Music From Monitor

Wide Wide World

Music From Monitor
ALCOA
1960

According to the jacket notes ALCOA decided that they needed to make "the home-buying and home owning public more conscious of the need for better housing (aluminum sided housing) and more willing to invest the necessary funds to obtain better housing."

As a part of ALCOA's project to make people feel uncomfortable about not living in one of their aluminum sided houses... they launched a 1959 NBC radio program titled "Monitor". The program gave "experts" a chance to sell their vision about "housing as they see its problem and its effect on American life."

Fortunately, in this set, Monitor features music to help the listener perk up from the sad feeling one experiences from living in a brick house.

That said, however, the "Aluminum Music Sphere Designed by Lester Beall for the ALCOA Forecast Collection" is a great use of aluminum! Love it!

The set is not as cool sounding as the cover looks but Wide Wide World is one awesome sounding track as is Sid Bass's How High Is The Moon.