Background music ID help plz?

Cafe Society
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Okay, this is driving me mental–there’s a bit of music that Kaiser Permanente uses in its hold music and I always just assumed it was one of those generic bits that IVR systems use to avoid paying royalties. Then I caught it being used on an episode of the Brit program Escape To The Country, which has me thinking it might actually be a recognizable piece of music that’s likely in the public domain. I tried Soundhound, Midomi, a few other music ID sites (including five or six of those YouTube videos of “instrumental tunes everyone knows but doesn’t know the name of” which was entertaining but unhelpful) with no luck and now this bit of piano noodling is a persistent earworm that I fear won’t go away unless I find out what the hell it’s called and/or who wrote it. Anyone?

This should bring it up at the correct timestamp but if it doesn’t, the tune is playing in the background starting at 9:10 of the video.

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It doesn’t sound old enough to me to be a royalty-free piece of music. Sounds like something composed in the 90s onwards to me. So I’d guess some generic royalty-free music, myself, like you first guessed.

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And that would make sense for the KP hold music, but to find exactly the same piece in a BBC production? Seems a bit coincidental that the same bit of generic music would be used by an American healthcare provider’s IVR system AND a BBC television show if it wasn’t a known bit of music.

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I’ve put a link on reddit. Someone there might know.
There used to be a site that listed all music used on bbc programs…
now you just get this which is about
as much use as a chocolate teapot. (btw it’s neither of the 2 pieces listed)

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LOL @ “chocolate teapot,” nice! Where on reddit did you post it?

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I tried Shazam, who thought it was:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A+story+of+mind+and+body++Happy+Moppy+Puppy

But it’s not quite.

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I tried Shazam too, using me humming the melody but it came up with nada.

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For Our Time by Terry Devine-King. I cheated and found an older thread on Reddit with the answer.

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Ding ding ding! Awesome, thank you so much! This has been going round and round in my head for DAYS now, perhaps I can put it to rest.

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Nice find. Looks like it’s a 2009 release, so I assume it’s not in the public domain and needs to be licensed?

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Quick google of the artist shows he does predominantly music for advertising and background music so yeah, needs licensing but this is what the guy does for a living–driving people nuts from the back of the room lol.

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There is royalty free music created today. Age doesn’t factor.

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I know, as I use it in my own work. I meant that to be a response to the OP saying that it may have likely been in the public domain. I should have phrased it as such. (The wording was a brain fart).

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Ha ! Someone answered it on reddit at about the same time !

I put it in /r/NameThatSong - usually pretty good for tune id

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Awesome, I’ll have to check that out next time, thanks.