Name: "There Are Cups" by Allan Sherman, for Scott Paper by industrialmusicals
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: From the 1966 album "Music to Dispense With," which contained songs about paper cups and vending, and which was distributed only to vending industry VIP's by the Container Division of the Scott Paper Company.

From the 1966 album "Music to Dispense With," which contained songs about paper cups and vending, and which was distributed only to vending industry VIP's by the Container Division of the Scott Paper Company.

"There Are Cups" by Allan Sherman, for Scott Paper

An alternative demo of a song written for my guitar teacher, Val Mackend.

Glenn Raus: Song For Val (Echo Demo)

Once upon a time, when American industry ruled the earth, business and Broadway had a baby. This mutant offspring, glimpsed only at conventions and sales meetings, was the industrial musical. Think Broadway show, except the audience is managers and salesmen, and the songs are about how great it is to be working at the company.

Through the rare souvenir record albums presented in EVERYTHING’S COMING UP PROFITS, an alternate show-biz universe emerges: a universe in which musical theater can be about selling silicone products, or typewriters, or insurance, or bathtubs. Some of these improbable shows were hilariously lame. Some were pretty good. And some were flat-out fantastic.

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP PROFITS tells the story of industrial musicals for the first time, complete with eye-popping album covers, rhymes for words like invoice and compressor, and war stories from the people who were there. It’s a surprising slice of Americana that will make you laugh, make you shake your head in wonderment, and make you want to get out there and sell something.

"There Are Cups" by Allan Sherman, for Scott Paper

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