanfare Orchestra-Hurry Home For Christmas
2. Jerry Laning-The Christmas Song
3. Philip Green-White Christmas
4. Jerry Laning-Winter Wonderland
5. Fanfare Orchestra-Christmas Is Coming (All Over The World)
6. Jerry Laning-Jingle Bell Rock
7. Chartsound Orchestra-Holly Time
8. Chartsound Orchestra-Merry Gentlemen
9. Chartsound Orchestra-Yuletide
10. Chartsound Orchestra-Christmas Morn
11. Chartsound Orchestra-Caroltime
12. Chartsound Orchestra-Three Kings

MEGA

Another Muzak

Since I brought you some music from Seeburg last night, I only felt it was fair to give equal time to Muzak tonight.  Twice before I've brought you music from the infamous Muzak corporation, first in 2005, then again in 2008, and as far as I know, this is the only other Muzak Christmas album out there in the free world.  (Somebody, please pull another album out of your hat and prove me wrong!)  I've only recently acquired this one, but I've seen it shared out here and there before, now I'm giving you a copy of my personal record.  Just the thing for those dingy industrial work spaces or brightly lit shopping centers, this is Muzak-Joy And Peace To You (Muzak MU 1977, Stereo).  Not sure of the date on this one.  I'd guess 1977, but that would be too easy.  Hmmm, Discogs says 1977.

1. I'll Be Home For Christmas
2. Home For The Holidays
3. Christmas Song
4. White Christmas
5. Silver Bells
6. Here Comes Santa Claus
7. Winter Wonderland
8. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
9. We Three Kings Of Orient
10. O, Holy Night
11. The First Noel
12. O, Come All Ye Faithful
13. Joy To The World!

Zippyshare

Two Muzak

As promised, here's another whole LP of Christmas Muzak. It's an acquired taste, and I've grown to love it, as I'm sure you will too. So download Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, 1980, Stereo) for yourself. This one dates back to the very first Christmas Sharity season here at the blog in 2005.

1. Fanfare Orchestra-Hurry Home For Christmas
2. Jerry Laning-The Christmas Song
3. Philip Green-White Christmas
4. Jerry Laning-Winter Wonderland
5. Fanfare Orchestra-Christmas Is Christmas (All Over The World)
6. Jerry Laning-Jingle Bell Rock
7. Chartsound Orchestra-Holly Time
8. Chartsound Orchestra-Merry Gentlemen
9. Chartsound Orchestra-Yuletide
10. Chartsound Orchestra-Christmas Morn
11. Chartsound Orchestra-Caroltime
12. Chartsound Orchestra-Three Kings

One Muzak

What's that you say? You want some Muzak? No problem. First shared in 2008, this is Muzak-Stimulus Progression Number Three-Christmas (Muzak S-2563, Stereo). This was another record that I had an empty sleeve for before I found the record. If you like this one, stay tuned, I've got another one coming right up.

1. O, Holy Night
2. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
3. O Come, O Come, Emanuel
4. As With Gladness, Men Of Old; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
5. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
6. Joy To The World
7. O, Come, All Ye Faithful
8. Silent Night
9. We Three Kings Of Orient Are
10. Once In Royal David's City; Watchmen, Tell Us Of The Night
11. The First Noel
12. Angels We Have Heard On High; Good Christian Men Rejoice

Not Another Muzak

While I'm on the subject of Muzak, here's a record from one of their chief competitors, Seeburg. I first shared this record with you last year, so you should click on over there to read the story behind it. This record is 10" in diameter, has a 2" hole through the middle and spins at 16-2/3 RPM. Not your standard LP, that's for sure. Someone recently left a comment asking me to rip some more of these (I've got a stack of 10-20 more), but I doubt that's going to happen. They're really pretty boring, and the Christmas songs are only about every third track. Actually, they aren't even broken up into tracks, you have to find the silence between the songs after you've played with the sound file to make it play at the right speed. (My turntable doesn't have a 16-2/3 setting, so I have to record it at 33-1/3 and slow it down by half. Takes time...) But if you ant to hear what this sounded like, please download The Seeburg Music Library-Matching Christmas Library (CH 10 A/B, Mono).

1. Silent Night
2. The Little Drummer Boy
3. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
4. Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child
5. Jingle Bells
6. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

For more Seeburg Christmas music, you can check out Music You Possibly Won't Find Anyplace Else.

