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.
This fast paced, bouncy, vintage sounding comedy music track is guaranteed to bring a smile to the face. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 162 BPM]
A powerful drum, stomp, percussion, claps composition with unique breaks. Features powerful and impacting taiko drum accents, snare rolls with flair and tight hits. Perfect for action, sports, commercials, trailers, jingles, marching band, stimulating visual media that needs to create big impact, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
This track starts out with chords on a Mellotron, similar to the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' which leads to a funky laidback groove with melody on piano and slightly dark undertones due to the descending notes played by tremelo guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 94 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]
1950's or 1960's style classic rockabilly. Swinging and fun with twangy guitars. Historical, rock around the clock style. Also available as an Underscore version without the solo/lead guitars. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
Ragtime track played on a very 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: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
Impressionistic solo piano piece; neo classical. Busy, hurried, chased. For films / cultural / special interest. Also good for historical / retro project; can be silent movie soundtrack. [Tempo: Fast / 0 BPM]
Uplifting, happy, motivational brass band arrangement, with a strong melody and up-tempo drum beat. It has a New Orleans feel to it, with a slow build up and its improvisational-like final section. Great for productions that require a light, touching, warm feel. [Tempo: Medium / 152 BPM]
Festive and feelgood 1960's-1970's Big band jazz, in the style of the classic James Bond movies. Great for 1960's / 70's retro chic, with authentic jazz band sound of the period, as heard in many classic movies and TV shows from that era. This track is very varied throughout with many different parts, twists and turns along the way. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Powerful and dramatic future retro Funk perfect for action scenes, spy's, superheroes, impossible missions, confrontations or any project looking for a contemporary track with a retro twist that packs a punch. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A fun jazzy authentic 1920's Dixieland piece features trumpet, clarinet, banjo and tuba. Can also be 1930's or 1940's. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A cool and chic pop/dance number that combines classic Disco flavors with more modern dance, pop and R&B elements. Uplifting, refreshing and youthful. Has a busy, happening, bustling feel. The 1970's, 80's, 90's, 2000's and 2010's all come together in this funky pop track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 121 BPM]
A mash up of swampy bluegrass and hip-hop with banjo, fiddle, slide guitar, acoustic guitar and low down beats. Think urban twang in the style of Rench and Ganstagrass. Dark and sassy.Great for hillbilly comedy, redneck reality shows, southern cooking, rural crime, country parties. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Retro surf rock / pulp rock. 1960's / 1970's sound. Lively and uptempo, but also a bit sneaky, expectant. Danger and adventure. Bad-ass attitude combined with a free flying spirit. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A bouncy whacked out tune with a retro gaming feel and all the charm of a 1980’s synthesizer demo! Complete with cheerful drums & cheapo plastic instruments, this bubbly melody would suit cartoon graphics, micro games, commercials or quirky off beat comedy videos. Similar in style to the Elliot Simons tracks Wacko Town, Big Cheese & Sambatastico. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A 1960’s style track featuring groovy bass patterns, drums, electric guitars, organ and synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 122 BPM]
Slow, doom-ish, retro pulp / surf rock. Dark and moody, with a 1960's / 1970's Tex-Mex sound. Good for retro and pulp type productions. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 81 BPM]
This track simply jams with that up-tempo "rockabilly" flavor. It's quirky, and bouncy and funny as ever. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
This is an interesting Beatle-esque pop track featuring piano and guitar. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Charming and quirky retro electro track. 8-bit sounds with a Nintendo-ish feel, video game subculture, the 1980's and digital life. Slightly reminiscent of the work of Kraftwerk. At about 30 seconds a Jean Michel Jarre -like melody comes in. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Classic funk in the style of James Brown or the Blues Brothers. Cool and strutting, with a busy bass line, drums and congas, horns section and funk guitar. New as of 2012, but in an authentic sounding 1970's type production. Trumpet solo at 01:10. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Heavily inspired by Chic's "Good Times", this track's got that bright 70s/80s turn of the decade groove and sound. Tight drums and bass line, over witch a clean Nile Rogers' styled guitar and typical disco strings set the vintage/retro mood. Perfect for dancing spoofs, or even dance lessons! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
The ultimate celebratory party vibe in the style of the classic track 'Celebration' by Kool and the Gang. A great feel good track for presentations, motivational speakers, commercials, party scenes, bringing in the new year or uplifting movie credits. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A quirky bassline sprinkled with dubstep & reggae music. Mischievous, humerous, razor sharp & infectious. Great music for gaming, short films or modern comedy. Similar in feel to the Elliot Simons track Dubweed & Lucky Boy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
