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Author: Ellen Melinkoff Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1453531149 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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In the 1940s and ’50s Spade Cooley, the King of Western Swing, played to sellout crowds at the Santa Monica Ballroom. He charmed audiences with his fine fiddling, self-deprecating manner, and bounce-all-over-the-stage exuberance. Adapting his ballroom show for live television, The Spade Cooley Show, began broadcasting in 1948 and made Cooley the top local television entertainer for several years. He married one of his band singers, Ella Mae Evans. Their fifteen-year marriage was plagued with Cooley’s drunk and jealous rage and ended with Cooley beating his wife to death. The front-page trial ended with Cooley’s conviction.
Author: Ellen Melinkoff Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1453531149 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
In the 1940s and ’50s Spade Cooley, the King of Western Swing, played to sellout crowds at the Santa Monica Ballroom. He charmed audiences with his fine fiddling, self-deprecating manner, and bounce-all-over-the-stage exuberance. Adapting his ballroom show for live television, The Spade Cooley Show, began broadcasting in 1948 and made Cooley the top local television entertainer for several years. He married one of his band singers, Ella Mae Evans. Their fifteen-year marriage was plagued with Cooley’s drunk and jealous rage and ended with Cooley beating his wife to death. The front-page trial ended with Cooley’s conviction.
Author: Robert J. Joling J. D. Publisher: Booksurge Publishing ISBN: 9781439235171 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 210
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A true story of a famed musician who rose to fame and fortune only to lose it all by his debauchery and brutality. The most brutal murder ever committed in Hollywood. Total depravity personified.
Author: Nick Tosches Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0786750987 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Author: Rich Kienzle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136718966 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 308
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Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed there, with performers playing Western Swing, Cowboy, and Honky Tonk country. After World War II, these styles rocked country music, leading to the innovations of '60s performers like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in creating the so-called "Bakersfield Sound." These stories are based on original interviews and archival research by one of the most respected writers on this period of country history. Kienzle writes in a vibrant style, reflecting his long-time love for these musical styles.
Author: Jean A. Boyd Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292783213 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 300
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They may wear cowboy hats and boots and sing about "faded love," but western swing musicians have always played jazz! From Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys to Asleep at the Wheel, western swing performers have played swing jazz on traditional country instruments, with all of the required elements of jazz, and some of the best solo improvisation ever heard. In this book, Jean A. Boyd explores the origins and development of western swing as a vibrant current in the mainstream of jazz. She focuses in particular on the performers who made the music, drawing on personal interviews with some fifty living western swing musicians. From pioneers such as Cliff Bruner and Eldon Shamblin to current performers such as Johnny Gimble, the musicians make important connections between the big band swing jazz they heard on the radio and the western swing they created and played across the Southwest from Texas to California. From this first-hand testimony, Boyd re-creates the world of western swing-the dance halls, recording studios, and live radio shows that broadcast the music to an enthusiastic listening audience. Although the performers typically came from the same rural roots that nurtured country music, their words make it clear that they considered themselves neither "hillbillies" nor "country pickers," but jazz musicians whose performance approach and repertory were no different from those of mainstream jazz. This important aspect of the western swing story has never been told before.
Author: Peter La Chapelle Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520940008 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 368
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Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960s. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
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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.
Author: Raymond E. White Publisher: Popular Press ISBN: 9780299210045 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 562
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And in a series of exhaustive appendixes, he documents their contributions to each medium they worked in. Testifying to both the breadth and the longevity of their careers, the book includes radio logs, discographies, filmographies, and comicographies that will delight historians and collectors alike."--Jacket.
Author: Talmage Cooley Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA) ISBN: 9780811821537 Category : Public spaces Languages : en Pages : 0
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Ever made it in the back of a cab? Or in an elevator? If not, you've missed out because a lot of people have, and these 44 stories prove it. Shocking, bold, fun-Public Love is impossible to put down. Each first-person confessional describes the how, when, and where of a public sex act. Complete with grainy colour photos of the lusty locales, these absolutely true tales offer a sophisticated twist on a timeless subject. Prepare to blush, chuckle, and wonder if you should be having more fun.
Author: Ellen Melinkoff
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Author: Rich Kienzle
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Author: Raymond E. White
Author: Talmage Cooley