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Specializing in R&B, Doo Wop & the music of the 1st Generation of Rock n' Roll
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They All Sang on the Corner
A Second Look at
They All Sang On the Corner is the landmark-breakthrough book written on African-American Rhythm and Blues (doowop) vocal groups of the 1950's. Many readers believe that They All Sang On the Corner is the only book in the field that makes you feel as if you were actually there. In its eight chapters, there are interviews with singers, musicians and choreographers, discographies and forty rare photographs. It chronicles the development of the early pioneers of Rhythm and Blues vocal groups: Cadillacs, Dominoes, Five Keys, Flamingos, Harptones, Heartbeats, Moonglows, Orioles, Ravens, Solitaires, Teenagers and the Valentines. It contains over 700 references to groups and individuals who made Rhytmn and Blues big-time. The book has been called "the bible" by record collectors; it has been used as required reading in university courses on urban studies.
Go to Phil's website to order it - $15 plus shipping
http://www.theyallsangonthecorner.com/
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Todd Baptista
Group Harmony: Behind the Rhythm and the Blues
was published in 1996 and sold out in 2001
The books in print are available c/o Todd Baptista TRB Enterprises PO Box 50962New Bedford, MA 02745 or e-mail for PayPal billing info totrbent@charter.net
DISCO-FILE
Since 1974, the first and foremost discographical publication on American vocal groups.
Catalog
numbers, Counterfeits, Titles [over 80,000], Bootelgs and pirate
releases, Master numbers, Group members, Matrix numbers, Unissued
recordings, Takes, Session dates, Release dates, Transcriptions,
Singles, EPs, Albums, Notes plus much more.
Foreword by Tim Hauser of Manhattan Transfer.
Five-part introduction by Ray Funk, Peter A. Grendysa, David Hinckley (New York Daily News columnist), Robert D. Pruter, and Elaine Wade.
Group members list (more than 12,900) with introduction by Marv Goldberg.
This third and completely revised edition is the result of 36 years of extensive research. The files of many record companies, retail stores, and record collectors were perused to provide you with the best and most accurate information possible.
PRICE:
Only $75.00 on CD ROM, postage paid (U.S.A. only).
For printed copy (more than 2500 pages), please inquire.
MAKE YOUR CHECK OR MONEY ORDER PAYABLE TO:
DISCO-FILE OR FERNANDO L. GONZALEZ
P. O. BOX 2941
HUNTINGTON STATION, NEW YORK 11746-0735
EMAIL direct - discofile@optonline.net
I've been using Ferdie's DISCO-FILE for over 30 years as a source of invaluable information. His book is not only the first of its kind but the best. MdC
Louie Silvani
Collecting Rare Records
Publisher: Times
Square Records:
Johnny Keyes
DU-WOP
Publisher: Vesti Press, 1987
History of the Magnificents and Chicago R&B
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James A. McGowan
Hear Today, Here To Stay - a Personal History of Rhythm and Blues
Publisher: Akashic Press, Inc.,
The Four Fellows complete history & discography first hand by 4 Fellows group member, Jim McGowan.
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Mitch Rosalsky
The Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Doowop Vocal Groups
Scarecrow Press ISBN#0810836637; 1-800-462-6420; 700 pages covering 1,000 groups starting with the early 1900's up to 1965; includes an index which contains 8,000 names of performers in vocal groups alphabetically and all the groups they sang with.
Abraham J. Santiago & Steven J. Dunham
Acapella Street Corner Vocal Groups - A Brief History And Discography of 1960's Singing Groups
Publisher: Mellow Sound Press - 2006
Stuart L. Goosman
Group Harmony - The Black Urban Roots Of Rhythm & Blues
University of Pennsylvania Press -2005
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Jay Warner
The Billboard Book of American Singing Groups - A History 1940 to Today
Publisher: Hal Leonard, 2006
Just Walking in the Rain - The Prisonaires
Publisher: Renaissance Books, 2001
John Broven
Rhythm & Blues in
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Marv Goldberg
More Than Words Can Say - The Ink Spots and Their Music
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998
Marilyn Bond & S.R. Roland
The Birth of the Detroit Sound 1940 - 1964
Publisher:
Galen Gart
Big Nickel Pubications
First Pressings - The History of Rhythm & Blues
Volumes 1 through 9
Big Nickel Publications; P.O. Box 3651, Florence Villa Station, Winter Haven, Florida 33885
All Out of Print
ONLY HUMAN, MY SOULFUL LIFE
His autobiography has just been released.
