Don't think it hasn't been fun
Subtitle: the story of the Burke Family Singers
By: Sarah Jo Burke
Edition: 1st Limelight ed.
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780879109875
Subjects: Singers; Burke Family Singers; Biography
Description: "Back in the 1960s, the Burke Family Singers were America's answer to Austria's von Trapp Family. At the start of that tumultuous decade, when the fabric of the nation's life would be torn by the war in Vietnam and the impassioned drive of the civil rights movement, a large Rhode Island familiy - mother, father and 10 children - set out on the first of what would prove a long series of tours across the United States and Canada. In a time of turbulence, their only purpose was to bring the glorious sound of their music to audiences everywhere."

"They performed in major cities and remote small towns, at venues as varied as the Oklahoma City Women's Club, a Bible Belt church, a Native American reservation and television's own Ed Sullivan Show. Among their TV Christmas Specials was a memorable one with Maria Von Trapp and family. They also shared stages with such luminaries as Dick Gregory, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton.

And they were there to witness the anguish of the Montgomery, Alabama racial uprising." "Sarah Jo Burke, the youngest of the daughters, recalls the events of those years of touring with honesty, warmth, vigor and irresistible charm. Her book celebrates American values in the best sense and demonstrates that the family that sings together stays together."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Roma dixit!; title: A pretty girl; title: blat!; title: is like a melody!; title: The birth of the Burke Family Chorale; title: Our first paycheck; title: Doors and radiators in every room; title: We got it for a song; title: Buck Spurr; title: The whist game; title: It was a small thing; title: Le sommeil; title: the sleep of death; title: I'll have the usual; title: Friends in the press; title: Don't think it hasn't been fun; title: May the prairies embrace you; title: Gemma has a bad day; title: A different world; title: Halloween was hard to drive past; title: A voice whining in the wilderness; title: Git along, little dogies; title: The president has been shot; title: Ambassadors of good will; title: America's first family of song; title: I'm a Mormon, too!; title: Just regular kids; title: The Burkes meet the Trapps; title: Montgomery; title: Look, Mum! They're all marked Sunkist!; title: The pubonic plague; title: Rock hounds; title: A close call; title: Singing for the choir; title: Breakfast at the Biltmore; title: One last song.