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Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll : the birth of rock in the wild years before Elvis / Nick Tosches.
- Title
- Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll : the birth of rock in the wild years before Elvis / Nick Tosches.
- Author
- Tosches, Nick
- Publication
- New York : Harmony Books, c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML394 T67 1991 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus
- Description
- xi, 276 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- A look at the early history of rock music focuses on influential, but overlooked singers and musicians, including Big Joe Turner, Louis Prima, Bill Haley, The Clovers, and Screamin Jay Hawkins.
- Alternative Title
- Unsung heroes of rock and roll
- Birth of rock in the wild years before Elvis
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discographies: p. 201-268.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Jesse Stone -- Big Joe Turner -- Nat King Cole -- Louis Jordan -- Wynonie Harris -- Charles Brown -- Ella Mae Morse -- Cecil Gant -- Amos Milburn -- Roy Brown -- Louis Prima -- Ming and Ling -- The Treniers -- Stick McGhee -- Young Bill Haley -- Roy Hall -- Hardrock Gunter -- Merrill Moore -- Skeets McDonald -- The Clovers -- The Dominoes -- Jackie Brenston -- The Midnighters -- Jimmie Logsdon -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- Wanda Jackson -- Johnny Ace -- Esau Smith -- What that was : a chronology of the coming of rock 'n' roll -- Archaeologia rockola -- Old noise, new plastic : unsung heroes on compact disc.
- ISBN
- 0517580527 :
- LCCN
- ^^^90047515^
- OCLC
- 22420929
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library