Carolina Beach Music from the '60s to the '80s (eBook)

CarolinaBeach Music from the '60s to the '80s: The New Wave picks up where Carolina BeachMusic: The Classic Years left off, covering more of those classicbeach music tunes as well as the newer self-aware songs that were the beginningof a new wave of beach music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book looksat eighty recordings from the years 1966 through 1982, featuring interviews andinsights from the artists who sang them, including Archie Bell, William Bell,Jerry Butler, Clyde Brown of the Drifters, Harry Elston of the Friends ofDistinction, Bobbie Smith of the Spinners, Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power,Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, Billy Scott and many, many others.

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This follow-up to Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years looks at performers including the Drifters, the Spinners, Tower of Power, Wild Cherry, and more.Carolina Beach Music from the '60s to the '80s: The New Wave covers more of those classic beach music tunes as well as the increasingly self-aware songs that marked the beginning of a new wave of beach music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book looks at eighty recordings from the years 1966 through 1982, featuring interviews and insights from the artists who sang them, including Archie Bell, William Bell, Jerry Butler, Clyde Brown of the Drifters, Harry Elston of the Friends of Distinction, Bobbie Smith of the Spinners, Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power, Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, Billy Scott and many, many others.Includes photos