Royalty Free Music for Children's Television

This latest White Beetle release is a collection of royalty free music tracks for media producers looking for memorable and professionally produced music for use in children's film, children's television and radio programmes, and also animation/cartoons and video games aimed at the children's entertainment market.

This compilation contains seventeen royalty free music tracks written and produced by William E Peklinsky (see other works). These excellent pieces of music are full of happy and funny moments that are innocent and animated. A large array of instruments have been utilized and variety is the essence here as tempos, rhythms, keys and themes change between pieces to offer a very evocative and instantly adaptable professional music solution to the media producer.

Compilation track listing, links to audio and descriptions:

1 - A Minor Malady - 3m28s - Quirky, Euro-centric jazz, with a tuba bass, complementary jazz piano solo, and hop changes. Fun! Eccentric and humorous with a strong sense of movement and purpose, this perky jazz piece has a fast moving jazz tempo.

2 - Baby Steps - 4m17s - Portraying something silly or daft is what this piece music is all about and it does it very well. The melody develops harmonically using a good selection of instruments. Lyrical in places and meandering its way through different witty passages this piece will really make someone or something look very silly in your production. very childish!

3 - Bugs - 3m24s - Full of lively animation and light fantasy this fluently, improvised composition can easily be adapted to cartoon, dance, animation, mime, children's film and television, nature films, corporate films and advertising.

4 - Cheeky - 3m22s - A hip hop styled tune with a jazz melody and harmony featuring synthesizer, synth bass, vibes, piano, electric piano and drum machine.

5 - Child's Play - 3m16s - Enchanting and charming piece of royalty free music. Full of childish wonder, simple major to minor progressions resolve nicely into wondrous musical landscapes. Sounds like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with an animated, mechanical feel.

6 - Fosse Strut - 2m24s - Based around the flute and a marching snare drum this playful royalty free music piece goes from a well disguised blues into a Polka and then back again. All thoughtfully developing musically as it marches along. Excellent! Mid twentieth century style Forties 40's, Fifties 50's sound.

7 -Help Is On The Way - 3m04s - Mania prevails with this crazy whirlwind of activity! Kids of all ages will love its high energy and dizzying tempo of 150 beats per minute. This is manic, cartoonish, fun, an 'up and down', 'in and out', 'call the cops,' fast-moving chase, reminiscent of the Keystone Cops or the 'on the run' instrumentals in Chaplin or Abbott and Costello.

8 - March Of The Ducks - 2m16s - Highly individualized instrumental characterizations, give this clever composition lots of animation, movement and comic appeal. Here is an unruly, waddling battalion of flat-footed, quacking, squawking, awkward and amusing ducks of all shapes and sizes.

9 - Music For A Centipede With Bad Knees - 2m55s - featuring staccato bowed basses, marimba, steel drums, acoustic guitar, trombone, trumpet, clarinet, mandolin, cellos and full orchestra. A very clever and witty piece of music with a good busy pace that paints a very descriptive and lively picture of an eccentric insect underworld full of fun, fantasy and movement.

10 - Music For A Farsighted Billy Goat - 3m24s - Jazzy piano and guitar feature in this funny, eccentric piece that describes the placid progress of an old billy goat nibbling his way here and there across your Grandma's back yard. Tentative, edgy, jumpy, prancing, ambling along without a care in the world, smooching smoothly and lazily are all the descriptions one can find in this innovative and punchy number.

11 - Pothole Heaven - 3m01s - A light hearted piece of music with a very silly sound and feel. The syncopated rhythm in places certainly adds to the spectacle. Mandolin and guitar leads keep this piece smiling. Added accordion add variety and colour. European mid twentieth century (20th Century) feel. Very charming and very silly.

12 - Song For A Rocky Road - 2m46s - This lazily, rambling jazz theme is based around a simple blues chord progression with a syncopated off beat rhythm which has a steady, ambling, meandering pace with a moderate tempo of 116 beats per minute.

13 - Song For Mole Hill Climbers - 2m37s - This Celtic styled orchestration features accordion, marimba, banjo, acoustic bass and flutes and there is a constant optimistic industriousness, a positive sense of working hard but getting nowhere. There is a simple, very catchy theme that one can whistle along to. Composed in a major key this is a medium tempo march, with 113 beats to the minute.

14 - The Duck Battalion - 3m24s - This is an ambling, meandering, lackadaisical march that loosely describes a wobbling procession of funny, quacking, flat-footed ducks but it could easily be adapted to other, more human activities where attention is minimal, naive and unfocussed e.g. sightseers, tourists, gossiping shoppers, window shopping, inept workmen etc.

15 - The Geese Squadron - 3m35s - Gambolling, playful and amusing, this comical composition is nominally, a tribute to flying geese. This piece has a humorous, marching, upbeat tempo with 203 beats per minutes. It is very reminiscent of early Twentieth Century slapstick humor such as Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin or the Three Stooges.

16 - The Turkey Strut - 3m02s - Entertainingly jaunty, capricious and full of quirky movement this piece of music could be a dance for pixies, raindrops falling, turkeys strutting or the wheels of industry moving. There is a clever duo between a plucking banjo, pecking marimba and a comic plodding tuba and a smooth contrasting piano bridge.

17 - The Usual Suspects - 2m13s - A very comical, childish and mischievous piece. Perfect background royalty free music for comic sketches and funny children's television sketches. Endearing, humorous and meandering with a medium pace marching snare tempo. Mid twentieth century style, Thirties 30's, Forties 40's sound.