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The Industrial Musicals Hour

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Length 57:40
Licensor Jon Kalish
Producer(s) Jon Kalish and Steve Young
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Added to PRX March 17, 2008
 

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A fictional weekly music show celebrating Industrial Musicals on a fictional public radio network

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A celebration of one of the most astonishing yet obscure musical genres of the 20th Century. Industrial musicals were written for company sales meetings or annual conventions, with a golden age spanning the 1950s into the '80s. They were lavish productions that incorporated original music and lyrics, full orchestras and expensive staging, Most were never recorded, though sometimes a record was made and a few hundred copies were distributed as souvenirs. Steve Young, a writer for David Letterman, is the self-appointed archivist and obsessive collector of these recordings, and he's the host each week of a show that shares these recordings with an audience they were never intended for. This is a one-time special. It is not really a weekly show. The special includes an original comedy piece featuring the great Moe Moscowitz, a veteran of NPR's Morning Edition.

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REVIEWS of this piece (1)

  • 03/08, Nathan Woodhull

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