This royalty free music track listing features tracks from the Novelty, Specialty and Sound-Alike genres. Stock music tracks to mimick specific niche music styles and cultural/musical eras. There are some comedy music tracks here, some cheesy music, as well as some "hidden treasures" with beautiful performances of quirky, unique musical styles. Most of these royalty-free music downloads feature specialty instruments and come in full track, 60-secs cuts, 30-secs cuts, seamless stock music loops. This music can be licensed, downloaded and used in your own media productions.
Van Halen meets Huey Lewis in this uptempo, happy, Keyboard driven track that takes us back to the roaring 80s. Don't forget your shoulder pads. Compulsory tapping guitar solo included. [Tempo: Fast / 128 BPM]
A cool, confident and funky 1960's or 1970's style pop-groove. Mid-tempo, swinging, sparse. Great for Retro Chic, fashion / commercials, historical / cultural, specialist media production, retro film and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Cheesy, uptempo ska / lounge, with trumpet and organ top line. Also available as an Underscore version, without the lead instruments. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A playful and cheeky 1980's style track with drum machine, synth bass line and retro sounds. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
Up tempo psychedelic funk with heavy wah wah guitar lines, brass, flute and clattering drums. A kitsch retro workout with a contemporary dance music edge. A fun and funky look back at the 1960's and 1970's... [Tempo: Fast / 118 BPM]
Quirky, unusual spot build of various human sounds. suitable for funny commercial or animation, comedy. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A theme similar to James Bond 007. Spy Caper, with urgent bass lines and mysterious / pompous orchestral elements. Big brass sections etc. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Cheesy retro 80s' commercial underscore. Perfect for eighties spoofs and those "call now!" adverts! [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Infectious parody of Laid back 60’s jazzy acoustic guitar music with a sweet rolling rhythm from a vintage drum machine. Bursting with quirky charm & romance, the descending chord sequence would suit repetitive plays as in games or menus. Slightly oddball and full of fun. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Various versions / instrument arrangements of the traditional Public Domain music track, Happy Birthday To You. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Short, 30-seconds piece with a 1960's / 1970's retro flavour featuring vintage synths, organ and reversed guitars. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Authentic 1980's music with synths and drifty groove. Very melodic. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
Quirky soundtrack featuring vocals singing "la La La's and Sha na na's. This is fun and silly and takes you right back into the 1950's rock n roll era. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Slow orchestral march. Nice bed for political official pronouncements. Calm and easy. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
Techno remix of an all-time classic hit. 90s' Euro-dance meets 70s' Hooked on Classics! Ideal if you need to emphasize a fusion between classical and contemporary, or elegance and technology. Or even if you need a corny piece of classical music arranged as techno! [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
70's style funk, a satire of secret agent/superhero TV-series themes like Inspector Gadget, Pink Panther or James Bond. Retro, cartoony and fun, but not childish, with a slight space feel to it. Trumpet trio, drums, bass guitar, Hammond organ, synthesizer, strings, occasional guitars. A little bit mischievous, cheeky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Upbeat Ragtime track played on an old upright piano. Great happy-go-lucky track for any silent movie, commercial, comedy, animation, documentary or any project set around the early 20th century. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 106 BPM]
Using a very common group of 1950's chords give this piece a very familiar sound that's both clichéd but equally intriguing. Good to use as elevator music in a comedy film, or a comedy moment. [Tempo: Medium / 73 BPM]
Retro styled disco/funk, with an easy, breezy and laidback sound of the 70's. Funky bass line. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Hear that band coming down the street? It's a real Sousa style march! Also works great as circus music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Fun, historical, cheeky, light jazz track. Retro, old-time feel. 1910's, 1920's, 1930's or 1940's era. With deliberately added vinyl record scratching sound. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
Motown type instrumental soul groove, with a flavor of the 1970's and 80's. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
This track brings back the nostalgia of enthusiastic eighties stereo synth sounds - similar to what is used in Van Halen's "Jump." This is combined with a quick moving bass-line and a very bubble gum style drum beat. Good for any scene looking to re-create the eighties. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Retro style, sexy and punchy electronica, in the style of Kraftwerk and others. Swinging tight beats, robotic analogue synth bassline, dirty synth lead and warm synth parts build underneath. Fashionable and confident. Great for fashion, culture, products, videogames, infomercials, technology and much more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Glam it up 70s style with this rock track influenced by the likes of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Faces etc. Driving, edgy Rock n Roll accompanied by flamboyant hair, clothes and make-up. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Quirky and hypnotic retro classical piece, with a heavy influence from Italian traditional music and Baltic/Gypsy music as well. With a somewhat funny and unusual mystery aura, investigative and foggy. A repetitive cello pizzicato progression is surrounded by a series of dreamy chromatic melodies on mandolin, clarinet, flute, celesta, glockenspiel, basson, harmonium and violin. This piece could easily fit a Frederico Fellini's surreal scene. [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