The Other Muzak

As I just shared out the Muzak LP that took me a whole year to find, I figure I should also reshare the Muzak LP that I've been hosting since 2005. I don't think this one is quite as good as that last one, but it's still got that great Muzak sound. So please be my guest and download your own copy of Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, Stereo, 1980). Set phasers to numb.

1. Fanfare Orchestra-Hurry Home For Christmas
2. Jerry Laning-The Christmas Song
3. Philip Green-White Christmas
4. Jerry Laning-Winter Wonderland
5. Fanfare Orchestra-Christmas Is Coming (All Over The World)
6. Jerry Laning-Jingle Bell Rock
7. Chartsound Orchestra-Holly Time
8. Chartsound Orchestra-Merry Gentlemen
9. Chartsound Orchestra-Yuletide
10. Chartsound Orchestra-Christmas Morn
11. Chartsound Orchestra-Caroltime
12. Chartsound Orchestra-Three Kings

Found Music-Part One-Muzak

Last year, I posted about how I had found this sleeve with the wrong record in it. Thankfully, Lee over at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else posted the record, or at least tracks from it, and I didn't have to do without. But sometime during the past year, I finally found the actual record and I couldn't be happier about it. So be my guest and download this missing music, Muzak-Stimulus Progression Number Three-Christmas (Muzak S-2563, Stereo). I think Karma was working in my favor this time.

1. O, Holy Night
2. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
3. O Come, O Come, Emanuel
4. As With Gladness, Men Of Old; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
5. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
6. Joy To The World
7. O, Come, All Ye Faithful
8. Silent Night
9. We Three Kings Of Orient Are
10. Once In Royal David's City; Watchmen, Tell Us Of The Night
11. The First Noel
12. Angels We Have Heard On High; Good Christian Men Rejoice

Seeburg (Not Seabird)

I talked to you about Muzak a bit earlier, spurred on by Lee's posting of a Muzak Christmas LP that I needed. Lee also posted a Seeburg Christmas record, something else I needed, even though I didn't know it existed prior to his posting it. What I did know existed was this series of Seeburg Background Music records, which I've had for years but never listened to. Why not, you ask? Well, in addition to my having more records than I could listen to in a lifetime, these records have a hole in the middle that is too big for a standard record player, and they spin at half the speed of a standard LP. That big hole you see in the scan above is 2" versus the 1.5" hole in the standard 45. And if that weren't enough, the music is supposed to be played back at 16-2/3 RPM, half the normal LP speed of 33-1/3. This frustrated me for years until I finally decided to do something about it this year. I had my machinist father make an adaptor for the spindle on my record player so it would fit, and I figured out how to slow the recording down once I got it into my PC. All that work, and it turns out I wasn't missing much. I only recorded one out of the 24 records in the series, and at that point I had had enough. Turns out that only one out of every five tracks is Christmas, and the versions are sub-par even for background music. Well, maybe it's just the poor fidelity of the record that's ruining it for me. I don't know. If you want to give it a listen, here're six tracks from The Seeburg Music Library-Matching Christmas Library (CH 10 A/B). I suppose it's amazing that these things have survived. They were supposed to be returned to Seeburg after the season, but somehow these never got sent back. I guess Seeburg didn't want these things saved for posterity.

The Return Of Muzak

I mentioned this share a minute ago in a post about another Muzak LP, so I figured I'd better repost the original. I first shared this album out two years ago, to little fanfare, then again last year to a few comments. Now it's back for a third showing, so we'll see how it does. This is Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, 1980). As I asked when I originally posted this, why does Santa only have six reindeer on this cover? Was Muzak that out of the times? It boggles the mind...

Sweet, Sweet Muzak

Believe it or not, someone out there requested this LP be reposted. It's actually been uploaded and available to download for a little while now, and people have actually been grabbing it. So if you want to feel like you're back at TG&Y sorting through the bargains, download this and give it a listen! Here's Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, 1980)!

How come Blogger keeps going all text on me? I don't know enough HTML to do this... Ah, there is goes. Now I can link you back to last year when I originally posted this.

A Little Muzak In The Air

I held a little vote over at FaLaLaLaLa a few months ago, and this was the record that got chosen. So I figure I'll share with all you new folks. If you happen to have an elevator of your own, this will be great to play in there. From the fine folks at Muzak, here's Muzak Christmas (Muzak AA 36, 1980), a promotional LP designed to get you to purchase their music services. Why does Santa only have 6 reindeer in that picture? Something isn't right about that... (I've heard that Muzak has other Christmas LPs out, anybody want to share?)