Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Steve Young Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"A wildly entertaining, gorgeous tribute to a world we never knew existed. Anyone interested in American history, music, or culture should buy this book by the fistful."
Dave Letterman"The world of industrial musicals is magical, weird, and funny. Mssrs. Young and Murphy escort you into that world with panache and not nearly enough guilt. Like Steve, I amassed a collection of these recordssouvenirs of the days when corporations were rich enough to care about the morale of their employeesand like him, I thought I was the only one.’ Now these idiots have spent serious time and energy producing a freaking book on the subject. Humor them. Buy this book and let it change your life."
Harry Shearer"As a veteran of many an industrial, I can attest that
Everything’s Coming Up Profits is accurate as well as fascinating and hysterical. If I had friends, I’d tell them about it."
Martin Short"All Singing! All Dancing! All Selling! This delightful
history reveals the corny glories of corporate America’s fling with motivational musicals, and its vintage graphics are like a peek at an alternate world where the hit songs were about Ford tractors."
James Lileks, author The Gallery of Regrettable Food"Young and Murphy map us to a nether-universe Brill Building located at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Tin Pan Alley. The songcraft is stupefyingly absurd, but thanks to this book a lot of product music has outlived the products."
Irwin Chusid, WFMU Radio, author Songs in the Key of ZAbout the Author
Steve Young is a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. He has also written for The Simpsons. Sport Murphy is a writer, artist, and musician who has released albums on the Kill Rock Stars label.
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- Hardcover: 252 pages
- Publisher: Blast Books; First Edition edition (October 15, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0922233446
- ISBN-13: 978-0922233441
- Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.7 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
If someone had told me a year ago that they were compiling a massive, in-depth encyclopedia of a book, packed with gorgeous photos and graphics, complete with brilliant narratives, astute analyses, and poignant observations designed to examine the historical impact of my all-time favorite industrial musicals, I would have looked that person right in the eye and asked, "What the heck is an industrial musical?"
Because up until a few months ago, I had never even heard of this fascinating genre of music, much less the creative industrial applications to which that music had been so ingeniously put to use for decades in the production of musical shows meant to be performed for industrial audiences only, many of them pressed onto vinyl for all posterity. However, thanks to this beautiful new book, I'm now a much wiser man. What's more, as a result of having read and studied Steve Young and Sport Murphy's definitive work on the subject, "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals." I now actually do have some favorite industrial musicals.
As for the content of the book, itself. You'll just have to trust me when I tell you that, once you start reading this book and begin to familiarize yourself with the esoteric genre of industrial musicals, you will literally wish you had known about this subject years ago. I confess that I went into this book not knowing what to expect. In fact, I further confess that I was not only completely prepared for the possibility of not only disliking this subject, but I assumed that it would be an easy target to bash, a subject that would easily lend itself to ridicule and jokes.
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