Steve Propes
Steve Propes is a Long Beach, California record collector, disc jockey, and writer whose oldies/rhythm and blues radio show on KLON throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s had a large effect on the classic R&B revival of the time. He interviewed dozens of blues and R&B legends, from Joe Turner and Lowell Fulson to Hank Ballard, Curtis Mayfield, Ike Turner and Gary U.S. Bonds and doo-wop enthusiast George Carlin. He is known for his collectors' books listing the monetary value of rock 'n' roll records. He currently is heard on www.wpmd.org and rockitradio.net. He is currently working on Old School for Create Space. He is also a reporter and community scanner columnist for the Long Beach Beachcomber, www.longbeachcomber.com, a community bi-weekly. [1][2]
Books
- Those Oldies But Goodies: A Guide to 50's Record Collecting, Macmillan, 1973
- Golden Oldies, Chilton, 1974
- Golden Goodies, Chilton, 1975
- What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record (with Jim Dawson; introductions by Dave Marsh and Billy Vera), Faber and Faber, 1992
- Merry Christmas Baby: Holiday Music From Bing to Sting (with Dave Marsh), Little, Brown & Company, 1993
- L.A. Vocal Groups (with Galen Gart), Big Nickel, 2000
- 45 RPM: The History, Heroes & Villains of a Pop Music Revolution (with Jim Dawson), Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, 2003
- The Hobo Diaries by Clarence Bernard Propes (with Stephen C. Propes).
References
- ^ Harrington,Richard (1993) "Jingle Bells and Whistles", Washington Post, December 10, 1993, p. N07
- ^ Grushkin, Paul (2006) Rockin' Down the Highway, Voyageur Press, ISBN 978-0760322925, 'Author acknowledgements'
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