Burn, Baby! Burn!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague

by Bob Baker, Nathaniel Montague, Magnificent Montague

Book Overview

With his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of "Burn, baby! BURN!" when spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts the events of his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement; as he does so, he also tells the broader story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076842
• ISBN13: 9780252076848
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 8.0"