[78-L] Happy memories of Muzak

[Taylor Bowie]

Back in the 60s when I was in my early and mid-teens,  one of the local 
hang-outs here in Seattle was a place called Burgermaster...a drive in which 
still had car-hops to bring you the meal.  Teens and adults liked to go 
there,  but the music on the sound system (piped outside) was of a very 
adult nature.

I can still recall one evening when I was greatly entertained by a long run 
of classic pop tunes  played by a band which sounded just like a modern 
version of Hal Kemp's...muted clipped brass,  clarinets played into 
megaphones,  etc.  It was great,  esp. for a budding collector like me who 
couldn't get enough of the classic dance band sounds.

BTW this would also have been around the time when Kenny G (real name Kenny 
Gorlick) was an up-and-coming jazz player,  attending Franklin High School 
here in Seattle.  He actually studied his horn with the same guy my Dad had 
taken lessons from in the 30s,  and played in every manner of rock,  stage, 
pep,  etc. band he could find.   This was long before he found the formula 
by which he made himself rich and by which he tortures our ears to this very 
day.


Taylor B