After the One-Hit Wonder

Back in 1993, the Minneapolis native was an aspiring musician who liked to cut up his diaries and rearrange the words to create song lyrics. But he was prone to allergies and, with the pollen count soaring one day, he sneezed and scattered an almost-finished song. An idea was born: Why not stick magnets on the bits of paper and affix them to a cookie sheet to keep them in place?

The contraption stayed in Mr. Kapell's room for a few months until he threw a house party and needed the cookie sheet for baking. The word magnets went up on the refrigerator—and throughout the night, Mr. Kapell's friends kept stealing back to the kitchen to scramble the lyrics. The next day, he got a half-dozen orders for the magnet kits.

Music Shaped Rubber Band Pack - Animal Bracelets Blog

The music shaped Rubber Band Pack contains twelve rubber bands, two each of six different forms. There is no trademark on the packaging, so I'm not sure who it is, but it is sold under the generic name Silly bands (with an S instead of Z) in pharmacies. Many forms are very similar to the Pack Silly Bandz Rockbandz. Above is a photo of the facade of the Music-shaped rubber belt pack.