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2 unusual facts about background music


Background music

This type of music was produced, for instance, by the Mantovani Orchestra, and conductors like Franck Pourcel and James Last, peaking in popularity around the 1970s.

True Remembrance

The text is accompanied by a still background, sprites of the characters in the foreground, whose expressions change during conversations but are not animated in any other way, music and sound.


Dragoneer's Aria

A piano version of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air on the G String" is also used as the background music for the game's title screen, and was also used for the game's trailers and official Japanese website.

Gradius Arcade Soundtrack

The Gradius Arcade Soundtrack is a 2-disc compilation of BGM and arrangements from Konami's Gradius video game series, primarily composed by Konami Kukeiha Club with arrangements by prominent video game composers such as Sōta Fujimori and Miki Higashino.

Irén Lovász

Her first solo CD, Világfa (1995, and 1999. Fonó Records), appeared at the request of the Hungarian National Museum to be used as background music for the exclusive archeological exhibition of the Millennium of the Hungarian conquest.

Mainichi Issho

Television (テレビ, terebi): this options allows various settings including RSS and BGM selection from the user's own compatible audio files (MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.) stored in the PlayStation 3's HDD.

Papillon Rose

Subsequently an episode guide for the (non-existent) first series and manga was also made available, as well as a set of CD-ROMs containing a 2-minute animated promotional clip, eight tracks (six BGM and two vocal songs), system voice clips for computers, a Papillon Rose mahjong game, and two screen savers.

SolarStriker

The background music for Level 1 and Level 2 was used in the beginning of the Captain N: The Game Master episode, Trouble With Tetris, in a slightly altered form.

Trusonic

Founded originally in 1999 as a small business unit SBU of the now defunct MP3.com, Trusonic provided background music to businesses.

TV track

A TV track is usually a song or a musical sequence used as background music during a scene or visual sequence on television (i.e., commercials or television shows).


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Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo

The song was used as background music in a scene in the Mira Nair's Golden Lion winning film, Monsoon Wedding (2001).

Basil's Swap Shop

This was rumoured to be a reference to Rastafarian leader Marcus Garvey, since some early reggae is played as background music on the show.

Ben Bartlett

He is mainly celebrated for having been the creator of the background music in BBC nature documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), Walking with Beasts (2001), Chased by Dinosaurs (2002) or Walking with Monsters (2005), among others.

Breathe and Stop

The looping instrumental has been used as background music for some segments of Billy Bush's nationally syndicated radio show.

Byron MacGregor

MacGregor then read the patriotic commentary on CKLW Radio as part of a public affairs program; and, due to the huge response he was asked to record "The Americans" with "America the Beautiful" performed by The Detroit Symphony Orchestra as the background music.

Chromelodeon

The band's second release was a made up solely from covers of the background music themes from the video game Ninja Gaiden II.

Curtain Falls

The background music is almost identical to that of Coolio's 1995 hit, "Gangsta's Paradise", as they both share usage of a sample of Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise".

Discography of the Ace Attorney series

The Gyakuten Saiban 5 Soundtrack is a two-disc soundtrack featuring the background music from Gyakuten Saiban 5 (known internationally as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies).

Dragon Ball Z: BGM Collection

This set features the background music and theme songs found in the five disc Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z: Great Complete Collection set as well some background music and theme song produced for the later part of the TV series and movies 10-13 that came after the Great Complete Collection was released.

Eye Know

This song was used on Match of the Day 2 as background music during the showing of Saturday's goals until the end of the 07/08 season.

George Greeley

Moving into television in the 1960s, he composed the theme and background music for popular TV series including My Favorite Martian starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby, and My Living Doll starring Robert Cummings and Julie Newmar.

Gregory Whitehead

Since 2000, Whitehead has produced numerous plays and documentary essays for BBC Radio, including The Marilyn Room (2000), American Heavy (2001), The Loneliest Road (2003), On One Lost Hair (2004), No Background Music (2005), The Day King Hammer Fell From The Sky (2007) and Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Dick (2009).

I Saved the World Today

The song was briefly played as background music for a wedding party scene in season two, episode 12 of The Sopranos, "The Knight in White Satin Armor", and then meaningfully used as background for the closing scene and credits of that same episode.

I Was Dora Suarez

Robin Cook has read some extracts of his novels in a live "performance" with background music by the band Gallon Drunk.

I'm Waiting Here

The song has been used as background music onboard flights from the airline Norwegian from August 2013.

It Don't Come Easy

The song is used as inspirational background music for a montage of Marge Simpson painting a portrait of Mr. Burns.

