That's the Way of the World is a 1975 film produced and directed by Sig Shore and starring Harvey Keitel.

A soundtrack by Earth, Wind & Fire released in the same year eventually became one of the group's landmark albums.

Coleman Buckmaster (Harvey Keitel), also known as "the Golden Ear", is a producer extraordinaire for A-Chord Records.

In the midst of working slavishly to complete the debut album of "the Group" (Earth, Wind & Fire), Buckmaster is forced to put their project on the back-burner in favor of a new signing to A-Chord, "the Pages," Velour (Cynthia Bostick), Gary (Jimmy Boyd) and Franklin (Bert Parks).

According to label head Carlton James (Ed Nelson), the Pages represent good, old-fashioned, wholesome family values.