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The Merry Farmer by Viktor Leon.& Leo FallOperetta in a prelude and two acts. Piano extract with German text. (German) Der fidele Bauer Operette in einem Vorspiel und zwei Akten. Klavier … Mehr…

The Merry Farmer by Viktor Leon.& Leo FallOperetta in a prelude and two acts. Piano extract with German text. (German) Der fidele Bauer Operette in einem Vorspiel und zwei Akten. Klavier -Auszug mit Deutschem text. (German) Harmonie, Berlin copyright 1907 Paperback10.6 x 13.4 inches, 8 pagesThe Fiddle Bauer Operetta is a prelude and two acts by Viktor Leon. Music by Leo Fall. Piano Excerpt with Deutschte Tekst by the composer.The Merry Farmer (German: Der fidele Bauer) is a German-language operetta composed by Leo Fall with a libretto by Viktor Léon. It premiered at the Mannheim Hoftheater on 27 July 1907 and was Fall's first major hit.In 1927 a German silent film The Merry Farmer was based on the libretto with extracts of the music played in cinemas by accompanists. In 1951 it was remade as an Austrian sound film The Merry Farmer.---------------------Leo Fall was born on February 2nd, 1873 in Olmütz, Moravia and died on September 16th, 1925 in Vienna. He was an Austrian composer and band leader and one of the most important representatives of the Silver Operetta era. Fall came to Hamburg in 1892 as Kapellmeister and then went to the Berlin Metropoltheater as a solo violinist. When his first operas were unsuccessful, he became the in-house composer of the Berlin cabaret "Böse Buben". There he wrote the music for numerous couplets. Then the transition to operetta took place. Fall has devoted himself exclusively to composition since 1906, made his breakthrough from 1907 to 1908 with three operettas (including "The Dollar Princess") and eventually became known worldwide with later works such as "The Rose of Stambul" (1916). His musically diverse operettas oscillate between classic (Viennese waltzes) and modern motifs (hits, jazz, foxtrot).----------------------Leo Fall (born 1873 in Olomouc,Moravia-died 1925 in Vienna), whose works were banned by the National Socialists on the basis of his Jewish origin, is one of the most important composers of the so-called "Silver Operetta era" alongside Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus. The present operetta was performed on July 27, 1907 under the direction of Robert Stolz her world premiere u. became world famous.----------------------Leo Fall, born in Olmütz in 1873, is the son of a Jewish kuk military bandmaster who plays music with his mother's milk. As a violinist, he played alongside the barely older Franz Lehár when he was 16 years old. As a conductor, he worked in Hamburg and Berlin for almost a decade, and despite the failure of his first operetta "Der Rebell" he became an operetta composer. With "The Fidele Bauer" and "The Dollar Princess" he made the worldwide breakthrough. Meanwhile moved to Vienna, he belonged to the leading minds of modern Viennese operetta, which experienced a tremendous boom before the First World War. Leo Case, like no other, understood how to artfully levitate irony and sentiment in his work.In contrast to professional seriousness stood his private life: entangled in the big business of the operetta market, Leo Fall also plunged his abundantly earned money as abundant again and led a Bohme-existence between lawyers and wheelers. Here, too, he became an exemplary figure of an epoch in which the operetta for Vienna was what Hollywood is today - above all, big business. Fall died at the age of 53 in 1925 at the height of his career.The author and his colleagues have succeeded for the first time in processing the estate of Leo Fall into a comprehensive picture of life.This certainly is a very welcome addition to the available operetta library, and it will hopefully stirr new interest in this currently somewhat neglected genius of the genre., Harmonie, 1907, 2, Paperback / softback. New. What are codes for and who uses them? How do you make a code, how do you break a code? If you think only spies and soldiers use codes, you're wrong! Find out how codes have been used throughout history, from Ancient Egypt through to the Cold War in this enthralling non-fiction book by award-winning author, Richard Platt., 6, Paperback / softback. New. Omar and Sasha wander through war-torn streets with their dog Valentine, searching for an address at the Rue Bel Tesoro. On their journey they meet a variety of unusual, quirky characters, little realising that their search may be over sooner than they think. Find out what happens in this dramatic play, beautifully illustrated by Philip Bannister., 6, Paperback. Acceptable., 2.5, Paperback. Good., 2.5, New York: Threshold Editions, 2008. CA1 - A fist edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered rubbing, scratches and light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book bowed, some bumped corners, patch stain on the front, small patch stain on the top page edges, tanning and light shelf wear. Upstream ultimately gives perspective to how the most vibrant political and cultural force of our time has influenced American culture, politics, economics, foreign policy, and all institutions and sectors of American life. 9.5"x6.5", 448 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Alfred S. Regnery, the publisher of The American Spectator, has been a part of the American conservative movement since childhood, when his father founded The Henry Regnery Company, which subsequently became Regnery Publishing - the preeminent conservative publishing house that, among other notable achievements, published William F. Buckley's first book, God and Man at Yale. Including many uniquely personal anecdotes and stories, Regnery himself now boldly chronicles the development of the conservative