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My Hit Parade and a Few Misses

Author : Russell Arms
Publisher : Bearmanor Media
ISBN 13 : 9781593930240
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book My Hit Parade and a Few Misses written by Russell Arms and published by Bearmanor Media. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Arms is probably best known for his six-year stint on the famous Your Hit Parade TV show, but he also was active in many other theatrical fields. After graduating from the Pasadena Playhouse he was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. Studios were he made several important pictures, including The Man Who Came to Dinner, Captains of the Clouds, and By the Light of the Silvery Moon. He also free-lanced at other studios and, in all, appeared in over 20 movies, including several Westerns. Deciding to try his luck in New York he discovered he had a singing voice which he immediately put to good use with his own radio show on WNEW as well as on a TV show, School Days, on the Dumont network. His next step was a national game show, Chance of a Lifetime, on ABC where he stayed for over a year. From there it was on to CBS for The 54th St. Revue, another national TV offering which lasted for over a year. The big break came shortly after that by his signing with the Hit Parade and that opened up a whole world of opportunities, including recordings, night clubs, fairs, personal appearances, and many guest spots on TV (including the Ed Sullivan Show with his hit record, "Cinco Robles"), as well as dinner and summer theaters all over the country (including versions of Can Can, Bells Are Ringing, 1776, Irma LaDouce, No, No, Nanette, with the incomparable Martha Raye ), and many others both musical and non-musical. Russ also got involved with MC'ing beauty pageants and fashion shows. He staged and MC'd the Miss World-USA Pageant for three years and added music to the fashion shows by singing to the models as they paraded the runway.

Elvis: My Best Man

Author : George Klein
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307452751
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Elvis: My Best Man written by George Klein and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching story of thirty years of friendship between George Klein and the King that “offers an insider’s view of Presley the man as opposed to Presley the singer, actor, and icon” (Associated Press). “You capture the essence of Elvis not only in dialogue, but also in giving the reader a sense of his personality, humor, and his spirit of play.”—Priscilla Presley When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone extraordinary. During Elvis’s rise to fame and throughout the wild swirl of his remarkable life, Klein was a steady presence and one of Elvis’s closest and most loyal friends until his untimely death in 1977. In Elvis: My Best Man, a heartfelt, entertaining, and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of Elvis Presley and the early days of rock ’n’ roll, George Klein writes with great affection for the friend he knew about who the King of Rock ’n’ Roll really was and how he acted when the stage lights were off. This fascinating chronicle of boundary-breaking and music-making through one of the most intriguing and dynamic stretches of American history overflows with insights and anecdotes from someone who was in the middle of it all. From the good times at Graceland to hanging out with Hollywood stars to butting heads with Elvis’s iron-handed manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to making sure that Elvis’s legacy is fittingly honored, GK was a true friend of the King and a trailblazer in the music industry in his own right.

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

Author : Lee Smith
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200499
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger written by Lee Smith and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the New York Times Book Review put it, "In al- most every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent."

Miss M.’S Storybook

Author : Sandra Mendyk
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467857114
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Miss M.’S Storybook written by Sandra Mendyk and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever done something you later were embarrassed about, like hiding under a highway in ankle-high water at two oclock in the morning? Or getting locked in Paris, Frances Notre Dame Cathedral bell tower? Would you tell anyone about your family and friends, especially a brother who loved pulling pranks like throwing lit matches from a cinema balcony? Did you ever try to undertake something fun that no one would ever expect you to do like flying an airplane although you get airsick? Have you ever encountered a ghost, met a reincarnated spider, or accompanied the FBI to look for a bomb? How would you feel if you took your nephew to England at the invitation of the Prince of Wales and got embarrassed when he said something out loudloud enough that you wanted to crawl under the closest chair? Do you feel brave or anxious enough to read some of these experiences (mostly funny)the same stories that many junior high school students enjoyed for years? Many people have approached Miss M. and asked how she had so many adventures and accomplished so much. Miss M. has taught seventh grade for twenty-two years. Many times the school day had some leftover time. This was the perfect time for one of Miss M.s storiesstories that were told over and over again to keep students riveted to the teacher in front of the room. She never repeated the same story twice to the same class. And all these stories are true! This book has many of these stories. Many stories are classified as comedy, serious, and some may be downright scary! Many also have a moral. This paperback book can be taken on the bus, on trips, and even, read in the bathroom! Characters in the book have initials in order to save some people embarrassment. The family members know who they are! All Miss M. has to say now after compiling all her real-life stories for others to read and share is Enjoy! as all her former students did. And if anyone doesnt enjoy the book, well, theres always that bathroom!

