Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music

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Summary: The Best of All Whitburn's Books
Review: The information contained in this book is beyond compare. The complete pre-rock and roll era, from 1890 through 1954, is here at your fingertips. The Crew Cuts? Here they are. How about Helen Kane (the 'boop boop a doop' girl)? She's here, too. Nora Bayes? Yup! There she is. And thousands more. This book convinced me to search out the music contained herein-not an easy task-but I obtained much of it, and now I'm hooked. Thank God for the web to help me locate this historical music, and thank God for Joel Whitburn for all of the extremely hard work that he had to put into the making of this book. Artists names, release dates, chart numbers (some fabricated but the good intention is there), label and numbers, and artist info. One word of warning in the purchase of this book-you may find yourself searching out and listening to the hits of 1910, 1927, 1941........

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Summary: Historical reference material! GREAT
Review: This book is a must for any person that works in the music industry. It covers just about everything that happened in the music world from the turn of the century to the start of the rock'n roll era in records. Every school library should have a copy in it's files. Excellent!