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Welcome to the world of magic! A small journey, which will help you
learn secrets to incredible magic tricks. My personal explanations
will help you entertain and delight your friends and family. Are
you a young person interested in learning some cool tricks to show
your friends? Or perhaps a businessman interested in breaking the
ice with clients? Why not learn a few cool things to show them?
Whether 8 or 80, the tricks contained within these pages are meant
to help spark your interest in this amazing art we refer to as
"magic". The best part about the tricks is that they are designed
to be as easy as possible! Make Money Disappear, Read Minds, Plus
More! See what it takes to enhance your magical skill and knowledge
by reading through interviews with professionals such as Lance
Burton, Jason Byrne, and more. Learn what motivates them and advice
you can use to become the next star! Join International Magician
Eddy Ray in a magical journey that will help you learn amazing
magic tricks in just minutes!
He was not a musician, yet spent some 60 years in the commercial
music business beginning as a stock boy and rising to become the
nation's first African-American executive of a major record
company. The grandson of a former slave, Eddie Ray takes you from
the rural foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains to the top
executive suites of the burgeoning music industry of the 1950s and
1960s. You'll get a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the music
business and how Ray became a formidable force in helping shape
that dynamic industry. Starting as a stock boy for Decca Records in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he was 18 years old, Ray eventually rose
to become vice president of Capitol-Tower Records in Hollywood,
California, at the time one of the top major record companies in
the U.S., the first African-American in such a decision-making
role. But prior to this top post, Ray was first an extraordinary
record sales and promotions man whom acquaintances still describe
today as having "an ear for what would sell." Read about the impact
he had on the careers of stars such as Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino,
Allen Toussaint, Ernie Freeman, Mike Curb, Irma Thomas, Ernie
K-Doe, Sandy Nelson, and even Pink Floyd. Ray went on to found one
of the first commercial music schools in the country and
subsequently was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as a
Commissioner of the U.S. Copyright Royalty Tribunal in Washington,
DC. Filled with personal encounters with notable names, music
industry movers and shakers, and some infamous personalities, this
book will make you laugh, shake your head in disbelief, and more
importantly learn what it took to lay the foundation for popular
music. Baby Boomers especially will enjoy this book that will evoke
feelings of nostalgia as they think back to where they were when
certain songs of the early Rock and Roll era became hits. They will
be fascinated by Eddie Ray's connection with the success of not
only mega-stars but names they may not immediately recognize, but
whose works they certainly will. Music historians will appreciate
learning about Ray, another "national treasure" who can be added to
the "untold stories" of influential African Americans. African
Americans will be inspired by Ray's quest to open doors, courage to
break racial barriers, and audacity to ignore the status quo. Even
music students will find this book enjoyable as they read about the
people who laid the foundation for the music business today.
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