Megatone Co.

The Megatone Corporation, or as it is informally referred to as, Toney, was created in 1950 in Tucson, Arizona by Loo and Dyna Wick, two daughters of the great jazz bassist Judy Wick. Originally created to be an outlet for up-and-coming female bass players, both in the classical style and in the jazz branches, Toney soon became the premier record embalming company of the southwest. In the early 1950's records were printed on wax, which often caused what was referred to as "droopage" when the record was played for too long or in too hot an environment, such as an attic or a cafeterium. The wax would literally begin to melt, causing the notes and consequently the songs to slip into lower keys, i.e. from a key of G to F# to F, etc. Soon, songs were being played in nasty keys like C and this caused much fury in the purist music circles. Toney essentially squelched this problem by embalming records with the state-of-the-art space polymer polychloroethylamine. This coating eliminated the problem with droopy wax records and at the same time introduced an etherial "dolphin chorus" sound to the background of any record it was applied to. This became wildly popular with the youth of the day and many recoding engineers and producers attempted to imitate the sound on their own recordings. None could successfully do it, so the Megatone corporation flourished until about 1963 when it became suddenly unanimously realized that such a dolphin chorus sound is actually quite annoying.