movement from 1945 to the present. The outpouring of grief at the funeral of Ronald Reagan in 2004 - and the acknowledgment that Reagan has come to be considered one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century - is Regnery's opening for a fascinating insider story. Beginning at the start of the twentieth century, he shows how in the years prior to and just post World War II, expanding government power at home and the expanding Communist empire abroad inspired conservatives to band together to fight these threats. The founding of the National Review, the drive to nominate Barry Goldwater first as vice-president and later as president, the apparent defeat of the conservative movement at the hands of Lyndon Johnson, and the triumphant rise of Ronald Reagan from the ashes are all chronicled in vivid prose that shows a uniquely intimate knowledge of the key figures. Regnery shares his views on the opposition that formed in response to Earl Warren's Supreme Court rulings, the role of faith (both Roman Catholic and Evangelical) in the renewed vigor of conservatism, and the contributing role of American businessmen who attempted to oppose big government.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Threshold Editions, 2008, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,yellow background with subject's sepia,portrait photograph superimposed and brown+ orange lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and ubiquitous light sunning/fading of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/ toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,weave-patterned,textured,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-248pp [paginated] includes foreword by R. J. Minney,23 chapters - each with an identical music notation ('Whispering' Fox's signature tune),16pp contemporary,period,subject-related b/w photographs in 1 block, between pp128-45,plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w photographic frntis,title page,separate contents+illus lists/tables,and acknowledgements. Roy Fox,born in 1901,lived from a very early age in Los Angeles,California,at that time the cradle of the new young movie industry.When he was only a boy he became aware of the fascinating new phenomenon of 'flicks' - pictures that actually moved! And when he was eleven years old,he somehow persuaded his mother to scrape together the eleven dollars needed to buy a shiny silver cornet he had seen in the window of a second-hand shop.These were the two elements which were to shape his life - apart from a very brief deviation when he decided that a career as a messenger boy in a bank had more financial potential than his rather fruitless studies in architecture at school. From that beginning,Roy Fox never looked back.Obviously possessed of an inborn musical talent which meant that he never had to study how to play,his name soon became widely known.At the age of twelve he was blowing bugle calls and playing mood music for the silent films at the local Bijou Kinema; at the age of thirteen he was a member of the Los Angeles Newsboys' Band; soon afterwards he was blowing his cornet to get quiet on the set of one of Cecil B De Mille's films; and from then,until the age of twenty when he formed his own band,he was never without a place in one band or another in the fashionable Hollywood clubs.These clubs were the haunt of the stars of the silent screen - actors and actresses,producers and directors,they all flocked to hear the band music of Roy Fox and his colleagues. Roy soon developed his own very soft,muted style of trumpet playing which became known as his 'whispering trumpet',and the song Whispering became his signature tune. Many of the celebrities he met at the clubs and at the myriad parties in Hollywood at which he played became close friends. The list is endless - Buster Keaton,Rudolph Valentino,Paul Whiteman, Sophie Tucker,Bing Crosby,Bebe Daniels,Louis Armstrong,Irving Berlin,the Marx Brothers and many,many more. One beautiful young actress in particular he fell in love with. From Chicago,Harlean Carpenter adopted the stage name Jean Harlow,and they were together for over a year before Roy left for an eight-week engagement at the Cafe de Paris in London.The eight weeks stretched into years and,apart from absences or tours abroad and the Second World War,he has lived in England ever since (then 1975). His life has been an exciting one.He has been married three times,has travelled the world,has played before kings and queens.He has owned greyhounds and racehorses,has enjoyed fishing and gambling,has known many women and been to many parties,He has seen the rise and the decline of big band music. Now,retired and living quietly in Chelsea,he has decided to put pen to paper to tell his own eventful and vigorous story. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.LESLIE FREWIN PUBLISHERS LIMITED,1975., 5, Undefined. New. World War 2 is over and things in Britain are changing. For Philip and his family this means moving out, from the grey, cramped city to wide open spaces. But Gran doesn't want to leave her home for so many years. What will the family do?, 6, Paperback / softback. New. Walter Tull was a successful footballer and officer in the British Army in World War One. These achievements are even more exceptional because Walter was Afro-Caribbean, succeeding in a world that still considered black people inferior. Follow him from the orphanage to the football field and final days in the trenches, in this inspiring biography., 6, Paperback / softback. New. During the First World War, the British War Dog School was set up. Find out how it trained dogs to carry messages along the trenches, helping the war effort and saving lives., 6, Paperback / softback. New. A beautiful and powerful, retelling of the ultimate love story, between