Kmart In-Store Music: Christmas 1974

I can't wait to listen to all two hours of it.

Is it possible to be even lower rent than the Gap playlists?

I miss the low rent Xmas music you’d hear in stores years ago. It was real shitty!!

Eldergay here. As a high school student, I worked at a K-mart (this was 1977-78). We welcomed the Christmas music reel-to-reel as a welcome change from the usual reel-to-reel...which ran nonstop the rest of the year. Decades later, I can't get some of these terrible jingles out of my head:

1. "Texas Steers. Texas Steers. The best boot deal in years. A little bit o' loot buys a lotta boot at K-mart." (Set to music, of course).

2. Some awful, long song including the phrase "life is full...come fill your cup!" Ending with "K-mart is your savings store...where your dollar buys you more. They give your dreams a helping hand...at K-mart stores they [insert flourish] UNDERSTAND!"

...and don't get me started on the Blue Light Specials.

The only fun memory I have is of a store manager yelling at me and another employee who ended up with flypaper stuck to his sad, bald head.

They had ice cream sundaes at Kmart but the "whipped cream" was anything but cream.

r4, great story!

I listened to 2 minutes and it gave me the creeps.

I love this!

It would be a dream for me to take 1000 bucks into a Kmart 1974 to buy things that they just don't make anymore!

Sets of old fashioned Christmas lights.

Cheap glass ornaments yet still made in Germany.

Quality toys MADE IN JAPAN

THICK made in America jeans. American tools. Old fashioned jockstraps for my American tool. Etc etc.

Christmas Vinyl

Do we call this Christmas muzak?

It's fun to leave it on as background music when you're doing something else

...kept playing the same soundtrack every Christmas until the place caved in!

If Seasonal Affective Disorder had a soundtrack, this would be it.

It’s perfectly fine as Christmas background music. They might have edited that Kmart jingle out of the beginning, but then again maybe that’s left in to anchor it to a certain time and place.

We didn’t have Kmart in the New York area in the 70s, but I can see the music bringing back memories to people who shopped for Christmas there in the 70s.

You’d think I’d have a special fondness for Kmart, what with the Jaclyn Smith Collection and all....

I'm happy about this now

I was shocked to find out there are still a few Kmart stores still operating

R17 I think about 35 are left.

I shop at Kmart every day.

Be a dear and pick mp the "Timeless" wig next time you're in store? Thanks, doll. Get yourself one too, my treat for your bother. I'll pay you back when you swing by to drop it off.

Jaclyn's wigs look cheap even on her.

I love this thread!

R21, yep!

Jaclyn's photoshop artistry surpasses Brendad's

I miss all of that shitty music.

Been on a vintage Kmart obsessive streak lately. The aesthetic of Kmart, especially in the 90s, was the peak of American capitalism.

totally putting this on to decorate the tree

me too

I LOVE these jazzy instrumentals! So sick of the standard Christmas *songs* (with lyrics). We know the fucking words.

r29, me too

Puts me in the mood for making Love!

She has the good taste 😌

1970s K-Mart was delightful in its lower- middle class tackiness.

lots of fluorescent lighting

and that bothers me.

I can almost smell the popcorn.

Don’t forget the blue icees!

This was delightful.

in-store music then is better than in-store music now.

who knew?

No need to slum with Kmart when there are a dozen Gap In-Store Playlists of Christmas music on my Spotify, including December 1997!

The December 1999 Gap In-Store Playlist is a festive mix of classic and then-current tunes!

Nineteen years ago, the December 2001 Gap In-Store Playlists (there were TWO that year!).

Check out Holiday 2004 with GAP!

The December 1994 GAP In-Store Playlist is a boozy mix perfect for sitting by the fireside.

GPG is NOT having this bullshit with kmart.

Playlist B for December 2001 at GAP!

PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART with the December 2003 GAP In-Store Playlist!

I'm sure DL's Millennials will enjoy the Holiday sounds on the December 2002 GapKids In-Store Playlist!

Re-live the Swing Craze with the December 1998 Gap In-Store Playlist!

Every Gift, ONLY GAP!

GapPlaylistsGuy - FUCK OFF YOU OCD TROLL. This thread isn't about you and your freaky obsession. No need to hijack this thread. Stay in your lane. Chrissakes!!!

GapPlaylistsGuy - FUCK OFF YOU OCD TROLL. This thread isn't about you and your freaky obsession. No need to hijack this thread. Stay in your lane. Chrissakes!!!

GapPlaylistsGuy - FUCK OFF YOU OCD TROLL. This thread isn't about you and your freaky obsession. No need to hijack this thread. Stay in your lane. Chrissakes!!!

GapPlaylistsGuy - FUCK OFF YOU OCD TROLL. This thread isn't about you and your freaky obsession. No need to hijack this thread. Stay in your lane. Chrissakes!!!

GapPlaylistsGuy - FUCK OFF YOU OCD TROLL. This thread isn't about you and your freaky obsession. No need to hijack this thread. Stay in your lane. Chrissakes!!!

Chill out with the cool Yules sounds on the Holiday 2006 GAP In-Store Playlist!

Fuck off, troll.

Stick a fork in it, it's done.

Who goes to the Gap? Only the Poors

I do.

I prefer the Kmart list to the Gap Playlists any day.

Me too gurl

A lot of this music is sampled in Vaporwave, which I've been listening to a lot lately on YouTube. But I'm old, so I listen unironically.

R31 = “Mrs. Claus” (aka Tad the Bossy Bottom Elf)

By the way, I have just a few people blocked, but half of this thread is GONE!

gone

The Abercrombie and Fitch playlists were way better. It really made you wonder who was picking the music, especially in the mid 2000s.

I wonder as I wander

Xmas bump

Aww poor Kmart got no love for Christmas. Just sad to think about even many millennials remember going there for holiday shopping and it now basically is having dirt thrown it’s grave.

I miss that shitty Xmas music. There was lots and lots of it too.