Buried History of American Music, Songs and Showbiz Since1606: The Forgotten Originals, Pioneers, and Mega Stars. Part 2. (America's Musical Heritage and Treasures)

Buried History of American Music, Songs and Showbiz Since1606: The Forgotten Originals, Pioneers, and Mega Stars. Part 2. (Final Volume)

A must have book; the ultimate reference to America’s music treasures, and greatest artists of all time, who are totally forgotten now!
Buried History of American Music, Songs and Showbiz Since1606: The Forgotten Originals, Pioneers, and Mega Stars

Showbiz is an unmerciful and ungrateful business. How easy and how fast we forget the yesteryears biggest and greatest names, pioneers and legends of entertainment showbiz, theater, cinema and music. Well, this magnificent book is a tribute to those fabulous artists, who once upon a time, were the most famous people in the world, and now, they are totally forgotten. Finally, you will revisit and rediscover them here in this book that took Maximillien de Lafayette years to write and present it with all the glamour, fame, beauty, and human drama that surrounded the lives and times of those forgotten stars. Thousands of names and hundreds upon hundreds of photos (Rare, vintage, never published before) are lavishly presented in this work. Some of those stars wrote the world most famous tunes, yet, they died, penniless, in absolute poverty and buried in obscurity and drama, because they did not know how to protect their interests. This is a massive work, unparallel in its depth, research, and wealth of information. It takes us back to the dawn of showbiz, music and songs of America, from the very beginning, from 1606 to the present day. All the biggest names, tunes, shows and productions for almost 300 years of showbiz!

Part 2 (Final volume). It includes:
1.Ragtime and Folk Music: History and pioneers.
• The most popular songs of the era were.
• Cakewalks in the ragtime era.
• The 50 most popular tunes.
• Ragtime women composers.
• The work of early female songwriters.

2.The fabulous soloists of the golden era of the brass bands:
• The most famous bandleaders in the late nineteenth century.
• The fabulous soloists of the golden era of the brass bands.
• The era’s most famous solo musicians.From France, Germany, United Kingdom, Bohemia, and the United States.
• The great musicians of the era.
• The golden age of the brass bands.

3.An Old New Era:The music was real musical composition, no Rap, heavy metal and distorting noises.
• The good old days.
• World War I: Change of time.
• New kind of music and lyrics.
• Dinners with extravagant shows and musical acts.
• Singing women, “Saloon Singers” are the major attraction in town. The greatest female singers of the era.

4.The Ziegfeld Follies: The most beautiful and famous Ziegfeld girls (singers and dancers).
• The Follies of 1907”, the making of a Broadway legend.


5.The Queens and Flashy Dashy Super Stars of the Early Era of American Entertainment.
• The first American musicals and cabaret acts.
• Vaudeville and burlesque.


6.The golden years of live entertainment on radio:
• The early solo vocalists.
• Early stars of the music business.
• With the recording ban lifted, local radio stations geared toward disk jockey…it was the end of the big band era.
• Martha Tilton…280
• Memorable shows, moments and live entertainment of the era.
• The best of old time radio.
• Somewhere during that time in history…1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
• Avalanches of magnificent stars and legends. Yet forgotten!
• Celebrities of the era who were expert in handling the microphone.

7.Broadway’s Vanished Era:
• Florenz Ziegfeld and his Follies Girls!!
• Jeanne Ackerman, her legs were insured for $500,000.