Anthony and the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. But when war reopens old wounds, even a love as strong as theirs will struggle to survive., 6, Paperback / softback. New. Stumbling upon a hidden and forgotten garden, three young friends find themselves transported to World War One, and caught up in the shocking truth of young soldiers sent to fight for their country. Beautifully illustrated by Kate Greenaway winner Michael Foreman, this thought-provoking play helps to bring the First World War into modern day., 6, Paperback / softback. New. At the beginning of World War II, a young American woman named Virginia Hall was sent undercover to Nazi-occupied France to spy on the German army. Follow her incredible true story as she bravely aids the French Resistance, organises and leads rebel armies and passes secret coded radio messages to the Allied forces in this fascinating biography., 6, Paperback / softback. New. In 1917, during World War I, the battle of Passchendaele was fought on the Western Front in Belgium. Find out why the battle was important and what life was like for the soldiers who fought and died there., 6, Paperback / softback. New. Follow the lives of the March sisters, who are forced to pull together when their father leaves to fight in the war. But will the girls cope when disaster strikes and their mother has to leave too, or will their changing world pull them apart? This edition, written by Katie Dale has all the warmth of Louisa May Alcott's original classic., 6, Paperback. Very Good., 3, Doubleday Canada, 2013. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition.. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" tall,. Trade paperback. Sickers on cover "Signed by Author" and "Heather's Pick". 330 pages. Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is an arresting, heartwrenching novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change.., Doubleday Canada, 2013, 5, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. 171pp Story of a sax player, set in 1941 "captures all the excitemtnt of the times-the hit songs and glamour of the Big-Band era and energy of wartime America. First Edition. Cloth Hardback. As New/Fine., Houghton Mifflin, 1985, 5, Traverse City: Stone Hut Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0967573203 . Autobiography of this Michigan woman's life on the road with a Big Band during World War II. Price clipped dust jacket & previous owner name on the end paper, else a nice clean, tight and unmarked book in a similarly nice dust jacket. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall ., Stone Hut Press, 1999, 4, Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; When one of his cats accidentally discovers a rare Victory Disc, the Vinyl Detective and his girlfriend Nevada are whisked into the world of big band swing music, and a mystery that began during the Second World War., 6, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Louisiana State Univ Pr [Published Date: 1989]. Hardcover, 209 pp. First printing, (with full number line). Inscribed (personalized) and signed (Ish Kabiblle) on front free end paper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations. [From jacket flaps] Merwyn Bogue's autobiography is a humorous and heartwarming memoir of one performer's life in the Big Band era. Bogue was a cornet player, band manager, and comedian for the Kay Kyser Band from 1931 to 1951. When he launched his extremely popular comedy routines in the mid-1930s, Bogue took the refrain of a silly song in his repertoire for a stage name and combed his hair down over his forehead for his act. Kay Kyser would introduce Ish Kabibble as "the guy with the low-cut bangs and the high-kicking cornet." The Ish Kabibble story begins in Erie, Pennsylvania, with Bogue's accounts of his boyhood escapades and memories of his remarkable father, a man who built houses, weathered any medical complaint - even broken bones - with only the aid of large doses of camphor, and could "walk" a full-grown Bogue on the ceiling. Bogue's musical awakening occurred when, as a teenager, he heard the Paul Whiteman band play in Erie. This experience inspired Bogue to master the cornet and, after several years in college and a series of minor playing engagements, Bogue landed his spot in the Kay Kyser band. The stories that Bogue tells of his years with the Kyser band are wonderfully entertaining. He relates the pranks that bandmembers played on each other - takes us behind the scenes of Kyser's radio (later television) quiz show, "The Kay Kyser College of Musical Knowledge"; shares his experiences making movies such as Playmates and Ridin' High; tells the dizzying story of a sight-seeing tour of the half-constructed Hoover Dam; and writes about his experiences as a private in World War II, when he entertained troops at army hospitals and camps in the South Pacific. After leaving the Kyser band in 1951, Bogue had a rocky career as an independent entertainer and then became involved in real estate sales in Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Houston, Australia, and Maui. Ish Kabibble is an absorbing series of adventures told with modesty and sly good humor. It will appeal to anyone interested in those time and the music that came out of them., Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989, 3, Disco Fever - 16 Disco Hits including Tragedypublished by Chappell & Co., Inc. 1979Theodore Presser CompanyGeneral Note: music & lyrics for voice and piano, with guitar chord diagramsPaperback9 x 12 inches, 71 pagessee Table of ContentsContents: Stayin' alive.--Shadow dancing.--Dancin'.--Native New Yorker.--Me and the gang.--Emotion.--5.7.0.5.--How deep is your love.--Heaven on the seventh floor.--If I can't have you.--More than a woman.--You stepped into my life.--Night fever.