You can buy the book directly from Tommy via his website - click on the cover above to go there. Or you can buy from Amazon. $30
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Hansonia L. Caldwell
African American Music -
A Chronology 1619 - 1995
by HANSONIA L. CALDWELL
Los Angeles: Ikoro Communications, 1996. v, 444p
I read this book over and over - it's filled with an amazing array of facts about America's Roots Music and Musicians - MdC
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Tom Reed
The Black Music History of Los Angeles, It Roots: A Classical Pictorial History of Black Music in L.A. from 1920-1970
Black Accent on L A Pr, 1992, 1994, 2000
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John A. Jackson
John has to date written three outstanding books
Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll
New York, NY, U.S.A. Macmillan Publishing Company 1991
American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'N' Roll Empire
New York, Oxford University Press. 1997
House On Fire, The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul
New York, Oxford University Press. 2004
Robert Pruter
Doowop: The Chicago Scene (Music in American Life)
Univ of Illinois Pr, 1996, 304 pages
An examination of Chance, Parrot, Chess, United, & VeeJay labels and the groups who recorded on them, deejays, theaters, and the advent of rock n roll; contains discography of Chicago Vocal Group CD Reissues
Chicago Soul
Univ of Illinois Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., 1992
Chicago at the Dawn of the Soul Era, Vee Jay , Pam Productions/Constellation , OKeh , Chess , One-derful , Brunswick , Mercury , & Curtom Records, The ABC-Paramount Chicago Connection, The Small Entrepreneurs of the 1960's & '70s; soft & hard soul; Chicago Black Dance, Chi-Sound and Demise of the Chicago Soul Industry
You can email Bob directly at Pruter@comcast.net
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Paul Lepri
Discographies and Histories of the Singers and Vocal Groups of New Haven, Ct.
Published by Paul Lepri, 1977
Out of Print - Buy it if you can find it.
Lynn E. McCutcheon
Rhythm and Blues, An Experience and Adventure in its origins and development.
Published by R.W. Beatty, Arlington, Va. 1971
Out of Print - buy it if you find it.
Tony Cummings
The Sound of Philadelphia
Publisher:
155 pages, lots of photos and good history
Charlie Gillette
Sound of the City, The Rise of Rock and Roll
Publisher: New York, NY: Dell, 1972, Pantheon, NY 1984
Great, seminal book on the history of Rock and Roll. can be found inexpensively via bookfinder. A MUST! MdC
Making Tracks, The Story of Atlantic Records and the Making of a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974
Rock n' Roll 39-59
by
Charlie Gillett, Peter Guralnick, David Halberstam, Greil Marcus, Florent Mazzoleni, Robert Palmer, Alfred Wertheimer, Alain Dominique Perrin, Greg Geller
Publihser: Steidl & Partners, 2008
Snare drum backbeat plus electric guitar: the simple formula that launched the rock star, and contemporary teen culture along with it. Today rock 'n' roll seems to define postwar American culture, especially in its impact abroad. Though its inception is often imagined as sudden and seismic, it was of course a gradual and complex transition from boogie-woogie to the stardom of Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. A thorough survey of rock 'n' roll's bloodline would even reach back as far as 1939, a time when the electric guitar's role was mostly played by piano or saxophone. Rock 'n' Roll 39-59 does this, with the assistance of some of the genre's finest photographers. Bruce Davidson, Wayne Miller, Robert W. Kelley, Esther Bubley, Eve Arnold and Ernest C. Withers are all here, amid a wealth of visual props, including priceless period posters, records, rare souvenirs, photographs and film stills, and indices of the movement's key venues, events, artists, producers and people. This book describes a lively mess of genres, from boogie-woogie to blues, gospel, big band jazz, country and most of all rhythm and blues--interbreeding against a backdrop of colossal social change, and culminating in the rock 'n' roll explosion of the mid-1950s.
Steve Chappell & Reebee Garofalo
Rock 'N' Roll Is Here to Pay: The History and Politics of the Music Industry
Publisher: Burnham Inc Pub, 1977
The unvarnished and amazing stories of payola, crooks and the business of Rock n' Roll.
LeRoi Jones
Blues People, Negro Music In White America
Publisher: William Morrow, 1963
Tony Heilbut
The Gospel Sound, Good News and Bad Times
Simon & Schuster, 1971
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