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gallery: Pop music pulp paperbacks

Not only do we collect the highest forms of musical prowess mankind is capable of, in all formats, but also the really important stuff! Like this load of pulp paperbacks featuring musical themes,authored by musicians or the basis for a band name. More bookish fun at B.George’s collection of French girl pulp paperbacks, Oui Oui Pulp.

BobbySherman
GoinCoconuts
Bowie-Labyrinth-sml

chant_du_monde
Miranda
Sound-of-a-City

KeithMe
bluesdeadlover
commitsins

davessong
awopbopaloobop
boysintheband

conniefrancis
mojohand
paljoey

pulp
musicalcrotches
herecomejudge

discodelight
musicdixie
rnrsweetheart

listenloon
roughtrade
songbird

waillonelywench
Beat Not the Bones
Fred, the Rock Star

Peter Gunn
Your Own Thing
BoundForGlory

BradyBunch
ElvisIsDead
GrassHarp

Hair
HateMadonna
MonkeesGoApe

SingAtMyWake
OutlawBlues
PumpUpTheVolume

Rockabilly
SaturdayNightFever
StarsAndPets

TheMonkees
TheWho
TooLateBlues

DanceWithMePaperback
BoardingHouseBlues
Maharishi

Rock Star / by James Lincoln Collier
Search for Liberation / A.C. Bhaktivedanta, Swami Prabhupada and John Lennon
ParisBlues

SoundOfHisHorn
dancing_floor
ballad_source

blow_hot
death_spins
The Golden Platter / by Joe Green

The Five Pennies / by Grady Johnson
The Punk / by Gideon Sams
Quartet in "H" / by Evan Hunter

Rock / by David Wagoner
The Rolling Stones / by Robert A. Heinlein
Ronnie Finkelhof, Superstar / by Alan W. Livingston

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories / by Carson McCullers
Secret Admirer / by Debra Spector
Send Me Down / by Henry Steig

Sing a Song of Sex / by Hilary Hilton
I Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead! / by Artie Shaw
Sounds of Silence / Betsy Ryan

Sing a Song of Sin / by Curt Aldrich
Singing in the Shrouds / by Ngaio Marsh
A Slipping-Down Life / by Anne Tyler

Death Has a Small Voice / by Frances & Richard Lockridge
A Song Begins / by Mary Burchell
Sing, Boy, Sing / by Richard Vincent

The Sound of Murder / by Rex Stout
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle / by Michael Moorcock
Sympathy for the Devil: A Culinary Mystery / by Jerrilyn Farmer

Dance Band on the Titanic / by Jack L. Chalker
The Troublemaker / by Robert McKay
Trumpet in the Dust: A Newspaper Story / by Gene Fowler

Tuned Out / by Maia Wojciechowska
The Velvet Underground Revisited / by Michael Leigh
Wall of Noise / by Daniel M. Stein

The Sound of White Water / by Hugh Fosburgh
Wild in the Streets / by Robert Thom
How I Won the War / by Patrick Ryan

I, Paid My Dues; Good Times... No Bread: A Story of Jazz / by Babs Gonzales
The Seed and the Sower / Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence / by Laurens van der Post
Why Not Join the Giraffes? / by Hope Campbell

1001 Ways to Live Without Working / by Tuli Kupferberg
The Blackboard Jungle / by Evan Hunter
The Franchise Affair / by Josephine Tey<br>featuring the head of Debbie Harry of Blondie

Mayhem in B Flat / by Elliot Paul
The Waltz of Death / by P.B. Maxon
Acid Rock / by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy

The Amboy Dukes / by Irving Shulman
The Amboy Dukes / by Irving Shulman
The Anderson Tapes / by Lawrence Sanders

Rock! (Then Came Bronson #3) / by Chris Stratton
Two Plays by Edward Albee
Calypso Murders / by P.H. Mulholland

Canary's Combo / by John Nemec
The Absence of a Cello / by Ira Wallach
The Corpse / by Carter Brown

The Case of the Musical Cow / by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Sound of Drums & Cymbals / by Robert Wilder
Dance of  Desire / by Paul V. Russo

Dance With the Dead / by Richard S. Prather
The Dance Merchants / by J. Walter Small
Dark Drums / by Wenzell Brown

Drums of Empire / by Robert Carse
Drums of Destiny / by Peter Bourne
Death Spins the Platter / by Ellery Queen

Disco Death Beat / by Michael Geller
Death Spins the Platter / by Ellery Queen
Dr. Doom: Superstar / by T. Ernesto Bethancourt

Dear Bruce Springsteen / by Kevin Major
DJ / by Allan Jeffreys and Bill Owen
When Dorinda Dances / by Brett Halliday

The Ever-Loving Blues / by Carter Brown
The Feelies / by Mick Farren
The Case of the Frightened Rock Star / by Elizabeth Levy

Festival / by Bryan Hay
Girl Singer / by Deborah Ishlon
Dead Giveaway / by Hugh Lawrence Nelson

The Golden Groove / by Dale Greggson
The Golden Woman / by Eric Hatch
The Real Gone Goose / by George Bagby

Gore and Igor / by Meyer Levin
The Sound of Guitars / by Jill Tahourdin
Sing Out Sweet Homocide / by John Roeburt

Young Man With a Horn / by Dorothy Baker
Hound-Dog Man / by Fred Gipson
House of Strange Music / by Ann Lorraine Thompson

The Man Who Killed Mick Jagger / by David Littlejohn
Jazzercise / by Judi Sheppard MIssett with Dona Z. Meilach
Johnny Staccato / by Frank Boyd

Juke Box King / by Frank Kane
Lace and Whiskey / by Alice Cooper
Macamba / by Lilla van Saher

The Voodoo Murders / by Mike Avallone
Nonce: A Story of the Swamplands / by Michael Brandon
Laurie's Song / by Suzanne Rand

Leader of the Pack / by Catherine George
Sing Along with Mad / by Frank Jacobs and Al Jaffee
Sing Along with Mad / by Frank Jacobs and Al Jaffee

The Record Maker / by Mann Wright Jr.
Blues for Mister Charlie / by James Baldwin
Murder on Tour / by Dick Clark

Street Music / by Theodora Keogh
The Day the Music Died / by Joseph C. Smith
Music I Heard With You / by Elizabeth Hoy

Medley of Mystery / by Lynn Williams
Night Song / by John A. Williams
New Short Novels / by Jean Stafford, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Etnier, et al.

The Singing Nun / by John Furia, Jr.
Paris Blues / by Harold Flender
Save the Last Dance For Me / by Dyan Sheldon

Let the Circle Be Unbroken / by Mildred D. Taylor
Hot Jazz  /  by George H. Smith & Huge Hunger

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