- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Backbeat Books (March 1, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879309326
- ISBN-13: 978-0879309329
(Book). A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious
journalists. Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the
edge of your seat: * Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B
and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold
story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s
and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters. * Doc Pomus, the
only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of
the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era,
Doc had the biggest heart in the music business. * A sad, comic-tragic
romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an "oldie" once she
left her teens.
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