I "Fell" for this Headline: BBC documentary on Library Music

boingboing. 4/13/2011.

Excerpt:   In the media biz, "library music" is music that's usually owned outright by a company and then licensed to customers who use it as soundtracks for TV shows, radio programs, industrial films. Much of it is horrendously cheezy, but there are also many true gems, especially the further back you go in history. Indeed, 1960s and 1970s library music has had a resurgence amongst crate diggers and rare groove trainspotters leading to a slew of limited edition reissues on CD The terrific LP covers in this post are from a book on the subject, titled "The Music Library: Graphic Art and Sound." BBC Radio 4 has just produced a fantastic audio documentary about the history of the genre, titled "Into the Music Library." .

Crate digger. Rare groove trainspotter. (Not library music, but rare, very rare.)  That would have been me once upon a time.