Johnny's Jukebox Trivia

Johnny's Jukebox Trivia
Author: John Robinson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 059526123X

Jukebox Johnny presents 1,001 of his best trivia questions about all of your favorite performers from the Golden Age of Rock & Roll. The questions in this book will thrill, entertain, amuse, and stump you! Even hard core fans will learn new tidbits about their favorite performers and how they came to make the music that they did. Come on, take this challenge, and find out just how much you really know about the music that shaped your life and the people who made it!

Johnny's Jukebox Trivia

Johnny's Jukebox Trivia
Author: John Robinson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002-12-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1462082297

Jukebox Johnny presents 1,001 of his best trivia questions about all of your favorite performers from the Golden Age of Rock & Roll. The questions in this book will thrill, entertain, amuse, and stump you! Even hard core fans will learn new tidbits about their favorite performers and how they came to make the music that they did. Come on, take this challenge, and find out just how much you really know about the music that shaped your life and the people who made it!

The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music

The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music
Author: Jimmy Correa
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2007-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 059539129X

From Aaliyah to ZZ Top, author Jimmy Correa covers it all in The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The 80s and 90s-an essential guide to musical factoids. The easy-to-read multiple choice format makes trivia fun while you learn interesting tidbits about all types of music and artists from the 80s and 90s, including pop, country, R & B, one-hit wonders, and the British and foreign invasions. Enjoy questions such as the following: This romantic song by Chris DeBurgh was featured in the 1988 soundtrack of the movie Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith Sir Mix-A-Lot, the male rapper, charted this song about the female body part that he likes the most Eric Clapton had a hit with this song in 1992 that was written in tribute to his son LeAnn Rimes, the talented, young country singer, gained her stardom by recording this song about loneliness at the tender age of fourteen Marc Cohn recorded this hit song in 1991 about a journey in the Delta Blues Correa draws on his extensive collection of music paraphernalia to share his love of music with others in The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The 80s and 90s. Long live rock 'n' roll!

The Million Dollar Quartet

The Million Dollar Quartet
Author: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857128566

Million Dollar Quartet’ is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.The events of the session. Very few participants survive. Includes interviews with the drummer and the sound engineer. A detailed analysis of the music played – and its relevance to subsequent popular music. The early lives and careers of the quartet – where they were in 1956. Relevant social and economic factors which meant that a massive audience of young people were keenly looking for a new kind of music they could call their own. The “reunions” of surviving members of the quartet. The emergence of the tapes, first on bootleg and then on legitimate CDs. The genesis of the stage show and its reception – the enduring appeal of the music.

Respect Yourself

Respect Yourself
Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608194167

Traces the rise and fall of the original Stax Records, touching upon the racial politics in Memphis in the 1960s, the personal histories of the sibling founders, and the prominent musicians they featured.

I was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory

I was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory
Author: Aubrey Dillon-Malone
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2000
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780809299058

For all fans wondering which torrid affairs started on the sets of their favorite movies or which authors wrote best with a bottle in hand -- and other unusual and obscure factoids -- these two companion books will satisfy even the most voracious film and fiction trivia buff. Each book has more than 300 fascinating lists that reveal behind-the-scenes, little-known facts about our favorite movie stars and celebrated scribes. Packed with outrageous facts and tantalizing tidbits of gossip from the celluloid world, a place where a sheep castrator can become a swashbuckling hero (Errol Flynn) and a man from Transylvania would come to play a man from Transylvania (Bela Lugosi).