Take a trip back in time to the Psychedelic 60's when the Beatles experimented with oriental atmospheres. Vintage guitars, Sitar and Drums are prominent in this uplifting tune and a reverse guitar solo graces the second verse. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Austin Powers and James Bond collide in this kitch and upbeat authentic sounding 1960's TV titles track featuring a big brassy horn section, guitar, synthesiser, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Cheesy chapel organ playing Mendelssohn's Wedding March. Ideal if you need music for a scene of a Las Vegas wedding, in one of those cheap wedding chapels. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
Lively, intense, retro style Progressive Rock track in the style of Yes, UK, King Crimson and many other bands of the 1970's and 80's. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A slightly jazzy, retro, funk / filmscore type track. Could easily be the main theme soundtrack for a 1970's or 1980's cop drama or action happy private investigator type show. Mysterious vibes, sense of danger and excitement. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Head straight back to the swinging sixties with this uptempo, infectious, toe tapping track. Uplifting, cheesey, fun and feel good, perfect for any project looking for a retro, groovy and kitsch vibe with organ, brass, guitar, electric piano, bass and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 93 BPM]
Classy piano accompanied by jazzy percussion in a playfully assured arrangement. This loungy retro-style theme has a laid back ending would make it suitable as a title sequence or in reality style programming sequence. [Tempo: Medium / 133 BPM]
Upbeat retro sounding (1970's / 1980's) corporate rock track. Strong melodic theme and driving rhythm section. Uplifting, positive with lots of energy and spirit. Great for an opening theme, adventure, corporate advertising, talk show, cooking show, infomercial, team spirit, sports. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Let's go back to the 1980's with this funky and varied electro-pop track with a typical sound from that era. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Cool 1980's style electropop with a modern flavour. Tight beats, filtered loop, cool synth bassline and staccato casio tones underneath a warm piano and euro synth melody. Positive and insistant. Great for fashion, pop culture, youth, technology, night life and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 129 BPM]
A sound similar to 1980's electro-pop groups like Human League, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and others. [Tempo: Fast / 127 BPM]
A slowly swaying waltz track with a deliberately imperfect female vocal line, vocalizing the main melody. The laidback, up-close and personal vocal style gives the track a genuine, homely and very intimate mood. It's a bit quirky, a bit retro, a bit skewed, bittersweet, left-field and very warm and charming - like the last dance, after everybody else has left. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
Glorious and victorious, a substitute for the Chariots of Fire theme by Vangelis. Orchestral with hints of electronica this track is perfect for sports victories, acts of heroism, breakthroughs and achievements in business, inspiring stories and ceremonies. [Tempo: Slow / 73 BPM]
A charming and positive feeling, retro pop track. Feeling of the 1960's or 1970's, slightly carefree hippie feel. No real melody, just a groove with subtle melodics. Relaxed and happy. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
1960's or 1970's style psychedelic hippie rock in the style of The Doors, etc. Featuring distorted guitars and hammond organ. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Strange, quirky and eerily innocent track with music box, organ and strings. Great for creepy kids shows, carnivals, twisted fairytales, toy stores, halloween, haunted fairgrounds, cartoons, websites and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 106 BPM]
Historical sounding Waltz performed live on an old piano and a violin. Romantic, sweet, genuine culture & history - period 1890-1940 approx. Also nice for silent film. Classy and elegant. Also available in an "old record" sounding version. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
This upbeat, happy-go-lucky rockabilly track features some very greasy guitars, a quirky organ, swingin' drums, handclaps and a cowbell. It's a fast-paced toe-tapper that has hints of The Stray Cats and The Violent Femmes. It's simple, it's fun, and it's perfect for high-energy happy scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Classic horror flick type material, with mystical chords and stabbing rhythms. Hypnotic feel. The creepy crawlies are out to get you! [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
Typical seventies Blaxploitation music or Cop Show theme. Think Starsky and Hutch, Shaft or Superfly. Funky wah guitars, lots of percussion and an epic soul brass finale. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Retro Jazz with live instruments and vintage style production. Light, soft and romantic with hammond organ, guitar, flute and drums. Perfect for happy-go-lucky times in the swinging sixties, innocence, romance, comedies and kitsch elevator music. [Tempo: Slow / 139 BPM]
An upbeat Jazzy Disco dance track with a 1970's feel. Great for exciting 1970s romantic comedy or drama. Vibrant instrumentals creating a club or bar lounge atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Fast, raw, old time rag. Muted trumpet over guitar, piano and drums. Cheeky and fun. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Classic 1960's pop-rock sound. Surf rock style with twangy electric guitars and retro organ. Swinging 60's. Groovy, baby. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
