David Breneman wrote:--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Dave Nolan <davenolanaudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I remember a K-Mart in Tacoma (the first one in this area) that opened in the 1960s. (What a bunch of cheap junk. My parents bought me a pair of shoes there that didn't last two days. Anyway, back on topic...) I remember there being several 7" tape decks behind the customer service counter that played the background music. I don't know if the music was licensed from Muzak, but it definitely wasn't piped in; it was played from within the store. FWIW.
One of the Naxos family of recordings is a collection of 'soft classics' for storecast. IIRC, they are sold in sets of ten or twenty CDs. At Klaus Heyman's suggestion, I made an MP3 CD-ROM to provide uninterrupted play so no one would have to attend to the player throughout the day.
I've no idea whether the CD-ROM version was ever issued. Of course, Klaus had all rights to the recordings and they were licensed for storecast use.
Mike -- mrichter@xxxxxxx http://www.mrichter.com/