Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits

Download or read book Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits written by Bruce C. Elrod and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1994 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This top-ten charts book offers both the authoritative music industry data compiled by Billboard magazine and the American Tobacco Company's Your Hit Parade selections for the years 1935-1958 (pre-dating the Billboard charts by nearly two decades). The book has been compiled by Bruce Elrod, owner of not only the Your Hit Parade listings but also the rights to reproduce the original broadcasts of the shows. Other features include all-time hits listings by musical style (country and western, blues, etc), contributions written by music personalities, and many illustrations. Performer and song title indexes are also included.