joel Whitburn Presents Songs and Artists: The Essential Music Guide for Your iPod and Other Portable Music Players

by Joel Whitburn

Book Overview

(Book). This book is the perfect companion handbook for an iPod or other portable MP3 player. It lists over 14,000 significant songs and essential hits of the past half-century, from 1955 to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898201713
• ISBN13: 9780898201710
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Record Research
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A varied playlist.

Albeit I didn't agree with all the choices, a lot of thought went in to the choosing of this varied music selection. There is something for just about everyone who loves popular music. You will enjoy the well-rounded music choices. Personally, I would like to have seen music selections from the 1930's and 1940's (various genres) included. However, I realize I'm not as contemporary as most others may be. Thank you Mr. Whitburn for producing yet another compelling music compilation!

Almost Perfect

if you own over 100 gig of music like I do, then you owe it to yourself to pick this up. Would have love to have seen more "lists".

Love This Little Book

This book is so handy. I can lookup music so much faster then in Joel Whitburn's Top 40 Hits books, everything listed for an artist is in alphabetical order rather then by year. Years are included in listings they just are not sorted by year. Book goes a little behond the Top 40, (would be nice if when a song was in the top 40 a letter or something were added to the listing to identify it). I like the Song title section as well but I would like to have the print a little larger. If you Collect popular Music (1955-2006), this is a can't miss book.

if you're giving an iPod for Christmas...

This book is a must have! This book contains thousands of the best songs from 1955 to the present. It's laid out in so many ways, that it makes the songs easy to find, by artist, song title, half decade...it's great! It even includes some ideas for playlists...Dance, road trip, work out, instrumental, take it easy...and so many more! It gives a great place to start!

Helpful but somethings missing

I love this book don't get me wrong but somethings missing. i think Joel dosen't cover all but most the the history of the top forty leaving out little hits such as Girl i Used To Kniw by Brother beyond and Let G By sharron Bryant to namwe a few. I wish 2 things to make this book a 5 1. That Joel included each and every top 40 hit on the Billboard pop charts and didn't miss any not even 1 2 that his recard reserch web site had a update for the new songs that he would pick that were too new for this book. I am a music collecer with a very large Cd libary of over 8000 cd's and am having a very hard time trying to figure out what to put on my players and Joels book is very helpful. I had to go to the billboqard site to find out what was charting for the second half of 05 and all of 06 as it is not mentioned in this book. I also think that joel is a little bit skimpy when choosing to include songs from other charts and below the top 40 on the pop charts. I've complained long enough there are meny things that make this book a 4 star . 1. He included a verylarge amount of album track that did not chart witch is not limited to the pop genre. 2. he does go into the other charts some what I weould go further but he did give it a great try. 3. this book is very easy to use and a great buy for the price. If your not a prtson for perfection when I comes to your music lists this book is for you. If you just want to sampling of the top hits for your player this book is for you. all in all it was and will be very helpful in my recoprding songs for my mini machine just nexdt time think about the songs that are too mew for tyhe book and maybe look to the web for the answer