I am smitten with the soundtrack of IASIP. I love the orchestration, the style. It’s evocative of the early to mid-50s, I feel, but I can’t exactly place the context. Classroom films? Early tv commercials? Is it original to the show? Any jingle writers out there to inform my listening?
The composer of much of that music was Heinz Kiessling - Wikipedia.
Cast member, producer and writer of IASIP Charlie Day is quoted in that article:
“We had a music supervisor called Ray Espinola and we said, 'Give us everything you have in a sort of Leave It to Beaver with a big band-swing kind of feel,’ and the majority of the songs are from what he sent over [. . .] It just became our go-to library of songs.”
A lot of his music can be heard on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Heinz+Kiessling
I also find it reminiscent of Mantovani, possibly the most famous of the “easy listening” conductors in the 50s and 60’s. When I was a kid, it seemed like everybody’s grandmothers had a stash of Mantovani records, mine included.
For a selection of easy-listening production-music tracks from IASIP and elsewhere, check out the YouTube playlist Music for Supermarkets.
I was in Kroger a while ago and was surprised to hear some Cheap Trick and Kansas.