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One
big thing that sets us apart from our competition is the sheer
variety of styles we’re comfortable with. From vocal
jazz to UK-style electronic dance, from old-time rock and
roll to Scottish funeral music, we don’t just fake it,
we nail it. It’s because we love all kinds of music,
and because we’re only truly happy when a client asks
us to do something we’ve never done before. Take the
time to download some of these MP3 samples, and you’ll
see what we mean.
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A Beautiful World
Client: Grossnickle Eye Care Center
A new jingle for northern Indiana’s most successful group of eye surgeons. We communicate caring and personal attention without having to say it... Just by drawing a picture of why the patient’s sight is so important. This will be on the air starting in June 2004.
Download in MP3 format: A Beautiful World.mp3 (1.4 MB)
Come Home for the Holidays
Client: Aunt Millie’s Bakeries
People don’t bake anymore. So how do you get that home-baked taste for special family events? Pickup some Aunt Millie’s. The jazz-choir sound that says “holidays” is put to good use here.
Download in MP3 format: AuntMillieHoliday.mp3 (1.4 MB)
Belongs To You
Client: Midwest America Federal Credit Union
The stock credit union claim is, “Trust us… after all, you are part owner when you join.” But who has said it as elegantly as “When you belong to Midwest America, Midwest America belongs to you.” This full-blown group vocal is one of Fort Wayne’s best-known musical IDs.
Download in MP3 format: Belongs To You.mp3 (1.4 MB)
Big Food, L’il Money
Client: Hacienda Mexican Restaurants
A throwback to a simpler time, this stinger open has the audacity to announce that an ad is coming. This, and its companion closer (with the lyric “See ya real soon at Hacienda”) was used to bookend Hacienda’s surreal and multi-award winning radio campaign.
City Streets
Client: Lincoln Financial Group
When they called us to postscore their new recruitment and orientation videos, Lincoln said, “We want to sound urban, fresh and hip, but also traditional, strong and grounded.” So we blended electronic beats with jazz chords and orchestral instruments to create a new urban soundscape. This excerpt is an edit of one of the main themes from the score.
Download in MP3 format: City Streets.mp3 (1.6 MB)
Convergence
Client: ASPN
ASPN is a unique company that provides marketing services for a group of medium-sized specialty insurance companies. This music was part of the score for a video shown at their first conference. They wanted a fast-paced score that combined a southwestern “desert” feel, a “telegraph” main theme and an overall “entrace into the coliseum” attitude. Here it is.
Download in MP3 format: Convergence.mp3 (3.5 MB)
Does It All!
Client: Korte Electric Co.
Everyone knows them as furnace guys. How to best communicate that they do plumbing and electrical work, too? This song does it. “If it’s hidden in the floor or the ceiling or the wall...” Client was so happy this tune is the only audio in their new TVCs.
Download in MP3 format: Does It All!.mp3 (0.7 MB)
Get Happy!
Client: STAR Bank
Agency HPN decided that STAR’s new high-interest CD made people feel happy. We helped them negotiate the rights, then wrote the arrangement and recorded this swingin’ version of the Harold Arlen classic.
Download in MP3 format: GetHappy.mp3 (0.7 MB)
Where Great Things Happen
Client: First Bank of Carmi
First Bank wanted an anti-jingle: a song that expressed the feeling one of their southern Illinois customers might have for their home town. The only direction was to make it emotional, personal, and to use their existing slogan as the last line. Check both versions: one geared to female and the other to male listeners.
Download in MP3 format: Great Things Female.mp3 (1.4 MB)
It's Festival Time!
Client: Three Rivers Festival
A Fort Wayne favorite, this rollicking N'orleans jam was originally written over two decades ago, and reborn in this version in 2008. We heard you missed it, so it's back.. laissez les bon temps roullez!
Download in MP3 format: It's Festival Time!.mp3 (2.1 MB)
Jingle Montage
Client: See Description
7 minutes and 5 seconds of tuneful advertising for national, regional and local clients including Peg Perego, Caroline Turkey, the Iowa Lottery, MC Sports, Michigan’s Adventure and lots more. Every picture tells a story... Give us a call and we’ll be happy to share the marketing foundation behind any of these songs.
Download in MP3 format: Jingle Montage.mp3 (9.8 MB)
Mindscape
Client: Optima Systems
Optima creates training videos for psychiatrists. Their video producer was looking for music for a new series, and needed themes, bumpers, tags and transitional pieces which would communicate the mystery of the brain without sounding “spooky” or heavy-handed. The themes from this 2:15 piece were the foundation for the entire music package.
