Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
ISBN-10
1442233222
ISBN-13
9781442233225
Category
Music
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
2014-07-10
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Bob Leszczak

Description

In Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the third volume in Bob Leszczak’s excitingWho Did It First? series,readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, rock and roll classics. As Leszczak points out, the version you purchased, played air guitar to, sang along 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.

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