Gerald Nachman
Gerald Nachman has for more than forty years covered theater, movies, cabaret, and television for newspapers and magazines. His previous books include The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary ... [... more]
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
 From Amazon.com: It's been said that analyzing comedy is a bit like dissecting a frog: you arrive at a greater understanding of the frog but the frog does tend to die in the process. The purpose of Gerald Nachman's Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of [... more]
CDN$24.95
Amazon CA |
The Golden Age of American Rock & Roll, Vol. 5
Wonderful Sampling of Golden Oldies: This is the 5th installment of at least 10 CD samplers, covering "charted hit territory" of Rock & Roll's Golden Age (The 1950s & 1960s). I am extremely pleased with each and every one of these CDs. [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Greatest Hits
Great Compilation Of Dion's Hits!: One very talented artist from the late 1950s and 1960s that has slid from public notice is Dion Dimucci, more popularly known simply as Dion. Starting with a group of neighborhood pals as ï¿1/2Dion and the [... more]
CDN$17.99
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Scary black and white film....: The world John Lecarré describes is without mercy and forgiveness. The films based on his books are not nearly as terrifying, though they are frightening enough. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD is an early [... more]
CDN$10.40
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22 Greatest Hits
Tee-Vee Records and re-recordings!: Well, Tee-Vee/Gusto/whatever they are records is at it again, passing off re-records as the genuine article. They go and find a lesser known country artist or one who is out of the prime of their career and these [... more]
CDN$12.99
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September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
Insightful look into the life of an American pop legend: Being a fan of both Nat King Cole's and Frank Sinatra's work, I was intrigued by this book about the man who was pretty much responsible for their successful run of hits in the 1950s and '60s. Not [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Very Best Of
In a class by himself: Franco Corelli (1921-2003), who sang from 1951 to 1976, was the greatest tenore di forza of the post-WWII era. A powerful and viscerally exciting singer, never a subtle, elegant, or refined one, he had his detractors (who found him [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League ...
Terrific Book!: The author does a great job of capturing both sides of the integration battlefields (ballparks) of the South. He effectively uses narratives of former players, both the famous (Felipe Alou, Billy Williams, etc.)and the not so famous (Joe [... more]
CDN$15.58
Amazon CA |
The First World War, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front 1914-1918
The Unabashed English View of the War - Part Two: Peter Simkins, a former senior historian at the Imperial War Museum, picks up in this volume of Osprey's Essential Histories series where he left off at the end of 1916. As in the first volume, Simkins' [... more]
CDN$72.93
Amazon CA |
Smokin At The Half Note
From Amazon.com: Wes Montgomery brought the art of the electric guitar to new heights in the 1950s and 1960s before his untimely death at 43. His vaulting style employed octaves much as his main influence, Charlie Christian, did in the Benny Goodman [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Watertown
An ambitious song-cycle concept album from Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra did a lot of concept albums in his career, especially during the 1950s and 1960s. But even within that context "Watertown" stands out as something unique and I have to [... more]
CDN$12.99
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