Book Description

Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock, and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop-rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s. Book includes: - Doo-wop, Country, R&B, instrumentals, and novelty records that made the top forty but are now ignored by radio stations an oldie that had four different versions all hit the Hot 100 the same week - an artist who had two one-hit wonders under two different names - a group that kept their first hit single from being totally successful by releasing a follow-up single too quickly several groups that still had success after their lead singer left for - a solo career - a future star who first appeared on a hit record as a voice on a phone call - an artist who had to change the lyrics of his song because he mentioned Hush Puppies - an overdub of one letter in a song that was necessary to get airplay - a Country artist who hit the R&B chart and then the Hot 100 chart before the Country chart - a video for a record that was "lost" for over twenty years