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Carolina Beach Music from the '60s to the '80s:: The New Wave
Author(s): Rick Simmons (Author)
- Publisher: The History Press
- Publication Date: February 26, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1609497503
- ISBN-13: 9781609497507
Book Description
Carolina Beach Music from the ’60s to the ’80s” “The New Wave” picks up where “Carolina Beach Music” ” The Classic Years” left off, covering more of those classic beach music tunes as well as the newer self-aware songs that were the beginning of a new wave of beach music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book looks at eighty recordings from the years 1966 through 1982, featuring interviews and insights from the artists who sang them, including Archie Bell, William Bell, Jerry Butler, Clyde Brown of the Drifters, Harry Elston of the Friends of Distinction, Bobbie Smith of the Spinners, Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power, Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, Billy Scott and many, many others.”
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From the Author
Carolina Beach Music from the 60s to the 80s: The New Wave, is the follow up to Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years, a finalist in the category of “Best Research in Rock and Pop Music” by the Association for Recording and Sound Collections (ARSC) for their 2012 Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research.
About the Author
Dr. Rick Simmons was born and raised in South Carolina, and during the course of his education he attended Clemson University, Coastal Carolina University and the University of South Carolina, where he completed his PhD in 1997. He lives in Louisiana with his wife, Sue, and his children, Courtenay and Cord.
