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9781574887150

The 1950s' Most Wanted

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    9781574887150

  • ISBN10:

    1574887157

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-30
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
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Summary

Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez's The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and its citizens more than ready for everything the historic decade had to offer. Rodriguez takes you on a spin down memory lane with dozens of top-ten lists filled with amazing, amusing, and even astonishing trivia from the 1950s. Television exploded into the mainstream in the 1950s, and in this book you'll find kids' television, shows that were immensely popular then but forgotten now, and potential series that never got off the ground. Film and music history are also well represented, with lists highlighting the fathers of rock and roll and some unlikely recording artists, plus catchphrases from contemporary films and first roles of future stars. Relive the most notorious crimes of the decade, such as the one that inspired the TV show and film The Fugitive, and its big scandals, such as the quiz show debacle and the deportation of Charlie Chaplin. You'll read about politicians, celebrities, fashion, toys, fads, and disasters. Relearn the hip slang of the time while finding out which tales from the fifties were really tall tales or urban legends that are now debunked. Rodriguez gives you a whole decade's worth of fun, facts, and all-important memories. It may have been half a century ago, but with The 1950s' Most Wanted'„¢, it'll seem like just yesterday.

Table of Contents

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
This Could Be the Start of Something Big 1(12)
Everyday things that started in the fifties
Take Me to Your Leader 13(13)
The powers that were
Done Got Hip to Your Jive 26(2)
Some fifties' vernacular
Put Your Glad Rags On 28(7)
10 fifties fashions
Better Led than Red 35(10)
10 fifties fads
Oh, Baby, That's What I Like! 45(6)
10 things we ate
Who Wrote the Book? 51(13)
10 publishing milestones
Let's Go for a Ride 64(11)
10 cars that made the fifties roll
Elvis Has Entered the Building 75(13)
10 milestones in the life of Tupelo's finest
Music! Music! Music! 88(9)
Stories behind the fifties hits
Serendipity Doo-Wop 97(5)
The rules of the game
B-sides, This 102(9)
Some notable flip sides
Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay—Not! 111(13)
10 indicators of the first wave's demise
Somewhere There's Music 124(9)
10 unlikely recording artists
I'm Ready for My Close-Up 133(10)
10 fifties film debuts
The Next Film You See 143(13)
10 cinematic oddities
YOU!!! Are a Blabbermouth!!!! 156(6)
10 Hollywood rats
Hello, Norma Jeane 162(11)
A decade in the life of Marilyn Monroe
You Can Say That Again 173(2)
Fifties movie quotes for our time
And Now, a Word from Our Sponsors 175(8)
10 celebrity shills
I Don't Remember Mama 183(1)
10 once popular, now forgotten hit TV shows
I Coulda Been a Contender 184(13)
10 proposed fifties television shows
Because We Like You 197(10)
Kids' television in the fifties
Fun for a Girl and a Boy 207(10)
A fifties toy box
Now Here's Something We Hope You Really Like 217(8)
10 fifties cartoons
Ain't That a Shame 225(7)
Discredited urban legends of the fifties
You Can't Catch Me 232(15)
10 crimes and criminals of the decade
Fasten Your Seatbelts—It's Going to Be a Bumpy Night 247(13)
10 fifties disasters
The Whole Town's Talking 260(14)
Scandalous behavior in the fifties
Once I Had a Secret Love 274(10)
10 bi- or gay fifties celebrities
Vaya con Dios 284(8)
Some final words from the dear departed
See You Later, Alligator 292(14)
Celebrity deaths
The Signpost up Ahead 306(8)
What 10 future celebrities were up to in the fifties
It Doesn't Matter Anymore 314(19)
10 familiar things that came to an end
Selected Bibliography 333(4)
Index 337(12)
About the Author 349

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