That's almost as funny as when the night jock at 13-Q in Pittsburgh edited an Iron Butterfly cut into that Shulke tapes at the sister FM that ran Beautiful Music... somewhere around 1973 or 1974.
It was supposed to mask ambient noise, also. But the tone and content of the MUZAK material was designed to be a "buying atmosphere" that was friendly, positive and comfortable. Once MUZAK was able to do multiple channels, they created multiple channels targeting large retail, boutique retail, restaurants, service locations (auto repair, etc) and the like.
One minor error -- "Mama" was a Genesis song.
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That’s just the receipt.
Heard that played by the Fenway Park keyboardist before a Red Sox game about 15 years ago!
Wonder if "Looks Like We Made It" ever played after a group of shoplifters left the store...There was also the theory that soothing Muzak reduced incidents of theft---a theory that has been reworked recently:
Prevent Shoplifting and Theft with...Music?
In one experiment, Barry Manilow music was broadcast through loudspeakers located in a local parking lot every night between 9 pm and midnight on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Followed by "Jailhouse Rock"
Then when you get to jail. "I will do anything for love, but I won't do that."
During my first time working at Lowe's the store policy was to not announce that the store was closing but to lock the doors and start dimming the lights. But too many times some customers had the attitude that meant it was their own private shopping time and would get even worse about not getting out. I was for playing Closing Time by Semisonic or some other song that it was time to close repeatedly until the stragglers got the message.
Baby boomer humor
During my first time working at Lowe's the store policy was to not announce that the store was closing but to lock the doors and start dimming the lights. But too many times some customers had the attitude that meant it was their own private shopping time and would get even worse about not getting out. I was for playing Closing Time by Semisonic or some other song that it was time to close repeatedly until the stragglers got the message.
I've walked out of a few CVS stores thanking the checker for the free roll of toilet paper. None of them ever caught the joke. (I might have tried it for that purpose, except that the "NCR" paper, with its micro-encapsulated ink, would probably cause cancer.)
Anything by Björk. Anything.
