Hit Records: 1950-1975
With entries for almost 6000 popular songs that were featured on the Top 40 charts during the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, this reference volume will whisk you back to the early days of rock and roll. Every song is listed, title and variants are given, and there are two long indexes that allow the user to find every song written by a given composer or recorded by a given artist. This resource greatly simplifies the process of discovering which composers provided songs for a particular artist, and which composers assisted one another, as well as indicating the peak Top 40 chart position of each song. This meticulously-researched resource will be of great value to both the serious researcher, record collector, and the nostalgic browser.
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Hit Records: 1950-1975
With entries for almost 6000 popular songs that were featured on the Top 40 charts during the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, this reference volume will whisk you back to the early days of rock and roll. Every song is listed, title and variants are given, and there are two long indexes that allow the user to find every song written by a given composer or recorded by a given artist. This resource greatly simplifies the process of discovering which composers provided songs for a particular artist, and which composers assisted one another, as well as indicating the peak Top 40 chart position of each song. This meticulously-researched resource will be of great value to both the serious researcher, record collector, and the nostalgic browser.
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Hit Records: 1950-1975

Hit Records: 1950-1975

by David Lonergan
Hit Records: 1950-1975

Hit Records: 1950-1975

by David Lonergan

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Overview

With entries for almost 6000 popular songs that were featured on the Top 40 charts during the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, this reference volume will whisk you back to the early days of rock and roll. Every song is listed, title and variants are given, and there are two long indexes that allow the user to find every song written by a given composer or recorded by a given artist. This resource greatly simplifies the process of discovering which composers provided songs for a particular artist, and which composers assisted one another, as well as indicating the peak Top 40 chart position of each song. This meticulously-researched resource will be of great value to both the serious researcher, record collector, and the nostalgic browser.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810851290
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/19/2004
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Lonergan is a reference librarian at Northern Illinois University and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University. Lonergan is co-author of The Classic Rock and Roll Reader (Haworth Press, 1999) with W. E. Studwell.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 How to Use This Book Chapter 3 Hit Records, 1950-1975 Chapter 4 Author Index Chapter 5 Artist Index Chapter 6 About the Author
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