"Billboard's" Hottest Hot 100 Hits: Facts and Figures about the Era's Top Songs and Songmakers - Softcover

Bronson, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823075702 ISBN 13: 9780823075706

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

Examining the 100 greatest commercially successful popular songs, this book divides the hit singles into 200 categories such as "songs by girl groups", "songs by British artists", "Motown songs", "songs by the Beatles" and many more relating to specific performers, composers, record labels, producers, years and decades. For each category there is a chart of the top hits along with a fact-filled analysis, historical data and photographs. Supplementary material includes the ultimate argument settler - a popularity ranking of the top 3000 singles from 1955 to 1991. Fred Bronson is the author of "The "Billboard" Book of Number One Hits".

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Bronson is the author of theperennial best-seller "The BillboardBookof Number One Hits," currently in itsfifth edition, as well as co-author of"Dick Clark's American Bandstand." Hiscolumn, Chart Beat, appears in "Billboard"and online. He lives in LosAngeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0823075702
• ISBN 13: 9780823075706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: LATHROP T