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This is a wonderful history of American song with an array of photos & musical examples. The history starts with Sweet Rosie O'Grady through Rudy Vallee's era.Contents:? Sweet Rosie O'Grady? The little lost child? Flower from an angel mother's grave? They all do it? Ida? Take back your gold? My castle on the river Nile? Hot time in the old town tonight? My gal Sal? In the good old summertime? If I had a thousand lives to live? Meet me in the shadows? Everybody's doing it? Alexander's ragtime band? Over there? Parade of the wooden soldiers? Woman disputed, I love you? Say Au revoir but not good-by? 1545 songs outstanding in my memory? Famous names in minstrelsy? Variety & vaudeville? High life & low life in old New York? Index of names & subjects? Index of songs ... Read more

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Love Letters in Song
I got this book for my 90-something old father and we had a blast with it, since so much of this music is the music he grew up with and grew to love.

As we read the chapters on the making of the music and the lives of the composers, song-writers, and song-makers, we sang these songs to each other.

It's a fat book chock full of hither-to unknown facts, marvelous asides on how plugging a song was done before radio. . . how the grammaphone and technology changed the face of musical history.

And, so many pictures!These alone are worth the cost of admission.

--Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary ... Read more

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Chapters: Postino, Jang Dong-Gun, Korean Musicians in Japan, Edward Chun, Richard Hyung-Ki Joo, Sang-Won Park, Han Tong-Il, Youjeen, Yi Saenggang. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Postino (real name Junho Lee) is an electronic music producer based in London. He is the owner of independent record label Postino Records, and is noted as being one of the first South Korean producers to top the European DJ charts. He started his professional career as a pop music producer in South Korea, composing film scores and producing singles for Korean singers. He has worked with Lee Ki Chan the longest, having produced five of his albums; a song from the ninth album, "..." (to do...), was used to promote the film The Illusionist throughout South Korea. He arranged and produced for South Korean pop-girl group S.E.S. in 2002, and his songs 'Requiem' and 'Red Angel' were chosen by Japanese fans to be released on "S.E.S. Best". He was also producer and keyboard player for Acid Jazz/pop outfit Mogi. His debut album, A Letter From The Postino, was released in early 2007 via Lupin Records in South Korea. He moved on to work in London in 2007 where he started focusing on electronic music. Bushey Hill Jazz House peaked at #2 on Juno Download's with the single "Bushey Hill". It remained at the top of the charts on Juno Download for five successive weeks, and ranked on Juno Recommends: Broken Beat/Nu Jazz and Deep House. He subsequently remixed a single for Korean entertainer Hwangbo, which peaked at #1 on JunoDownload's singles charts for four days . Pieorgi Records recently hosted Postino as a guest DJ at SQ Club in Pozna, Poland. The name 'Postino' was inspired by his life-long vision that electronic music can be as warm and full of meaning as a hand-written letter....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25278181 ... Read more