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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: You Keep Me Hangin' On, the Weight, Bette Davis Eyes, When You Walk in the Room, What the World Needs Now Is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Needles and Pins, Breakaway, Faded Love, Hurt So Bad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a 1966 number-one hit song originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. Musicians such as Wilson Pickett, Rod Stewart, Melanie Safka, The Box Tops, Gov't Mule, Colourbox, Madness, Glee, Dead On Arrival and The Index have all recorded versions of the song, but the three most successful remakes were recorded by the late-1960s rock band Vanilla Fudge, 1980s pop singer Kim Wilde, and 1990s country singer Reba McEntire. Written and produced by Motown's main production team HollandDozierHolland (H-D-H), the single is very-much rooted in proto-funk and rhythm and blues, compared to the Supremes' previous single, "You Can't Hurry Love," which utilizes the call and response elements akin to gospel. The song's signature guitar bassline originated from a Morse code-like radio signal heard by Lamont Dozier, who collaborated with Brian and Eddie Holland to integrate the idea into single. Many elements of the recording, including the guitars, the drums, and Diana Ross's vocals, were multitracked, a production technique which was established and popularized concurrently by H-D-H and other premier producers of the 1960s such as Phil Spector (see Wall of Sound) and George Martin. H-D-H recorded the song in nine sessions with The Supremes and session band The Funk Brothers before settling on a version deemed suitable for the final release. In a rare move, H-D-H had Florence Ballard sing along to Ross's entire double-tracked lead vocal, mixing t...http://booksllc.net/?id=1236851 ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Murray, Kentucky, Gordon Cooper, Chuck Taylor, Nathan Stubblefield, Jackie Deshannon, T. R. M. Howard, Rod Ferrell, Kenneth W. Winters, Mel Purcell, Shane Andrus, John Noble Wilford, Leigh-Allyn Baker, Molly Sims, Joe Buck, Timothy D. Adams, W. Earl Brown, Frank Stubblefield, Bennie Purcell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., also known as Gordo Cooper, (March 6, 1927 October 4, 2004) was an engineer and American astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States. He flew the longest spaceflight of the Mercury project, was the first American to sleep in orbit, and was the last American to launch alone into Earth orbit and conduct an entire solo orbital mission. Cooper was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.He grew up there and in Murray, Kentucky where he attended public schools. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the second highest rank of Life Scout. Cooper served in the Marine Corps in 1945 and 1946, then received an Army commission after completing three years of coursework at the University of Hawaii. Cooper met his first wife Trudy (the only wife of a Mercury astronaut with a private pilot's license) while in Hawaii and they married in 1947. Cooper transferred his commission to the Air Force in 1949, was placed on active duty and received flight training at Perrin AFB, Texas and Williams AFB, Arizona. Cooper's first flight assignment came in 1950 at Landstuhl, West Germany where he flew F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres for four years. While in Germany he also attended the European Extension of the University of Maryland. Returning to the United States, he studied for two years at the Air Force Institute o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=331785 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Bette Davis Eyes, When You Walk in the Room, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Breakaway, (He's) the Great Imposter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Bette Davis Eyes" is a song made popular by American singer-songwriter, Kim Carnes. The song was written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon. DeShannon recorded the song that same year on her album New Arrangement. But it was not until 1981, when Kim Carnes recorded her version of the song, that it became a commercial success. The Kim Carnes recording of the song spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (interrupted for one week by the "Stars on 45 Medley") and was Billboard's number one single of 1981. The song won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song was also a number one hit in 31 countries, including Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Japan, and Brazil, but it achieved more moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number ten. The music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy. According to producer Val Garay, the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track, with this beer-barrel polka piano part." Keyboardist Bill Cuomo came up with the signature synth riff, using the then-new Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, which now defines Carnes' version. The song was recorded completely live in the studio on the first take. Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and approached Carnes and the songwriters to thank them for making her "a part of modern times." The song was ranked at number 12 on Billboard's list of the top 100 songs in the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ...http://booksllc.net/?id=607882 ... Read more

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The Jim Nabors Show Program (Ronnie Schell, The Nabors Kids, Tony Mordente Dancers, and Special Guest Jackie De Shannon). 1971 paperback published by Dunetz & Lovett. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. ... Read more