--Back in love again.--Weekend lover.--TragedyDisco is a musical style originating in the early 1970s. It began to emerge from America's urban nightlife scene, where it had been curtailed to house parties and makeshift discotheques from the middle of the decade onwards, after which, it began making regular mainstream appearances, gaining popularity and increasing airplay on radio. Its popularity was achieved sometime during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers, both male and female, from the African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dances styles were also developed during this time including the Bump and the Hustle.The disco sound often has several components, a "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, and electric rhythm guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s.Well-known 1970s and 1980s disco performers included: Vicki Sue Robinson, Yvonne Elliman, Grace Jones, Divine, Lime, Thelma Houston, Diana Ross, Cher, Cheryl Lynn, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M., Claudja Barry, Billy Ocean, Cerrone, Dan Hartman, Madonna, Miquel Brown, Chaka Khan, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Trammps, Marlena Shaw, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much public attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the "disco sound". Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Thank God It's Friday (1978) contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, where DJs would mix a seamless sequence of dance records. Studio 54, a venue popular among celebrities, was a well-known disco club of that time. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, a drug that was so common in disco subculture that it was nicknamed "disco biscuits". Disco clubs were also sometimes associated with promiscuity.Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980, and by 1982 it had lost most of its mainstream popularity in the states. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on July 12, 1979, remains the most well-known of several "backlash" incidents across the country that symbolized disco's declining fortune.Disco was a key influence in the later development of electronic dance music and house music. Disco has had several revivals, including in 2005 with Madonna's highly successful album Confessions on a Dance Floor, and again in 2013 and 2014, as disco-styled songs by artists like Daft Punk (with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers), Justin Timberlake, Breakbot, and Bruno Marsnotably Mars' "Uptown Funk"filled the pop charts in the UK and the US.From 1974 to 1977, disco music continued to increase in popularity as many disco songs topped the charts. In 1974, "Love's Theme" by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra became the second disco song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, after "Love Train". MFSB also released "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", featuring vocals by the Three Degrees, and this was the third disco song to hit number one; "TSOP" was written as the theme song for Soul Train.The Hues Corporation's 1974 "Rock the Boat", a U.S. number 1 single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to hit number 1. The same year saw the release of "Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached number 1 in both the U.K. and U.S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent. Another notable chart-topping disco hit that year was George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby".In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom, the Northern Soul explosion, which started in the late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco, which the region's Disc Jockeys were bringing back from New York City. George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" became the United Kingdom's first number one disco single.Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" and two other songs, "Honey Bee" and his disco version of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". Gaynor's number one disco hit was "I Will Survive", released in 1978, which was seen as a symbol of female strength and a gay anthem.Formed by Harry Wayne Casey ("KC") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including "Get Down Tonight", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man" and "Keep It Comin' Love". Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit "Evil Woman", although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco. In 1979, however, ELO did release two "true" disco songs: "Last Train To London" and "Shine A Little Love".In 1975, American singer and songwriter Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled "Love to Love You Baby" which contained a series of simulated orgasms. The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation. Moroder released it and it went to number 2. It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music. A 17-minute 12 inch single was released. The 12" single became and remains a standard in discos today.In 1977 Summer released "I Feel Love", which combined disco with its subgenre Hi-NRG and electronic music, while in 1978, her multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer's recording, which was included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long on the album. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version of the MacArthur Park was Summer's first single to reach number one on the Hot 100; it does not include the balladic second movement of the song, however. A 2013 remix of "Mac Arthur Park" by Summer hit number 1 on the Billboard Dance Charts marking five consecutive decades with a number 1 hit on the charts. From 1978 to 1979, Summer continued to release hits such as "Last Dance", "Bad Girls", "Heaven Knows", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio", all very successful disco songs.The Bee Gees used Barry Gibb's falsetto to garner hits such as "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" and "Love You Inside Out". Andy Gibb, a younger brother to the Bee Gees, followed with similarly-styled solo hits such as "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "Shadow Dancing". In 1975, hits such as Van McCoy's "The Hustle" and Summer's version of "Could It Be Magic" brought disco further into the mainstream. Other notable early disco hits include the Jackson 5's "Dancing Machine" (1974), Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974), Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974) and Silver Convention's "Fly Robin Fly" (1975).In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released. It was a huge success and its soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time. The idea for the film was sparked by a 1976 New York magazine article titled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" which supposedly chronicled the disco culture in mid-1970s New York City, but was later revealed to have been fabricated. Some critics said the film "mainstreamed" disco, making it more acceptable to heterosexual white males.Chic was formed mainly by guitarist Nile Rodgers a self described "street hippie" from late 1960s New York and bassist Bernard Edwards. "Le Freak" was a popular 1978 single of theirs that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre. Other hits by Chic include the often-sampled "Good Times" (1979) and "Everybody Dance" (1979). The group regarded themselves as the disco movement's rock band that made good on the hippie movement's ideals of peace, love, and freedom. Every song they wrote was written with an eye toward giving it "deep hidden meaning" or D.H.M.Sylvester, a flamboyant and openly gay singer famous for his soaring falsetto voice, scored his biggest disco hits in 1978 "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", and "Dance (Disco Heat)", followed by "Body Strong" in 1979. Known as the Queen of Disco, his singing style was said to have influenced the singer Prince. At that time, disco was one of the forms of music most open to gay performers.The Village People were a singing/dancing group created by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo to target disco's gay audience. They were known for their onstage costumes of typically male-considered jobs and ethnic minorities and achieved mainstream success with their 1978 hit song, "Y.M.C.A."; other hits included "Macho Man" (1978) and "In the Navy" (1979).The Jacksons (previously "the Jackson 5") did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" (1978), "Blame it on the Boogie" (1978), "Lovely One" (1980), and "Can You Feel It" (1980)all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, "Rock with You", "Workin' Day and Night", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".Disco's popularity led many non-disco pop and some rock artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity. Many of their songs were not "pure" disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with (sometimes inescapable) disco influence or overtones. Notable examples include Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" with the Emotions (1979), Blondie's "Heart of Glass" (1978) and "Rapture" (1980), Cher's "Take Me Home" and "Hell on Wheels" (both 1979), Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" (1978), David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing (Again)" (1979), Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979), Frankie Valli's "Swearin' to God" (1975), George Benson's "Give Me the Night" (1980), Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976), M's "Pop Muzik" (1979), Barbra Streisand's "The Main Event" (1979), Heart's "Straight On" (1978), The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound.Even hard-core mainstream rockers mixed elements of disco with their typical rock 'n roll style in songs. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979)which became the group's only number 1 hit single (in both the US and UK). The Eagles gave nods to disco with "One of These Nights" (1975) and "Disco Strangler" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings did "Goodnight Tonight" (1979), Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980), the Rolling Stones did "Miss You" (1978) and "Emotional Rescue" (1980), Electric Light Orchestra's "Shine a Little Love" and "Last Train to London" (both 1979), Chicago did "Street Player" (1979), the Kinks did "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), Bryan Adams did "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1978), and the J. Geils Band did "Come Back" (1980). Even hard rock group KISS jumped in with "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (1979). Ringo Starr's album Ringo the 4th (1978) features a strong disco influence.The disco sound was also adopted by "non-pop" artists, including the 1979 U.S. number one hit "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Easy listening singer Barbra Streisand in a duet with Donna Summer. Country music artist Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977, Bill Anderson did "Double S" in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap recorded "Get It Up" and covered Tommy Tucker's "Hi-Heel Sneakers" in 1979.Also noteworthy are John Paul Young's "Love Is in the Air" (1977), Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" (1978), Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real" (1978), Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" (1978), Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" (1979), Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" (1979), Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown" (1979), Geraldine