The best one hundred great popular songs from 1900 to 2000, illustrated with a selection of the century's greatest photographs.
Includes melody line arrangements, with chord symbols and full lyrics.
Follow the rhythms of the decades in this extraordinary selection of one hundred enduring hits. Every song is illustrated with images called from the world's top photographic archives, and each is enhanced with detailed musical and historical background notes.
A century of song in one indispensable collection . . . from the turn of the century's elegant melodies to the reckless, syncopated music of the Roaring Twenties . . . from sophisticated show songs and movie hits of the 1930s to the jaunty swing numbers of the Big Bands' heyday . . . from Elvis to the protest songs of Bob Dylan and the advent of The Beatles and on to bands like Oasis . . . from ragtime to rock'n'roll, and beyond.
