The Classic Rock and Roll Reader

The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s is chock full of entertaining essays to inform and delight you about an era that shaped our culture and future musical trends. This unique book will surprise and enchant even the most zealous music buff with facts and information on the songs that reflected America's spirit and captured a nation's attention.

D. F. Lonergan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Reference Librarian in the libraries of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

Preface

xi

THE EMERGENCE OF ROCK MUSIC, OR, WAKING UP THE 1950s

Rock's Not-So-Dull Predecessors

3

(12)

In the Mood

3

(2)

Of Thee I Sing

5

(2)

Night and Day

7

(1)

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

8

(1)

Oklahoma!

9

(1)

Show Business

10

(2)

The Cry of the Wild Goose

12

(3)

The Pioneering Rock Songs, or, Three Create a Crowd

15

(4)

Rock Around the Clock

15

(2)

Sh-Boom

17

(1)

Shake, Rattle and Roll

18

(1)

Older-Style Songs Amidst the Rocks

19

(12)

All the Way

19

(2)

Chances Are

21

(2)

I Could Have Danced All Night

23

(2)

Moon River

25

(1)

Rocky Mountain High

26

(1)

Top of the World

27

(1)

Whatever Will Be, Will Be

28

(3)

A GENERATION OF CLASSIC ROCK, OR, ROCK ROLLS ON

The Megastars and Megagroups, or, the Bolder and the Boulders

31

(68)

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

31

(3)

Blue Suede Shoes

34

(1)

Bridge over Troubled Water

35

(1)

Can't Help Falling in Love

36

(1)

Crazy Man, Crazy

37

(4)

Diana

41

(2)

Dream Lover

43

(2)

Good Vibrations

45

(2)

I Want to Hold Your Hand

47

(1)

In My Room

48

(2)

It Ain't Me, Babe

50

(4)

Last Train to Clarksville

54

(4)

Let It Be

58

(2)

Love Me Tender

60

(1)

Michelle

61

(4)

Photograph

65

(2)

P.S. I Love You

67

(3)

Respect

70

(3)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

73

(3)

Scarborough Fair/Canticle

76

(1)

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

77

(3)

Stop! In the Name of Love

80

(1)

Surfin' USA

81

(2)

Walk Like a Man

83

(2)

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?

85

(3)

What's Going On

88

(3)

Who's Sorry Now?

91

(2)

World Without Love

93

(3)

Yesterday

96

(1)

You Send Me

97

(2)

The Best Songs That Never Made Number 1, or, Time Heals All Aches, Mistakes, and Bad Breaks

99

(32)

Ain't That a Shame?

99

(2)

Downtown

101

(1)

From Me to You

102

(5)

I Feel Good

107

(1)

I'm on the Outside (Looking In)

108

(3)

I'm Walkin'

111

(1)

Lookin' Out My Back Door

112

(3)

Oh, Pretty Woman

115

(1)

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

116

(2)

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

118

(2)

Rhinestone Cowboy

120

(1)

(I'm a) Road Runner

121

(4)

Song Sung Blue

125

(1)

Standing on the Corner

126

(1)

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

127

(1)

Up-Up and Away

128

(1)

Will You Love Me Tommorrow?

129

(2)

One-Hit Wonders, or, Flashes in the Charts

131

(22)

At the Hop

131

(2)

The Battle of New Orleans

133

(2)

Classical Gas

135

(1)

Earth Angel

136

(1)

Ease on Down the Road

137

(1)

Gentle on My Mind

138

(1)

The Great Pretender

139

(1)

Happy Together

140

(1)

I'm Sorry

141

(1)

Jesus Christ, Superstar

142

(1)

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

143

(1)

Save the Last Dance for Me

144

(1)

Singin' the Blues

145

(1)

Sit Down, I Think I Love You

146

(4)

Spinning Wheel

150

(1)

Tequila

151

(1)

Volare

152

(1)

Novelty Songs, or, Unusual, but Unusually Good

153

(26)

Aquarius

153

(2)

The Candy Man

155

(2)

Don't Sleep in the Subway

157

(1)

Hit the Road, Jack

158

(2)

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini

160

(1)

King of the Road

161

(1)

The Last Kiss

162

(3)

Let's Twist Again

165

(2)

Louie, Louie

167

(2)

Mr. Bo Jangles

169

(1)

Mr. Sandman

170

(1)

The Purple People Eater

171

(1)

Tutti Frutti

172

(2)

The Twist

174

(2)

Wake Up, Little Susie

176

(1)

Witch Doctor

177

(1)

Yakety Yak

178

(1)

Some Other Milestones and a Few Pebbles

179

(78)

Baby, I Need Your Lovin'

179

(3)

Ballad of a Teenage Queen

182

(2)

Be-Bop-A-Lula

184

(2)

Be My Baby

186

(4)

Because

190

(3)

Bye Bye Love

193

(2)

Good Morning, Starshine

195

(2)

Green Onions

197

(3)

He's a Rebel

200

(2)

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

202

(2)

I Almost Lost My Mind

204

(2)

I Got You, Babe

206

(3)

I Want to Be Wanted

209

(2)

It's Over

211

(2)

Kicks

213

(3)

Light My Fire

216

(3)

Memories Are Made of This

219

(2)

Monterey

221

(4)

The Name Game

225

(4)

Only You

229

(2)

That'll Be the Day

231

(3)

These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

234

(2)

Tom Dooley

236

(3)

Traveling Man

239

(4)

Turn Me Loose!

243

(4)

Under the Boardwalk

247

(3)

The Wanderer

250

(2)

You Don't Own Me

252

(2)

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

254

(3)

The Best and the Worst of Classic Rock

257

(8)

The Best Classic Rock Song

257

(1)

The Worst Famous Classic Rock Song

258

(3)

CLASSIC ROCK MEETS DISCO, AND BOTH DISAPPEAR

Disco Duck

261

(1)

Stayin' Alive

262

(3)

Title Index

265

(6)

Subject Index

271

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