Word: muzak
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JOHN GARY SINGS YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONGS (RCA Victor). He sounds like Muzak with words-a bland, clean-cut voice that has made him a favorite with the over-35 ladies who sent his album sales soaring. All the old standards (Autumn Leaves, Night and Day, Star Dust, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) seem to get the same beat and treatment, making them interchangeable...
...hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak melo dies. The man is 37, married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems...
...suited men and their very proper wives averted their eyes as they strode purposefully past the bikini-clad girls at the pool. Their minds were dwelling on grim business, not frivolous hours in the sun; their voices were cleared for psalms and hymns that could drown out the incessant Muzak. The occasion was the Sixth Congress of the International Council of Christian Churches, held at the smartly modern Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. It was no accident that the L.C.C.C. chose Geneva, and the Intercontinental, for its meeting. The hotel is practically on the doorstep of the World Council of Churches...
...Muzak droned as usual, but the pressure...
Wifely Support. The result is a kind of middlebrow Muzak played by a pair of highly skilled technicians. In novelty numbers they reach into the vitals of their pianos to strum, pluck and pound on the strings. In addition, they keep strips of Masonite, cardboard wedges, and sandpaper stashed in their pianos,' apply them to the strings to conjure up weird effects resembling gongs, castanets, drums, xylophone and harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated...