The Music Business is The Music Business

by Pete Holly

If you think now is the only time there has been alot bad music in the market
place try this.Find some old copies of Music Trade Magazines from any old time period
and you'll see that the ratio of bad music to good or great music is about the same.
The ratio-or "Crap Factor" as some refer to it as,is allway's about the same.The
amount of corruption in the music business stay's pretty steady too.The bottom
line is-there are very few checks and balance's in the music business.The line in
"There's no Business Like Show Business" about "anything the public will allow" didn't spring out of the imagination of the lyric writer-it sprang out of "The reality
of the Nature of Show Business".The nature of show business is to make,write,perform
or otherwise produce whatever you can get the public to buy.That was true in 1925,
and it's still true today;85 years later.George and Ira Gershwin wrote and produced
100's of Musicals for Broadway in the 1920's amd 30's.How many do you think were
Hit's.Only a fraction.Most of thier shows bombed-but occasionally one caught the
public's fancy and that's when the Money Rolled in for the Gershwin's."Oh Kay" was
one of "The Gershwins" biggest Bomb's.It played for maybe a week before being
tossed into the trash heap of failed Broadway Show's-which is quite large as one might
imagine.Yet,there is one song from "Oh Kay" that had a longer life.If you saw the film
"Mr. Hollands Opus" you may have heard it.It's a rather picturesqe and fanciful number
known as "Someone to Watch Over Me".So the musical wasn't a complete failure.One
song from it lives on in George and Ira Gershwins song catolog and it's a real Doosie.
So one learns that in show business-as in life itself-each failure-is also a pathway to
success in the future.And that's today's show business lesson of day.Until next time-

Best Regards,

Pete Holly,

President,
Look's Music International Records


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