God Bless America

Author : Kathleen E.R. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185386
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book God Bless America written by Kathleen E.R. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song—an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined "proper" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write. The music business also formed its own Music War Committee to promote war songs. Neither group succeeded. The OWI hoped that Tin Pan Alley could be converted from manufacturing love songs to manufacturing war songs just as automobile plants had retooled to assemble planes and tanks. But the OWI failed to comprehend the large extent by which the war effort would be defined by advertisers and merchandisers. Selling merchandise was the first priority of Tin Pan Alley, and the OWI never swayed them from this course. Kathleen E.R. Smith concludes the government's fears of faltering morale did not materialize. Americans did not need such war songs as "Goodbye, Mama, I'm Off To Yokohama", "There Are No Wings On a Foxhole", or even "The Sun Will Soon Be Setting On The Land Of The Rising Sun" to convince them to support the war. The crusade for a "proper" war song was misguided from the beginning, and the music business, then and now, continues to make huge profits selling love—not war—songs.

This was Your Hit Parade

Author : John R. Williams
Publisher : Camden, Me.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book This was Your Hit Parade written by John R. Williams and published by Camden, Me.. This book was released on 1973 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of songs that were presented on the radio program "Your hit parade" from 1935 to 1958.

Your Hit Parade

Author : Bruce C. Elrod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Hit Parade written by Bruce C. Elrod and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arse Over Teakettle

Author : Doug Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450205313
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Arse Over Teakettle written by Doug Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn found adventure on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Tom Hudson and his friend "Shorty" discovered it in the secluded laneways and avenues of a deceptively quiet Toronto neighbourhood. Arse Over Teakettle is an intriguing tale of Tom Hudson's boyhood escapades in Toronto during the 1940s. He and his mischievous friend, Shorty, encounter eccentric characters such as Grumpy, an unconventional older man in the neighbourhood, and their fierce neighbour-Mrs. Leyer. Their confrontations with the Kramer Gang are sometimes painful and at other times hilarious. As Tom and his friends become sexually aware, amusing situations develop. Shorty constantly pushes Tom to explore beyond the secure boundaries of childhood, into the world of the "big boys." An intimate and heartfelt tale of family life in Toronto, Arse Over Teakettle is set during the decade when the city is transforming from a parochial city into a cosmopolitan urban centre. In Tom's neighbourhood, difficulties arise as he confronts ethnic and religious prejudice, which wounds his boyhood friends.

I've Been Thinking

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393868060
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book I've Been Thinking written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." —Richard Dawkins A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett. Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett’s answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I’ve Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations. Dennett’s relentless curiosity has taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to “Cognitive Cruises” on sailboats and the fields and orchards of Maine, and to laboratories and think tanks around the world. Along the way, I’ve Been Thinking provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science—including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI—and reveals both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped Dennett’s theories. Key to this journey are Dennett’s interlocutors—Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Willard Van Orman Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Gerald Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Fodor, Rodney Brooks, and more—whose ideas, even when he disagreed with them, helped to form his convictions about the mind and consciousness. Studded with photographs and told with characteristic warmth, I’ve Been Thinking also instills the value of life beyond the university, one enriched by sculpture, music, farming, and deep connection to family. Dennett compels us to consider: What do I really think? And what if I’m wrong? This memoir by one of the greatest minds of our time will speak to anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.

