Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780806164861 |
| ISBN10: | 0806164867 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 232 pages |
| Size: | 233x182x20 mm |
| Weight: | 462 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 36 black & white illustrations |
| 700 |
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Nashville`s Songwriting Sweethearts ? The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story
The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story
Series:
American Popular Music Series;
6;
Publisher: MP?OKL Uni of Oklahoma
Date of Publication: 4 December 2024
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Short description:
You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters in that musical city. Bobbie Malone and Bill Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home.
Long description:
You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters in that musical city. In the course of their long careers, they created classic hits that pushed the boundaries of country music into the realms of pop and rock. Songs like ""Bye Bye Love,"" ""All I Have to Do Is Dream,"" ""Love Hurts,"" and ""Rocky Top"" inspired young musicians everywhere. Here, for the first time, is a complete biography of Nashville's power songwriting couple.
In Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together. In Nashville the couple had to deal with racism, classism, and in Felice's case, sexism. Yet through hard work and business acumen - and a dose of good luck - they overcame these obstacles and rose to national prominence.
By the late 1990s, the Bryants had written as many as 6,000 songs and had sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. They were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1991 they became members of the Country Music Hall of Fame - a rare occurrence for songwriters who were not also performers. In 1982 their composition ""Rocky Top"" was adopted as one of the official state songs of Tennessee.
The Bryants were lucky enough to arrive in the right place at the right time. Their emergence in the early fifties coincided with the rise of Nashville as Music City, USA. And their prolific collaboration with the Everly Brothers, beginning in 1957, sparked a fusion between country and pop music that endures to this day.
In Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together. In Nashville the couple had to deal with racism, classism, and in Felice's case, sexism. Yet through hard work and business acumen - and a dose of good luck - they overcame these obstacles and rose to national prominence.
By the late 1990s, the Bryants had written as many as 6,000 songs and had sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. They were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1991 they became members of the Country Music Hall of Fame - a rare occurrence for songwriters who were not also performers. In 1982 their composition ""Rocky Top"" was adopted as one of the official state songs of Tennessee.
The Bryants were lucky enough to arrive in the right place at the right time. Their emergence in the early fifties coincided with the rise of Nashville as Music City, USA. And their prolific collaboration with the Everly Brothers, beginning in 1957, sparked a fusion between country and pop music that endures to this day.
