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Michael Gross : Telephone Solicitor's Nightmare
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Hilarious CD involving "torturing" unsuspecting telemarketers in a creative, non-offensive manner.
Genre: Spoken Word: Prank Calls
Release Date: 2002
Telephone Solicitor's Nightmare Record Label: Independent Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Slow Down 2:18 $0.99
Sick Guy 2:53 $0.99
Alien 0:58 $0.99
Foreign Friend I 5:31 $0.99
Old Man 5:44 $0.99
Secret 0:34 $0.99
Frenchman 5:35 $0.99
Dinner for One 0:55 $0.99
Shakespeare 5:05 $0.99
Computer Scientist 3:44 $0.99
Songwriter 3:43 $0.99
Paranoid 2:53 $0.99
Jerry 0:48 $0.99
Meditations 1:31 $0.99
Cowboy 4:26 $0.99
Voiceover 2:42 $0.99
Greta Garbo 2:28 $0.99
Annoying Sounds 1:45 $0.99
Foreign Friend II 2:22 $0.99
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Album Notes

Telephone Solicitor's Nightmare is the product of a lifetime of imagination and experience with people. Humor has always been a part of my life, as has the ability to imitate people. I can't remember the first time that I thought of annoying a telemarketer, but I do remember how my family would laugh hysterically when I would "torture my victims" when they called. I began recording the conversations on a cheap, analog recorder. This first CD was entirely recorded on this analog recorder(except for Shakespeare), so I apologize for the inequality of volume on some tracts. despite my best efforts to
correct the sound quality differences, there are some uneven recordings. I included them, though, because they are very funny.

All the voices on the CD, with the exception of the telemarketers themselves, are mine and mine alone. people ask me how I came up with such ideas. They also ask me how much i planned the conversations. Being someone who has always imitated characters and people, I was just waiting to use some of my developed characters. Sometimes I had an idea of which character was going to speak to the telemarketer, but I often didn't have any idea what was going to be said (foreign friend I and II, old man, frenchman, cowboy, meditations, voice over, alien). After all, the input from the telemarketer played a crucial role in what I was going to say next. Other times, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to say, nor did I have a character planned in advance (dinner for one, greta garbo, annoying sounds, paranoid). Even when I planned exactly my method of "torture" (sick guy, slow down, computer scientist, songwriter, Shakespeare, jerry), the response and input of the telemarketer always guided my reactions. In other words...improvisation, improvisation, improvisation.

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REVIEWS

TM Nightmare
author: Debbie
I could not view this over AOL
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Imbala riola!
author: Robert Handcock
Imba la qua la sio ba la! Mia la brakla rasamla tolma sa! My friend here says he loves it!
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You are my hero
author: R. Vanasse
after hearing you on the radio I was inspired. Now when ever I get a call from a T.M. I have so much fun with them. I think my best call was with a carpet cleaner. I had him checking to see if he could put sued on all 4 walls of my den & the floor & how much it would cost to clean them. My Wife & Son get a hoot out of listening to me. I should really start recording them. Thank You.
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Truely funny...especially for those of us in the business!!!!
author: kathy
Even the folks who are in the telemarketing business can get a good laugh out of this one. Truth be told, we don't like those bothersome phone calls either. Michael's approach is so much "kinder and gentler" then most. Thanks Again for the laugh and "ideas".
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