Each time he called an office or company and heard his white whale song, he would add its information to his master file on the subject. Being the man he was, Dick kept detailed notes about many facets of his life and the hold song was not an exception. Dick loved this music though and he wasn’t alone in this predilection. Most people hate hold music, whether it is the association with waiting or the typical quality of music chosen, I’m not sure. Dick and I are both people who, after being on hold for minutes already, have asked to be put back on hold. Sara Corbett contributed a story about her father-in-law’s my strange obsession about a haunting hold music.ĭick is a thorough, fastidious man who previously worked at IBM and now spends his later years searching for information about an obscure hold song. Ira Glass introduced the theme of the week as basically this blog’s premise–loving and hating a life in limbo. Between working on an uninspired thesis and crying about graduate school interviews, I listened to This American Life on my iPod Classic. The bigwigs looked at the project saying, “cool, but what do you hear when the guy on the other end doesn’t have time for your foolishness?” Seeing a clear opportunity for hold music fame and the groupies that would accompany, Darrick rang up his buddy Tim for permission to add the garage track as the default hold music.īack in January 2014, I was finishing my senior year in college. Later, in the 90’s, Darrick was now some kind of hotshot at Cisco, working on the first VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone system for the company. If Tim or Darrick want to chat we can do a song exploder and really get to the bottom of it. Tim pulls out a drum machine and synthesizer while Darrick loads a fresh tape into the recorder, “let’s add more computer claps this time.” There isn’t much info out there about how the song was produced so I’m embellishing with the facts here a little. The dusty folding chairs creak as the boys groove in their seats listening to a Yanni cassette. Sixteen year old Tim Carleton and his friend Darrick Deel sit hunched over a Yamaha four-track recorder in his parent’s garage on a sticky summer afternoon.
Like most contemporary mythic origin stories, Opus No. However, before we jump into the middle of it all, let’s warm up and tune the synthesizers first before getting to the big reveal. 1 without talking about This American Life because like for many others, I was first introduced to this song through the podcast. If you ask a person at random if they can name a hold song, you’ll get a concerned stare or…this song. If hold music has a celebrity personality, its Opus No.
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