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Examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.

Through extensive research and exclusive interviews with many of the people who wrote and performed the music, this book presents for the first time a thorough library-quality reference work on the music and people who contributed to the genre of classic Carolina beach music. This volume includes more than 200 photographs, and biographical background on more than 200 artists.