Beatles Country (album) 415
The Beatles Song Book (album) 334
Beatty, Warren 423
Beau Brummels, the 333, 415
‘Beaver Slide Rag’ 117
Beavis and Butt-Head 556n
Bécaud, Gilbert 290
Bechet, Sidney 71, 205, 309
Beck 615
Beck, Jeff 381, 413, 431
Becker, Jason 527
Bee Gees, the 374, 387, 446, 475–478, 523, 578
Beecham, Thomas 29
‘Beer Barrel Polka’ 151
Beethoven, Ludwig van 30
‘Begin the Beguine’ 142, 144, 145, 204
‘Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen’ 151
Beiderbecke, Bix 75, 86, 87, 132, 183, 220
Beier, Ulli 349
‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ 554
Belafonte, Harry 263, 264
Belgium 466
‘Believe’ 592
Bell, Alexander Graham 17
Bell Biv DeVoe 578
Bellamy, Bill 618
Bellotte, Pete 474
Belmont, Joe 31
Belvin, Jesse 279
Ben, Jorge 379
‘Bend Me Shape Me’ 427
‘Benediction’ 18
Beneke, Tex 194
Bennett, Tony 197, 236, 246, 290, 439, 567, 569
Bennett, Veronica 580
Berkeley, Busby 583
Berlin, Edward 43
Berlin, Irving 23, 30, 31, 44–47, 104, 106, 124, 131, 150, 156, 163
Berliner, Emil 17, 18
Bernard, Al 64
Berry, Chuck 40, 64, 115, 132, 223, 242, 244, 259, 282, 312, 331, 335, 361, 447, 480, 510, 613
Berry, Richard 332
Bertini 103
Best, Drew 624
‘Best Disco in Town’ 573
‘Beth’ 458
Bethânia, Maria 379
‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered’ 130
Bewsher, Paul 53
Beyoncé 4, 588, 616
bhangra 616
Bicknill, Mr Justice 14
Big Band Beatle Songs (album) 334
Big Ben Accordion Band, the 247
Big Ben Banjo Band, the 309
Big Bopper, the 260
Big Brother & the Holding Company 410
‘Big Butter and Egg Man’ 94n
‘Big Fat Mama’ 177
Big Maybelle 226
‘Big Pimpin’’ 626
Bikindi, Simon 618
Bilk, Acker 306, 310, 311, 465
Billboard (magazine) 138, 142, 165, 166, 168, 170–172, 175, 176n, 222, 224–226, 237, 299, 306, 307, 330, 334, 346, 379, 408, 475, 477, 479, 520, 523, 525, 529, 600, 619
‘Billie Jean’ 530
Billy Elliot (musical) 584
Binford, Lloyd 233
Binge, Ronald 149
Bingenheimer, Rodney 487
‘Bits and Pieces’ 427n
Bjorn Again 571
Black, Cilla 318, 388
Black, Stanley 293
The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV show) 212, 309
Black Crowes, the 574
‘Black Diamond Train to Hell’ 119
Black Music (magazine) 461, 465, 470, 472
‘Black Night’ 282
Black Sabbath 422, 430–433, 435, 526, 529, 536, 614
Black Widow 432
Blackboard Jungle (film) 233
Blackshirt (newspaper) 155
Blackwell, Scrapper 118
Blair, Tony 572, 577
Blake, Eubie 126
Blake, Peter 393
Blake, Randy 236
‘Blame It on the Bossa Nova’ 302
Bland, Bobby 273, 282
Blažek, Rose and Josefa 25
Blind Faith 451
Blink-182 580, 581
Block, Martin 193
Blonde on Blonde (album) 370, 414
Blondie 444, 488, 498, 544, 545, 609
Blondo, Lucky 386
Blood on the Tracks (album) 424
Bloom, Allan 552
Blow, Kurtis 479, 545
‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ 330, 348
Blue (album) 423, 424
Blue Beat see Ska
Blue Cheer 434
‘Blue Moon’ 130
‘Blue Moon of Kentucky’ 240
Blue Oyster Cult 582
Blue Rockets, the 162
‘Blue Skies’ 94n, 124
‘Blue Suede Shoes’ 232, 237
‘Blue Yodel’ 87, 115
blues 60–66, 80, 81, 115–120, 252, 313, 314, 347
Blues By Six 311
‘Blues in the Night’ 131
Blues Incorporated 311, 312
Bluetones, the 577
Blunt, James 581
Blur 576, 577, 609
