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Book House of Hits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andy Bradley
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 0292719191
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book House of Hits written by Andy Bradley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin’ Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child, and many, many more. In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry. They describe how Houston’s lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn’s house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill’s willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill’s recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio’s recordings.

Book House of Hits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andy Bradley
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-03-01
  • ISBN : 0292783248
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book House of Hits written by Andy Bradley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child, and many, many more. In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry. They describe how Houston's lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn's house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill's willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill's recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio's recordings.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Hits and Hints

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  • Author : William Turner Coggeshall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Home Hits and Hints written by William Turner Coggeshall and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billboard

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-07-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-07-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Houston Bound

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  • Author : Tyina Steptoe
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-11-03
  • ISBN : 0520282574
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Houston Bound written by Tyina Steptoe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From World War I through the 1960s, Houston was transformed into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations--particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles--complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also traces the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres--like zydeco and Tejano soul--that arose when migrants forged shared social space. Houston's location on the Gulf Coast, poised between the American South and the West, provides for a particularly rich examination of how the histories of colonization, slavery, and segregation produced divergent ways of thinking about race"--Provided by publisher.

Book Songs of the Piano Stars  24 Hits From the Great Piano Singer Songwriters  PVG

Download or read book Songs of the Piano Stars 24 Hits From the Great Piano Singer Songwriters PVG written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs Of The Piano Stars, with its 24 hit songs from the past and present, will enable you to play a selection of perfect Piano-led tunes drawn from sixty years popular music from a wide range of artists. These songs have been expertly-selected and engraved to reflect the most-requested songs by Piano singer-songwriters, with tunes from The Beatles, Carole King, Alicia Keys and more. Each piece has been carefully arranged for piano, with accompanying voice melodies and guitar chord boxes. Song List: - Alfie [Burt Bacharach] - All Of Me [John Legend] - Angel [Sarah McLachlan] - Brave [Sara Bareilles] - Come On Up To The House [Tom Waits] - The Girl In The Other Room [Diana Krall] - Don't Explain [Nina Simone] - Don't Know Why [Norah Jones] - Girl On Fire [Alicia Keys] - I Feel The Earth Move [Carole King] - I Love To See You Smile [Randy Newman] - Imagine [John Lennon] - Lady Madonna [The Beatles] - Live And Let Die [Paul McCartney] - My Life [Billy Joel] - Paper Bag [Fiona Apple] - Philosophy [Ben Folds Five] - Pretty Good Year [Tori Amos] - Rocket Man [Elton John] - A Thousand Miles [Vanessa Carlton] - Tiny Dancer [Elton John] - Walking In Memphis [Mark Cohn] - This Woman's Work [Kate Bush] - You're So Vain [Carly Simon]

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986-05-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-05-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Chart Watch UK   Hits of 1988

Download or read book Chart Watch UK Hits of 1988 written by James Masterton and published by James Masterton. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the longest-serving music columnist online comes this comprehensive account of the Top 40 hit singles of 1988. Every artist to land a hit single during the year is documented and every one of their hits is catalogued. A full account of who made the charts, when, and most importantly why. The year when Kylie Minogue was transformed from Australian soap actress to global chart superstar. The year which saw House Music change the world. The year of Yazz, of S-Express, but also of Glen Medeiros. And the year which ended with Cliff redefining Christmas songs forever. The essential guide to a fascinating year in pop music, and the perfect reference book for any self-respecting 80s music fan.

Book Billboard

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  • Release : 2009-10-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Billboard

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  • Release : 1972-07-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-07-22 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Billboard

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  • Release : 2009-10-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 904 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Ride Free

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  • Author : Willie G. Davidson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-08-01
  • ISBN : 1637630875
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Ride Free written by Willie G. Davidson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie G. Davidson likes to say that he was born with gasoline in his veins and a crayon in each hand. A designer at heart, Davidson combined his passions for art and motorcycles to extend a multi-generational unbroken thread from Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company’s birth in a wooden shed in the early twentieth century to today. The grandson of one of the company’s founders and the son of one of its longtime presidents, Davidson created a series of iconic designs that defined Harley-Davidson “factory custom” bikes and cemented its standing as the premier motorcycle company in the world. Davidson was instrumental in saving the company from bankruptcy and then helping it explode into a global phenomenon. For more than five decades, Davidson was more than a namesake of the founders; he was the heart and soul of Harley-Davidson and a personal connection to millions of riders around the world who knew him simply as "Willie G." Throughout his life Davidson has embodied a close-to-the-customer relationship, by attending motorcycle rallies, rides, and races with his late wife, Nancy, the “First Lady of Motorcycling,” and son and daughter Bill and Karen Davidson who recently joined their famous parents by being inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame and play key roles in the Motor Company today. In Ride Free, Davidson recounts his memories of family, relationships, and events that defined his extraordinary life and legacy of power, passion, and purpose. Davidson gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the planning, design, and conception of legendary bikes that inspired millions of riders over the past half-century; stories of his unforgettable rides around the world; the people he encountered while navigating thousands of miles on the roads; and the legacy that he and his family have created which will carry on the most famous name in motorcycles.

Book Reckoning with Race

Download or read book Reckoning with Race written by Frederick Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reckoning with Race is a firsthand account of race relations in America from award-winning journalist, author, and former CNN commentator, Rick Allen. Allen's collection of essays shows the progress our country has made—and how much further we have to go. In his fifty-year career as an award-winning journalist, CNN commentator, and author of multiple books, Rick Allen has had a front-row seat on dramatic change in race relations in America. In Reckoning with Race, a collection of eighteen essays, he explores his ongoing efforts to understand the struggle of black and white Americans to navigate a shared history at once wicked and intimate, full of love and hate, as they seek to level an uneven playing field. Allen examines issues from the era of Reconstruction through Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, the rhythms of resistance and progress, into today’s contentious debates over redlining, reparations, and critical race theory. Starting as a reporter with the Atlanta Constitution in 1972, Allen got to know and befriend legendary black political figures including Julian Bond, John Lewis, Andy Young, Hosea Williams, Maynard Jackson, Jesse Jackson, and Daddy King, the father of Martin Luther King, Jr. He also encountered ardent white segregationists, some of whom saw the light and others who took their racism to the grave. Drawing on his experience covering politics, he examines presidents from LBJ and Jimmy Carter to Obama and Trump. He explores the symbolism of Confederate flags, the controversy over Uncle Remus, the election of Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, and the tragic case of the Atlanta Child Murders. He has had first-hand encounters with white supremacy and violent black protest alike. Throughout Reckoning with Race, Allen is candid about his own shortcomings as a white native Northerner learning gradually about the complexities of race in his adoptive South. The essays highlight his continuing journey toward understanding the forces that both hinder and promote equality and harmony between the races.

Book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".

Book House   Garden

Download or read book House Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old School Rap and Hip hop

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  • Author : Chris Woodstra
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780879309169
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Old School Rap and Hip hop written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains brief reviews of over five hundred old school rap and hip-hop albums, as well as albums from the 1960s and 70s that provided inspiration for the development of rap; arranged alphabetically, some with cover art.