The year: 1969. The book: "Carry Me Back". The subject: 45 RPM singles released in America (complete with label and picture sleeve guides - over 500 full color images of importance to casual music fans and record collectors).
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"Carry Me Back: The 45 RPM Singles of 1969" is a unique book. It tells the story of popular music and culture at the end of the defining decade of the 20th century from the perspective of the small, 7-inch vinyl records with the big hole in the center.
The book is illustrated (see examples to the left) with numerous excerpts from vintage music industry advertisements, many which were never repeated in print and have remained largely unseen since 1969.
There are comprehensive lists of Grammy Award nominated singles, Gold Record Award winning singles, Christmas singles, versions of songs from the musical "Hair", recordings of songs composed by Jimmy Webb, Lennon & McCartney, Bob Dylan and others, and lists of singles featured on television programs like "Hee Haw" and "Music Scene".
There are sections on events that inspired the singles: Woodstock, the Lunar landing, the rumor of Paul McCartney's death, the Vietnam War and the corresponding Peace Movement, drug use and abuse, hit movies like "Easy Rider", "Midnight Cowboy" and "Romeo & Juliet", changing sexual mores, the quest for civil rights, the lingering grief over the loss of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and more.
There are sections on artists specific to their recording output in 1969, including The Beatles, James Brown, Bob Dylan, & Elvis Presley.
At 274 pages (over 60 in full color), "Carry Me Back: The 45 RPM Singles of 1969", is a fascinating and one-of-a-kind book for anyone who loves - and collects - 60s music. Be you a rock, pop, country, soul, R&B, bubblegum, or easy listening fan, you'll find topics of interest in this book.
In Goldmine (October 22, 2010) Carry Me Back is described as "the kind of book every collector dreams of writing and most will want on their bookshelf." The reviewer adds that "one of the joys of this book" is "comparing your own memories with the realities of the time". Stating that "context, after all is everything", the review declares that "Anderson nails it".
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