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Pop Memories 1890-1954 (Hardcover)

by Joel Whitburn (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 660 pages
  • Publisher: Record Research Inc (1 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0898200830
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898200836
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If you're interested in pre-Elvis music, this helps a lot, 1 Sep 2007
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Music charts never tell the whole story as anybody who has followed pop charts of any era will know. They serve as an approximate guide to what music was fashionable at the time.

It is particularly important to note that the economic depression of the thirties meant that a lot of singers chose to do radio broadcasts rather than make a lot of records which few could afford. This explains why Frances Langford (for example) was extremely popular yet had few hits.

The other thing you notice is that then, as now, some of the songs you think would have been massive hits (like Moonlight in Vermont and Georgia on my mind) were only modest hits, while other songs which were massive hits appear to have sunk without trace.

Despite all that, this is a valuable source of information for anybody seriously interested in the music of the pre-Elvis era, although very little music is currently available from the early 1920's or before.

I don't think this book could be improved much. Death dates updated? Nice but hardly essential. Pictures? If you buy the music, you'll probably get a picture of the singer. As to the very early artists, photography was also primitive, so pictures may not be available, unless paintings or drawings are available.

There is one improvement which would be really useful - include all the later hits from 1955 onwards for major artists who had a lot of hits up to 1954. Wouldn't it be great to have the complete hits record of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and other major artists in one volume?

But that's a minor point - the information here is not available anywhere else. It's well worth the price if you're into this sort of music.
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