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  title info:
    title: Earth angels
    sub title: the short lives and controversial deaths of three R&B pioneers
  name:
    name part: Bergsman, Steve
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bialoglow, Tom
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Recording and performing in the early 1950s, Jesse Belvin, Johnny Ace and Guitar Slim produced at least thirteen top-25 hits among them. In the years since, their songs have been covered by artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Luther Vandross and Paul Simon, and they have influenced musicians as varied as Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Despite all that, their names remain mostly forgotten in the annals of rock 'n roll. Perhaps, as author Steve Bergsman notes in his introduction to Earth Angels: The Short Lives and Controversial Deaths of Three R&B Pioneers, this lack of notoriety is partly due to an unfortunate circumstance joining the three, their untimely deaths. Guitar Slim, whose million-selling song The Things I Used to Do has been re-recorded by both Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, died in New York City at the age of 32, due to pneumonia that was possibly induced by alcoholism. Johnny Ace's Pledging My Love spent ten weeks at the top position on Billboard's R&B chart and was subsequently performed by Elvis Presley and Paul Simon. Ace died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 25. Jesse Belvin, a crooner whose Goodnight My Love became the closing theme to famed disc jockey Alan Freed's radio shows, was killed in a head-on collision, along with his wife, just after performing at the first racially integrated concert in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1960. He was 27. 'If they had made it into the rock era,' Bergsman writes, 'or even the British Invasion years of the early '60s, they might have seen their stars shine once again, be recognized as pioneers of R&B and maybe eventually be ensconced in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Instead, they had the bad luck to die before any of that could come to pass. . Bergsman's meticulous research and entertaining narrative style will afford readers an appreciation-and, for many, an initial view-of the lives and careers of three talented and influential artists who left us much too soon.
  table of contents: Foreword / Tom Bialoglow -- Introduction -- Jesse Belvin : Dream girl -- Earth angel -- Goodnight, my love -- You cheated, you lied -- Guess who -- Guitar Slim : Black snake moan -- Feelin' sad -- The things that I used to do -- If I had my life to live -- Johnny Ace : I wonder -- My song -- The clock -- Saving my love for you -- Pledging my love -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Selected R&B hits, 1952-1955 -- Discography.
  note: Steve Bergsman ; foreword by Tom Bialoglow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) discography (pages 205-207) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Belvin, Jesse
      name part: 1932-1960
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Guitar Slim
      name part: 1926-1959
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ace, Johnny
      name part: 1929-1954
  subject:
    topic: African American singers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Singers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Rhythm and blues musicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Rhythm and blues music
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: ML400 .B46 2023
  classification: 782.42166092/2 B
  identifier: 9781648431258
  identifier: 1648431259
  identifier: 9781648431265
  identifier: 2022042614
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220907
    record change date: 20240226201413.7
    record identifier: in00004746963