So - back in the day, computers were just barely new enough to have sound cards and speakers, but not new enough that you'd have any kind of music to actually play on those shiny new sound cards. Very few people had the internet to download anything, there were no MP3s, no nothing. Maybe you had a CD drive to listen to the CDs you could already use, maybe you didn't.
But what you did have were the demo MIDIs that came with Windows. Windows 3.1 came with two sample MIDIs, something you could listen to even if you had nothing else. Those songs were canyon.mid and passport.mid.
I always loved both of them, but for most people canyon.mid is the one they remember best. It's a fun, light smooth jazz track with a distinctive staccato piano opener that's easy to remember.
And here's passport.mid, a funky track with a driving bassline that sounds great on the Sounblasters most people were using back then.
If you had game making tools like Klik n Play, and wanted to add MIDI songs, you probably used those tracks at some point because it's all you had. I did! And even if you were just listening to music, you'd get used to those two because, again, there's a good chance you had no other music on your PC. It's a good thing those two tracks were so good.