‘Blurred Lines’ 622
‘Bo Diddley’ 241
Bob Dylan (album) 329
The Bob Dylan Song Book (album) 334
Bob and Earl 346
Bobbettes, the 277
‘Body and Soul’ 176, 188
Body and Soul (album) 522
Body Count 562
Body Count (album) 562
Bogshed 512
Bohannon, Hamilton 473
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ 455
Bolan, Marc 315, 428–430, 444, 493, 511, 568
Bolden, Buddy 58
Bolton, Michael 591
Bomb Squad, the 549
Bon Jovi 527
Bonds, Gary ‘US’ 283, 331
Bonner, Captain M. J. 113
Bonnie Lou 229
Bono 541, 553, 593, 598
Bonzo Dog Band 312
Boogie Down Productions 543, 548, 561
‘Boogie Woogie Ball’ 275
boogie-woogie 120, 175, 231
Book of Common Prayer 27n
‘Boom Bang-A-Bang’ 428
Booker T & the MGs 283, 346
Boomtown Rats, the 494
Boone, Blind 33
Boone, Pat 240, 245, 246, 407, 620
‘Boot-Leg’ 346
Boothe, Ken 505
Bootleg Beatles, the 571
Bop Girl Goes Calypso (film) 264
bop music 182, 185–189, 193, 201, 202, 221
‘Boranda’ 378
‘Borderline’ 533
Born in the USA (album) 532
‘Born to Be Wild’ 434
‘Born to Be With You’ 277
‘Born to Lose’ 171
Born to Run (album) 424
Borneman, Ernest 258
bossa nova 299–303
‘Bossa Nova Baby’ 302
Boston 457, 498
Boston (album) 457
Boston Pops Orchestra, the 334
Boswell Sisters, the 141, 143, 151, 277
‘Bow Wow Blues’ 80
Bower, Tom 590
Bowie, David 386, 422, 429, 430, 448, 454, 465, 471, 484, 493, 494, 508, 509, 522, 528, 554, 576, 620
Bowlly, Al 106, 163
boy bands 472, 577–581
Boy George 511, 522, 524
Boyfriend (magazine) 318
Boyz II Men 577–579
‘Boyz-N-the-Hood’ 563
Boyzone 579
Bradford, Perry 65
Bradley, Will 175
Brand, Stewart 598
‘Brandenburg’ concerto 57
Brando, Marlon 316, 413
Brassens, Georges 290
Braxton, Dhar 515
Brazil 299–302, 377–379, 476, 558
‘Brazil’ 204, 205
‘Break Dance – Electric Boogie’ 546
‘The Breaks’ 545
‘Breakwater’ 331
‘Breathless’ 259, 447
Brel, Jacques 290
‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’ 563
Brenston, Jackie 224, 232
Brewer & Shipley 440
Brice, Fanny 79
Brickell, Edie 541
Brigitte 250n
Brincos, Los 387
Brin
ging It All Back Home (album) 360, 361, 393
‘Britain Awake!’ 154
Brito, Alfredo 142
Britpop 576, 577
Britt, Elton 167
Broadway musicals 129–131, 290, 291, 406, 408, 506, 583, 584
Brokaw, Tom 289
‘The Broken Record’ 150
Bronski Beat 515
Brooks, Mel 544
Brooks, Garth 534, 535
Brooks, Richard 233
Broonzy, Big Bill 298, 313
‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ 120, 121
Brother D & Collective Effort 545
Brothers Four, the 262
Brothers in Arms (album) 538
Broughton, Viv 119, 271
Brown, Bobby 578
Brown, Ian 550–552
Brown, James 203, 274, 282, 346–348, 353, 426, 461, 463, 466, 547–549
Brown, Joe 310, 325
Brown, Les 211
Brown, Oscar 272
Brown, Ruth 236
Brown, Shawn 544
Brown, Sterling 116, 118
‘Brown Sugar’ 433
Browne, Sam 94
Brubeck, Dave 283, 297, 298, 310, 411
Bruce, Lenny 410
Bruno, Joe 234n
BT Express 467
bubblegum pop 425–428, 517
Buchanan, Bill 406
Buck Privates (film) 166
Buckinghams, the 374
Buckley, Jeff 574
Buddy (musical) 568
‘Buffalo Gals’ 544
Buffalo Springfield 366
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show) 555
Bugg, Jake 614
Buggles 509
‘Bugle Call Rag’ 143
‘Build Me Up Buttercup’ 427
Bulgaria 387
Bull, Michael 601
‘Bullet in the Head’ 560
Bullock, Chick 142
‘Bulls on Parade’ 560
Bundaratsite 387
‘Bungle in the Jungle’ 572
Burdon, Eric 369
Burke, Solomon 283
Burnett, Reverend J. C. 119
Burnette, Dorsey 283
‘Burning Love’ 447
Burr, Henry 31, 49, 80
Bush, Kate 598
Busted 581
Butlers, the 380
Butterfield Blues Band, the 372n
Buzzcocks 581
By All Means Necessary (album) 548
‘By the Sleepy Lagoon’ 149
‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ 463
‘Bye Bye Blackbird’ 93
Byrd, Bobby 548
Byrd, Charlie 300, 302
Byrds, the 2, 355, 362, 364, 368, 369, 375, 377, 396, 407, 414, 415, 440, 498, 511, 512, 551, 575
Byrne, David 522, 615
‘Ça plane pour moi’ 494
Cabaret Voltaire 509
Cagney, James 169
‘Caldonia’ 222
‘Caldonia Boogie’ 222
‘California Dreamin’’ 374
‘California Girls’ 528
Calloway, Cab 141, 164, 174, 177, 222
Calvert, Eddie 363
Calvert, Reg 249
calypso 263, 264
Calypso (album) 264
Calypso Heat Wave (film) 264
Calypso Joe (film) 264
Cameroon 472
‘Caminhando’ 378
‘Can Blue Men Sing the Whites’ 312
‘Can U Dig It’ 551
‘Can You Party?’ 551
‘Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down’ 509
Cantor, Eddie 80, 126, 164
Cappo, Ray 499
Captain & Tennille, the 445, 455
Captain Beefheart 502
‘Car-Balick-Acid Rag-Time’ 36
Caravelles, the 283, 306
Carcass 558
Cardinals, the 278n
Cardle, Matt 590
Carey, Mariah 590, 591, 621
Carlos, Roberto 377
Carlos, Walter 396, 507
Carmichael, Hoagy 86, 87, 121, 132, 138, 166
Carousel (musical) 131, 192, 326
Carpenter, Karen 442
Carpenter, Paul 190
Carpenter, Richard 442
Carpenters, the 442, 445
‘Carpet Man’ 374
Carr, Leroy 118, 313
Carr, Roy 452
Cars, the 498
Carson, Fiddlin’ John 113
Carson, Johnny 388
Carter, A. P. 114
Carter, ‘Mother’ Maybelle 114
Carter Family, the 114
Carthy, Martin 413
Carus, Emma 44
Caruso, Enrico 20, 21, 79, 604
Casa Loma Orchestra, the 143
Casablanca (film) 170
Casey, Howie & the Seniors 281
Cash, Johnny 111, 506, 534
cassette tapes 394, 395, 540
Cassidy, David 321, 426, 449
Cast 577
Castle, Vernon and Irene 42, 45, 71
‘Castle Rock’ 288
Castro, Ruy 301
Cat Men, the 229
Catch a Fire (album) 505
‘Catch a Wave’ 331
Catch Us If You Can (film) 338
Cathode, Ray 395
Cats (musical) 584
Cave, Nick 554
CDs (compact discs) 537–541, 597, 605
C86 (album) 512
‘C’est à Hambourg’ 185
Cedrone, Danny 232, 233
Chakachas, the 466
Champion, Harry 25
Chandra, Sheila 617
‘A Change is Gonna Come’ 348
Chaos AD (album) 558
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (album) 594
Chapman, Michael 535
Chapman, Mike 428
Chapman, Tracy 541
Chaquito 103
Charles, Ray 115, 120, 188, 224, 226, 270–273, 278, 279, 283, 386
Charles River Boys, the 415
‘The Charleston’ 82
Charlie & His Orchestra 164
‘Charmaine’ 291
Charms, the 277
Chartbusters, the 333
Chas & Dave 573
Chats Sauvages, Les 251
‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’ 146
Chaussettes Noires, Les 251
Cheap Thrills (album) 370
‘The Cheater’ 244n
Checker, Chubby 279, 280, 332, 351, 355
Cheeba, Eddie 479
‘Cheek to Cheek’ 297
‘Chega de saudade’ 301
Cher 475, 592
‘Cherry Baby’ 458
‘Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White’ 204
Chesterton, A. K. 96
Chevalier, Albert 25
Chevalier, Maurice 127, 165
Chic 477, 478, 480, 545
