2019-2020 Weekly Planner (2019-2020 Daily Weekly Monthly Calendar Planner 8.5 X 11, #10)
by Kendal W Griffin
Sammy Davis Jr. Coloring Book (Sammy Davis Jr. Books, #0)
by Stella Hale
I Love Imagine Dragons More Than Pizza (and i really like pizza)
by Scopettah Books
The nostalgic French popular songs of the 1950s and 1960s evoke memories of Edith Piaf and smoky nightclubs, of Charles Trenet, Maurice Chevalier and Gallic wit. This volume celebrates the tradition of the French "chansonnier" - its poetry, witty play on words, sadness by day and passion at night. Each chapter is devoted to a theme and a song it inspired, such as love, Paris, joy and nostalgia. Photographs of the artists, sheet music, record covers and posters and a compact disc of the best know...
This unique book reveals a fascinating and little known part of Lancashire's history. Digging deep into the archives of newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the author has unearthed a wealth of information about the county's dance musicians. During this period, most villages had their own dance bands - referred to as string bands - which played a huge part in the social lives of their respective communities. Although band members were mainly men, many bands did also include wo...
Mixmag is the world''s bestselling dance/club magazine. Drawing on the magazine''s photographic archives, 100% Dance offers a comprehensive survey of the last ten yea rs of dancefloor history '
2019 Planner (Planner 2018-2019 Academic Year, #1)
by Vickie M Francis
Written in her own words, this is the full story of Eartha Mae Kitt. From a background of abject poverty and racial abuse in South Carolina, she moved to New York and won a place in the prestigious Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Solo success in a Paris nightclub, followed and subsequent years have seen Eartha travelling the world, with a career that thas spanned theatre, film, television and the record industry. As an actress, she appeared in films as varied as "Ann Lucasta" and "St Louis Blues...
"The Man I Love", "I Got Rhythm", "A Foggy Day", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", "Nice Work If You Can Get It", "They All Laughed", "'S Wonderful", "The Man That Got Away" ...make a list of Ira Gershwin's songs, and the names themselvse sound a familiar melody. The most literate and word-loving of our great lyricists, Ira Gershwin described his writing as "simple, colloquial, rhymed conversational lines". Yet these "simple" lines were so irresistibly witty and enticing that dozens of them have...
The Irish crooner, Daniel O'Donnell, takes readers through the year, offering thoughts on his favourite months, seasons and annual events, and why they are significant for him. He reflects on his philosophy for living, and the customs, superstitions and values he has carried from childhood. Illustrated with personal photographs, the book also provides details of O'Donnell's fan club, record company, office, and venues where he performs annually at home and abroad.
In the late '90s, third-wave ska broke across the American alternative music scene like a tsunami. In sweaty clubs across the nation, kids danced themselves dehydrated to the peppy rhythms and punchy horns of bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish. As ska caught fire, a swing revival brought even more sharp-dressed, brass-packing bands to national attention. Hell of a Hat dives deep into this unique musical moment. Prior to invading the Billboard charts and MTV, ska thrived f...
She was the youngest girl to top the bill at the London Palladium, the teenybopper who had The Beatles among her supporting acts. Her number one hits "Don't Treat Me Like a Child" and "Walking Back to Happiness" were quintessential 1960s records. But at 19 she'd been and gone. In 1979 her career began to take off again when she landed the part of Nancy in the West End production of "Oliver". She tried singing jazz, teamed up with veteran trumpeter and bandleader Humphrey Littleton and has not be...
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created. Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American poli...
70 Years of Popular Music