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Loading... But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groupsby Laura Flam
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Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz’s “But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” an oral history of 1960s girl groups, presents a musical world that today’s teenagers might find incomprehensible — a time without music streaming, when sharing a song with friends meant gathering around a record player or going to a concert together....For better and worse, Flam, a writer and interior designer, and Liebowitz, author of the poetry collection “National Park,” let their subjects do most of the talking. But the lack of an editorial voice can make reading their book exhausting. There’s too much to keep straight and little context in which to do it; few dates are provided, and the multiple speakers begin to recede in relevance. The chorus of conflicting memories of who did what to whom sometimes resembles an episode of “The Real Housewives.” This squabbling can be fun, but there’s an underlying melancholy because the breakups were often precipitated by illness or death. The demise of the Ronettes is especially sad, and that story rightfully closes out the book. Fans of 1960s girl groups most likely remember the Supremes, the Ronettes, and the Shirelles, but many other groups have seemingly been forgotten.... Sadly. many of the artists that comprised through groups were considered interchangeable and fleeting investments.... To create this fascinating and epic-sized oral history, the authors interviewed more than 100 people who sang, wrote, created, and popularized the genre, often left out of musical history This book also reminiscences about the Brill Building, Phil Spector, Motown, and the early days of pop. A noble effort that will likely appeal to music scholars and the genre's fans. Loud, long-overdue applause for some of pop music’s most talented singers. These groups, usually comprised of young Black women, represent a powerful era of popular music that often goes unrecognized. Many readers may recognize such individuals as Darlene Love or Shirley Alston Reeves or recall groups singing backup for Sam Cooke, but the importance of these women to modern music has been downplayed. Groups like the Chantels, the Blossoms, the Shirelles, the Vandelles, and more performed an array of memorable songs. The authors state their purpose of applauding these young women who were often seen as “fleeting investments by a music industry that gave them remarkably shortened careers.” A fast-paced, welcome celebration of groups that have been “at risk of erasure from the canon of pop music history.”
Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to the top of the charts, girl groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. While the songs are essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners. With more than 100 subjects that made the music, from the singers to the songwriters, to their agents, managers, and sound engineers--and even to the present-day celebrities inspired by their lasting influence-But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of 60s Girl Groups tells a national coming-of-age story that gives particular insight into the experiences of the female singers and songwriters who created the movement. No library descriptions found. |
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