Download in MP3 format: Mindscape.mp3 (3.1 MB)
You Never Know What You’ll Find
Client: The Bookmark
Based on a simple line the client had used in print advertising for years, this full-sing jingle paints a picture of the atmosphere at your nearby Bookmark store. Easily one of our catchiest tunes; running for less just over a year, you can ask anyone in any Fort Wayne grocery store or teller line to sing it, and they will.
Old Timey
Client: See Description
From PBS documentary to historical videos for corporate clients, we’ve been asked to a lot of period music. This montage features some of the best, encompassing styles from country to ragtime, but all in a 1920s to 1940s vein. If you’re looking for old-timey, we’ve got it.
Download in MP3 format: Old Timey.mp3 (5.1 MB)
Playing To Win
Client: Discover Card
For their annual sales meeting, Discover wanted to fire up their sales force with the kind of “we can do anything” feeling they had years back. This arena rock tune, used in videos throughout the show, did the trick.
Download in MP3 format: PlayingToWin.mp3 (5 MB)
Scoring Montage
Client: See Description
Excerpts from music for TVC’s, video scores and show music for clients like Bank One, Dow Chemical, Tim Allen Tools, Sauder Woodworking, Kirsch Window Hardware, Lincoln Financial, Biomet, DePuy, and many more. From classic to Celtic, from heavy rock to light jazz, we do it right.
Download in MP3 format: scoring.mp3 (9.5 MB)
The Spirit Of Rock and Roll
Client: Arnold's Drive-In
Arnold’s is a local fave, filled to overflowing with great diner food and an amazing collection of 50s and 60s memorabilia. So, you treat it like a theme park, right? Wrong. You sing about the food, and let the tune carry the ambience. Arnold’s liked this approach so much they rejected a competitor’s song they could have had for free to buy this one. No kidding.
Download in MP3 format: Spirit of Rock and Roll.mp3 (1.4 MB)
Surf Hard, Surf Fast
Client: Time/Warner Cable, San Diego
If you want people to surf the Internet along the California coast, there’s only one choice for the music, and this is it. Classic mid-60’s surf music gets an “extreme” update for this set of promotional TVC’s.
Download in MP3 format: SurfFast.mp3 (0.7 MB)
The Giving Season
Client: MC Sports
We produced a huge package of music for Midwest regional sporting goods retailer MC Sports, including a pop/rock jingle package, a bluegrass version of the song for use by their hunting and camper center stores, and this traditional jazz vocal version, reminding folks that sporting goods make nice holiday gifts. Our favorite vocal arrangement to date.
Download in MP3 format: The Giving Season.mp3 (1.4 MB)
The Right Direction
Client: Ossian State Bank
How do you walk a demographic line between young and old, between rural and urban, between established small town customers and the young southwest couples and singles you’re going for? For Ossian State Bank, we created this breezy amalgam of pop, rock and soft jazz. On radio and TV, it fits any message and frames their theme line in an unforgettable hook.
Download in MP3 format: The Right Direction.mp3 (1.4 MB)
Today, Tomorrow, Together
Client: Merillat Cabinets
Merillat needed to communicate to their distributors that their new commitment was not temporary, but for keeps. We wrote this 5-minute corporate version of a “baby, come back” song to their specs. From first phone call to finished production? Six days.
Download in MP3 format: Today, Tomorrow, Together.mp3 (7.3 MB)
We're On A Roll
Client: International Truck
Written for a live conference, this song communicates the culture at the “new” International Truck in a direct and personal way. A big hit at their 2003 conference, they like it so well they asked us to come and perform it live at their 2004 conference, where we tore the place up.
Download in MP3 format: We're On A Roll.mp3 (3.9 MB)
Windshield Wisdom Theme
Client: Lincoln Financial
Every month, the Lincoln wholesale force gets a CD newsletter called “Windshield Wisdom.” They wanted a grinding, classic rock tune for the intro, and we cooked this straight ahead Southern-tinged jam, along with a complete package of stingers and bumps.
Download in MP3 format: Windshield.mp3 (1.8 MB)
Workhorse Video Score
Client: International Truck
International was introducing a new panel truck called The Workhorse. This track, based on a bouncy earworm of an acoustic guitar figure, underscored shots of the new truck in action in a wide variety of commercial applications. We’ll be posting video samples soon.
Download in MP3 format: Workhorse.mp3 (2.7 MB)
Your Bank, Your Life
Client: Crossroads Bank
The goal here was to create a piece of music that was at once folky and sophisticated, down-home but uptown. The solution is an elegant one, not only instrumentally but in the artful hook, which makes their sig line "Where Your Bank and Your life Meet" sound like a completely natural phrase to sing.
Download in MP3 format: Your Bank, Your Life.mp3 (1.4 MB)
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