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Title: Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition by Fred Bronson ISBN: 0-8230-7738-1 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This isn't your average Hot 100!
Comment: The incredible trivia and detail which Fred Bronson has labored to include in this book are worth the purchase by any music fan! The table of contents alone is six pages long, dividing the book in the top songs by The Artists, The Writers, The Producers, The Labels, Charts and Configurations, The Years, and The Subjects.
So we are taken from the lists showing John Lennon and Paul McCartney writing over 100 hit songs, to producers L.A. Reid and Babyface charting with their Top 50 list. In the record label section, the companies with 100 Top Hits are A&M, Arista, Atlantic, Capitol,Colubia, Epic, MCA, Mercury, MGM, Motown, RCA, and Warner Brothers. Each label's top songs are listed.
The trivia subjects are fun: Top 100 songs about animals (Elvis wins the top two with "Hound Dog" and "Teddy Bear"). Picking out a name for a baby? Here are the Top 100 songs with names of boys or girls in the title.
The Years begin with 1956 and go through 2001, with an added section on the Top 100 of each decade. A special section ends the book: The Top 5000 Songs of the Rock Era. #1? "Smooth" by Santana.
Buy this book if you love music chart facts and trivia with rare photos of the artists who achieved the Top 100.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect fun
Comment: This book is essential for music trivia and popular culture fanatics. The most interesting part is reading the Top 100 hits of each year, year by year. It is a fascinating study in shifting trends in public taste, and you literally "see and hear" the changes in U.S. history, reflected through its music, over the coarse of five decades. From the Elvis Presley, Perry Como and Doris Day era of the 1950's, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960's, Donna Summer, Abba and Bee Gees in the 1970's, Madonna in the 1980's and Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mariah Carey, this book is fun and fascinating from start to finish. Good job Fred!
Rating: 5
Summary: SWEET INSPIRATION
Comment: The above title is charted as #4631 of the Top 5000 singles of the rock era and also the feeling one gets when thumbing through this absolutely essential book--absolutely essential for any individual with the slightest interest in popular music of the past 47 years all the way to the deepest trivia buff, anyone who has ever had a taste of list-o-mania. Along with Mr. Bronson's "Billboard Book Of Number One Hits" and Joel Whitburn's "Top Pop Singles", this is the one of the three necessary reference items for any home library with a section dealing with pop music.
Mr. Bronson covers the songs, artists (sections for Elvis, Elton, Abba, Aretha, Beatles, Stones, Sinatras, etc.) producers, songwriters and record labels, that have spun around our turntables. cassette decks and CD players since 1955. Specialized sections deal with such diverse subjects as music from motion pictures, names of girls and boys, food, animals and the calendar. It is not just the list that make this book essential; it is the historical articles which feature thousands of little known facts. The ultimate list is the Top 5000 songs of the rock era (1955-present). Some fine illustrations accompany the text.
Some readers will take offense that most of the biggest songs of the rock era are from the 1990s. However, Mr. Bronson explains how chart methodolgy created this situation (For instance the highest ranking Beatles song is #41). For those 1960s (or other decades)purists , there are sections devoted to each decade. For the statisticians, the author has revised his methodology to emphasize high chart position, a significant improvement.
This book will settle many arguments about popular music and related pop culture issues. In summary, buy it.
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Title: The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn ISBN: 0823076903 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson ISBN: 0823076776 Publisher: Billboard Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Billboard Top 1000 Singles - 1955-2000 by Joel Whitburn ISBN: 0634020021 Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Billboard Book of No 2 Singles by Christopher Feldman ISBN: 0823076954 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (3rd Edition) by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine ISBN: 087930653X Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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