Joel Whitburn's Album Cuts - 1955-2001: Hardcover [Hardcover]

Joel Whitburn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2002

Cut to the essence of charted pop albums! Simple, straightforward and essential, Joel Whitburn's Album Cuts 1955-2001 alphabetically lists the over 225,000 cuts from the more than 22,000 albums that have appeared on Billboard's Pop albums charts. It's the ideal companion volume to Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 (00330936, $99.95) - and a must-have addition to any music reference library.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 716 pages
• Publisher: Record Research Inc.; 2 edition (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898201489
• ISBN-13: 978-0898201482
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A handy reference for chart hounds like myself, June 16, 2003

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This review is from: Joel Whitburn's Album Cuts - 1955-2001: Hardcover (Hardcover)

This book, the companion to "Top Pop Albums 1955-2001", is a great resource for people into popular music chart data. In case the book's description isn't clear, this is the kind of thing you can do with this book:

Do you want to make a compilation of every artist who recorded "Yesterday" on an album that charted on Billboard's pop album chart? This book lists, by song title, the artist name and year that the artist released an album with that song on it. Then you can look in the "Top Pop Albums" book to find out the name of the album the song was on.

My two criticisms of this book are that (a) it lumps recordings of different songs with the same song title together and (b) the cover doesn't match the companion book. As to the latter, since this book is really best thought of as part of a set, it would make sense to me to have their bindings appear similar. As to the former, if the reader has extensive knowledge of music he/she will probably be able to recognize song title entries that actually refer to more than one song; others may get confused and think that, for example, Kool and the Gang covered the Association's "Cherish."