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Great World of Sound

By Rick Grant

      Scam record companies existed to play on the dreams of naive musicians and songwriters for years in the music biz. They sent out phony A&R men to scout the hinterlands for "talent" (anyone willing to pay the A&R men -salesmen- an upfront fee to record them and turn them into stars. What the potential music stars got was a run-down studio and a hastily recorded demo CD with no follow-up support. In other words, the whole thing was a fraud.

      This film is a docu-drama of such an organization that was also scamming the so called A&R men who traveled to remote cities scouting talent for a percentage of the money they collected. In this case, the film focuses on two of these hapless traveling salesmen hawking the services of Great World of Sound-Martin (Pat Healy), is married and was desperate for a job. His wife makes craft items to sell at craft fairs. At the initial orientation, Martin is teamed up with Clarence (Kene Holiday), a down-on-his-luck black guy who talks a good game. Neither man has any experience in the music business. However, they are good at selling the GWS services.

      The dynamic duo are booked into cheap motel rooms and have to meet their potential signed talent in the room. Clarence took the gold records from the main office to use as props. They ran ads in the local newspaper for auditions. As each hopeful musician or songwriter auditions, they get pitched on the merits of GWS' ability to make them stars -for a price, which is, anything Martin and Clarence can get out of the marks. It's funny and sad-simultaneously.

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