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Author Emerson, Ken, 1948-

Title Always magic in the air : the bomp and brilliance of the Brill Building era / Ken Emerson.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3477.8.N399 E44 2005    Available  ---
Description xvi, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316), discography (pages 317-320), and index.
The original cool cats -- A Broadway divided -- Lonely avenue -- "My daughter bought it, what are you going to do about it?" -- Partners in chutzpah -- The young lovers -- Putting the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp -- In the garden of Aldon -- "It was just Jewish Latin" -- Baby talk -- At work in the Elvis atelier -- The magician and the mensch -- Selling out -- Seesaw -- Double trouble -- Golden girls -- "Somethin' died" -- Swinging London -- From the Monkees to Thomas Mann.
Subject Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
New York (State) -- New York.
Chronological Term 1951-1960
Subject Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1961-1970
Subject Composers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Composers.
Lyricists -- New York (State) -- New York.
Lyricists.
ISBN 0670034568