Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 3Rowman & Littlefield, 17 de mai. de 2017 - 830 páginas Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording |
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... chorus, and finally, tenor Harry MacDonough and baritone S.H. Dudley—who had participated in the Haydn Quartet version—sing a single duet chorus before the band brings the tune home. This seems to have been the only vocal recording ever ...
... chorus, and finally, tenor Harry MacDonough and baritone S.H. Dudley—who had participated in the Haydn Quartet version—sing a single duet chorus before the band brings the tune home. This seems to have been the only vocal recording ever ...
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... chorus's confident arrival in striding, foursquare march time.”50 In The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866–1910, Nicholas Tawa remarks that it reflects “scaled-down expectations so that one will not fail to receive what ...
... chorus's confident arrival in striding, foursquare march time.”50 In The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866–1910, Nicholas Tawa remarks that it reflects “scaled-down expectations so that one will not fail to receive what ...
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... chorus) from German composer Robert Schumann's Der Lustige Bauer (“The Joyful Peasant,” 1876). Frank Stanley and Henry Burr had been singing together as half of the Peerless Quartet for a little over a year since Stanley joined and ...
... chorus) from German composer Robert Schumann's Der Lustige Bauer (“The Joyful Peasant,” 1876). Frank Stanley and Henry Burr had been singing together as half of the Peerless Quartet for a little over a year since Stanley joined and ...
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... chorus (almost certainly his American Quartet). Copyrighted on February 19, 1850,74 Camptown Races was Foster's second important hit (following Oh! Susanna), which was popularized by the Christy Minstrels. Other Foster songs recorded by ...
... chorus (almost certainly his American Quartet). Copyrighted on February 19, 1850,74 Camptown Races was Foster's second important hit (following Oh! Susanna), which was popularized by the Christy Minstrels. Other Foster songs recorded by ...
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... chorus of the 1840 choral work “Festgesang an die Knustler,” which was written to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of printing from moveable type.79 Englishman William Hayman Cummings had long admired ...
... chorus of the 1840 choral work “Festgesang an die Knustler,” which was written to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of printing from moveable type.79 Englishman William Hayman Cummings had long admired ...
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Playlist 5 19501959 | 223 |
Playlist 6 19601964 | 321 |
Playlist 7 19651969 | 379 |
Playlist 8 19701979 | 451 |
Playlist 9 19801989 | 545 |
Playlist 10 19901999 | 601 |
Playlist 11 20002009 | 645 |
Playlist 12 20102016 | 681 |
Bibliography | 721 |
Title Index | 735 |
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