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Burnett, T-Bone Gordy, Berry Motown Record Corporation. Music trade Musicians United States Biography Phillips, Sam 1923-2003 Rap (Music) History and criticism Sound recording executives and producers Biography Sound recording executives and producers United States Biography Sound recording industry United StatesSummary: Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: The life and times of the influential, brilliantly funny rock icon Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late twentieth century. This follows Fields from Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to punk pioneer and beyond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANLanois, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64092 LANBlackwell, Chris
Summary: "Chris Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn. After being expelled from an elite British school for rebellious behavior in 1954 at age seventeen, he moved back to Jamaica, and within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACKWELL, CHRIS BLAGuralnick, Peter.
Summary: The author of Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Phillips 2015Summary: Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAMPosner, Gerald.
Summary: A history of the legendary music label offers profiles of the artists, many from Detroit's inner-city projects, who achieved fame, detailing their rise to success, the inability of many to handle stardom, and their conflicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.644 POSTempleman, Ted
Summary: "This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman's remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the '70s and '80s. Along the way, Ted details his late '60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music TemplemanMansfield, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANSFIELD, KEN MANCharnas, Dan
Summary: "Equal parts musicology, biography, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the invention of a new kind of beat by the most underappreciated musical genius of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 J DILLA CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio CharnasBoyd, Joe
Summary: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running UFO, the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serpent's Tail 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BOYMottola, Tommy.
Summary: One of the most powerful, famous executives in the history of the music industry, Mottola was there from Elvis to the iPod. Now, Mottola recounts how a street kid from the Bronx became the music industry's most creative and successful CEO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.640 MOTRamone, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RAMCohen, Rich.
Contents: Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 COHSummary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEFSachs, Lloyd
Summary: T Bone Burnett offers the first critical appreciation of Burnett s wide-ranging contributions to American music, his passionate advocacy for analog sound, and the striking contradictions that define his maverick artistry. Lloyd Sachs highlights all the important aspects of Burnett s musical pursuits, from his early days as a member of Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Revue and his collaboration with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNETT, T BONE SACGordy, Berry.
Summary: Now the man who made Motown, the revolutionary who shattered the color barrier in the American entertainment industry, the visionary who forever changed the way the world hears its music, finally breaks his silence after decades of rumor, gossip and misinformation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994