Name: We Begin With You by industrialmusicals
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: The title track/meeting theme song from Mead Johnson's December 1977 sales and marketing convention. This rare record is uncredited other than "The Broadway Revue" (or "Review," depending on whether you're reading the label or the back cover). Most of the rest of the tracks are pop and Broadway covers.

The title track/meeting theme song from Mead Johnson's December 1977 sales and marketing convention. This rare record is uncredited other than "The Broadway Revue" (or "Review," depending on whether you're reading the label or the back cover). Most of the rest of the tracks are pop and Broadway covers.

We Begin With You

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

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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.

We Begin With You

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