Scarecrow Press
Pages: 312
Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-8108-4081-2 • Hardback • December 2001 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
978-1-4617-0712-7 • eBook • December 2001 • $84.50 • (£65.00)
Michael R. Pitts is the author or co-author of more than 30 books on entertainment. Dr. Frank W. Hoffman is Professor of Library Science at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Editor's Foreword by Anthony Slide
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Coming of the Crooner by Ian Whitcomb
Chapter 4 1 Gene Austin
Chapter 5 2 Russ Columbo
Chapter 6 3 Bing Crosby
Chapter 7 4 Nick Lucas
Chapter 8 5 Johnny Marvin
Chapter 9 6 Rudy Vallee
Chapter 10 Discography
Chapter 11 Filmography
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Authors
In The Rise of the Crooner, music historian Michael R. Pitts and Drank W. Hoffmann...are ably assisted by Dick Carty and Jim Bedoian to present an articulate, scholarly, informative, and engaging historical treatise surveying the trends, fads, events, and personalities that created this popular form of American music and its lasting impact on popular American culture... The Rise of the Crooners...[is] an enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal, professional, academic, or community library American music history collection.
— Wisconsin Bookshelf