'Driving in my Car' by Madness before 'Crash'

'Stand by your man' by Tammy Wynette as customers are walking in to see a feminist art movie

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Bah. I behave, during business hours anyway. Our selection usually rotates between Classical Meditation, vol 1 & 2, or some Liszt, Chopin, Vivaldi, Gershwin, or Holst.
AFter-hours on Thursday is another matter entirely!

~Gracia *The projectionist with the purple hair* Babbidge

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I grew to appreciate that style of music though, and when I DO listen to music radio today (rarely), it's always the Big Band stations!

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Better Projection Pays!

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Personally, I've been tempted to play music that's just plain iritating. Bagpipe music, Herb Albert, or the entire Ravenous soundtrack in general. And I was tempted on a few occasions to sync a CD with the end credits that just wouldn't match. For instance playing some obscure track from one of Jerry Goldsmith's soundtracks like Total Recall or First Blood as the end credit music for Duets or Nurse Betty.

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I went to one of our theatres on a routine general service call and powered up the booth , the CD player started automatically on power-up and I was working on some things in the booth then went downstairs to check a masking problem and opened the auditorium doors and the speakers in the house were cranking out Rap...complete with full-on profanity... I ran upstairs and opened the CD player (a 5-disc changer) and i couldn;t believe what was in there... Along with the obligatory Yanni and Enya discs were the X-Files soundtrack which is 'hard' enough as-is, and the source of all the profanity; the 'He Got Game' soundtrack!! I removed them and asked the manager WHY they were in there in the first place... The soundtracks were given to the theaters as promotional items, and the manager figured they were for use as non-sync music... I gave him a quick lesson on what not to play for a movie audience, and when in doubt, to pre-listen to anything before it goes into the CD player, and not to use any of the 'parental warning stickered' CDs (such as 'He Got Game' as non-sync... I am amazed nobody ever complained...

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Dwayne, we used to change the end credit music ALL THE TIME at the college campus theater. The crowd loved it. The worse the blend, the bigger the applause and laughter was. That Debbie Gibson cd worked wonders for drama and action movies! (Fortunately the system was wired through a multi channel mixer board, so we could do a quick audio dissolve from those movies where the end audio blended straight into the end credit music.)

By the way, did anyone run their reissue Wizard of Oz print with the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon disc after hours? A friend of mine did. I thought his theater could've done quite a bit of business running that as a weekend midnight show that way (provided the copyright could've been cleared). DTS should've made an alternate set of cds for special midnight movies like that.