Buckshot LeFonque "Some Cow Fonque"

Morning radio shows all use music beds to brand themselves. A music bed ultimately is vocal-less background music to talk over. I would bet that most mid-1990s morning producers spun the song "Some Cow Fonque" while the wacky morning host riffed on the day's topics. The funky hip-hop jazz tune comes from Buckshot LeFonque (pronounced "luh funk") which is the brainchild of Branson Marsalis. His 1994 song made it on the R&B charts and also became commonplace as a music bed on morning radio shows.

David Sanborn "Bang Bang"

Jazz was everywhere in the 1990s. Jay Leno enlisted jazz instrumentalist Branford Marsalis to lead the Tonight Show Band from 1992 until 1995. Elaine Benes briefly dated jazz saxophonist John Jermaine during the 1996 episode (entitled "The Rye") of Seinfeld. Another prominent artist of the smooth jazz scene is David Sanborn whose upbeat tune "Bang Bang" found a home on soft rock radio stations in 1992. Sanborn actually didn't appreciate his name being synonymous with smooth jazz.