Letters to the Editor
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music really does sell things...
I work in a small photography gallery in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Believe me, there is NOTHING I would like more than to turn off the stereo, which I keep tuned to New Orleans' jazz and heritage station.
Now, I love the music as much as anybody else, but listening to Louis Armstrong, Fats Dominio, Aaron Neville, Kermit Ruffins, etc. for forty hours a week gets very, very old. Problem is--and I have tested this--people buy twice as many pictures of New Orleans when there is New Orleans music playing in the background. I'm working on commission, so I need the background music to pay my rent.
Who I REALLY feel sorry for are the poor folks working at our airport. Judging by the times I've flown in or out of there (which has been far too frequent recently), the loudspeakers play nothing but "The Big Easy" soundtrack on endless repeat. I think if I had to hear "Iko Iko" and "Jolie Blonde" thirteen times a day, every day, I'd blow up a plane just for spite...