Hunt's "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980), Alicia Bridges' "I Love the Nightlife" (1978) and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976), which was inspired by Beethoven's fifth symphony.Pre-existing non-disco songs and standards would frequently be "disco-ized" in the 1970s. The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band erawhich brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, "Temptation", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the "Clarinet Polka" entitled "Disco Accordion." Similar, Chappell & Co., Inc., 1979, 3, New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974. Hardcover, blue cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 160 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. First American edition. A chronicle of the big bands, from the end of World War I to just after the Second World War, told in text and supplemented by 143 black and white photographs. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Arlington House Publishers, 1974, 3<

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Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Louisiana State Univ Pr [Published Date: 1989]. Hardcover, 209 pp. First printing, (with full number line). Inscribed (personalized) and signed (Ish Kabiblle) on front free end paper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations. [From jacket flaps] Merwyn Bogue's autobiography is a humorous and heartwarming memoir of one performer's life in the Big Band era. Bogue was a cornet player, band manager, and comedian for the Kay Kyser Band from 1931 to 1951. When he launched his extremely popular comedy routines in the mid-1930s, Bogue took the refrain of a silly song in his repertoire for a stage name and combed his hair down over his forehead for his act. Kay Kyser would introduce Ish Kabibble as "the guy with the low-cut bangs and the high-kicking cornet." The Ish Kabibble story begins in Erie, Pennsylvania, with Bogue's accounts of his boyhood escapades and memories of his remarkable father, a man who built houses, weathered any medical complaint - even broken bones - with only the aid of large doses of camphor, and could "walk" a full-grown Bogue on the ceiling. Bogue's musical awakening occurred when, as a teenager, he heard the Paul Whiteman band play in Erie. This experience inspired Bogue to master the cornet and, after several years in college and a series of minor playing engagements, Bogue landed his spot in the Kay Kyser band. The stories that Bogue tells of his years with the Kyser band are wonderfully entertaining. He relates the pranks that bandmembers played on each other - takes us behind the scenes of Kyser's radio (later television) quiz show, "The Kay Kyser College of Musical Knowledge"; shares his experiences making movies such as Playmates and Ridin' High; tells the dizzying story of a sight-seeing tour of the half-constructed Hoover Dam; and writes about his experiences as a private in World War II, when he entertained troops at army hospitals and camps in the South Pacific. After leaving the Kyser band in 1951, Bogue had a rocky career as an independent entertainer and then became involved in real estate sales in Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Houston, Australia, and Maui. Ish Kabibble is an absorbing series of adventures told with modesty and sly good humor. It will appeal to anyone interested in those time and the music that came out of them., Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989, 3, Disco Fever - 16 Disco Hits including Tragedypublished by Chappell & Co., Inc. 1979Theodore Presser CompanyGeneral Note: music & lyrics for voice and piano, with guitar chord diagramsPaperback9 x 12 inches, 71 pagessee Table of ContentsContents: Stayin' alive.--Shadow dancing.--Dancin'.--Native New Yorker.--Me and the gang.--Emotion.--5.7.0.5.--How deep is your love.--Heaven on the seventh floor.--If I can't have you.--More than a woman.--You stepped into my life.--Night fever.--Back in love again.--Weekend lover.--TragedyDisco is a musical style originating in the early 1970s. It began to emerge from America's urban nightlife scene, where it had been curtailed to house parties and makeshift discotheques from the middle of the decade onwards, after which, it began making regular mainstream appearances, gaining popularity and increasing airplay on radio. Its popularity was achieved sometime during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers, both male and female, from the African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dances styles were also developed during this time including the Bump and the Hustle.The disco sound often has several components, a "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, and electric rhythm guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s.Well-known 1970s and 1980s disco performers included: Vicki Sue Robinson, Yvonne Elliman, Grace Jones, Divine, Lime, Thelma Houston, Diana Ross, Cher, Cheryl Lynn, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M., Claudja Barry, Billy Ocean, Cerrone, Dan Hartman, Madonna, Miquel Brown, Chaka Khan, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Trammps, Marlena Shaw, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much public attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the "disco sound". Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Thank God It's Friday (1978) contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, where DJs would mix a seamless sequence of dance records. Studio 54, a venue popular among celebrities, was a well-known disco club of that time. