Presents Top 20 music charts for the period and data on each song. Numerical chart ratings are approximate, based on sources that largely contained only prose o
This is a study of the way in which popular words and music relate to American life. The question of what popular song was, and why it came into existence, as w
A lavishly illustrated, in-depth look at 100 of the most influential popular songs of the 20th century, with information on the singers, songwriters and session
In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hea
This book is an abridgment of the third volume of American Popular Music and Its Business--The First Four Hundred Years by Russell Sanjek, my late father. It co