[78-L] Record collection brings laughs

[David Lennick]

Es ist "Der Fuhrer's Face", nicht war?

dl

On 3/29/2011 10:39 AM, simmonssomer wrote:
> Isn't there a Walt Disney animated short with a parody of a German factory
> featuring "Muzak" to encourage "schnell" work ?
>
> Al S.
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> From: "David Breneman"<david_breneman at yahoo.com>
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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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