In Pine v. Laine, 36 AD2d 924 [1st Dept 1971] where the plaintiff sought to recover from a singer/defendant for procuring a recording contract for the defendant, the First Department reversed a lower court's denial of summary judgment on the ground that "it is clear that the defendant had a manager, and that the only service performed by the plaintiff, although he sought to become the manager of the defendant, was this one procurement of a recording contract. cannot come within the exception [of GBL 171(8)]" (Pine v. Laine at 925).