New York: Victor Records, 1907. Highlighting new records by Mischa Elman, Johana Gadski, and Caruso with brief descriptive bios.Background Information:The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer that operated independently from 1901 until 1929 when the company was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America.....
Switzerland: Editions Illustre, 1986. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Beginning in 1967 the small festival turned into one of the premier events in the Jazz World. To celebrate 20 years of music a series of original pictures, all shot in Montreux, musicians of all styles, stars and.....
[Yellowstone Park, Wyo]: [Yellowstone Park Camps Co.], c1920. Stapled Wraps. The front cover shows a group of hikers on the Uncle Tom's Trail, the rear a 'begging' bear with Yellowstone lingo.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The acclaimed encyclopedic survey of black musical creation that marked the countdown to the explosion of ragtime.Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of.....
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New York: Irving Berlin Inc., 1928. [Includes Ukulele Arrangement.] Jazz/Dance Band. Al Jolson's Big Hit in "The Singing Fool". Other Titles: I'm happy, so happy walking on air / There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder, and a sky of blue above. OCLC Number: 861463179.
New York: Harmony Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The first African American rock-and-roll star to reach a mass audience discloses details of his intimate life and tells the story of his imprisonment at the peak of his career for violation of the.....
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. From a discovered manuscript of Revolutionary War era songs. They were assembled by an American privateer. Timothy Conner while he was held in England's Forton Prison. The manual contained coarse sailor songs, patriotic lyrics, lyrics about.....
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. A Very Good Soft cover. Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Examining musicals, this book discusses writing the libretto, adding songs, auditioning and rehearsals. It contains excerpts of interviews with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The author wrote the score for "One More Song" and "Laura"
Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dust Jacket.
First Edition, First Printing after a limited signed edition. A Fine Softcover in a Fine Dust Wrapper. David Stone Martin created more than two hundred album covers during the 1950s for the Norman Granz labels, Clef, Norgran and Verve.An encyclopedic compendium of album covers designed by David Stone Martin for.....
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Differing from the 1925 publication not only in its abbreviated method of presentation but in that it covers the entire field of the folk-song, not just ballads.The following data is included: the local title, the first line.....
USA: Schirmer Books, 1985. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The authors offer clear, practical overviews of program languages, real-time synthesizers, digital filtering, artificial intelligence, and much more.
Austin, TX and London: University of Texas Press, 1970. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Edith Fowke's collection of sixty-five songs, recorded from former shantyboys, is unique, being the first in this field to exclude the more general songs popular in the bunkhouse. Mrs. Fowke presents a......
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London: John Watts & T. Read, 1749 & 1729. Background Information:The Beggar's Opera, written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch, is a notable ballad opera in three acts. This play holds great significance in the realm of Augustan drama and stands as the sole.....
New York: William Morrow, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
New York: Knopf, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Enhanced by a trove of remarkable documents and correspondence sourced from Wenner's private archives, Sticky Fingers presents a portrait of an enterprising, unpredictable rock and roll enthusiast who celebrates the allure of youth and beauty.....
New York: Citadel, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Many musicians sing about heartache, despair, and confusion, but few have experienced those feelings more intensely than James Taylor, who rose from a childhood of privilege as the son of an affluent medical school dean to become a modern-day troubadour.....
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Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Authentic in detail, lyric in description Past Titan Rock will engage readers in Appalachian life, oral histories, and old-time music.
Indianapolis: Droke House, 1950. 18th Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. "A curious collection of somewhat salty classics seldom sung in Sunday schools." from the dust jacket.
Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964. Revised Edition. A Good Hardcover. This text undertakes to sift out from the large body of folksong assembled by collectors the native American ballads, describe and group them. Sections are War Ballads; Cowboys and Pioneers; Lumberjacks and Shanty Men; Sailors; about Criminals and Outlaws; Murder.....
New York: Hyperion, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In a friendly, down-home style that belies her stature as country music's most celebrated performer, Loretta writes candidly about the price of fame and the stresses of stardom; tells of friends and family she's loved and lost along.....
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Soft cover. Long recognized as one of the richest repositories of folksong in the United States, the Central Blue Ridge has also been a prolific source of commercial recording, starting in 1923 with Henry Whitter's 'hillbilly' music and continuing into the 21st century. This reference work.....
Little Rock, Ark: August House Publishers, 1987. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A selection of ballads from the American South, including humorous ballads, murder ballads, ballads of tragedies and disasters, the supernatural, and also sentimental songs of death and dying, arranged according to theme.