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A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: ¿ Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters. ¿ Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business. ¿…mehr

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A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: ¿ Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters. ¿ Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business. ¿ A sad, comic-tragic romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an "oldie" once she left her teens.
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Writer-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman sold his soul at the Crossroads of the World-42nd Street and Broadway-and moved to Texas in 1987. He is the author of TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY, and I, GOLDSTEIN (with Al Goldstein). Featuring the art of his brother, Drew Friedman, he wrote the comix collected in two anthologies: ANY SIMILARITY TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL, and WARTS AND ALL. As "Josh Alan," he barnstormed the Republic of Texas for 30 years, winning three Dallas Observer Music Awards for Best Acoustic Act. He released five albums: FAMOUS & POOR, THE WORST!, BLACKS 'N' JEWS, JOSH ALAN BAND, and SIXTY, GODDAMMIT. BLACK CRACKER was his first novel, and he is working on a second, ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK. Visit BlackCracker.fm