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They all sang on the corner : a second look at New York City's rhythm and blues vocal groups
- Title
- They all sang on the corner : a second look at New York City's rhythm and blues vocal groups / Philip Groia.
- Author
- Groia, Philip.
- Publication
- West Hempstead, N.Y. : P. Dee Enterprises, ©1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ML3478 .G76 1983 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 192 pages : portraits; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 6.
- Includes discographies.
- Contents
- Halloween 1954 -- How it all began : roots of the rhythm and blues innovative groups, Ravens, Orioles, Five Keys, Moonglows -- Gospel on the stoops of New York : gospel roots of R&B : Clyde McPhatter, Dominoes, Checkers, Drifters, Diablos, Majors, Four fellows -- "Life is but a dream" -- the 115th Street Tin Can Band makes it to the Apollo : the Harptones -- The lady in the window : Cadillacs, Opals, heartbeats, Vocaleers, Dovers, Vocaltones, Solitaires -- The kingdom of rhythm and blues. 115th Street groups of New York : Willows, Five Crows, Channels, Bopchords, Keynotes, Charts, Laddins, Ladders, Wanderers, Desires, Jesters -- Whirlers, Schoolboys -- Sugar hill. Velvets, Savoys, Pretenders, Collegians, Juniors, Chantels, Valentines, Whirlers, Schoolboys -- Sugar Hill. Velvets, Savoys, Pretenders, Collegians, Juniors, Chantels, Valentines, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers -- It would never last -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic section -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0961205806
- 9780961205805
- LCCN
- 83224213
- OCLC
- ocm10605179
- 10605179
- SCSB-14424329
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library