have to wonder if whoever recorded this, is still sane ....

This mysterious track on a 7" record appears to date from the early to mid 60's and was produced by the Jam Handy Organization.  Perhaps it was intended to be mood-setting music played as Chevy salesmen trooped into a conference room for a sales meeting.  I did not alter or loop this track in any way.  That's really what it's like for four minutes and four seconds!

There's A Fever In The Air

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's A Fever In The Air

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