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
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.
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.
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