Japanese television drama

For example, in the Fuji TV drama Densha Otoko, the opening song and some of the background music had to be replaced in the release that aired on the Nippon Golden Network because they couldn't get the rights to use the music.

Joe Leahy

Upon leaving the service in 1945 he came to New York and signed with CBS as a staff conductor-arranger, doing script-show music, background music for radio dramas, and conducting the Skitch Henderson orchestra.

Other radio and television shows for which he did uncredited background music included those for Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Ethel Waters, Constance Bennett and many others.

King Nothing

"King Nothing" was featured as background music in the ninth episode of the second season of The Sopranos, "From Where to Eternity", in a scene in which Tony Soprano is speaking with Paulie Gualtieri in the Bada Bing strip club.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves

After fortifying himself with research and drugs, Lester Bangs meets Lou Reed in a hotel room, where they trade barbed personal insults, and argue about the current music scene, amphetamine formulae, and the background music which Lou has selected (Herbie Hancock).

Love Today

"Love Today" was used as the background music during the National Costume and Opening Presentation of Miss Universe 2008 held in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Chandni Bar, Best Film at Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2003 and Technical Award for Best Background Music Score at Moscow International Film Festival 2003.

Mark Six

The background music featured in the television broadcasts of the draws is a version of Inkpot, a song written by the Dutch rock band, from the Hague, Shocking Blue.

Move Any Mountain

Japanese video game music producer Yuzo Koshiro composed an instrumental background music track for the baseball stadium stage in the 1992/1993 Sega Genesis game Streets of Rage 2 named "Under Logic" that bears strong influence from "Move Any Mountain".

Muzak

Muzak Holdings, an American company best known for distribution of background music to retail stores and other companies.

Never Miss a Beat

The song was used on the Official Formula One website as the background music for the video highlights of the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix

On the Threshold of Liberty

From 1996 through 2008, National Public Radio used Isham's composition as the background music for the annual July 4 reading of the Declaration of Independence on the NPR program Morning Edition.

Paul Biondi

He has composed background music for many popular television shows, including:MTV Cribs, CBS Sports and various advertising spots (AT&T; Pepsi-Complex).

Paul Dessau

Among others he wrote compositions for early movies of Walt Disney, background music for silent pictures and early German films.

Péter Máté

Besides pop music, he also scored musicals (including Hungarian version of Jesus Christ Superstar), and wrote theatrical background music.

Philippe Falliex

Philippe Falliex (Born April 27, 1966, in Lyon, France) is a French composer specializing in background music for television and radio programs.

Prince of Denmark's March

The march is used as the background music during the hourly performance of the Royal Clock in the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia.

Sihinaya Dige Enna

The background music for the score, largely variations on the title song "Sihinaya Dige Enna", was played by the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka.

SolarStriker

In fact, the Level 1 background music was also used in later season 2 episodes of Captain N: The Game Master.

Someplace Good

Its popularity surged greatly in Hong Kong because it is used as a background music in the comedy, To Catch the Uncatchable, made by TVB.

Superblue

The song "Barbara" by Superblue was played as background music in the movie Side Streets (1998).

The Invisible Band

"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".

The Laziest Men on Mars

The Laziest Men on Mars are an American techno band known for their successful Gabber song "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" which remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura, which became background music to the popular "All your base are belong to us" Flash animation.

The Shock of the Lightning

It is also used as background music each week on the TV show Soccer AM for their British Armed Forces montage.

These Dreams

UK TV comedy show Balls of Steel has used the song as background music for montages featuring the 'Annoying Devil' character.

To Catch the Uncatchable

Scenes of memories and sorrow background music "Someplace Good" kicks in, with the show ending with the wedding photo of the couple turning black and white with Mok slowly fading away, leaving Vivi alone in the photo, which implies that Mok had died after falling down.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).

Trollie Wallie

The background music for Trollie Wallie consists of versions of Popcorn by Hot Butter and Equinoxe (part 5) by Jean Michel Jarre.

Until It Beats No More

The song was used as background music during Lopez's "My World" commercial for the Fiat 500.

"Until It Beats No More" is featured as background music in Lopez's commercial for the Fiat 500.

Vaadhyar

The soundtrack is scored by debutant Manoj George, who had earlier composed for the 2008 Kannada film "Athmiya" and the Background music, "Va Va Vaadhyare" song by R. Gautham, who had previously worked with Jayasurya starrer film Janapriyan, and the lyrics by Santhosh Varma and Rajeev Nair Allunkal.

Yeshwant

This line was expanded into a musical number with background music and chorus, under the music direction of Anand and Milind Shrivastav.