Indexing THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE

If my work-in-progress book The Greatest Record Ever Made actually makes it into print, I hope that it will include an index. There's something about an index that lends some indefinable air of authenticity to a nonfiction work. I know an index would present its own set of logistical and budgeting concerns to address, but since the book itself is still in the wouldn't-it-be-cool? stage, I figure I'm free to retain my dream of including an index, at least for the time being.

This is not that index. But it is a partial list of some of the names and entities that could be included in such an index. This list excludes performers given individual coverage as stars of one of the book's 100+ GREM essays, and it does not include any song or album titles. Each of these names comes up at least once in the text of The Greatest Record Ever Made. For kicks, here's a peak:

? & the Mysterians
The "5" Royales
10cc
The 13th Floor Elevators
33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee [TV special]
Abkco Records
AC/DC
Bryan Adams
The Adventures Of Superman [TV series]
Christina Aguilera
Dan Akroyd
Arthur Alexander
The Allman Brothers Band
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
American Bandstand [TV series]
American Splendor [film]
The Angels
Animal House [film]
The Animals
The Archies
Louie Armstrong
Astro Boy [TV series]
Atlantic Records
Autumn Records
The Babys
Burt Bacharach
Joan Baez
The Banana Splits
The Bangles
Bessie Banks
The Barbarellas
The Barbarians
Jimmy Barnes
Baron Daemon's Buddies [TV series]
The Barracudas
Count Basie
Toni Basil
Fontella Bass
Batman [TV series]
The Beas
The Beau Brummels
Jean Beauvoir
The Bee Gees
John Belushi
Chester Bennington
Leonard Bernstein
The Big Bopper
The Bigtree Sisters
Billboard magazine
Will Birch
Black Sabbath
The Blackboard Jungle [film]
Blondie
Blue Angel
The Blues Brothers
Neil Bogart
Bomp! magazine
James Bond
Bonnie & the Treasures
Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)
The Box Tops
The Brady Bunch [TV series]
Billy Bragg
Brotherhood Of Man
Buddah Records
The Buddy Holly Story [film]
Buffalo Springfield
The Buzzcocks
The Cadillacs
Cameo Records
Capitol Records
Al Capone
Captain Marvel Junior
Carnival [play]
Enrico Caruso
Peter Case
David Cassidy
Anny Celsi
Chad & Jeremy
Charlie
Chubby Checker
Cher
Chickenman [radio series]
Petula Clark
The Clash
The Clingers
The Clovers
The Coasters
Kurt Cobain
Eddie Cochran
Perry Como
The Coneheads
Arthur Conley
Sean Connery
The Contours
Sam Cooke
The Cookies
Cool Hand Luke [film]
Coral Records
Ritchie Cordell
Chris Cornell
Howard Cosell
Elvis Costello
Cousin Brucie
Don Covay
Caroline Crawford
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Cream
The Creation
Marshall Crenshaw
The Crickets
Steve Cropper
Bing Crosby
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
The Crystals
Ian Curtis
Chuck D
Dick Dale & the Del-Tones
Salvadore Dalí
The Damned
Miles Davis
Otis Day & the Knights
The Dead Boys
Deep Purple
John Denver
Jackie DeShannon
Neil Diamond
The Diamonds
Charles Dickens
The Dictators
Bo Diddley
Ronnie James Dio
Dirty Dancing [film]
The Dixie Cups
Fats Domino
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert [TV series]
The Doors
Bob Dylan
Eagles
Easy Rider [film]
The Ed Sullivan Show [TV series]
Edison Lighthouse
Albert Einstein
Electric Light Orchestra
Elf
The English Beat
Brian Epstein
Esquerita
Eurythmics
Every Mother's Son
Bob Ezrin
The Faces
Fanny
Fingerprintz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Five Easy Pieces [film]
Roberta Flack
Flash and the Pan
Flash Gordon [movie serial]
Fleetwood Mac
Eddie Floyd
Fools Face
The Four Seasons
The Bobby Fuller Four
The J. Geils Band
The Gentrys
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Allen Ginsberg
The Girl Can't Help It [film]
The Gladiolas
Gary Glitter
Godley And Creme
Goldfinger [film]
Goldmine magazine
Gerry Goffin
Eydie Gorme
The Grapes Of Wrath [novel]
The Grass Roots
Green Day
The Green Hornet [TV series]
Green Lantern
The Green Pajamas
Gretchen's Wheel
Guns N' Roses
Bill Haley & his Comets
Happiness [film]
A Hard Day's Night [film]
