Table of Contents

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• How This Project Began
• What Is Covered in Entries
• Sources of Information
• The Beginning of the Recording Industry
• What Were the Artists Really Like?
• Record Sales--Not Known Today
• State of Technology Determining Who Recorded
• Conditions Under Which Records Were Made
• Stage Celebrities Versus Professional Recording Artists
• Advantages to Employing Professional Record Artists
• The Artists
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Tim Gracyk, Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper