Lanza Joseph

Vanilla pop : sweet sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA / Joseph Lanza. - 1st ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, 2005. - xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"An A Cappella book."

Includes discography (p. 211-235), bibliographical references, and index.

White-bread rhapsodies -- Twinkle and shine! : the Mitch Miller years -- Bobby Tomorrow -- Johnny Angelfood -- Vanilla expressionism : Joe Meek's "Paradise Garden" -- "Sealed with a kiss" : America's shadow anthem -- Summerchime : sunshine pop's precursors -- Vanilla psychedelia : Curt Boettcher's "upholstered folk" -- A name that's lighter than air : the Association machine -- the Doodletown dimension : exploring whipped cream chorales -- Come Saturday morning : the rarified worlds of Claudine Longet and the Sandpipers -- The cake out in the rain : the Carpenters and the sugar-depression 1970s -- ABBA's vanilla ice -- A zillion chocolate kisses.

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