Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 14, 2021

Has there been any news songs in the last decade or so that would make an earworm?

Thrash metal and thug rap are old enough to be elevator music.

How many elevators (with muzak) has he been in? (No muzak in apartment elevators, in my experience)

I can’t remember the last time I heard music in an elevator

Everybody likes soul music. I refuse to believe that Caulfield wouldn’t like The Temptations.

I can’t believe how many rock and pop classics I hear on the easy listening channel. Who knew that Ticket To Ride was elevator music.

Before the pandemic we took a tour of our State Capitol. I was totally surprised when we got on the elevator and there was an Ozzy Osbourne song playing. Boy, do I feel old!!!

I can “hear at will” nearly all of my classical music first heard on LP records. Also most folk songs of the 50s & early 60s. Once I hear a song I can play it on my flute, tenor, or 5-string banjos. But I sometimes hear a folk song in a certain key. Gets to be difficult to play it on a banjo tuned in C [tenor] & a 5-string banjo tuned in G. “Ear Worms” can be useful for old time jazz, folk music, Irish songs & some classical pieces!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X6aTgXv-9Z6VFt3ImxR_R_b7BR1sWYOK/view?usp=sharing

it wasn’t me, Chuck Berry

I heard it through the grape vine Picture the grapes tv ad.

How do you feel about hearing a song of your youth [that you liked] being played as background music or used in commercials?

I never heard music in an elevator. Can you change the stations? How long are you in it?

The elevators in the office building where I worked, until shelter-in-place started last spring, didn’t play insipid music; they had screens that showed commercials. Hard to say which is worse.

Last week I watched a delightful video biography of Louis Prima and I’ve still got the earworm: “That Old Black Magic.” Round and round it goes …

Gloom, despair, and agony on me,…

The only issue that I have with 80s music now being considered “oldies” is that when I go on internet radio and search “oldies” I want 50s/60s music, not 50s/60s/70s/80s.

I know the term elevator music, however, I don’t recall ever hearing music piped into an elevator in my life. Of course I’ve rarely been in more than a 15 story building, so that may be the reason.

I live in a 29 story building and while they don’t put music in the elevator, for a while they played a lot of Motown in the lobby. I think they stopped because there was too much dancing going on.

OH, ya think that’s bad, the earworm stuck in my head has been going round in there for over a year and it’s from the 1920s! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEDM96cXtQ