One Hit Wonder

This book was very helpful in making multiple playlists on my MP3 player and I expect it to further assist me in burning CDs.

The book is from 2008 but last entry is from 1992.Also, any one hit entry charting 21-40 is just listed with no story.Also, the stories are often not actually about the song itself.Overall, okay but rather disappointing.

Wayne Jancik seems to show his passion for the music which he writes of, and he helps bring historic life to recordings doomed to be otherwise forgotten. For all the book sheds light on songs that did change the course of music even if the people who recorded them might not have been legendary, it's often priceless. The fascination of people living everyday normal lives before and after a brief moment in the spotlight enshrines them in history makes it worth reading. However, a some entries are rather empty, stating nothing more than the songs existance. A couple show poor research, like when he writes of Gale Garnett having faded from sight when in fact she had appeared in movies with Genevieve Bujold and Jack Lemmon prior to the books 1990 publishing date, and when he writes with fascination about how Bobby Caldwell had a wildly diverse career when in fact, it was two different Bobby Caldwells he writes of. The Joel Whitburn books make the same error about Bobby Caldwell, and while both Bobby Caldwells are about the same age and got started in the music business around the same time, it still could have been better researched. Enough frivolous rock and roll trivia makes it still worth reading.