Yakety Yak I Fought Back

Author : Carl Gardner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467088121

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Yakety Yak I Fought Back by Carl Gardner Pdf

The story in this book is about a young man who left his home and family in Tyler, Texas at the age of twenty three and moved to Los Angeles to follow his dream of becoming a big band singer or to be another Nat King Cole or Billy Esktine. Like fate had it, instead, he became the lead singer and founder of the first vocal group to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, along with other members, Billy Guy, Will Jones and Cornell Gunter and has performed over five decades internationally before many large audiences. Today, due to poor health Carl has retired from show business but still controls the group he formed in 1955. Carl Gardner now resides with his wife Veta of nineteen years in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Author : Laurie E. Jasinski
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 2008 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780876112977

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Handbook of Texas Music by Laurie E. Jasinski Pdf

The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as the Lone Star State’s landscape. According to Casey Monahan, “To travel Texas with music as your guide is a year-round opportunity to experience first-hand this amazing cultural force….Texas music offers a vibrant and enjoyable experience through which to understand and enjoy Texas culture.” Building on the work of The Handbook of Texas Music that was published in 2003 and in partnership with the Texas Music Office and the Center for Texas Music History (Texas State University-San Marcos), The Handbook of Texas Music, Second Edition, offers completely updated entries and features new and expanded coverage of the musicians, ensembles, dance halls, festivals, businesses, orchestras, organizations, and genres that have helped define the state’s musical legacy. · More than 850 articles, including almost 400 new entries· 255 images, including more than 170 new photos, sheet music art, and posters that lavishly illustrate the text· Appendix with a stage name listing for musicians Supported by an outstanding team of music advisors from across the state, The Handbook of Texas Music, Second Edition, furnishes new articles on the music festivals, museums, and halls of fame in Texas, as well as the many honky-tonks, concert halls, and clubs big and small, that invite readers to explore their own musical journeys. Scholarship on many of the state’s pioneering groups and the recording industry and professionals who helped produce and promote their music provides fresh insight into the history of Texas music and its influence far beyond the state’s borders. Celebrate the musical tapestry of Texas from A to Z!

Author : Veta Gardner
Publisher : Author House
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477245606

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Memories of You by Veta Gardner Pdf

Memories of You is a compilation of author Veta Gardners recollections of her marriage with The Coasters lead singer Carl Gardner. She tells of his early days struggling to be discovered as an artist, his successes, and their life together on the road with The Coasters. They had 17 wonderful years before tragedies began to complicate their lives. Last year Veta lost Carl to devastating illnesses and, in Memories of You, she shares that emotional journey.

Author : Veta Gardner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452036977

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Beyond the Dream by Veta Gardner Pdf

Author : Timothy R. Hoover
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574418873

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Soul Serenade by Timothy R. Hoover Pdf

Although in 2000 he became the first sideman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “King Curtis” Ousley never lived to accept his award. Tragically, he was murdered outside his New York City home in 1971. At that moment, thirty-seven-year-old King Curtis was widely regarded as the greatest R & B saxophone player of all time. He also may have been the most prolific, having recorded with well over two hundred artists during an eighteen-year span. Soul Serenade is the definitive biography of one of the most influential musicians of the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Timothy R. Hoover chronicles King Curtis’s meteoric rise from a humble Texas farm to the recording studios of Memphis, Muscle Shoals, and New York City as well as to some of the world’s greatest music stages, including the Apollo Theatre, Fillmore West, and Montreux Jazz Festival. Curtis’s “chicken-scratch” solos on the Coasters’ Yakety Yak changed the role of the saxophone in rock & roll forever. His band opened for the Beatles at their famous Shea Stadium concert in 1965. He also backed his “little sister” and close friend Aretha Franklin on nearly all of her tours and Atlantic Records productions from 1967 until his death. Soul Serenade is the result of more than twenty years of interviews and research. It is the most comprehensive exploration of Curtis’s complex personality: his contagious sense of humor and endearing southern elegance as well as his love for gambling and his sometimes aggressive temperament. Hoover explores Curtis’s vibrant relationships and music-making with the likes of Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Isaac Hayes, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Sam Moore, Donny Hathaway, and Duane Allman, among many others.

Author : Andrew Grant Jackson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882225

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Still the Greatest by Andrew Grant Jackson Pdf

As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on RollingStone.com! Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs by each...

Author : Richard Hefter
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Yak
ISBN : 003021436X

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Yakety Yak Yak Yak by Richard Hefter Pdf

Yak drives everybody crazy with his incessant talking, until he drives his taxi right into a big hole.

