Just Recognized a Library Track

[Bronic]

Samsung is running an ad campaign in Latin America and its main ad piece features Tony Hymas' 'Happy Whistler' from the Bruton library at the opening and closing of the video:

This is a very deliberate choice. The ad reenacts a famous scene from an episode of 'El Chavo del Ocho', a 1970s Mexican comedy series. When it arrived in Brazil in early 1980s the dubbing team replaced the original score with LPs from Bruton and KPM making tunes from 'Kids and Cartoons' and "Comedy" very well known among Brazilians.

[Walk the Skies 202]

The latest episode of The Amazing Digital Circus features an edited/possibly reorchestrated version of Alessandro Alessandroni's "Evocazioni D'Amore" from SR Records' legendary Prisma Sonoro (SR ST 138).

The credits do mention its usage so it's not something that's an unknown secret, but I recognized it by just the first few notes upon first watching.

[KPM Lover]

In this animation, which was based on a 2023 Brazilian meme:

The background music, at 0:47, is "Beat Culture #2", by Henrik Nielsen (Ole Georg), from the Capitol Production Music label. In the video, the track is played in a distorted way.

[apmnut]

Featured at the end of a bizarre educational film with a talking car with an animated face found in this compilation video of various "Campy Classroom Classics"  (at 34:12) is Harry Lubin's "Pixie Polka" (aka "Clockwork Doll"), from Harrose. This is the "alt" version featured on CAS 33, not the more symphonic-sounding version performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra originally released on the "Themes from the World of Sight and Sound" LP Harry released in the early 60s on Decca.

[KPM Lover]

The background music that plays in this Brazilian bicycle commercial from the early 80s is "Novelty Nonsense" by Jerry Mengo, from the Montparnasse 2000 label.

[apmnut]

Part of the sequence in this "Groovie Goolies" short uses a sped-up version of Ib Glindemann's "Sophisticated Clown", from Capitol L-145.

[zach]

bought this Horny Working Girl DVD at the video store a while ago, popped it in and was shocked to hear Quango and Sparky!

[Booseyandhawkesfan8]

I heard Desmond champs the twanger in a McDonald’s commercial https://www.ispot.tv/ad/54Dw/mcdonalds-looks-like-rain-30-off-order

[Kpmdude8]

Shaindlins fun on ice is heard in the dr who episode lux near the opening of Mr ring a ding.

[Kpmdude8]

This may be off hand but a smash bros video appeared in my recommendations and the white caps fendor vendor was playing in the background of the video.

[zach]

this one was a delight to find. been looking for this polish cassette for a long time, and i finally got to purchase it. was unknown PRiTV stuff for me. recognized a few of the tracks instantly:

Senny Koszmar is Say, It's True on Apollo Sound - Colours In Rhythm Volume 8

One is Crushed Ice on Standard Music Library - Pop Pulsations II

Bliżej Siebie is Superfunc on Standard Music Library - Tingling Jingles / Pop Pulsations
Poczekaj Na Mnie is Discofied on Standard Music Library - Tingling Jingles / Pop Pulsations
Pokusa is Pokusa on on Standard Music Library - Tingling Jingles / Pop Pulsations

all released commercially first on this cassette in poland, then ported to the library releases. can't really post it here as it's not a library release, but i did upload this rarity to youtube if you wish to hear.

poppulsations.blogspot.com/2026/02/orkiestra-rozrywkowa-pr-i-tv-w-poznaniu.html 

[Lord Thames]

Superb!  I recently found out the Standard Music LP Twelve International Hits...

discogs.com/release/8987186-Richard-Niles-Orchestra-Twelve-Great-International-Hits

...is actually Zbig Gorny and the Poznańska Orkiestra Rozrywkowa Polskiego Radia I Telewizji, and came out on cassette in Poland too:

discogs.com/release/11212471-Pozna%C5%84ska-Orkiestra-Rozrywkowa-PR-i-TV-She-I-Inne-Przeboje-%C5%9Awiatowe

The album with the girl blowing bubbles on the cover mentions a co-production with London Weekend Television, and that's what this was!

[zach]

oh wow, i have that cassette! would have never known that it also had a Standard release.

[nidostar]

Superb!  I recently found out the Standard Music LP Twelve International Hits...

discogs.com/release/8987186-Richard-Niles-Orchestra-Twelve-Great-International-Hits

...is actually Zbig Gorny and the Poznańska Orkiestra Rozrywkowa Polskiego Radia I Telewizji, and came out on cassette in Poland too:

discogs.com/release/11212471-Pozna%C5%84ska-Orkiestra-Rozrywkowa-PR-i-TV-She-I-Inne-Przeboje-%C5%9Awiatowe

The album with the girl blowing bubbles on the cover mentions a co-production with London Weekend Television, and that's what this was!

This is where I find library music becomes confusing. I know it's not unusual for tracks to be renamed as ownership of the published music changes. I also know that music performed by an artist can be accredited to a fictitious alternative artist. But here we have two genuine artists, the Richard Niles Orchestra and the Poznań PRiTV Orchestra claiming to be one and the same? So is Richard Niles, an accomplished musician and composer, a figment of our imagination or has he been taking credit for works that are not his? Please help me understand, Lord Thames.

[Lord Thames]

I suspect Richard Niles was commissioned to do the arrangements by Standard in the UK, and Standard shipped them over to Poznan, where Zbig and the boys recorded them - the Polskie Nagrania album says it was a co-production so presumably Standard had the Western rights, with Wifon or whoever having them for the East.

Discogs credits the Richard Niles Orchestra, but the orchestra is uncredited on the Standard LP, and Niles is only credited for the arrangements, so the Discogs entry doesn't appear to be correct.