Research Catalog

Title

The rockin' '50s : the decade that transformed the pop music scene / Arnold Shaw.

Author

Shaw, Arnold.

Publication

• New York : Hawthorn Books, 1974.
• ©1974.

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Details

Description

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Rockin' fifties : the decade that transformed the pop music scene.
• Rocking '50s : the decade that transformed the pop music scene.
• Rocking fifties : the decade that transformed the pop music scene.

Subject

• Rock music > United States > History and criticism
• Rock music
• United States

Genre/Form

• Rock music.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Rock (Musique)

Bibliography (note)

• Discography: p. 282-288.

Contents

• I. Introduction : 1. Summer of 1955 : Col. Tom Parker ; Elvis Presley ; Bill Randle ; Sam Phillips ; "I forgot to remember to forget" ; Steve Sholes -- II. Death of an era tin pan alley 1950-1953 : 2. It's later than you think : Pop music at midcentury ; Song forms and shibboleths of the tin pan alley era -- 3. Muzak and mister in-between : Perry Como ; Sinatra ; Nat "King" Cole ; Billy Eckstine ; Johnny Mathis -- 4. The beard : Mitch Miller ; Guy Mitchell ; Hank Williams ; "Come on-a my house" -- 5. The exciters : The Weavers ; Teresa Brewer ; The Ames brothers ; The four aces ; Maria Lanza ; Tony Bennett ; Les Paul and Mary Ford ; Joni James ; Sunny Gale ; Georgia Gibbs ; The bunny hop ; Julius La Rosa ; Patti Page ; Eartha Kitt ; Jo Stafford ; Harry Belafonte -- 6. The beats and the belters : Sinatra ; Frankie Laine interview ; Eddie Fisher ; Johnnie ray interview -- 7. The personality deejays : Dick Haynes ; Martin Block ; Al Jarvis ; Eddie Hubbard ; Kurt Webster ; Al Collins ; Bob Horn ; Bill Randle ; Howie Richmond ; Gene Rayburn -- 8. "Your hit parade" -- III. Upheavel in pop 1954-1955 : 9. "Sh-boom" : The chords ; The crew cutes ; Jerry Wexler interview -- 10. Blues with a beat : Louis Jordan ; Ahmet Erteguin interview ; R & B grows -- 11. The back of the charts : The orioles ; Joe Liggens and his honeydrippers ; Percy Mayfield ; Roy Milton and his solid senders ; Little Esther and Johnny Otis ; Fats Domino ; Ivory Joe Hunter ; Ruth Brown ; Mempthis Slim ; Lowell Fulson ; BMI ; The clovers and A. Nugetre ; Billy Ward and the dominoes ; Earl Bostic ; Jackie Brenston ; Johnny Ace ; Chuck Willis ; Howlin' wolf ; Lloyd Price ; B. B. King interview ; Clyde McPhatter ; The drifters ; The five royales ; Big mama Thornton ; Leiber and Stoller -- 12. Rock 'n' roll's superpromoter : Alan Freed ; Paul Sherman -- 13. Confrontation : Rebel without a cause ; "Shake, rattle and roll" ; Joe Turner ; White Balladeers ; ASCAP ; Muddy waters ; Hank Ballard and the mid-nighters ; The penguins ; The charms ; Roy Hamilton ; "Let me go lover" -- IV. The rock 'n' roll years 1956-1960 : 16. The god of r 'n' r arrives : Elvis Presley -- 17. Knocking the rock : Alan Freed ; The celler committee ; ASCAP vs BMI ; Nat "King" Cole -- 18. Teen-age eruption : Little Richard ; Fats domino ; James Brown ; Ivory Joe Hunter ; Carl Perkins ; Johnny Cash ; George Hamilton IV ; Gene Vincent ; The Cadillac's ; The coasters ; Frankie Lyman and the teenagers ; "Flying saucer" ; James Dean ; Calypso ; Record hops -- 19. The American Bandstand : "Young love" ; Dick Clark ; "Lip-syncing" -- 20. The audacious amateurs -- and the country rockers : Fabian ; Sal Mineo ; The tune weavers ; The bobbettes ; The rays ; Charlie Gracie ; Bobby Helms ; Tommy Sands ; Buddy Knox ; Jimmy Bowen ; Tex-mex sound ; Buddy Holly ; The everly brothers ; Jerry Lee Lewis interview ; Bill Justis ; Link Wray ; Duane Eddy -- 21. We're so young -- and they're so old : Paul Anka interview ; Ricky Nelson ; Jimmie Rodgers ; Eddie Cochran ; Johnny Mathis ; Sam Cooke ; Della Reese interview ; Micky and Sylvia ; Larry Williams ; The Stroll ; Chuck Willis ; The coasters ; Thurston Hraris ; Huey Smith and the clowns ; The del Vikings ; Little Richard -- 22. Get Presley! : Skiffle ; Ray Anthony
• 23. Going Steady : "Lollipop" ; Danny and the juniors ; The silhouettes ; Billy and Lillie ; Frankie Avalon ; Connie Francis ; Four preps ; The champs ; Laurie London ; Sheb Wooley ; Jack Scott ; Ed Townsend ; Bobby Freeman -- 24. Hula hoops, chipmunks, and the Kingston trio : Perez Parado ; Bobby Darin ; George "houng dog" Lorenz ; "Volare" ; Peggy Lee ; The elegants ; The poni-tails ; Little Anthony and the imperials ; Jimmy Clanton ; Hula hoop craze ; The Olympics ; Bobby day ; Jerry Wallace ; Dion and the Belmonts ; Earl Grant ; Tommy Edwards ; The Kingston trio ; Conway twitty ; The big bopper ; Cozy Cole ; Bob Braun ; "The chipmunk song" ; Phil Spector ; The playmates ; "The little drummer boy -- 25. What a difference a decade makes : Johnny Horton ; Jimmy Driftwood ; Marty Robbins ; Bobby Darin ; The browns ; Ritchie Valens ; Neil Sedaka ; Bobby Rydell ; Freddy Cannon ; Brenda Lee ; The fleetwoods ; The crests ; Santa and Johnny ; Lloyd Price ; Dinah Washington ; Sarah Vaughan ; Jackie Wilson ; Brook Benton ; Nina Simone ; Ray Charles ; The Isley brothers -- 26. Payola.

ISBN

• 0801564328
• 9780801564321
• 0801564344
• 9780801564345

LCCN

73000332

OCLC

• ocm00902359
• 902359
• SCSB-162881

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library