Remembering Whitney : my story of love, loss, and the night the music stopped / by Houston, Cissy

Angels of the night : popular female singers of our time / by Mellers, Wilfrid Howard, 1914-

Table of Contents: “…From tent show to cabaret: the word and the horn: Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McCrae, Pearl Bailey, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter -- Soul, Motown, and the fusion of sacred and profane: Odetta, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, The Loving Sisters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Pointer Sisters, Esther Phillips, Roberta Flack, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Deniece Williams, Angela Bofill -- II. …”

Inside classic rock tracks : songwriting and recording secrets of 100 great songs from 1960 to the present day / by Rooksby, Rikky

Table of Contents: “…The Tracks: 1960s: Cathy's clown / The Everly Brothers -- Running Scared / Roy Orbison -- Telstar / The Tornados -- Island of dreams / The Springfields -- Please please me / The Beatles -- Be my baby / The Ronettes -- Don't worry baby, Good Vibrations / The Beach Boys -- Anyone who had a heart / Cilla Black -- Walk on by / Dionne Warwick -- Make it easy on yourself / The Walker Brothers -- Positively fourth street / Bob Dylan -- Thunderball / Tom Jones -- The kids are alright / The Who -- The hunter gets captured by the game / The Marvelettes -- Seven rooms of gloom / The Four Tops -- See Emily play, Astronomy domine (live) / Pink Floyd -- A whiter shade of pale / Procol Harum -- From the underworld / The Herd -- A house is not a motel / Love -- All along the watchtower / The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Street fighting man / The Rolling Stones -- Jesamine / The Casuals -- Harlem Shuffle / Bob & Earl -- Man of the world / Fleetwood Mac --Wichita Lineman / Glen Campbell -- Little girl blue / Janis Joplin -- Something in the air / Thunderclap Newman.…”

I got thunder : black women songwriters on their craft / by Barnett, LaShonda K., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Abbey Lincoln -- Angélique Kidjo -- Brenda Russell -- Chaka Khan -- Dianne Reeves -- Dionne Warwick -- Joan Armatrading -- Miriam Makeba -- Narissa Bond -- Nina Simone -- Nona Hendryx -- Odetta -- Oleta Adams -- Pamela Means -- Patti Cathcart Andress -- Shemekia Copeland -- Shirley Caesar -- Tokunbo Akinro -- Toshi Reagon -- Tramaine Hawkins.…”

The soundtrack of my life / by Davis, Clive

Table of Contents: “…-- From Santana to Springsteen -- Talent raids and finding the company's soul -- The end of one fantasy -- Searching for a new beginning -- Arista means excellence -- Manilow mania -- Building a new label -- Patti Smith and Lou Reed -- Ready to rock -- The Grateful Dead -- Gil Scott-Heron and Ghostbusters -- Broadway, soundtracks and comedy -- Dionne Warwick -- The Queen of Soul -- New wave, heavy metal, and Eurythmics -- Whitney -- Beyond the house that Barry built -- Arista pop explodes, into Milli Vanilli -- Arista Nashville and new country music -- LaFace rules! …”

Thirty years behind the glass : from Otis Redding and Stax Records to Santana's Supernatural / by Zimmerman, Lee