Okra's Child

Author : Njf Knowles
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477134042
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Okra's Child written by Njf Knowles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering a fall on the Island of Long Island Bahamas, the heroine forces herself to answer the question, What is my purpose in life? Fearing death, she questions wheatear God wants her or not. Guiding her on this journey are the likes of Alice in Wonderland , movie stars, and dead relatives. They force her into accepting her own mortality, even as she attends her own funeral. The story is told from her hospital bed by way of flashbacks. Among her flashbacks are visits to the Joe McCarthy and Apartheid era of the 1940-50 s. There is humor, beginning with Bobby Darin s Splish-Splash recording, to assisting the airline pilot in landing the plane, and tears as she relives her kidnapping and other childhood molestations. She discovers her own mechanisms of surviving.

Miss Kansas City Kitty: Doris Markham's Story

Author : Deborah Dilks
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1646108612
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Miss Kansas City Kitty: Doris Markham's Story written by Deborah Dilks and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Kansas City Kitty: Doris Markham’s Story By: Deborah Dilks Doris Markham’s Story takes you back to Kansas City in the 1930s and 1940s as well as rural Missouri living at the turn of the twentieth century. Join Doris on her escapades through three marriages and a dozen boyfriends. Miss Kansas City Kitty Doris Markham’s Story is based on a true story about one spirited country girl’s struggles to survive in the Kansas City when it was a wild town; some called it “The Paris of the Plains” with illegal gambling, speakeasies, gangsters, barbecue and jazz. Her story is a love story, okay several love stories mixed with drama and comedy. People described Doris Markham as a pistol, a free spirit and stubborn. She could be called an early woman’s rights activist because she often said “What’s right for the goose, is right for the gander”. In this book you will see Kansas City from a working girl’s view and find gangsters, kidnapping, murder, prostitution, speakeasies, supper clubs, bars and even a famous person or two. When Doris won a Kansas City Kitty competition, her life changed.

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079083
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits

Author : Bruce C. Elrod
Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits written by Bruce C. Elrod and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1994 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This top-ten charts book offers both the authoritative music industry data compiled by Billboard magazine and the American Tobacco Company's Your Hit Parade selections for the years 1935-1958 (pre-dating the Billboard charts by nearly two decades). The book has been compiled by Bruce Elrod, owner of not only the Your Hit Parade listings but also the rights to reproduce the original broadcasts of the shows. Other features include all-time hits listings by musical style (country and western, blues, etc), contributions written by music personalities, and many illustrations. Performer and song title indexes are also included.

Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile

Author : Thomas Harrison Moore
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456748882
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile written by Thomas Harrison Moore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandaddy Drove An Oldsmobile is a tale of the 1950's about two skinny twin urchins living in the colonial and historic village of Worthington, Ohio. Their adventures encompass exploring the woods and ravines in Davy Crocket coonskin hats and walking around with their cowboy hats and fanner fifties revolvers. Their love of American cars, family members who are vivid characters,emerging rock and roll music, and their creation of havoc in the village is well told. This is a tale of the innocent years before assassinations, and an asian war that damaged the American psyche itself.

Hit Songs, 1900-1955

Author : Don Tyler
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786429461
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hit Songs, 1900-1955 written by Don Tyler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described, including vital information such as song origin, artist(s), and chart information. For many songs, the author includes any web or library holdings of sheet music covers, musical scores, and free audio files. An extensive collection of biographical sketches follows, providing performing credits, relevant professional awards, and brief biographies for hundreds of the era's most popular performers, lyricists, and composers. Includes an alphabetical song index and bibliography.

Spreadin' Rhythm Around

Author : David A Jasen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135509794
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Spreadin' Rhythm Around written by David A Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written," this work documents the careers of songwriters like James A. Bland ("Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny"), Bert Williams ("Nobody"), W. C. Handy ("St. Louis Blues"), Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake ("I'm Just Wild About Harry"), and many more. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from sheet music, newspapers, and other unique sources, the book documents an entire era of performance when black singers, dancers, and actors were active on the New York stage. In sheer depth of research, new information, and full coverage, Spreadin' Rhythm Around offers a comprehensive picture of the contributions of black musicians to American popular song. For anyone interested in the history of jazz, pop song, or Broadway, this book will be a revelation.

Billboard

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1952-11-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.