Y’know, that one song… from the 50’s?
So last night I was looking for a song that I’ve heard a million times, but have never known the name of. It’s an instrumental, and I’m pretty confident that you’ve heard it too. I would describe it as a sort of peppy, upbeat, 50’s ad spot background theme. Lots of sticatto plucking of strings. After several unsuccessful attempts, my wife offered a trade. She would look for my song if I would go find the paintbrushes she was looking. Surprisingly, it worked! She found an album containing the song and I found the paintbrushes.
The song was written by a man named Laurie Johnson. He is a British composer and the song is called “Happy Go Lively”. It’s owned an licensed by a company called Associated Production Music. Production Music, is a term given to music that’s essentially made for the sole purpose of licensing it out for productions (movies, television, etc)
Considering how well-known and familar, but unidentifyable this song is, I thought I’d post it to a page and stick as much google-glue as I could on it. If you found this page through a search engine after having some difficulty, give me your search terms and I’ll put them in the keywords, so people like us don’t need to struggle to find this delightful little song.
Here’s a little clip:
Well, I tried, and everybody I know tried. None of us made it. It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think any of us are going to die. If you haven’t heard about SparkFun Electronics’ Free Day, it may be that you just don’t care. If you didn’t care, it seemed to me for a moment that you were the only one.
DRM, You’ve probably heard of it. Digital Rights Management. Bane of legitimate users, irritant of illigitimate users, hopeful tool of content owners. By those 3 statements, I mean to simply point out that the DRM effort ultimately fails completely. To the public, it seems like Industry Execs implemented DRM simply because they wanted to prevent piracy. To the conspiracy theorist, DRM was implemented because those execs wanted to force consumers to buy the same content again and again. They say that it’s really about you having to buy a movie once for your TV, and once again for your iPod. For the Media industry itself, it’s a way to protect their investment from malicious thieves. The internet is full of people who want to watch everything they offer, but refuse to pay for it. It’s downright Un-American.
You know I’m an Apple nerd. No one who builds a Hackintosh and sticks it in a G4 cube should be considered anything less than such. Naturally you’ll be able to guess that I’m also an iPhone nerd. I owned 3 phones prior to getting my iPhone. A throw-away Nokia that I don’t remember the