Author : Kathy Sequoia Kids Media
Publisher : Sequoia Kids Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1649966849

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Yakety Yak by Kathy Sequoia Kids Media Pdf

When you hear the words yak or badger or bat, do you think of animals? Maybe you can imagine them while they are yakking, badgering, or batting! Duck into this book's playful pages to explore action words that sound like animal names and the dictionary definitions that help explain them.

Author : Juliette M Engel
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781634242967

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SPARKY by Juliette M Engel Pdf

Sparky's story shines the spotlight on crimes against American children that were sanctioned on a national scale by the United States government. At the age of six in 1955, she was sold by her parents to the Sex Magick cult run by the CIA under its illegal program of secret experimentation on mind control called Monarch. By the time she was ten, she'd been purposely split into multiple identities, each one associated with a different age and place as her family moved around the country to avoid Child Protective Services and the police. With each new identity, she forgot the last one. In Imperial Beach, California, inside a tough neighborhood of gangs and brothels abutting the Tijuana Sewer and the Mexican border, she discovered her own courage in the determined persona of a new character, Sparky MacGregor. As she grew older, Sparky's memory faded as she was moved from one location to the next. At the age of seventeen, she escaped from a camp in Big Sur, and left childhood behind. She became a physician, raised a family and moved to Moscow where she founded and ran an underground railroad for child sex trafficking victims from the former USSR. Years later, she returned to Imperial Beach to speak at an international conference on border security. The memory of her lost childhood suddenly returned.

Author : ANDREW. HICKEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0244548528

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1 by ANDREW. HICKEY Pdf

In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making. Volume one looks at fifty songs from the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1938 with Charlie Christian's first recording session, and ending in 1956. Along the way, it looks at Louis Jordan, LaVern Baker, the Ink Spots, Fats Domino, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackie Brenston, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.

Author : George McMillan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:30000054470798

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The Old Breed by George McMillan Pdf

History of the First Marine Division in World War II.

Author : Jerry Leiber,Mike Stoller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416559399

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Hound Dog by Jerry Leiber,Mike Stoller Pdf

A dual portrait of the music team that shaped rock-and-roll music in the 1950s and 1960s describes their humble origins, their relationships with such performers as Elvis Presley and the Coasters, and their record-setting collaborative achievements.

Author : Lynda Page
Publisher : Headline
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755382927

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A Mother's Sin by Lynda Page Pdf

Two outcasts grapple with their pasts, and look with hope to the future. Lynda Page writes a gripping saga in A Mother's Sin, which follows two lost souls facing trials in life and love. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale. Things have never been easy for Dee Kirby. With her looks and personality she never wants for admirers, but as soon as people discover her mother is a prostitute, Dee is treated with disgust and cruelty. And when Dee's mother dies owing a huge amount of money to a local gang, a grieving Dee finds herself face to face with ruthless criminals... Meanwhile, Calum Jackson, convicted of a crime he didn't commit, has just been released from prison and is determined to get a decent job and make a new life for himself. It's not long before Dee crosses his path and he is instantly smitten. But will he be able to protect her, and give her the happiness she deserves? What readers are saying about A Mother's Sin: 'Fantastic read - sadness and happiness all at once. Such a good book - couldn't put it down. Love this author' 'A gripping story, hard to put down. Lynda Page never disappoints'

Author : William Nack
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015056287090

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My Turf by William Nack Pdf

Collected for the first time, the remarkable profiles and investigative stories of William Nack, esteemed Sports Illustrated writer and author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845136598

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Is This the Real Life? by Mark Blake Pdf

Queen are unique among the great rock bands. It is nearly twenty years since frontman Freddie Mercury’s death brought the band to an end – yet their fanbase remains massive. They appeal equally to men and women. Their fans are just as likely to be teenagers too young to have been born when the band were still touring and making records (thanks not least to the huge success of the musical We Will Rock You). And their musical history is one of constant reinvention – from heavy metal and prog rock to disco pop, stadium anthems and even jazz influences. Now, Mark Blake, the experienced Mojo journalist who wrote Aurum’s bestselling book on Pink Floyd, has written the definitive history. Having already interviewed the surviving band members over the years, he has now tracked down dozens and dozens of new interviewees, from Queen’s first long-forgotten bass players to Freddie Mercury’s schoolmates in Isleworth, Middlesex, to trace Queen’s long career from their very first gawky performances in St Helens through their sensational stage-stealing appearance on Live Aid to the band’s collaboration with Paul Rodgers at the beginning of the century. Full of fascinating new revelations – especially about the improbable transformation of a shy Asian schoolboy called Bulsara into the outrageous-living hedonist that was Freddie Mercury - this is a book every Queen fan will want to have.