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[Ian Whitcomb] ✓ Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age Well written and well-researched. Very entertaining and informative. Well written and well-researched. Very entertaining and informative. Ukulele is the theme but really covers a much broader dynamic of popular music and the personalities (offbeat usually) of the eras. The publishing quality and layout are outstanding and the photos, sheet music covers etc are as captivating as the narrative.. James D. Crabtree said A fun book and history lesson besides. There were, until fairly recently, practi
| Title | : | Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1458416542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Well written and well-researched. Very entertaining and informative. Well written and well-researched. Very entertaining and informative. Ukulele is the theme but really covers a much broader dynamic of popular music and the personalities (offbeat usually) of the eras. The publishing quality and layout are outstanding and the photos, sheet music covers etc are as captivating as the narrative.. James D. Crabtree said A fun book and history lesson besides. There were, until fairly recently, practically no books on the history of the ukulele. This one is a treasure, as it focuses not on ukes in pop culture or sales of ukes but on the performers who played ukes and the music they made with them. From the early, purely Hawaiian music to today's enthusiasts like Jim Beloff author Ian Whitcomb looks at them all. Not only does Whitcomb discuss many famous ukelele . "The Duke of the "Uke"" according to Amazon Customer. An eclectic book for an eclectic audience, but well written and well researched. Whitcomb obviously has a passion for all things "uke". I originally got this book for research on the ukulele (different story), but I ended up reading the whole bookand I liked it.
Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age, is typically Whitcombian in its eccentricityIt's all lavishly illustrated, and rendered with Whitcomb's trademark brio an admirable blend of deep research and language that's vivid, but never cloying. Ian Whitcomb is just that good. --Kirkus Reviews . (Wellhardly ever.) If you have any interest in the history of pop music even if you think you're not interested in ukuleles, or the Hawaii, or vaudeville, or the Great Depression you owe it to yourself to read this monstrously entertaining book
He produced the Grammy-winning Titanic: Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage, and his songs are featured in films like Stanley's Gig, The Cat's Meow, and Last Call. He is the author of After the Ball, Rock Odyssey, and four ukulele songbooks. Ian Whitcomb has been entertaining the world for over 40 years. He continues to play shows. He formed the rock group Bluesville and hit the
Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age is essential for any uke enthusiast, and features a detailed discography and filmography, essential for any student of the art.. Profiled stars include Ukulele Ike, Johnny Marvin, Wendell Hall, "Wizard of the Strings" Roy Smeck, George Formby, Arthur Godfrey, Tessie O'Shea, who was a guest along with the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show , and Tiny Tim. The book begins with how the uke came to the mainland United States from Hawai'i, and the Hawai'ian song craze of 1916-17, fueled by Tim Pan Alley. (Book). Author Ian Whitcomb also describes how, when a British teen idol coming off a Top Ten hit, he took out his secondhand Martin uke and recorded his version of a 1916 novelty called "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?" scoring another hit that led him to appearances on Shindig! , Dick Clark's Where the Action Is , and The Pat Boone Show . And while there are a handful of books feeding the current uke explosion, this is the first to detail the stage, screen, and recording stars who pioneered the uke those who predated and made possible its current resurgence. Although the ukulele has always been popular even when cast to the grass-skirt ghetto of luaus and limbo contests the current craze for this instrument has put the four-string cousin of the guitar into the hands of veteran musicians and young hipsters alike
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