Carolina Beach Music from the ‘60s to the '80s: TheNew Wave picks up where Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Yearsleft off, covering more of those classic beach music tunes as well as the newerself-aware songs that were the beginning of a new wave of beach music in thelate 1970s and early 1980s. This book looks at eighty recordings from the years1966 through 1982, featuring interviews and insights from the artists who sangthem, including Archie Bell, William Bell, Jerry Butler, Clyde Brown of theDrifters, Harry Elston of the Friends of Distinction, Bobbie Smith of theSpinners, Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power, Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, BillyScott and many, many others.