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Blast Books; 1st Edition edition (October 15, 2013)
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young is It doesn't get much cooler than this book. This slick retro text is a fantastic dive into the obscure little cultural niche of industrial musicals. Each page is engaging, both in imagery and content. The opinion pieces, stories, interviews, lyrics, and artwork weave together to form a unique and surprisingly interesting end result. You never dreamed reading about industrial musicals could be so damn fun.Everything's Coming Up Profits is hip in all the right ways, with a tasteful and fun angle. This isn't a mean-spirited or mocking book by any means. The authors keep it classy and demonstrate a real respect for those involved with these productions while somehow never failing to point out the inevitable silliness contained within.You owe it to the guests in your home to have this book at arm's reach. Like flies to bright lights, it's impossible for people to avoid wanting to pick it up and page through it. Definitely pleased with the purchase.
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young is A colleague of mine used to be an actress and one day at happy hour she brought up the subject of "Industrials," musicals written for corporations about their products. I thought she was messing with us (she's kind of out of her mind). I couldn't believe that such things existed, and when she started singing a sample tune, I was sure she was full of it. Her continued insistence that they were real led me to the internet, which then led me to this book.Holy ****! Read this book, and also treat yourself to a visit to the accompanying website where you can listen to some tracks from these musicals. They'd be hilarious as sketches on a comedy show, they're doubly so because they're real! The writing in the book is engaging, the illustrations are amazing, and the whole package together is most definitely the funniest non-fiction work I've read in years. Buy it, NOW!
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young is This is a documentation of a pop culture phenomenon that occurred for over 3 decades, from the 50's to the early 80's across North America. It is compiled into an excellently constructed book: The hard cover is high quality and the pages (very impressive quality paper) are loaded with photographs of a seriously extensive collection of rare vinyl records and show flyers. The authors have spent copious dedicated hours compiling and chronicling the history of a remarkable part of musical theater history. The fact that it is an art form mixed with product placement and corporate training is where the fun begins. There's a lot of humor in their approach to the text. Stuffed in among the photos are samples of the funniest song lyrics and hilarious show anecdotes. It is a really funny experience. I highly recommend it!
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young is Years ago I had an actor friend who told me he had a new gig. When I asked if I could come see the show, he laughed and said, "It's an Industrial." Despite being on the fringe of the theatre world, I hadn't known up to that point what that was. This book is a well researched paen to those shows, written about productsand performed for companies. The authors have unearthed hundreds of these rarities, including dozens of illustrations thst must have taken years to collect. Written in a pithy, witty, style, this book makes ypu wish you could have seen these products of a bygone era. Highly recommended.