# Is there a name for the type of music in those 'Enzyte' commercials?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 14, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781 "2004-08-14T01:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781/1 "2004-08-14T01:34:44Z")

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781/2 "2004-08-14T05:26:16Z")

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“Annoying”

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**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781/3 "2004-08-14T05:45:32Z")

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Anybody notice that Adult Swim uses the same music in some of their flashes?

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**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781/4 "2004-08-14T07:28:32Z")

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I spose I should try to address the OP seeing as how I did post a hijack. I would call it some derivative of lounge music, perhaps something in the space-age genre. Or perhaps “1950s sitcom incidental music” would be more fitting.

If you like it, try Esquivel or the Les Baxter Orchestra or any of the multitude of space-agey lounge groups. The Ultra-Lounge series is a good place to start (but doesn’t do Esquivel) – try volume 3 “Space Capades”. Esquivel especially does a lot of whistling of jazz standards – there is the great arrangement of “Cachita” off of his _Music for a Sparkling Planet_ and “Sentimental Journey” off of “Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music” which is a phenomenal album that everyone should own.

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**Author:** ![Daylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-the-type-of-music-in-those-enzyte-commercials/259781/5 "2004-08-16T11:23:22Z")

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> [@edwino](#):
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> I spose I should try to address the OP seeing as how I did post a hijack. I would call it some derivative of lounge music, perhaps something in the space-age genre. Or perhaps “1950s sitcom incidental music” would be more fitting.

Totally unrelated to the question, but I just crack up everytime they show the “heros” friend after _HE_ goes and talks to his doctor…

\<cheezy voice\> “Now he’s steppin’ large, and laughin’ easy…”

LMAO!

D.