P.S. I Love You

The Story of the Singing Hilltoppers

Carlton Jackson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2007
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-2436-0 (ISBN)

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In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year. Hits such as "Trying" and "P.S. I Love You" raced up the charts and kept the band in Billboard's Top 40. On weekends the Hilltoppers performed in cities across the country, but on school days they were better known as Western Kentucky State College students Jimmy Sacca, Seymour Spiegelman, Don McGuire, and Billy Vaughn. The Korean War, military drafts, and changing public tastes in music, however, cut short singing careers that should have lasted much longer. Sacca was drafted in 1953, mere months before the end of the war. Vaughn left the group shortly after that for a career at Dot Records and found fame elsewhere with his orchestra. McGuire and Spiegelman were drafted as well, and despite a set of temporary replacement members, the group eventually called it quits. Fifty years later, historian Carlton Jackson revisits the college kids who made it big between classes. He follows the band from their first hit, recorded in Western's Van Meter Auditorium, to their brief 1970s reunion. Their story is a study of celebrity and youth in the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Carlton Jackson is University Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky University and the author of numerous books and articles. His book Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel was listed by the New York Times as one of the fifty most notable books of 1989.

Introduction
The Natural: Transitions in Mary Pickford's Acting from the Footlights to Her Greatest Role in Film
Childhood Revisited: An Evaluation of Mary Pickford's Youngest Characters
Pickford: Passionate Producer
Father of the Family: Mary Pickford's Journey from Breadwinner to Businesswoman
Pickford and Fairbanks: A Modern Marriage
Little Mary: Formidable Philanthropist
Dressing the Part: Mary Pickford's Use of Costume
The Mary Pickford Costumes
Crown of Glory: The Rise and Fall of the Mary Pickford Curls
American Idol: Mary Pickford, WWI, and the Making of a National Icon
Laws of Attraction: Mary Pickford, Movies and the Evolution of Fame
Blood and Sympathy: Race and the Films of Mary Pickford
America's Sweetheart
The Films of Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford and the Archival Film Movement
Chronology of Mary Pickford's Life

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.2007
Zusatzinfo	photos
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-8131-2436-0 / 0813124360
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-2436-0 / 9780813124360
Zustand	Neuware