Attention Kmart Shoppers

https://youtu.be/XsI2ad5vxCY

Although The Treasury on Lamar was more my speed, I can definitely appreciate this.

This is a digitized version of an in-store reel to reel tape that was played within a Kmart store in 1973. In my opinion, the opening Kmart jingle is the most important artifact of this recording, but the music and small number of commercials make it a great listen.

2 Replies to “Attention Kmart Shoppers”

  1. Instead of the Goldberg Variations, shouldn’t NASA have sent Voyager into space with this K-Mart audio?

    Perhaps not the peak of our achievement as a species, but definitely representative of us. What if the extraterrestrials arrive here and expect a bunch of Bachs?

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