DEADWAX from the Vinyl House: Uncovering the Musical Hoard of an Era by Justin Cipollini with Vincent Mallardi
IMAGINE a neglected house in an otherwise nice suburban area. The neighbors never see the owner of forty years but call 9-1-1 when an odor is detected. The police don't find a body and there are no missing person reports. Instead, within a filthy interior of rotten food and bedding on the floor - they discover a huge quantity of vintage 20th-Century record albums, singles, sheet-music and unidentified acetate master discs. The only clues are curious etchings in the return-areas where grooves end - within the dead-wax!
Author Justin Cipollini, a collector of musical memorabilia and an audiophile, goes on a global search to find the artists, song-writers and engineers behind the thousands of hours in the hoard. He finds the few producers still alive including the former owner of the largest record company represented in the collection. Together, the two reconnect with a time and state of recording arts a half century past and almost lost - as they seek to find the man who lived in the vinyl house!
RECOMMENDED FOR: Audiophiles, Mystery-readers, Record-collectors, Musicians, Talent-agents, Songwriters, Classical-music historians, Concert-producers, Rock-n-Roll history buffs, Jazz historians. Recording Engineers and anyone aspiring to, in or retired from the musical entertainment scene in the mid-20th Century ,
NOTABLE MENTIONS: Marian Anderson; Mario Andretti; the Beatles; Harry Bellafonte; Gene Bethman; Rudolph Bing; "King Henry" Casella; Chubby Checker; Dick Clark; Judy Collins; Franco Corelli; Alice and John Coltrane; Franco Colombo; Franco Corelli; Bing Crosby; Bobby Darin; Mary Dawson; Neil Diamond; Bob Dylan; John Dowd; Ahmet Ertegun; Diane Faye; Tony Forlano; Connie Francis; Aretha Franklin; Alan Freed; Annette Funicello; Judy Garland; George Gerschwin; Don and Donna Griffith; Peter Helffricht; Jac Holzman; Chet Huntley; King Henry & the Showmen; Jackie Kennedy; Bernie Lowe; Kal Mann; Bob Marley; Robert McFerrin Sr., Jack Mullin; Les Paul & Mary Ford; Elvis Presley; Leontyne Price; Lou Reda; Frank Sinatra; Phil Spector; Frankie Valli; Jerry Wexler; Marty Winkler . . . plus Barroud, Edison, Verdi and the fame and fate of the man in the Vinyl House!
CREDITS: Hollis Carpenter Mallardi, Book Editing; Scott and Adam Reda, Lou Reda Productions and Archives; Discogs; Henry Casella, recording artist; Frank Lehmann, record producer; Donna Plumby Griffith, music publishing executive; Jim McGee. recording engineer; Roy Musgnug, recording engineer; and the A-list of recording personalities during the mid-20th Century, especially those within the "1960's Music-triangle" anchored by Long Island, the Lehigh Valley/Northeast Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
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