Read it and weep. Read it and laugh yourself silly. Beware…the Song Shark is like no other book ever written about the music or any other business. It is a hilarious hair-raising, roller-coaster ride through the hotel rooms, recording studios, back alleys and posh offices inhabited by the scourges of the music business - the song sharks.
O'Shea strips these scam artists bare. You'll see that song sharks are not the fast-talking, cigar-chomping flim-flam movie stereotypes. These are "good people" - often even holy people, people you'd trust with your life and your life savings. They are people who are only too willing to help you get a break, but inevitably they'll leave you broke and broken-hearted.
Born out of the intense hatred for these villains of the music business, Beware…the Song Shark was written for the gifted and dedicated people who want to make music their life's work.
More than 200 cartoons by Jerry Dowling, award-winning national cartoonist, adds spice to an already pungent mixture of laughter and tears, that pour from the almost 400 pages of this unforgettable book.
Take a tour through the chapters of
Beware... The Song Shark!
39 revealing chapters exposing every conceivable scam in the music business... such as:
- The "Famous Legendary Name" recording scam.
- The popular "Let us shop your tape" scam.
- "Your record guaranteed to hit the charts... or your money back" scam.
- "The Nashville Syndrome" scam.
- "Song Poems Wanted"... but not as badly as your money scam.
- The Nashville "record mail out to radio stations" scam.
- The "hit line radio record network" scam.
- The "Let us record you free" scam.
- "You can be on a national album" scam.
- The infamous "Success by Association" scam.
Plus many, many more. All designed to take your money and give you nothing in return.
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"Dear Mr. O'Shea, Thank you a thousand times. My father and I went to Nashville and were about ready to give to some of the "famous" Nashville record producers, my folk's life savings to start my career. I noticed an ad for your book and purchased it. Within a week we cancelled our second appointment, and saved my family's life savings. Besides learning from you that most of Nashville is filled with thieves, liars, and con men, I have also learned of the many other schemes around the country, designed to take the money from people like me. Again, thank you a thousand times."
Carl M. Alliston, Oxford, Georgia
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"Dear Shad O'Shea, I am a student of music business at Columbia College in Chicago. Your book was required reading for our course. I was definitely enlightened, especially by your experiences with the performing rights societys and the con-men and the games they play. Thank you. God bless you."
Jonathon A. Mack, Lombard, Illinois
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"A greater deed may ensure a place for you in the hereafter, but for now, this is a good start. Thanks for the wonderful book."
Phillip X. Mercirer, New York City, New York
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"Dear Shad, I wish all books were as fun to read as yours. This is the kind of book that colleges ought to require for all music majors. Fortunately, our university uses it as a textbook. Again, thank you. It is smart and witty. I give it an A-plus."
Raoul Cassida
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