MUZAK
Muzak is a brand of background music played in retail stores and other venues. The term “Muzak” is – at least in the United States – often used as a term for most forms of background music, regardless of the source of the music, and may also be known as “elevator music”. Though Muzak Holdings was for many years the best known supplier of background music, and is commonly associated with elevator music, the company didn’t themselves supply music to elevators. Since 1997, Muzak has used original artists for its music source, except on the Environmental channel. (More from Wikipedia)
One of the albums that I have, Born to be Wild (also from 1968) sounds like Kim Fowley is playing the basic melody for mostly familiar songs on the organ with one finger, accompanied by an anonymous band. It is a cut above basic Muzak, but just barely. I guess this is one of what Greg Shaw calls his “put-on albums”.
(January 2015/1)
