Yodel-eh-e-hee

Yo-de-ley-e-he! By J.B. Pravda

NexTrends &; Associates prided itself on its ability to detect and
capitalize on the upcoming fads way before the competition; their
latest was as far out as it was daring and soon its clients were making
preparations to integrate the 'next hot thing'----yodeling---- into
their products and services. One of their biggest accounts was to
supply elevator music to every elevator in the City, thousands of them.
Proud survey teams fanned out all over town, riding elevators,
recording listeners' reactions: almost without fail, smiles were seen
beaming broadly across the faces of the usually catatonically silent
patrons of the closeted trip. Reports poured in overwhelmingly
positive. Bold innovators that they were, this breakthrough would be
crowned with a coup de gras suggested by their specially assigned
senior researcher from Bavaria, Klaus Hergesheimer. His plan was
simplicity itself: live yodelers, donning leiderhosen and Bavarian
costume would be dispatched to the most prestigious buildings citywide
as a grand publicity stunt, promoting both the firm and its prescience;
when the companies learned of the musical innovation through their
upbeat employees, the fortunes of NexTrends would be sealed. The day
had arrived, along with a planeload of the fascinating crooners. At the
largest skyscraper in town, the whole management team was on packed
into one elevator to witness the marketing coup: suddenly, in
mid-yodel, the most accomplished of the Bavarian songsters hoisted
himself up through the elevator ceiling so as to achieve maximum
echo-effect, to the surprised glee of the passengers, stood atop the
car and then completed a particularly difficult yodeling riff of very
high pitch, causing the cable to shred, thereby killing everyone on
board in a terrifying plunge of 75 stories.