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The great song thesaurus / Roger Lax, Frederick Smith.
LIBRA ML128.S3 L4 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lax, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Indexes.
- Popular music.
- Genre:
- Indexes.
- Physical Description:
- 774 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, updated and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- This unique reference covers every aspect of the literature of popular songs from the 16th century to 1987. Compiling 11,000 songs from the English-Speaking world, The Great Song Thesaurus, Second Edition, Updated & Expanded provides pertinent information about each entry - including year of popularity, the composer, lyricist, record sales, Hit Parade and air ranking, and the names of artists who recorded the 'Top Hit' songs since 1940 - and indexes these song titles by subject, key word, key lyric line and category. Completely cross-referenced throughout, information associated with each song is easily accessible in any of the book's ten parts.
- ISBN:
- 0195054083
- OCLC:
- 18588306
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