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Posted By: rich-joy
24-May-05 - 05:29 AM
Thread Name: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bios
Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's
I'm gonna try and paste my list of Folk, Jazz, Blues Singers & Musicians biogs here (it's originally from Excel, so I'm hoping it will behave!!!) Apologies for any that have already been mentioned above ...
ACKER BILK Acker Bilk - Gordon Williams - Mayfair Books, London, 1962 BILL WATKINS Scotland is Not for the Squeamish (Pt 2) - Bill Watkins Flamingo, Sydney, 2000-01 BILL WATKINS A Celtic Childhood (Pt 1) - Bill Watkins ? BILLY CONNOLLY The Big Yin : The Life & Times of Billy Connolly - Jonathan Margolis Orion, London, 1994 BING CROSBY The Story of Bing Crosby - Ted Crosby Forum (World Pub), Cleveland, 1937-1946 BOB COPPER Early to Rise : A Sussex Boyhood - Bob Copper Heinemann, London, 1976 BOB COPPER A Song for Every Season : 100 Years of a Sussex Farming Family - Bob Copper Heinemann, London, 1971-73 CIARAN CARSON Last Night's Fun : In & Out of Time with Irish Music - Ciaran Carson North Point Press, New York, 1996-97 CLEO LAINE Cleo - Cleo Laine Simon & Schuster, London, 1994 COLE PORTER Cole Porter : the Definitive Biography - William McBrien HarperCollins, London, 1998-99 ELLA FITZGERALD First Lady of Song : Ella Fitzgerald for the Record - Geoffrey Mark Fidelman Citadel Press, New York, 1994-96 ELLA FITZGERALD Ella Fitzgerald : 1917 - 1996 - Stuart Nicholson Indigo, London, 1993-96 FISK JUBILEE SINGERS Dark Midnight When I Rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers - Andrew Ward Amistad, New York, 2000-01 FRANK SINATRA Frank Sinatra - Tony Scaduto Sphere Books, London, 1976-77 FRANK SINATRA Sinatra - Alan Frank Hamlyn, London, 1978 FRANKIE ARMSTRONG As Far As the Eye Can Sing : an autobiography - Frankie Armstrong & Jenny Pearson Women's Press, London, 1992 GEORGE MELLY Owning Up (Pt 3) - George Melly Futura, London, 1965-85 GEORGE MELLY Rum, Bum and Concertina (Pt 2) - George Melly Futura, London, 1977-78 GEORGE MELLY Scouse Mouse, or, I Never Got Over It (Pt 1) - George Melly Futura, London, 1984-85 HAMISH IMLACH Cod Liver Oil & Orange Juice : Reminiscences of a Folk Singer - Hamish Imlach & Ewan McVicar Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1992 HENRY LAWSON A Stranger on the Darling - Robyn Burrows & Alan Barton Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1996 JIM DAVIDSON A Showman's Story : the Memoirs of Jim Davidson - Jim Davidson Rigby, Adelaide, Oz, 1983 JOAN BAEZ And a Voice to Sing With : Baez - Her Own Story - Joan Baez Arrow, London, 1989 JUDITH DURHAM Colours of My Life - Graham Simpson Random House, Sydney, 1994 K. D. LANG All You Get Is Me - Victoria Starr HarperCollins, London, 1994 LOUIS ARMSTRONG My Life in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong Ace (Harborough), London, 1955-57 MEL TORME It Wasn't all Velvet : an autobiography - Mel Torme Robson, London, 1988-89 PADDY TUNNEY The Stone Fiddle : My Way to Traditional Song - Paddy Tunney Appletree Press, Belfast, 1979-91 PETA MATHIAS Burnt Barley : How to Eat, Dance & Sing Your Way Around Ireland - Peta Mathias Vintage (Random House), Auckland, 2000 PETE SEEGER How Can I Keep From Singing : Pete Seeger - David King Dunaway Harrap, London, 1981-85 SLIM DUSTY Walk a Country Mile - Slim Dusty & John Lapsley Rigby, Adelaide, Oz, 1979-84 SWEET HONEY in the ROCK We Who Believe in Freedom … Still on the Journey - Bernice Johnson Reagon & SH/R Anchor (Doubleday), New York, 1993 TED EGAN Sitdown Up North : an autobiography (Pt 2) - Ted Egan Kerr, Sydney, 1997 TED EGAN The Paperboy's War : an autobiography (Pt 1) - Ted Egan Kerr, Sydney, 1993 TED EGAN A Drop of Rough Ted (based on the Nomad Enterprises' film) - Ted Egan self, Sydney, 1979 THEODORE BIKEL … on loan … ? ? WOODY GUTHRIE Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie Picador (Pan), London, 1943-74 various Bandstand … and All That! - John Byrell Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1995 various Bluegrass - Bob Artis Leisure Books, New York, 1975 various Blues : the British Connection - Bob Brunning Blandford Press, Dorset, 1986 various Buried Country : the Story of Aboriginal Country Music - Clinton Walker Pluto Press, Sydney, 2000 various Celtic Women in Music - Maireid Sullivan Quarry Music, Ontario, 1999 various Folk Music Encyclopedia, The - Kristin Baggelaar & Donald Milton Omnibus Press, London, 1976-77 various Hoot! : A 25 year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene - Robbie Woliver St Martin's Press, New York, 1986 various Illustrated Enc.of Jazz : an Indispensable A-Z of the Legends of Jazz, The - Brian Case/Stan Britt/Chrissie Murray Tiger Books, London, 1986-91 various Jazz Lives : 100 Portraits in Jazz - Gene Lees & John Reeves Firefly, New York, 1992-94 various Listener's Guide to Folk Music, The - Sarah Lifton Quarto Book, New York, 1983 various Meet Me at Jim & Andy's : Jazz Musicians & Their World - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1988 various Memphis Blues & Jug Bands - Bengt Olsson Studio Vista (November Bks), London, 1970 various Music City of Babylon : Inside the World of Country Music - Scott Faragher Birch Lane Press, New York, 1992 various Observer's Book of Folk Song in Britain, The - Fred Woods Frederick Warne, London, 1980 various Real Folk - John Meredith National Library, Canberra, 1995 various Singers & Sweethearts : the Women of County Music - Joan Dew Country Music Mag Press, New York, 1977 various Singers & the Song - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1987 various Singers & the Song II - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1987-98 various Song by Song : the Lives & Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers - Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin Ross Anderson, Bolton, England, 1984 various The Songwriters - Tony Staveacre BBC, London, 1980 various Turn it Up, I Can't Hear the Words : the Best of the New Singer/Songwriters - Bob Sarlin Coronet, London, 1973-75 various Verandah Music : Roots of Australian Tradition - Graham Seal & Rob Willis Curtin University Bks, Fremantle, Oz, 2003 various Wasn't That a Time! : First Hand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival - Ronald D. Cohen Scarecrow Press, New Jersey, 1995 various When the Music Stopped : the Big Band Era Remembered - Bernie Woods Barricade Books, New York, 1994
hmmm ... gawdownleenose what this'll scan like ... :~)