Research Catalog

Title

Ukulele heroes : the golden age / Ian Whitcomb ; edited by Ronny S. Schiff.

Author

Whitcomb, Ian, 1941-2020

Publication

Montclair, NJ : Hal Leonard Books, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Schiff, Ronny S.

Description

166 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Although the ukulele has always been popular even when relegated to the grass-skirt ghetto of luaus and limbo contests, the current craze for this instrument has put the four-string cousin of the guitar into the hands of veteran musicians and young hipsters alike. And while there are a handful of books feeding the current uke explosion, this is the first to detail the stage, screen, and recording stars who pioneered the uke those who predated and made possible its current resurgence.--From publisher description.

Subject

Ukulele players > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A ukulele Sunday -- A gift from the Islands : Hawaiian beginnings -- The Jazz Age and beyond. Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike" ; More heroes and one heroine ; Frank Crumit ; Wendell Hall ; Johnny Marvin ; May Singhi Breen, our heroine -- Meanwhile in England--grinning through the Great Depression. George Formby Jr. ; Tessie O'Shea ; Billy "Uke" Scott -- Arthur Godfrey : papa with the plastic uke -- Ian's story : the Golden Age has ended (not forgetting Tiny Tim) -- Our great revival : not forgetting Roy Smeck, Lyle Ritz, and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

ISBN

• 9781458416544 (pbk.)
• 1458416542 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2012013950
• 884088608958

OCLC

• 749854028
• SCSB-12364645

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library