Vanilla pop
Subtitle: sweet sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA
By: Joseph Lanza.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Popular music -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism.; Popular music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.; Popular music -- 1971-1980 -- History and criticism.
Notes: "History of a musical form that pervaded popular culture roughly from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s"--P. [4] of cover.

"An A Cappella book."

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. 211-235), and index.
Table of contents: title: White-bread rhapsodies; title: Twinkle and shine! : the Mitch Miller years; title: Bobby Tomorrow; title: Johnny Angelfood; title: Vanilla expressionism : Joe Meek's "Paradise Garden"; title: "Sealed with a kiss" : America's shadow anthem; title: Summerchime : sunshine pop's precursors; title: Vanilla psychedelia : Curt Boettcher's "upholstered folk"; title: A name that's lighter than air : the Association machine; title: The Doodletown dimension : exploring whipped cream chorales; title: "Come Saturday morning" : the rarified worlds of Claudine Longet and the Sandpipers; title: The cake out in the rain : the Carpenters and the sugar-depression 1970s; title: ABBA's vanilla ice; title: A zillion chocolate kisses.