Sunday, September 9, 2012

"You'll Never Walk Alone" With This Many People Involved

The object I have found in my home is my Elvis Presley, "You'll Never Walk Alone," 45.  It has many attachments to plenty of different people.  First, the vinyl had to be made in a factory by lots of people.  The resources the factory used had to be accounted for by more people.  Once the vinyl was created then the 45 went to the mass production company that had to put all of the grooves in it and cut it out.  The record was then placed in a paper sleeve that had to come from a tree grown by someone who had to cut it down, ship it to the paper pulping facility that turned it into paper and then shipped it to the manufacturing company that turned it into a sleeve for 45s.
All of that was for the record itself and does not account for the music.  First off, the music, "You'll Never Walk Alone," was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein and then sung by Elvis in a recording studio run by lots of people.  Also, the instruments don't play themselves.  Therefore even more people had to brought in to play the music so that someone in Sun Records could record the music and have it placed on the vinyl disc: one side- just the instrumentalists; the other- said instrumentalists plus Elvis.

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