Author: Rick Simmons
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before. While some songs appealed to a broad audience, some targeted a much narrower demographic, meaning songs on the pop charts might not do as well on the adult contemporary or soul charts, or vice versa. This book examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Charts considered are Billboard Pop, Billboard Soul, Adult Contemporary, Cashbox and British Charts. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists such as KC (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Mark Farner (of Grand Funk), Jerry Butler, Ron Dante (of the Archies and the Cuff Links), Freda Payne, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe, The Spinners and others tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.
40 Hits, 40 Stories
Author: Rick Simmons
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before. While some songs appealed to a broad audience, some targeted a much narrower demographic, meaning songs on the pop charts might not do as well on the adult contemporary or soul charts, or vice versa. This book examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Charts considered are Billboard Pop, Billboard Soul, Adult Contemporary, Cashbox and British Charts. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists such as KC (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Mark Farner (of Grand Funk), Jerry Butler, Ron Dante (of the Archies and the Cuff Links), Freda Payne, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe, The Spinners and others tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before. While some songs appealed to a broad audience, some targeted a much narrower demographic, meaning songs on the pop charts might not do as well on the adult contemporary or soul charts, or vice versa. This book examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Charts considered are Billboard Pop, Billboard Soul, Adult Contemporary, Cashbox and British Charts. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists such as KC (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Mark Farner (of Grand Funk), Jerry Butler, Ron Dante (of the Archies and the Cuff Links), Freda Payne, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe, The Spinners and others tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.
20 Under 40
Author: Deborah Treisman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374532877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A collection of twenty stories by North American writers under the age of forty who the editors of the New Yorker felt were, or soon would be, standouts in contemporary fiction.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374532877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A collection of twenty stories by North American writers under the age of forty who the editors of the New Yorker felt were, or soon would be, standouts in contemporary fiction.
Top 40 Democracy
Author: Eric Weisbard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226896188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A capacious and stimulating tour de force of the mainstream music industry that reveals the cultural import of even the most deliberately banal performers and songs. Weisbard finds depths in our culture s shallows as he investigates and articulates the cultural construction of such phenomena as Dolly Parton, Elton John, the Isley Brothers, A&M Records, and the rise of radio populism. He further sheds new light on the upheavals in the music industry over the last fifteen years and the implications of them for the audiences the industry has shaped. Each chapter brings us to see afresh precisely that music and those musicians that have become the most familiar and overexposed, by delving into the minutiae of how pop stars and their music were made and framed for repeated consumption in the era dominated by radio."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226896188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A capacious and stimulating tour de force of the mainstream music industry that reveals the cultural import of even the most deliberately banal performers and songs. Weisbard finds depths in our culture s shallows as he investigates and articulates the cultural construction of such phenomena as Dolly Parton, Elton John, the Isley Brothers, A&M Records, and the rise of radio populism. He further sheds new light on the upheavals in the music industry over the last fifteen years and the implications of them for the audiences the industry has shaped. Each chapter brings us to see afresh precisely that music and those musicians that have become the most familiar and overexposed, by delving into the minutiae of how pop stars and their music were made and framed for repeated consumption in the era dominated by radio."
American Top 40 with Casey Kasem
Author: Pete Battistini
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452050384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for each week exclusively for this book. In addition, the text includes a complete list of all radio stations, in the U.S. and around the world, that carried the program. Coupled with numerous testimonials of both AT40 insiders and listeners, and more than a hundred illustrations from the 80s, this book is brimming with highlights of the greatest radio program ever!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452050384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for each week exclusively for this book. In addition, the text includes a complete list of all radio stations, in the U.S. and around the world, that carried the program. Coupled with numerous testimonials of both AT40 insiders and listeners, and more than a hundred illustrations from the 80s, this book is brimming with highlights of the greatest radio program ever!
The Etude Music Magazine
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Author: Ashley Kahn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 1970s. This volume tells the story of the label, balancing tales of individual passion, artistic vision, and commercial motivation--with nearly one hundred interviews with executives, journalists, producers, and musicians. 120 illustrations.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 1970s. This volume tells the story of the label, balancing tales of individual passion, artistic vision, and commercial motivation--with nearly one hundred interviews with executives, journalists, producers, and musicians. 120 illustrations.
Presleyana VI - the Elvis Presley Record, CD, and Memorabilia Price Guide
Author: Jerry Osborne
Publisher: Jerry Osborne Enterprises
ISBN: 093211749X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Jerry Osborne Enterprises
ISBN: 093211749X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
The Etude
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A monthly journal for the musician, the music student, and all music lovers.
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A monthly journal for the musician, the music student, and all music lovers.
Catalogue of Books in English, French and German
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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