{"id":10096,"date":"2016-12-19T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:39:45","slug":"episode-198-ed-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-198-ed-ward","title":{"rendered":"Episode 198 – Ed Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #198:
\nEd Ward<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There’s a large narrative in this book: the popular music tradition of A&R, where songs were given to artists to record, was on its way out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Lifelong rock & roll journalist Ed Ward<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new book, The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963<\/a>\"\" (Flatiron Books). We get into how he discovered his calling, how he memorized Billboard<\/em> charts the way other kids memorized baseball cards, the joy of being a “rootless cosmopolitan”, the music world’s shift from A&R to audience-driven songwriting (and why they were tired of guys named Bobby from Philadelphia), why Tutti Frutti<\/em> is the “first” rock & roll record, how he wound up in Austin, the experience of meeting 50-somethings who don’t know Chuck Berry’s Maybelline<\/em>, how he got hired at and fired from Rolling Stone<\/em>, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy the first volume of Ed’s History of Rock & Roll<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Every summer, minority females want ballads. Black labels knew that, consciously or not.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n