A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis

Author(s): Karl Du Fresne &

About A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis

Like most New Zealand kids in the 1960s, Karl du Fresne grew up listening to songs about American towns and cities: Kansas City, El Paso, New Orleans, Detroit and Tulsa, to name just a few. He found himself wondering what sort of places they were and what had motivated such illustrious pop composers as Jimmy Webb, Hal David, Neil Sedaka and Chuck Berry to write about them. A career journalist, former musician and keen amateur musicologist, he eventually decided to find out for himself. Thus was launched a serial pilgrimage that took him to 24 towns and cities, from Abilene to Wichita and Memphis to Mendocino. Each chapter is devoted to a specific hit song and the town that inspired it. Du Fresne combines information about the songs - who wrote them (and why), who recorded them, how well they did on the pop charts - with often quirky personal observations about the places themselves and the characters he encountered there.

ISBN: 9781869539382 No of Pages: 240 Type: Paperback Genre: DB2

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