2-XL Robot Music from Emil Ascher

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Found another Parry Music track: "Toy Ride" by Eric Allen, which plays in the Tiger release, Storymaker.

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Hey, all! Bumping this post as I've added another unknown track from one of the Tiger cassettes released in the early 90s, which (like a few others) may possibly come from a digital keyboard/synthesizer (i.e., Yamaha, Casio, etc.) This leaves us with 33 unknown tracks left to identify for both all 2-XL titles.

To summarize, the Mego 8-track tapes from the late 70s/early 80s utilized music from the Emil Ascher library, taking from the following labels:

Amphonic Music
KPM Music
Bruton Music
Musique Pour L'Image
Parry Music
Standard Music Library
Studio G
Ultra Music Services

Plus, they also used tracks from Capitol Production Music's Media Music catalogue for some of the early tapes.

By the 90s, when Tiger Electronics produced new tapes, they not only used KPM, Bruton, Parry, and Amphonic tracks, but also began using De Wolfe Music, sourcing from both their vinyl and CD catalogues.

Here is the link again for all the remaining unknown tracks (8 from the Mego 8-track cartridges and 25 from the Tiger cassettes): dropbox.com/scl/fo/jevq60nw2cbzuay4pk0s8/h?rlkey=n0innvvvfo9wuwxtptkhj0mn3&dl=0

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Found some tracks from Hudson Music as "Shuffler" and "Pep" by John Hyde from HMCS/LP 533 "Sunny Side Up" play on the Tiger Electronics releases, Trivia Time and Amazing Sports Feats respectively.

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Finally identified the last track in the Mego 8-track title, Robotrivia: "Schizophrenic Lullaby" by John Lewis from Standard Music Library ESL 139 "Tingling Jingles / Pop Sensations".

hXXps://www.standardmusiclibrary.com/search?keyword=%22Schizophrenic%20Lullaby%22&view=tracks&page=1

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Identified "triviatime_musicbreak" as "Sidney Sparrow" by John Hyde from De Wolfe DWS/LP 3599 "Prime Cuts Volume 2". Plays at 26:20 in the video below (courtesy of Chekmate 99):

EDIT: Found another one: "Novelty Call 3 Version 1" by Simon Park from De Wolfe DWS/LP 3362 "Calls, Fillers, and Signs", which serves as the last unknown track that plays in the Tiger Electronics title, Treasure Chest of Facts and Fun.

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1st ID of 2025: "Sea of Storms" by William Merrick Farran and Edgar Vetter from KPM 1085 "Electronic Music", which is played back five semitones higher in the Tiger Electronics' tape, Voyage to Outer Space.

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Not much of an update, but a while ago, I found out that the music box rendition of "Wedding March" by Mendelssohn (which can be heard in the Mego 8-track release, "Storyland") comes from a Regina musical box, because there is a similar recording of said classical music piece from BBC Records (soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/BBC_Records,_Musical_Boxes_-_(Regina)_%27The_Wedding_March%27), though the disc in that recording is played much faster than in the original recording heard on the 8-track.

However, I wasn't sure if anyone could source the original recording from "Storyland" (and another musical box disc melody) from one of either two albums:

• Century Records' "Selections From The Regina Music Box" (discogs.com/release/13462005-The-Regina-Music-Box-Selections-From-The-Regina-Music-Box)
• "Music Boxes Of Long Ago" from Cook Records' Sounds of Our Times catalogue (discogs.com/release/10848421-George-And-Madeleine-Brown-Music-Boxes-Of-Long-Ago)

Hopefully, this will help narrow out what may be library music, sound effects, or possibly from commercially released music albums.

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Identified "trivia time thinking music" as Rap Pattern 26 "Funk 4" from the Casio Rapman (Rap-1) keyboard (heard in 10:22 in the video below):

Rap Pattern "Rock 2" was also used in a couple other Tiger 2-XL tapes for the "2-XL rap" with the percussion sounds following the rhythm track's abrupt end.

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Identified the last Trivia Time track as "Belly Busters" by Reg Tilsley from Hudson HMCS/LP 546 "Piggyback".