Here’s how hit songs become hit songs.
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MUSIC
My Secret / We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc.
STILLS
Two cows giving performance
PinkBadger / Thinkstockphotos.com
Enjoying music
Jose Antonio Sanchez Reyes / Thinkstockphotos.com
Milk Music
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VIDEO
Film Footage courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc.
Used with Permission
How the Telephone Talks (1920s ca.) / Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/6136_How_the_Telephone_Talks_01_26_45_28
Gags and Gals / Archive.org
http://archive.org/details/gags_and_gals
Soundie – The Hut Sut Song / Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/soundie_1
A Touch of Magic (1961) / Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/TouchofM1961
Junior Prom (1946) / Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/JuniorPr1946
SOURCES
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http://www.npr.org/2015/01/11/376496332/the-more-the-better-repetition-propels-songs-up-the-charts
http://jrm.sagepub.com/content/32/1/35
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kasiagalazka/why-you-love-or-hate-christmas-music#.fo6daO0aY
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1408434.stm
http://www.le.ac.uk/press/press/moosicstudy.html
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