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, a drug that was so common in disco subculture that it was nicknamed "disco biscuits". Disco clubs were also sometimes associated with promiscuity.Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980, and by 1982 it had lost most of its mainstream popularity in the states. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on July 12, 1979, remains the most well-known of several "backlash" incidents across the country that symbolized disco's declining fortune.Disco was a key influence in the later development of electronic dance music and house music. Disco has had several revivals, including in 2005 with Madonna's highly successful album Confessions on a Dance Floor, and again in 2013 and 2014, as disco-styled songs by artists like Daft Punk (with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers), Justin Timberlake, Breakbot, and Bruno Marsnotably Mars' "Uptown Funk"filled the pop charts in the UK and the US.From 1974 to 1977, disco music continued to increase in popularity as many disco songs topped the charts. In 1974, "Love's Theme" by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra became the second disco song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, after "Love Train". MFSB also released "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", featuring vocals by the Three Degrees, and this was the third disco song to hit number one; "TSOP" was written as the theme song for Soul Train.The Hues Corporation's 1974 "Rock the Boat", a U.S. number 1 single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to hit number 1. The same year saw the release of "Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached number 1 in both the U.K. and U.S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent. Another notable chart-topping disco hit that year was George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby".In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom, the Northern Soul explosion, which started in the late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco, which the region's Disc Jockeys were bringing back from New York City. George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" became the United Kingdom's first number one disco single.Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" and two other songs, "Honey Bee" and his disco version of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". Gaynor's number one disco hit was "I Will Survive", released in 1978, which was seen as a symbol of female strength and a gay anthem.Formed by Harry Wayne Casey ("KC") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including "Get Down Tonight", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man" and "Keep It Comin' Love". Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit "Evil Woman", although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco. In 1979, however, ELO did release two "true" disco songs: "Last Train To London" and "Shine A Little Love".In 1975, American singer and songwriter Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled "Love to Love You Baby" which contained a series of simulated orgasms. The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation. Moroder released it and it went to number 2. It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music. A 17-minute 12 inch single was released. The 12" single became and remains a standard in discos today.In 1977 Summer released "I Feel Love", which combined disco with its subgenre Hi-NRG and electronic music, while in 1978, her multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer's recording, which was included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long on the album. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version of the MacArthur Park was Summer's first single to reach number one on the Hot 100; it does not include the balladic second movement of the song, however. A 2013 remix of "Mac Arthur Park" by Summer hit number 1 on the Billboard Dance Charts marking five consecutive decades with a number 1 hit on the charts. From 1978 to 1979, Summer continued to release hits such as "Last Dance", "Bad Girls", "Heaven Knows", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio", all very successful disco songs.The Bee Gees used Barry Gibb's falsetto to garner hits such as "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" and "Love You Inside Out". Andy Gibb, a younger brother to the Bee Gees, followed with similarly-styled solo hits such as "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "Shadow Dancing". In 1975, hits such as Van McCoy's "The Hustle" and Summer's version of "Could It Be Magic" brought disco further into the mainstream. Other notable early disco hits include the Jackson 5's "Dancing Machine" (1974), Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974), Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974) and Silver Convention's "Fly Robin Fly" (1975).In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released. It was a huge success and its soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time. The idea for the film was sparked by a 1976 New York magazine article titled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" which supposedly chronicled the disco culture in mid-1970s New York City, but was later revealed to have been fabricated. Some critics said the film "mainstreamed" disco, making it more acceptable to heterosexual white males.Chic was formed mainly by guitarist Nile Rodgers a self described "street hippie" from late 1960s New York and bassist Bernard Edwards. "Le Freak" was a popular 1978 single of theirs that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre. Other hits by Chic include the often-sampled "Good Times" (1979) and "Everybody Dance" (1979). The group regarded themselves as the disco movement's rock band