Q: Which picture will you miss the most while it is on view in Milwaukee Collects?Ī: The Albert Renger-Patzsch picture is one of our personal favorites. Salpetersäurebetrieb, Absorptionsanlage Bamag, Ruhrchemie, Oberhausen-Holten (Salpeter Plant, Absorption Facility Bamag, Ruhrchemie, Oberhausen-Holten), 1938. She and her husband, Jim McNulty, focus their collecting on photography.Īlbert Renger-Patzsch (German, 1897–1966). Pac-Man (Title Theme) is a english song released in 2014.Christine Symchych is a member of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s board. Pac-Man (Title Theme) is a english song from the album Classic Atari Games - Greatest Themes & Sounds. Pac-Man (Title Theme) is composed by 8-Bit Arcade. Pac-Man (Title Theme) is sung by 8-Bit Arcade. (It comes with a secret link to the “Pac-Man Fever Vault,” a virtual treasure trove of audio artifacts for Pac fanatics to gobble up like power pellets.) Pac-Man (Title Theme) on JioSaavn App.Now one-half of Bucker & Garcia, Jerry Buckner, and another one of his longtime musical collaborators, Mike Stewart, are celebrating Pac-Man’s big 4-0 with Pac-Man Fever: The Story Behind the Unlikely ’80’s Hit That Defined a Worldwide Craze, the first-ever Kindle E-book to contain music. Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment/ SiriusXM Volume, Buckner seems aware and perfectly at peace with the fact that his main musical legacy will always be tied to “Pac-Man Fever,” even though he had a successful career before and after that leftfield hit.
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(He’s never been one to disavow his video-game ties, even performing the title song for the Disney movie Wreck-It Ralph in 2012.) He and Gary Garcia, who died in 2011, started playing together in high school and in the ‘70s launched a “pretty good little business” writing ad jingles. The irony is not lost on him that eventually he and Garcia broke through with what was basically a “three-minute, 49-second commercial for Pac-Man for 40 years.”īuckner & Garcia in 1981. “People would stand in line, they'd put quarters on the machines, standing in line to play and arguing over. We had no idea what this thing was, but we sat down and played it - and, well, we got hooked, just like everybody else that played it,” laughs Buckner, who admits he’s still not very good at the game and refuses to divulge his high score. Pretty soon, Buckner and Garcia were at Shillings every night “instead of working.
The studio was calling and saying, ‘Hey, you guys coming in?’ And we were playing the game all the time. So, it was decided at some point that maybe we could come up with some kind of little song and get a little bit of local exposure, maybe a little story to help our jingle business. Stewart recalls realizing that “Pac-Man Fever” was something special early on.
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He came up with ‘I got a pocket full of quarters and I’m headed to the arcade,’ which is a catchphrase for the pretty much for the whole generation,” he chuckles. This is better than just some local thing.’ But I never dreamed it would be a worldwide hit like it was.” “We didn't really know what we had until we finished with the record,” says Buckner. Unlike the Pac-Man arcade game, however, “Pac-Man Fever” wasn’t an overnight hit: Buckner & Garcia’s production company shopped the song and was “turned down by every record label in the world.” No one was biting, so to speak. So the duo decided to release it themselves in fall 1981 on their own imprint, BGO Records. That’s when a local Atlanta DJ named Jim Morrison started spinning it on his morning show, and soon after, major labels started paying attention. “ said it reminded him… well, he wasn't comparing us to the Beatles, but he said it reminded him of that, of that kind of energy and excitement at the time. The phones were like lit up like Christmas trees asking to hear the song,” says Buckner.
“The first time it was ever played, they got so many calls that he had to play it again the same hour, which radio never does. … So they knew something special was going on with it.”Įventually Buckner & Garcia signed to CBS/Columbia, and they were thrilled when their new label’s vice-president, Mickey Eichner, commissioned an entire album. They were less thrilled when they found out exactly what sort of album CBS had in mind.
“We were pop songwriters, so we had written a couple of songs and had them done. So the one of the vice-presidents from CBS flew to Atlanta to see what's going on and check up on us. We took him in to play the songs and he goes, ‘No, no, no, no, no.
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