Chicago 435, 436, 466
‘Chicago’ 401n
Chicory Tip 466
Chideya, Farai 619
Children’s Hour (TV show) 256
China 184, 220, 590
Chinese Democracy (album) 528
Chinn, Nicky 428
The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles’ Hits (album) 335
‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ 428
‘Chop Chop Boom’ 277
Chordettes, the 265, 277
Chords, the 229, 230, 277
Christgau, Robert 8
Christian rock 405–408, 520
Christie, Tony 440
Christmas Album (album) 291
‘Christmas Rappin’’ 545
Chrome 509
The Chronic (album) 563, 564
Church Times (newspaper) 492
Churchill, Winston 164
City Boy 527
City of Light (suite) 296
City Surfers, the 331
Clapton, Eric 312–315, 340, 376, 416, 431, 537
Clark, Dave & Dave Clark Five (DC5) 336–339, 346, 584
Clark, Dick 280, 536
Clark, Petula 290, 386, 390, 433, 474, 551
Clarkson, Kelly 590
Clash, the 490–494, 496, 497, 503, 504, 517, 544, 549, 557, 573, 581, 609, 614
Clayderman, Richard 535
Claydon, Reverend E. W. 119
Cliff, Jimmy 353, 504
Cliff Sings (album) 250
Cliffe, Peter 147
Cline, Patsy 389
Clinton, Bill 572
A Clockwork Orange (film) 396
Clooney, Rosemary 204
‘Closer to Home’ 435
The Closing of the American Mind (book) 552
‘Cloud Nine’ 463
Clovers, the 226, 275, 276
Club Royal Orchestra, the 80
‘C’mon Feel the Noize’ 527
CMT 534
‘Co-Co’ 428
Coasters, the 40, 176, 250, 259, 275, 277
Coates, Eric 149
Cobain, Kurt 498, 555–558, 601, 621
Cochran, Eddie 258, 260, 335, 412, 434
Cocker, Jarvis 576, 577
Cogan, Alma 261
Cohen, Leonard 590n, 613
Cohen, Rich 223
Cohen, Stanley 230, 317
‘Cold, Cold Heart’ 197, 198
Coldcut 516
Coldplay 614, 624
Cole, Nat ‘King’ 176n, 177, 201, 214, 215, 220, 226, 227, 236, 269, 274, 278n, 279, 290, 302
Coleman, Ornette 296, 297
Coleman, Ray 338
Collier, James Lincoln 74
Collins, Al ‘Jazzbo’ 192, 193
Collins, Ansel 503
Collins, Arthur, and Byron Harlan 44, 47, 57, 61, 63
Collins, Phil 529, 537, 545
Collins, Shirley & Dolly 414
Collinson, Francis 253
Colors (film) 562
Coltrane, John 274, 296, 368, 391n
Columbo, Russ 98
Colyer, Ken 254, 309
‘Come All Young England’ 154
‘Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine’ 26
‘Come On’ 312
‘Come Rain and Come Shine’ 131
‘Come Take a Trip in My Air-Ship’ 26
‘Come to the Sabbat’ 432
‘Come-A-Long-A-Love’ 229
‘Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer’ 167
Como, Perry 191, 197, 204, 209, 212, 214, 216, 288
Common 564
Communism 156n, 174, 175, 216, 220, 379, 380
concept albums 288, 289, 372, 409–411, 453, 568
Concert in Rhythm (album) 291
The Concert Sinatra (album) 192n
Conflict 497
Confrey, Zez 79, 194
Connick, Harry Jr. 569
Conniff, Ray 291, 292, 374, 443
Conny 250n
Conrad, Sir Henry 83
‘Constipation Blues’ 259
Contours, the 282
Conway, Steve 190
Cooke, Sam 279, 282, 348, 403
Coolidge, Rita 421
‘coon’ songs 31, 34, 35
Cooper, Alice 103, 429, 526
Cope, Julian 429, 430
Copeland, Miles 535
Coronation Street (TV show) 589
The Cosby Show (TV show) 579
Costa, Gal 378, 379
Costello, Elvis 39, 130, 494, 498, 509, 537, 557, 573, 582, 615
Cotton, Billy & Orchestra 102, 247, 309
Count Bishops, the 490
Count Ossie 352
Countdown to Extinction (album) 558
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