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  • The Encyclopedia of Film Composers by Hischak, Thomas S.
    Thomas S. Hischak

    The Encyclopedia of Film Composers

    For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition,...
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  • Make Mine Music by Swedien, Bruce
    Bruce Swedien

    Make Mine Music

    Ever since his father gave him a disc recorder at the tender age of 10, Bruce Swedien has known what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The names of the people he has worked with are too many to list,...
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  • Gibson Electric Steel Guitars: 1935-1967 by Duchossoir, A. R.
    A. R. Duchossoir

    Gibson Electric Steel Guitars: 1935-1967

    This book recounts the story of all the electric steel guitars - or electric "Hawaiian" guitars, as they were called during most of their tenure - that were built by Gibson between 1935 and 1967. Hawaiian guitars were the most popular form of electric...
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  • The Music Business Contract Library [With CD (Audio)] by Forest, Greg
    Greg Forest

    The Music Business Contract Library [With CD (Audio)]

    The indispensable resource for anyone in the music business. Every business arrangement in the music industry comes down to the written agreement between the parties engaged in the project at hand. When you're co-writing with other songwriters or making publishing agreements, recording agreements with...
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  • The Wall of Fame: New York City's Legendary Manny's Music by Goldrich, Henry
    Henry Goldrich

    The Wall of Fame: New York City's Legendary Manny's Music

    Before the popularity of the electric guitar and before every teenager with a rock 'n' roll dream had a band in their garage, Manny's Music in New York City was providing the hardware for swing stars and big bands, and establishing itself as the...
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  • Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 (hardback) Vol. 2: Alphabetical Listings from Alfred E. Aarons to Joe Jordan by Franceschina, John
    John Franceschina

    Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 (hardback) Vol. 2: Alphabetical Listings from Alfred E. Aarons to Joe Jordan

    Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of...
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  • Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man by Jobim, Helena
    Helena Jobim

    Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man

    Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded "Desafinado " which stayed for 70 weeks on the Billboard charts. Since then, no one can deny bossa...
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  • The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music by Smook, Gary a.
    Gary a. Smook

    The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music

    His fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world's greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we...
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  • The Record Store Book: Fifty Legendary and Iconic Places to Discover New and Used Vinyl by Spitz, Mike
    Mike Spitz

    The Record Store Book: Fifty Legendary and Iconic Places to Discover New and Used Vinyl

    In 2011, Mike Spitz began photographing dozens of record stores in and around the greater Los Angeles area, rich with old and new record shops, to capture the lively experience of going to the independent record store. Beautifully wrought on color film, his photographs...
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  • Songwriting Step by Step by Cheney, Aaron
    Aaron Cheney

    Songwriting Step by Step

    If you are an aspiring musician, poet, or wordsmith who has ever wanted to write a song--or if you want to write better songs--this book will lead you step by step through the songwriting process and help you to discover tricks and techniques for...
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  • Music: The Definitive Visual History by DK
    DK

    Music: The Definitive Visual History

    A complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day! Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or rock, everyone has their favorite music style, but how did your top...
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  • Encyclopædia Hawkwindia: An Unauthorised Compendium: An Unauthorised Compendium by Thompson, Dave
    Dave Thompson

    Encyclop訶ia Hawkwindia: An Unauthorised Compendium: An Unauthorised Compendium

    The Encyclop dia Hawkwindia is the ultimate guide to more than fifty years of Hawkwind, from the first show in August,1969, to the next scheduled gig in February, 2021. Arranged alphabetically, the encyclop dia contain over 1,750 entries, from "Abducted" to ZZZ, and includes...
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  • Picture Chord Encyclopedia: 9 Inch. X 12 Inch. Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Picture Chord Encyclopedia: 9 Inch. X 12 Inch. Edition

    (Guitar Educational). The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the book, how to choose the best voicings and how to construct chords, this extensive, 272-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings...
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  • Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record by Mixerman
    Mixerman

    Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record

    Musician's RecordIt takes many years to excel at recording (whether at home or in a commercial facility), and if you desire to become a professional recordist then that's what's required. But if you're a musician who wants to garner a reaction to your song,...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone by Ingham, Richard
    Richard Ingham

    The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

    The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from Adolphe Sax (who invented it c.1840) to the end of the 20th century. It includes extensive accounts of the instrument's history in jazz, rock and classical...
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  • Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music

    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...
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  • Musical Truth Volume 3 by Devlin, Mark
    Mark Devlin

    Musical Truth Volume 3

    This volume focuses on the way the entertainment industry's owned assets were used to help push the official narrative of the "Covid 19" Scamdemic, (which has been rightly described as "The Greatest Scam Ever Perpetuated Upon Mankind.") So many beloved musicians showed their true...
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  • A Beginner's Guide To Singing Gregorian Chant Notation, Rhythm and Solfeggio by Jones, Ellen Doll
    Ellen Doll Jones

