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The 4 Seasons with lead singer Frankie Valli rank among the top American vocal acts of all time. Collectively, Valli and the group amassed seven number one hits, 18 Top Tens and placed an incredible 61 singles in the Hot 100. They also placed 32 LPs on the top album charts. Their hit-making years spanned more than fifty years. 4 Seasons songs are some of the most recognizable tunes of the 60s/70s and continue today to be regulars on radio play...

Like many young men, Bobby Goldsboro's enviable music career came about by chance. Playing in a local band while attending college, rock great Roy Orbison hired Bobby's band to back him. What begin as a temporary gig turned into one of the longest-lasting careers of the pop/rock era. Soon Goldsboro was recording on his own. Among his many time-proven hits are: Honey, Broomstick Cowboy, Summer (the First Time), Watching Scotty Grow, I'm a Drift...

PRAIRIE LIFE IN THE LATE 1800S IS WROUGHT WITH HARDSHIP. NEAR STILLER'S CREEK, THE STAID LIVES OF MANY GO AWRY WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES. JOIN THE RUGGED FOLKS WHO INHABIT THE SPARSELY POPULATED AREA AS THEY ENCOUNTER NATURE'S WRATH AND WITNESS HUMAN CRUELTY. BACKBREAKING LABOR, HEARTRENDING MISFORTUNES, AND ROUTINE SUFFERING ARE EXPECTED IF ONE IS TO ENDURE. WHO WILL PERSIST THE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS AND WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF THEIR LIVES? W...

Vanilla Doo-wop highlights several white fifties/sixties vocal groups, telling how they came to be, discusses their music, and provides discographies of the records they released. From Dion and the Belmonts, The Passions, The Tokens, The Critters, the Royal Teens, and many more, it's a great read for those interested in popular music from that era. Many of their records reached the highest rungs of the charts and others barely scratched the su...

A young serviceman experiences hardship in his attempt to marry a Vietnamese girl, as his tour in the perilous, war torn country nears its end. Liberty restrictions and military police enforcement make it difficult for them to be together. As night falls, he slips away from the base to meet her family and offer his marriage proposal. Before he can leave the village, curfew sets in leaving him stranded in the off-limits area. Danger lurks withi...

Bobby Vee got his "lucky break" after the infamous crash of the plane Buddy Holly was riding went down in an Iowa cornfield, killing all aboard. Auditions were quickly held to find temporary replacements so the Winter Dance Party tour could go on. That ill-fated opportunity eventually led to a recording contract for the Fargo, ND teenager. Shortly, hit records began to come. Take Good Care of My Baby, Run to Him, Sharing You, Rubber Ball, The ...

A small fishing boat carrying contraband is found at the bottom of Thunder Bay. Thus begins the quest to find where the life-threatening cargo originated and what its purpose was. Thunder Bay is an exciting tale of intrigue, with a hint of romance.

The son of a Southern California horse trainer, John Stewart was a gifted musician who spread his talents across many genres. He grew up idolizing Elvis Presley. But along came the Kingston Trio and by age 20, Stewart became the Trio's fourth member when Dave Guard left the highly popular group. Stewart and his future wife, Buffy Ford, joined Robert Kennedy's presidential compaign, only to have it cut short when an assassin's bullet took down ...

Three English/Australian brothers, Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, ran off a string of hit records during the late sixties. Many soon proclaimed them the second-coming of The Beatles. However, nothing prepared the music industry for what would occur a few years later when their manager asked them to write a some songs for a movie he was producing. With little more than a working movie title (Saturday Night Fever) and a generic plot, in a weeken...

The Way I Walk: The Music of Jack Scott tells how the Canadian-born son of an Italian immigrant grew up to become one of the leading rockabilly voices of the era and how he got lost in the shuffle as the music continued to evolve. As Scott racked up hit after hit, deejays flipped his records over and his B-sides also climbed the charts. During 1958, all six sides of his three singles scored in the top 100 with two of them being top ten and a...

Michigan's historic Mackinac Island is considered the gem of the Great Lakes. Victorian-style homes, historic military forts and limestone formations grace the island. Michigan Highway M-185 circles the island even though its only traffic are horse-drawn carriages and bicycles--motorized vehicles are prohibited.Mackinac Island is peaceful, serene and a major summer vacation destination. The story: Two hundred years before, a fortune disappeare...