Full Description
The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s is chock full of entertaining essays to inform and delight you about an era that shaped our culture and future musical trends. This unique book will surprise and enchant even the most zealous music buff with facts and information on the songs that reflected America's spirit and captured a nation's attention. The Classic Rock and Roll Reader is offbeat, somewhat irreverent, ironic, and ancedotal as it discusses hundreds of rock and non-rock compositions included in rock history era. The songs offer you information on:
Rock's Not So Dull Predecessors (for example, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" and "The Cry of the Wild Goose")
The Pioneering Rock Songs (such as "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" )
Older Style Songs Amidst the Rocks (for example, "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Rocky Mountain High" )
The Megastars and Megagroups (such as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Respect," and "Surfin'USA" )
The Best Songs that Never Made No. 1 (for example," I Feel Good" and " Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" )The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s also examines the music which preceded early rock, the music which followed early rock, and the numerous non-rock songs which flourished during the classic rock period. A wide spectrum of music is discussed in well over 100 essays on various songs. Musicians, librarians, and the general audience will be taken back to the birth of rock and roll and the various contributing influences. Analyzing each song's place in rock history and giving some background about the artists, The Classic Rock and Roll Reader offers even the most avid music enthusiast new and unique information in this thorough and interesting guide.
Contents
Contents
Preface
The Emergence of Rock Music, or, Waking Up the 1950s
Rock's Not So Dull Predecessors
In the Mood
Of Thee I Sing
Night and Day
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Oklahoma!
Show Business
The Cry of the Wild Goose
The Pioneering Rock Songs, or, Three Create a Crowd
Rock Around the Clock
Sh-Boom
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Older-Style Songs Amidst the Rocks
All the Way
Chances Are
I Could Have Danced All Night
Moon River
Rocky Mountain High
Top of the World
Whatever Will Be, Will Be
A Generation of Classic Rock, or, Rock Rolls On
The Megastars and Megagroups, or the Bolder and the Boulders
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Blue Suede Shoes
Bridge over Troubled Water
Can't Help Falling in Love
Crazy Man, Crazy
Diana
Dream Lover
Good Vibrations
I Want to Hold Your Hand
In My Room
It Ain't Me, Babe
Last Train to Clarksville
Let It Be
Love Me Tender
Michelle
Photograph
P. S. I Love You
Respect
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Stop! In the Name of Love
Surfin' USA
Walk Like a Man
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?
What's Going On
Who's Sorry Now?
World Without Love
Yesterday
You Send Me
The Best Songs That Never Made Number 1, or, Time Heals All Aches, Mistakes, and Bad Breads
Ain't That a Shame?
Downtown
From Me to You
I Feel Good
I'm on the Outside (Looking In)
I'm Walkin'
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Oh, Pretty Woman
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Rhinestone Cowboy
(I'm a) Road Runner
Song Sung Blue
Standing on the Corner
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
Up-Up and Away
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
One-Hit Wonders, or Flashes in the Chart
At the Hop
The Battle of New Orleans
Classical Gas
Earth Angel
Ease on Down the Road
Gentle on My Mind
The Great Pretender
Happy Together
I'm Sorry
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Save the Last Dance for Me
Singin' the Blues
Sit Down, I Think I Love You
Spinning Wheel
Tequila
Volare
Novelty Songs, or, Unusual, but Unusually Good
Aquarius
The Candy Man
Don't Sleep in the Subway
Hit the Road, Jack
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini
King of the Road
The Last Kiss
The Wanderer
You Don't Own Me
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
The Best and the Worst of Classic Rock
The Best Classic Rock Song
The Worst Famous Classic Rock Song
Classic Rock Meets Disco, and Both Disappear
Disco Duck
Stayin' Alive
Title Index
Subject Index
Index
Reference Notes Included
