The best collection of 1970's country favorites available. Includes 59 songs: Come On In * Country Bumpkin * Daydreams About Night Things * Every Which Way But Loose * The Gambler * Help Me Make It Through The Night * (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song * I'm Not Lisa * If We Make It Through December * Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) * Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys * Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine * She Believes In Me * and more.

The best collection of 1970's country favorites available. Includes 59 songs: Come On In * Country Bumpkin * Daydreams About Night Things * Every Which Way But Loose * The Gambler * Help Me Make It Through The Night * (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song * I'm Not Lisa * If We Make It Through December * Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) * Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys * Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine * She Believes In Me * and more.

(Book). In this comprehensive artist-by-artist listing, you'll find the more than 2,300 artists and 17,800 songs that debuted on Billboard's country singles charts from 1944-2005. Not only does it cover the complete chart careers of legendary country greats such as Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Alan Jackson, and Reba McEntire, it also introduces fresh country voices like Gretchen Wilson, Bobby Pinson, Keith Anderson and others. This unique country compilation is a priceless gold mine of stats and facts, all presented in a handy, easy-to-use format!

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.

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