The Riddle Of Retro Recordings: Crafting The American Songbook

John Paul Meyers and Joel Dufour capture the essence of retro rock recording. Together, though continents and linguistically apart, they present irrefutable arguments concerning the ongoing outreach of hit recordings from artist-to-artist and from generation-to-generation. This Paw Paw Press study extends their efforts. It draws attention to specific pop vocalists like Fats Domino and to successful singing groups like The Platters that launched their professional careers and sustained their fandom by repeating earlier hit songs within their performing playlists. No judgments are offered concerning the cultural ethics of cover recording. No critical assessment is made about the quality of either earlier hits or follow-up performances. This study simply confirms and illustrates how retro rock activities have contributed to the ever-evolving growth of the vast American songbook. Both recording artists and fans are attracted to the repetition of hit tunes. THE RIDDLE OF RETRO ROCK is designed to demonstrate several circumstances related to extending the life of particular hit songs. Multiple justifications are presented. Multiple artists are examined. And multiple tunes are presented as illustrations. Eleven distinct fields of cover recording are examined. These include (1) honorific and tribute performances, (2) blues preservation presentations, (3) British recycling of American hits, (4) R&B singers and doo-wop groups re-inventing pop standards, (5) established artists repeating recent hits, (6) folk performers revisiting traditional songs, (7) pop performers expanding into the holiday hit realm, (8) singer-songwriters performing influential tunes from others, (9) superstar stylists padding their playlists, (10) vocalists resurrecting pop classics and Motown hits, and (11) young white artists mining little-known blues/R&B tunes for their rock audiences. The text concludes with a brief Coda saluting ten original hit generators who rarely sought to employ cover recording techniques during their long and productive singing careers.
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