Moon River and Me

Moon River and Me
Author: Andy Williams
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 110114873X

A remarkable memoir by one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth century When in the mid-1950s Andy Williams reached a low point in his career, singing in dives to ever-smaller audiences, the young man from Wall Lake, Iowa, had no inkling of the success he would one day achieve. Before being declared a national treasure by President Ronald Reagan, Williams would chart eighteen gold and three platinum albums, headline at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for more than twenty years, and host an enormously popular weekly television variety show whose Christmas specials still occupy a tender spot in every baby boomer’s heart. Williams knew everybody who was anybody during his seven remarkable decades in show business (including Judy Garland, John Huston, Jack Lemmon, John Lennon, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, and Barbra Streisand, among others) and was a close friend of Bobby Kennedy for many years, and he shares memories of them all in Moon River and Me. His millions of fans guarantee a huge audience for the autobiography of the plush baritone who— at the age of eighty-one—still draws thousands of fans to his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri.

Early '70s Radio

Early '70s Radio
Author: Kim Simpson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441136789

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats," which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly insoluble social problems. As industry professionals worked overtime to understand audiences and to generate formats, they also laid the groundwork for market segmentation. Audiences, meanwhile, approached these formats as safe havens wherein they could re-imagine and redefine key issues of identity. A fresh and accessible exercise in audience interpretation, Early '70s Radio is organized according to the era's five prominent formats and analyzes each of these in relation to their targeted demographics, including Top 40, "soft rock", album-oriented rock, soul and country. The book closes by making a case for the significance of early '70s formatting in light of commercial radio today.

Country Music

Country Music
Author: Dayton Duncan
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0525520546

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.

Andy Williams 152 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Andy Williams

Andy Williams 152 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Andy Williams
Author: Eugene Carroll
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781488554964

The most comprehensive Biography yet of Andy Williams. This book is your ultimate resource for Andy Williams. Here you will find the most up-to-date 152 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Andy Williams's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Close Enough for Love (Andy Williams album) - Song information, Solitaire (Andy Williams album) - Song information, B Sides and Rarities (Andy Williams album) - Personnel, Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen - Track listing, Andy Williams discography - Label X and the Cadence years, The Andy Williams Show - K, The Shadow of Your Smile (Andy Williams album) - Personnel, The Andy Williams Christmas Album - Side two, Fly by Night (Andy Williams song), List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 4) - Andy Williams, B Sides and Rarities (Andy Williams album) - Song information, Andy Williams discography - Live albums, Nashville (Andy Williams album) - Performers, Greatest Hits (Andy Williams album), Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams - Recording dates, Reflections (Andy Williams album), Andy Williams' Greatest Hits - Recording dates, Andy Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - Personnel, The Andy Williams Show - R, You've Got a Friend (Andy Williams album) - Personnel, The Very Best of Andy Williams - Personnel, Andy Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (UK version), Andy Williams discography - The post-Columbia years, The Andy Williams Show - I, Andy Williams' Newest Hits - Track listing, Love Story (Andy Williams album, U.K. version) - Track listing, The New Andy Williams Christmas Album - Track listing, and much more...

Peter Paul and Mary

Peter Paul and Mary
Author: Peter Yarrow
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1607348012

This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America’s heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over five decades by some of the world’s top photographers, follow them from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the most desired, beautiful, and charismatic performer and a new role model for women. Follow the trio as they lead America to discover the passionate soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality, social justice, and freedom in this memorable journey, from the historic 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., to the trio’s appearance before a half million people in 1969 to end the Vietnam War, to their singing at the Hollywood Bowl for Survival Sunday in 1978, helping to launch the anti-nuke movement, the world’s first international environmental movement. Through these images, readers will feel and almost hear the trio’s songs calling for a more caring, better world as they performed with a courage and conviction that became for so many the embodiment and soundtrack of their generation’s awakening to conscience, to activism, and to a new dream for all of humankind. Peter, Paul, and Mary’s songs of defiant hope and a certain unmasked innocence are still a powerful part of our American consciousness, and this book reenacts the history of how the trio marked many lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we all yearn to recapture and recreate today—for ourselves, our children, and the generations to come.

Tommy Emmanuel - All I Want for Christmas

Tommy Emmanuel - All I Want for Christmas
Author: Tommy Emmanuel
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781495026157

(Guitar Recorded Versions). A dozen songs matching the 2011 holiday album by this talented jazz guitarist are featured in this collection in arrangements with standard notation and tab. Includes: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * How Great Thou Art * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Jingle Bells * The Magic of Christmas Time * Mary's Little Boy Child * One Christmas Night * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * White Christmas * Winter Wonderland.

Santa's Greatest Hits

Santa's Greatest Hits
Author: Hal Leonard Corp
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Christmas music
ISBN: 9780634082030

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A super collection of 40 holiday favorites featuring St. Nick, including: Caroling, Caroling * Christmas Time Is Here * Do You Hear What I Hear * Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) * I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus * Little Saint Nick * Merry Christmas, Darling * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me) * When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter.