Ramone, Phil.

Summary: A successful producer presents an insider's tour of the recording business, tracing his early days working with commercials and jazz before working with such artists as Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007

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Guralnick, Peter.

Summary: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.66 GUR

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Cogan, Jim.

Summary: All great music has a birthplace. This book tells the stories of the legendary studios where musical genius and a magical space came together to capture some of the most exciting jazz, pop, funk, soul, and country records ever made. From the celebrated Southern studios of Sun and Stax, to the John Coltrane/Miles Davis sessions in producer Rudy Van Gelder's living room, to Frank Sinatra's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6414 COG

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 781.66 TRO

Friedwald, Will

Summary: "Each of the fifty-seven albums discussed here captures the artist at a high point, if not at the expected moment, of her or his career. The individual cuts are evaluated, the sequencing explicated, the songs and songwriters heralded; anecdotes abound of how songs were born and how artists and producers collaborated. And in appraising each album, Friedwald balances his own opinions with those...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017

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Neely, Tim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.266 NEE

Summary: Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books/All Media Guide 2001

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1 available in Sight & Sound Reference Material, Call number: SSR 780.26 ALL

Hopkins, Jerry.

Summary: A biography of the rock guitarist whose short but powerful career was highlighted by a legendary performance at Woodstock in 1969.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDRIX, JIMI HOP

Rush, Bobby

Summary: "Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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