Documents the history of rhythm and blues music by examining every song to top the Billboard R & B singles chart between 1965 and 1990 and offers inside stories from the singers, musicians, songwriters, arrangers, and producers who created the hits.

Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists.

(Book). Hot R&B Songs brings you up to date with six full years of new data since the last edition (formerly known as Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles .) Nearly seven decades are covered from every artist and song that hit Billboard's first "Harlem Hit Parade" chart in 1942 right through the latest "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs" chart of 2010. Peak chart position, chart debut date, total weeks charted, total weeks at #1, #2 or #3, and original label and number are included. This is the first edition to have at least one line of biographical information for EVERY artist! Other bonus features include Major Awards & Honor Listings, A-Z Song Title Section, Top Artist Achievements, Top 500 Artists Ranking, and much more!

Discusses the popular hit singles that never reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, offering a history of each song and commenting on its significance in the history of pop music.

A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.

Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of rhythm and blues, rap, and hip-hop music.

A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.