[78-L] Record collection brings laughs

[simmonssomer]

Isn't there a Walt Disney animated short with a parody of a German factory 
featuring "Muzak" to encourage "schnell" work ?

Al S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:41 PM
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> --- On Mon, 3/28/11, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Muzak's legacy has been simplistically labeled as being
>> just "elevator music," but their company had a broader
>> history.
>
> Muzak also did a lot of psychological research into the
> effect of music on people, and came up with their "Stimulus
> Progression" system of programming music as a result.
> Each set was 6 (?) songs, with accelerating tempos,
> followed by 15 (?) minutes of silence (this is from
> memory, so numbers may vary).  You weren't supposed
> to listen to the music.  It was just supposed to BE THERE,
> keeping you alert.  I have a copy of an album Muzak put
> out in (from memory - I don't have it handy) in the mid 70s
> called "A Stimulus Progression Christmas"  Each side had one
> set of Muzak Christmas music, as it would be programmed
> for their system.  (Although, in practice, they would
> not play a set of pure Christmas Music.)  I copied it to
> a CD, with the obligatory 15 minute pause between sets,
> and damn if it didn't calm you down when driving to that
> Yuletide Hellhole, the local mall.  :-)
>
>
>
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