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Don't think it hasn't been fun : the story of the Burke Family Singers / Sarah Jo Burke.
LIBRA ML421.B86 B87 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, Sarah Jo, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burke Family Singers.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Limelight edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Limelight Editions, 2003.
- Summary:
- Back in the 1960s, the Burke Family Singers were America's answer to Austria's von Trapp Family. Throughout that tumultuous decade the fabric of the nation's life was of course torn by the war in Vietnam and the impassioned drive of the civil rights movement. It was against this churning backdrop that a large Rhode Island family - mother, father and 10 children - set out on the first of what would prove a long series of coast-to-coast tours, whose only purpose was to bring the glorious sound of their music to audiences everywhere. They performed in major cities and remote small towns, and during their travels they met the von Trapp Family and recorded an album of Christmas carols with them. Sarah Jo Burke, the youngest of the five daughters, has written a book that celebrates American values in the best sense and, if nothing else, proves that the family that sings together stays together.
- Contents:
- Roma dixit!
- A pretty girl
- blat!
- is like a melody!
- The birth of the Burke Family Chorale
- Our first paycheck
- Doors and radiators in every room
- We got it for a song
- Buck Spurr
- The whist game
- It was a small thing
- Le sommeil, the sleep of death
- I'll have the usual
- Friends in the press
- Don't think it hasn't been fun
- May the prairies embrace you
- Gemma has a bad day
- A different world
- Halloween was hard to drive past
- A voice whining in the wilderness
- Git along, little dogies
- The president has been shot
- Ambassadors of good will
- America's first family of song
- I'm a Mormon, too!
- Just regular kids
- The Burkes meet the Trapps
- Montgomery
- Look, Mum! They're all marked Sunkist!
- The pubonic plague
- Rock hounds
- A close call
- Singing for the choir
- Breakfast at the Biltmore
- One last song
- A few last words.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has two letters from publisher laid in at front.
- ISBN:
- 0879109874
- OCLC:
- 51992351
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