# It's always sunny....the music

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 12, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-the-music/974825 "2022-11-12T23:33:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-the-music/974825/1 "2022-11-12T23:33:52Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-the-music/974825/2 "2022-11-13T02:39:32Z")

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The composer of much of that music was [Heinz Kiessling - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Kiessling).

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Heinz+Kiessling)

I also find it reminiscent of [Mantovani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qxUZiRwac)

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**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-the-music/974825/3 "2022-11-13T02:49:09Z")

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For a selection of easy-listening production-music tracks from IASIP and elsewhere, check out the YouTube playlist [Music for Supermarkets](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A8AE792262460B6).

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-the-music/974825/4 "2022-11-13T03:56:17Z")

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I was in Kroger a while ago and was surprised to hear some Cheap Trick and Kansas.