Skating Squirrels

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Skating Squirrels
Royalty Free Retro Light Orchestral Music
Shane Ivers
2021
There’s an entire era of filmmaking that Skating Squirrels captures perfectly – the mid-century world of cheerful public information films, black-and-white newsreels, and advertisements where everyone was improbably happy about household appliances. Bouncy staccato strings carry the melody with perky efficiency, a xylophone hops around doing exactly what xylophones were put on this earth to do, and a flute adds just enough lightness to keep the whole thing airborne. It’s light orchestral incidental music of the highest order – the kind that plays whilst a cartoon character is doing something industrious and slightly ridiculous.
Perfect for retro-themed content, parody advertisements, and nostalgic video essays that reference the mid-20th century. Works brilliantly as background music for cooking, crafting, or DIY videos where a light, cheerful energy keeps things ticking along. Particularly effective for time-lapse sequences, animations, and any content with a playful, vintage-inspired aesthetic.
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UKEZT2100013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJuWLeHWahM
Oldies, Orchestral, Soundtrack
Bouncy, Bright
Strings, Xylophone

Bouncy staccato strings, a jovial xylophone, and light orchestral charm straight from the golden age of newsreels and cheerful public information films.

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BPM 89

ISRC UKEZT2100013

Released 2021

Length 1:44

Downloads 2.1k

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Royalty Free Retro Light Orchestral Music

There’s an entire era of filmmaking that Skating Squirrels captures perfectly – the mid-century world of cheerful public information films, black-and-white newsreels, and advertisements where everyone was improbably happy about household appliances. Bouncy staccato strings carry the melody with perky efficiency, a xylophone hops around doing exactly what xylophones were put on this earth to do, and a flute adds just enough lightness to keep the whole thing airborne. It’s light orchestral incidental music of the highest order – the kind that plays whilst a cartoon character is doing something industrious and slightly ridiculous.

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Perfect for retro-themed content, parody advertisements, and nostalgic video essays that reference the mid-20th century. Works brilliantly as background music for cooking, crafting, or DIY videos where a light, cheerful energy keeps things ticking along. Particularly effective for time-lapse sequences, animations, and any content with a playful, vintage-inspired aesthetic.

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Category: Royalty Free Music Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, advert, advertisement, background, black and white, bouncy, bright, cheerful, children's, commercial, documentary, easygoing, fifties, flute, forties, happy, jolly, light, lighthearted, newsreel, oldies, orchestral, public service announcement, retro, sixties, soundtrack, sprightly, strings, vintage, whimsical, xylophone

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