    A Beginner's Guide To Singing Gregorian Chant Notation, Rhythm and Solfeggio

    Please note: This is an expanded edition of our A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO READING GREGORIAN CHANT, with added sections on the very basic rhythms are sung and using Solfeggio to learn and master chant melodies. An excellent guide for new schola and choir members....
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  • The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names: How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names by Dolgins, Adam
    Adam Dolgins

    The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names: How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names

    The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names.By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of...
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  • Thrash Metal by Sharpe-Young, Garry
    Garry Sharpe-Young

    Thrash Metal

    Thrash Metal. At first mocked by the Rock traditionalists Thrash would swamp the hard n' heavy world propelling one of it's own - Metallica, to the very pinnacle of Rock's elite. In the early 80s Thrash breathed new life into the Rock scene providing...
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  • How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite by Alexander, Peter Lawrence
    Peter Lawrence Alexander

    How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite

    Alexander Publishing's How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite is a breakthrough in orchestration instruction with its newly engraved score with piano part at page bottom, the original short stories that Ravel based the work on, and a complete analysis of each movement, combined together,...
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  • A Scriptural Index to the Hymnal 1982 by Church Publishing
    Church Publishing

    A Scriptural Index to the Hymnal 1982

    Lectionary scripture citations with corresponding hymns. This is also a handy reference for locating the liturgical day when each scripture text is used.Author: Church PublishingISBN-10: 089869146XISBN-13: 9780898691467Publisher: Church PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1988Pages: 303Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.30w x 1.50d
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  • The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man by Stoddard, Tom
    Tom Stoddard

    The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man

    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF POPS: FOSTER NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MANAuthor: Tom StoddardISBN-10: 0879308311ISBN-13: 9780879308315Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.02w x 0.67d
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  • Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds' Gene Clark by Einarson, John
    John Einarson

    Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark

    MR. TAMBOURINE MAN THE STORY OF THE BYRDS GENE CLARKAuthor: John EinarsonISBN-10: 0879307935ISBN-13: 9780879307936Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): Entertainment Weekly 03/25/2005 pg. 78Library Journal 05/09/2005
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  • The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano by Fine, Larry
    Larry Fine

    The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano

    This bible of the piano marketplace is indispensable to buyers and owners of pianos, amateur and professional players alike. Hundreds of thousands of pianos are bought and sold each year, yet most people buy a piano with only the vaguest idea of what to...
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  • Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age by Ford, Andrew
    Andrew Ford

    Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age

    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking...
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  • 101 More Music Games for Children: More Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song by Storms, Jerry
    Jerry Storms

    101 More Music Games for Children: More Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song

    This action-packed compendium offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with kids a wide array of ingenious sound and dance activities from a variety of cultures to get kids singing, dancing, listening, interacting, and involved. 101 More Music Games for Children includes games...
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  • The Songs of Genesis: A Complete Guide to the Studio Recordings by Aldous, Steve
    Steve Aldous

    The Songs of Genesis: A Complete Guide to the Studio Recordings

    Quintessentially British, Genesis spearheaded progressive rock in the 1970s, evolving into a chart-topping success through the end of the millennium. Influencing rock groups such as Radiohead, Phish, Rush, Marillion and Elbow, the experimental format of Genesis' songs inspired new avenues for music to explore....
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  • Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music

    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production by Zagorski-Thomas, Simon
    Simon Zagorski-Thomas

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production provides a detailed overview of current research on the production of mono and stereo recorded music. The handbook consists of 33 chapters, each written by leaders in the field of music production. Examining the technologies and places of...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis by Burns, Lori A.
    Lori A. Burns

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis

    Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to...
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  • The Complete Helen Reddy Illustrated Discography (hardback) by Selby, Daniel
    Daniel Selby

    The Complete Helen Reddy Illustrated Discography (hardback)

    Helen Maxine Reddy was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on October 25, 1941 to a show-business family. Helen started her career as an entertainer at age four while traveling with her parents. She sang on the radio and television and eventually won a talent...
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  • Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System by Evans, Gareth
    Gareth Evans

    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System

    Chords for Guitar is about moveable chord shapes based on the CAGED guitar system. Rather than presenting the same shapes for the same chord types as different chords when moved up or down the fret-board, giving 1000's of chords, Chords for Guitar makes this...
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  • When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History as It Ought to Be Taught by Barber, David W.
    David W. Barber

    When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History as It Ought to Be Taught

    David. W. Barber has delighted readers all around the world with the quirky definitions of Accidentals on Purpose, the irreverent history of Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, a hilariously offbeat history of dance and ballet in Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes, and a host of...
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  • Professional Orchestration Vol 2B: Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds & Brass by Alexander, Peter Lawrence
    Peter Lawrence Alexander

    Professional Orchestration Vol 2B: Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds & Brass