that made good on the hippie movement's ideals of peace, love, and freedom. Every song they wrote was written with an eye toward giving it "deep hidden meaning" or D.H.M.Sylvester, a flamboyant and openly gay singer famous for his soaring falsetto voice, scored his biggest disco hits in 1978 "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", and "Dance (Disco Heat)", followed by "Body Strong" in 1979. Known as the Queen of Disco, his singing style was said to have influenced the singer Prince. At that time, disco was one of the forms of music most open to gay performers.The Village People were a singing/dancing group created by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo to target disco's gay audience. They were known for their onstage costumes of typically male-considered jobs and ethnic minorities and achieved mainstream success with their 1978 hit song, "Y.M.C.A."; other hits included "Macho Man" (1978) and "In the Navy" (1979).The Jacksons (previously "the Jackson 5") did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" (1978), "Blame it on the Boogie" (1978), "Lovely One" (1980), and "Can You Feel It" (1980)all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, "Rock with You", "Workin' Day and Night", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".Disco's popularity led many non-disco pop and some rock artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity. Many of their songs were not "pure" disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with (sometimes inescapable) disco influence or overtones. Notable examples include Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" with the Emotions (1979), Blondie's "Heart of Glass" (1978) and "Rapture" (1980), Cher's "Take Me Home" and "Hell on Wheels" (both 1979), Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" (1978), David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing (Again)" (1979), Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979), Frankie Valli's "Swearin' to God" (1975), George Benson's "Give Me the Night" (1980), Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976), M's "Pop Muzik" (1979), Barbra Streisand's "The Main Event" (1979), Heart's "Straight On" (1978), The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound.Even hard-core mainstream rockers mixed elements of disco with their typical rock 'n roll style in songs. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979)which became the group's only number 1 hit single (in both the US and UK). The Eagles gave nods to disco with "One of These Nights" (1975) and "Disco Strangler" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings did "Goodnight Tonight" (1979), Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980), the Rolling Stones did "Miss You" (1978) and "Emotional Rescue" (1980), Electric Light Orchestra's "Shine a Little Love" and "Last Train to London" (both 1979), Chicago did "Street Player" (1979), the Kinks did "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), Bryan Adams did "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1978), and the J. Geils Band did "Come Back" (1980). Even hard rock group KISS jumped in with "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (1979). Ringo Starr's album Ringo the 4th (1978) features a strong disco influence.The disco sound was also adopted by "non-pop" artists, including the 1979 U.S. number one hit "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Easy listening singer Barbra Streisand in a duet with Donna Summer. Country music artist Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977, Bill Anderson did "Double S" in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap recorded "Get It Up" and covered Tommy Tucker's "Hi-Heel Sneakers" in 1979.Also noteworthy are John Paul Young's "Love Is in the Air" (1977), Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" (1978), Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real" (1978), Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" (1978), Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" (1979), Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" (1979), Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown" (1979), Geraldine Hunt's "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980), Alicia Bridges' "I Love the Nightlife" (1978) and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976), which was inspired by Beethoven's fifth symphony.Pre-existing non-disco songs and standards would frequently be "disco-ized" in the 1970s. The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band erawhich brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, "Temptation", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the "Clarinet Polka" entitled "Disco Accordion." Similar, Chappell & Co., Inc., 1979, 3, New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974. Hardcover, blue cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 160 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. First American edition. A chronicle of the big bands, from the end of World War I to just after the Second World War, told in text and supplemented by 143 black and white photographs. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Arlington House Publishers, 1974, 3<

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Arlington House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0870002724 . Tight, clean and crisp with price clipped dustjacket protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. An excellent copy. As New. ; 0.9 x 11.9 x 8.5 Inches; 160 pages ., Arlington House, 1974, 4.5<

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Arlington House Publishers, 1974. Book. Fine-. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : fine minus / good plus. ., Arlington House Publishers, 1974, 3.75<