The Greatest Music Stories Never Told电子书

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1400 BC - THE MOTHER OF ALL GOLDEN OLDIES

500 BC - DIVINE HARMONY

64 - FIRE IN THE SKY

1020 - THE D’AREZZO CODE

1687 - THE BEAT GOES ON

1693 - ROOTS MUSIC

1700 - GODS OF GUITAR

1704 - BUT FOR A BUTTON

1713 - GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

1732 - ONSTAGE AT THE COFFEEHOUSE

1734 - SHEAR MADNESS

1748 - SALVATION SERENADE

1755 - A DANDY TALE

1761 - MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR

1770 - PLAYING IT BY EAR

1770 - NATIONAL TREASURE

1781 - THE QUEEN AND THE DITTY

1788 - THOSE WERE THE DAYS

1797 - I WILL SURVIVE

1814 - “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER”

1814 - AN AMERICAN ARMY OF TWO

1824 - MEASURE FOR MEASURE

1830 - SOMETHING ABOUT MARY

1842 - SCIENCE IN THE KEY OF C

1842 - TWIST AND SHOUT

1844 - HAIL TO THE WIVES!

1844 - STRAUSS VS. STRAUSS

1844 - SAVED BY A SONG

1845 - BATTLE OF THE BANDS

1851 - WHATEVER LOLA WANTS

1857 - BATTLE OF THE BELLS

1859 - DARING YOUNG MAN

1859 - NOT WHISTLING DIXIE

1860 - ONE-HIT WONDER

1861 - THE OTHER JOHN BROWN

1861 - FROM DRUMMER BOY TO MAJOR GENERAL

1862 - TWENTY-FOUR NOTES

1876 - WATCHING THE CLOCK

1876 - THE PATRONESS

1879 - THE SONG SHIP

1890 - WANNA MAKE A RECORD?

1892 - THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO

1893 - GOOD MORNING TO ALL

1894 - CHARTBUSTER

1898 - TAKE A BOW (WOW)

1900 - RIDICULOUS TO SUBLIME

1906 - THE MENACE OF MECHANICAL MUSIC

1907 - FIRST MAN OF JAZZ?

1908 - KATIE’S LAMENT

1910 - ANYBODY OUT THERE?

1911 - WIRED WIRELESS

1913 - RIOT OF SPRING

1913 - DANCE FEVER

1915 - YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION

1917 - MUSICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND

1918 - STRIKE UP THE BAND

1920 - SOLD FOR A SONG

1924 - I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!

1924 - I BEG YOUR PARDON

1925 - THE DRUMS OF WAR

1927 - LOOK, MA, NO HANDS

1927 - BRISTOL BANG

1929 - THE SONG THAT SAVED WHEATIES

1930 - ONE-NIGHT STAND

1931 - AN AMERICAN TUNE

1933 - HOT LIPPS STARTS A TREND

1936 - A CLASS ACT

1939 - REWRITING ROLLO

1939 - CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR

1941 - A SOLDIER’S SONG

1942 - GADZOOKS!

1945 - HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

1949 - ANGRY ANGUS

1951 - THIS IS YOUR FATHER’S OLDSMOBILE

1957 - LEGACY OF LINCOLN

1957 - JUST BLOWING HIS HORN

1957 - IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

1958 - ALL THAT JAZZ

1960 - WHAT’S THAT FUZZ?

1960 - THE ANNIVERSARY WALTZ

1964 - LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

1965 - DREAM ON

1967 - THANKS, COACH

1969 - ADVENTURE CAPITAL

1970 - THE KING AND I

1971 - A BRONX TALE

1971 - SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES

1971 - EMPTY ORCHESTRA

1972 - LAST CALL

1972 - THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

1973 - THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

1974 - PREACHING TO THE CHOIR

1976 - NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

1980 - THE LULLABY OF BROADWAY

1980 - WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?

1988 - THE SINGING REVOLUTION

1995 - THE AMAZING BONE

1997 - LOST AND FOUND

2005 - COME TUMBLIN’ DOWN

2007 - ROCKING THE COSMOS

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