Fun and cheeky jazz swing track, performed entirely on acoustic guitars with subtle brush drums. Feelgood, upbeat, retro and chiq! Elements of ragtime, charleston, happy 1920's - 1940's swing jazz. [Tempo: Fast / 108 BPM]
Retro rock theme for spies, espionage and international men of mystery. Works equally well for spoofs and humourous secret agent antics as it does for serious action/crime thrillers. Features live horns, guitars, bass and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Sexy retro Hip Hop beat, with rock guitar samples and vintage drum machines. In the style of old school rapper Tone Loc. Funky and cool, wild thing going on. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
Beatles soundalike, 1960's era Liverpool haircuts with electric guitars. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Fun, upbeat Dixieland version of this very famous tune. Widely associated with New Orleans, Louis Armstrong and various sports teams this track could fit many projects including comedies, kids tv and products, silent films, partying, celebrating, documentaries, sports and mardi gras. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 91 BPM]
Toe-tapping, old time / retro jazz with just acoustic bass and guitar, in the Django style. Cheeky, charming and light hearted. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A gong hit and a cliché shakuhachi phrase. That's it! If you don't know what a shakuhachi is, just listen to the track and you will remember the classic Japanese flute extensively used in stereotyped Kung Fu films. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Funky music based around drums and bass, with strong horns and electric guitar on top. Inspired by funk and fusion music, Tower Of Power, James Brown and Average With Band. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Mysterious pop-soul. Twangy guitars over piano, mystery strings and beats. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A short 1950's style rockabilly track in the sound of 'Rock Around the Clock', etc. Available as a 20-second track with beginning and end, a never-ending seamless music loop, and three different jingles / stingers. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 184 BPM]
Instrumental version of the traditional nursery rhyme / children's song. Available as a regular / long version, and also as a seamlessly looping version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Retro style, brash, brazzy, jazz / funk with horn section. Somewhat 1970's feel. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Contemporary funk, with a strong retro accent. Groovy and cool. Synthesized bass, live drums, funk guitars and clavinet. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
1950's or 1960's style classic rockabilly. Swinging and fun with twangy guitars. Historical, rock around the clock style. Also available as an Underscore version without the solo/lead guitars. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 170 BPM]
Retro video game style, with a rough and determined mood, like an 8-bit action hero. Good for retro and novelty productions harking back to the times of Nintendo game systems, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, Sega, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Historical early film, vintage piano, 1900's, 1910's or 1920's era, chase sequence. [Tempo: Fast / 159 BPM]
This (intentionally) kitschy piano ballad imitates those cheesy and magnificent piano pieces from the seventies. Due to its authentic instrumentation and production the listener will travel through time. Back to 1976. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Dark and twisted, but also fun music. Classic Evil Clown type track with barrel organ, ominous bells and slightly psychedelic strings and orchestra elements. Quick waltz rhythm. Funny horror. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
A fun and bouncy retro-style Dixieland or Charleston type jazz track. Drums, upright bass, piano, clarinet. Historical, cultural, old-time party jazz, ca 1920-1945. [Tempo: Fast / 95 BPM]
Fun, spooky and laidback track that blends a funky hip-hop groove with instruments traditionally used for horror and cartoons. Features drums, upright bass, church organ, theremin, synths and sound fx. NOTE: This track features deliberate vinyl sound FX / 'scratchy record' sound. This is done on purpose and is not an error with the file. [Tempo: Slow / 83 BPM]
A historical, retro big band, classic dance hall track. Showtime type music from the 1920-1950 era USA. Romantic and lyrical string section with brass section, acoustic guitar, jazz drums, acoustic bass, piano and some trumpet and violin soloing. Good for historical / period films, retro productions of the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's or 1950's. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
Energetic dance track that combines swing music with house beats. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A proud stoic soundtrack featuring orchestral strings and horns, with piano and marching drums. Also available as a version without the marching drums. Patriotic / Honorable / Ceremonial / Achievement / Graduation / Victorious. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Retro funk in the style and sound of James Brown, Maceo Parker, Sly and the Family Stone or early Prince. Fun and funky, with a retro chic. Busy bass line and syncopated drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Cool, laidback 60s/70s style soundtrack jazz with upright bass, drums, piano, vibraphone and baritone sax. The perfect track to accompany spies, espionage or any shady character lurking in the shadows. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
An upbeat, lively, excited Retro Funk track with the sound and feel of the 1970s or early 80's. Bright and funky horn sections with a great bass line and funk guitars. Authentic sounding 1970's type production. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
