Who Did It First? - Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out, the version you purchased, swayed to, sang to, and grew up with is often not the first version recorded. Like wine and cheese, some tunes do get better with age, and behind each there is a story. Little-known facts and amusing anecdotes, often gathered through Leszczak's vast archive of personal interviews with the singers and songwriters, record producers and label owners, who wrote, sang, recorded, and distributed either the original first cut or one of its classic covers.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Songs
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Songs
Appendix: Curiosities
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Bob Leszczak has spent the last four decades as an on-air radio personality. A frequent TV and film extra, he is the former writer/producer of a weekly five-hour syndicated music trivia program called "Solid Gold Scrapbook." He lives in Manchester, New Jersey.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Leszczak, Leszczak Bob
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2014
• EAN: 9781442230675
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3067-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Who Did it First?; Who Did it First?
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Music: general, reference works; Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Discography & Buyer's Guides, Pop Music, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Discographies and buyer’s guides, Discographies & Buyer's Guides