    Professional Orchestration 2B, Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds and Brass, completes the second volume in the Professional Orchestration Series, and continues Alexander Publishing's historic breakthrough in orchestration instruction. Volume 2B details, for the first time, dozens of woodwind and brass writing techniques previously...
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  • The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists by Danville, Eric
    Eric Danville

    The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists

    The heaviest book of all time The Spinal Tap of books A gorgeous, time-wasting, absolutely essential toilet reader Part rock trivia contest, part encyclopedia of excess, The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists features over 150 lists that chronicle rock and roll's most enduring...
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  • Inside the Music by Stewart, Dave
    Dave Stewart

    Inside the Music

    For those who want to learn the inner workings of music without, as author Dave Stewart notes, "getting bogged down in a lot of fearsome technicalities " this is an enlightening exploration of the theory and practice of music. Picking up where The Musician's...
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  • The Berklee Contemporary Dictionary of Music by Juusela, Kari
    Kari Juusela

    The Berklee Contemporary Dictionary of Music

    (Berklee Guide). A comprehensive reference to terms used in the performance, creation, and study of music today. Covering instrumental and voice performance, audio technology, production, music business, and other dimensions of the modern music industry, its 3,400+ entries include many terms that are common...
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  • Music in the Moment by Levinson, Jerrold
    Jerrold Levinson

    Music in the Moment

    What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed, Levinson argues that basic understanding of music...
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  • Questions and Answers: Practical Advice for Piano Teachers by Clark, Frances
    Frances Clark

    Questions and Answers: Practical Advice for Piano Teachers

    For over 26 years piano teachers relied on Frances Clark's column in Clavier magazine for insightful, inspiring answers to their questions. Some of her best advice on subjects ranging from repertoire to fingering appears in this informative volume for piano teachers. Topics include: Lesson...
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  • Learn to Read Music by Shanet, Howard
    Howard Shanet

    Learn to Read Music

    This book Will -teach the notation of music to those who have never known it before -serve as a systematic reminder for those who once knew how to read music but have forgotten most of it -serve as a practical classroom text book in...
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  • The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Every Made by Marsh, David
    David Marsh

    The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Every Made

    In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, reggae, rap, soul, country, and any other music that has...
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  • The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by Mathieu, W. a.
    W. A. Mathieu

    The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music

    The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement...
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  • Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers by Falzerano, Chet
    Chet Falzerano

    Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers

    (Book). In various interviews over the past 35 years Charlie Watts has expressed admiration for the talents of many drummers. But the fundamental connections of those he has noted as his favorites, help define his particular style, approach, and priorities as the drummer for...
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  • The Little Red Songbook: A Brief History of the Wobblies and Their Music by Blanchard, Gary
    Gary Blanchard

    The Little Red Songbook: A Brief History of the Wobblies and Their Music

    In the early 20th Century, a group of socialists, anarchists, and radical unionists got together to form the International Workers of the World. The IWW, also known as the Wobblies, wanted more than decent wages and humane working conditions; they wanted an overthrow of...
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  • Love, Peace and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments by Danois, Ericka Blount
    Ericka Blount Danois

    Love, Peace and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments

    Love, Peace, and Soul tells the story of the television phenomenon known as Soul Train, a show created in the land of bell bottoms, afros, and soul power; a show that became the touchstone of the Baby Boomer generation. Don Cornelius, host and owner...
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  • Solitary Refinement: Chromatics, Chords & Scales - Concepts for the Committed Bassoonist (updated with fingering chart) by Jackson, Nadina MacKie
    Nadina MacKie Jackson

    Solitary Refinement: Chromatics, Chords & Scales - Concepts for the Committed Bassoonist (updated with fingering chart)

    A musician's journey never ends, and the work is often solitary. Fortunately for bassoonists, Solitary Refinement can be a trusted companion throughout their musical career, replete with exercises adaptable by bassoon students who are still developing their skills, all the way to virtuosi seeking...
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  • The Songs the Beatles Played: An Expanded Compendium by Lambley, Steve
    Steve Lambley

    The Songs the Beatles Played: An Expanded Compendium

    Unquestionably, the Beatles remain the key band of the rock era. Although their official recording career spanned just seven years, the musical legacy that they continue to bestow upon global popular culture over 50 years later is immense. It is testament to the incredible...
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  • Essential Ear Training for Today's Musician by Prosser, Steve
    Steve Prosser

    Essential Ear Training for Today's Musician

    (Berklee Guide). The Ear Training curriculum of Berklee College of Music is known and respected throughout the world. Now, for the first time, this unique method has been captured in one comprehensive book by the chair of the Ear Training Department. This method teaches...
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  • Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees' Songs, One by One (hardback) by Ventrella, Michael A.
    Michael A. Ventrella

    Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees' Songs, One by One (hardback)

    "Here we come. Walking down the street. We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. Hey, hey, we're The Monkees "The idea of creating a tv series about a wacky rock group similar to The Beatles had been unsuccessfully kicked around Universal Pictures...
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