Debby Harry
Having A Wild Weekend [film]
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Isaac Hayes
Head [film]
Heart
Neil Hefti
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Jimi Hendrix
Herman's Hermits
Doc Holliday
The Honey Cone
The Hoodoo Gurus
Cissy Houston
Thelma Houston
Whitney Houston
The Hulk
Hullabaloo [TV series]
The Human Beinz
Humble Pie
Faye Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter
Hüsker Dü
I, The Jury [novel]
In Concert [TV series]
INXS
The Ivy League
The Jackson Five
Al Jackson
Joe Jackson
Wanda Jackson
James Jamerson
Tommy James & the Shondells
Jan and Dean
Jay & the Americans
Jefferson Airplane
Jesus Christ Superstar [TV special]
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Tom Joad
Antonio Carlos Jobim
George Jones
Gloria Jones
Quincy Jones
Janis Joplin
Josie & the Pussycats
Joy Division
Mickey Jupp
Kansas
Jerry Kasenetz
Jeff Katz
Lenny Kaye
LL Cool J
KC & the Sunshine Band
John F. Kennedy
Maura Kennedy
The Greg Kihn Band
King Records
Carole King
The Kingsmen
Don Kirshner
Allen Klein
Al Kooper
Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas
Sid and Marty Krofft
Krokus
The Last Waltz [film]
Cyndi Lauper
Avril Lavigne
Bruce Lee
Jerry Leiber
Lemmy
Annie Lennox
Let's Active
Joey Levine
Gary Lewis & the Playboys
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Life magazine
Gordon Lightfoot
Little Steven's Underground Garage
The Lollipop Shoppe
Julie London
Look magazine
The Lovin' Spoonful
Nick Lowe
Jeff Lynne
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Main Street Records
The Mamas & the Papas
Barry Mann
Jayne Mansfield
Marcus Hook Roll Band
Bob Marley
Dave Marsh
Martha & the Vandellas
Dean Martin
George Martin
Strother Martin
Marvel Comics
The Marvelettes
Karl Marx
Curtis Mayfield
Don McLean
Vaughn Meader
The Memphis Horns
Freddie Mercury
The Merv Griffin Show [TV series]
George Michael
Midnight Special [TV series]
The Mike Douglas Show [TV series]
Joni Mitchell
Monterey Pop [film]
Tim Moore
Jim Morrison
Van Morrison
Motown Records
Mott The Hoople
MTV
MTV Closet Classics [TV series]
The Music Man [film]
Musicor Records
Nada Surf
National Lampoon magazine
Nazareth
Ricky Nelson
The Nerves
Eliot Ness
New Math
Jack Nicholson
Nirvana
Richard Nixon
Klaus Nomi
Not Fade Away [film]
Barack Obama
The Ohio Express
Roy Orbison
The Orlons
Buck Owens
Pagliacci
Graham Parker
Rosa Park
The Partridge Family
Neil Peart
Teddy Pendergrass
Penthouse magazine
Carl Perkins
Peter Gunn [TV series]
Sam Phillips
Phonograph Record Magazine
Bobby "Boris" Pickett
The Pig Paper magazine
Pink Floyd
The Pipkins
The Plasmatics
The Platters
Playboy magazine
The Plimsouls
Popeye [animated shorts]
The Poptarts
Harry Potter
The Pretenders
The Pretty Things
Vincent Price
Suzi Quatro
Radio Caroline
Radio Free Europe
Bob Rafelson
RCA Records
The Real Kids
The Records
Helen Reddy
The Reflections
The Residents
Rhino Records
Lionel Richie
Alan Rickman
Amy Rigby
The Righteous Brothers
Arthur Rimbaud
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Harold Robbins
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Rock Scene magazine
Tommy Roe
Romeo & Juliet 
The Ronettes
Mick Ronson
Linda Ronstadt
The Royal Guardsmen
The Rubber City Rebels
David Ruffin
Rufus
The Runaways
Merrilee Rush
The Rutles
The Saints
Sam & the Twisters
Evie Sands
Saturday Night Live [TV series]
Bert Schneider
The Scorpions
Seals & Crofts
The Shadows
The Shadows Of Knight
Shaft In Africa [film]
William Shakespeare
The Shangri-Las
Del Shannon
Dee Dee Sharp
Sister Rosetta Sharp
Greg Shaw
Jean Shepard
Shindig! [TV series]
Mark Shipper
Sir Timothy & the Royals
Sire Records
Slade
Grace Slick
P. F. Sloan
The Small Faces
Elliott Smith
The Snoop Sisters [TV series]
Something Happened [novel]
The Sopranos [TV series]
The Soul Clan
The Specials
Phil Spector
Robert Spencer
Gary Sperrazza!
Mickey Spillane
The Springfields
Squeeze
The Standells
Edwin Starr
Stars On 45
Starz
Stax Records
Seymour Stein
John Steinbeck
The Stems
Steppenwolf
Amii Stewart
Dave Stewart
Rod Stewart
Mike Stoller
The Stooges
The Stylistics
Donna Summer
Sun Studios
Supersonic [TV series]
Sweet
The Swinging Blue Jeans
Syracuse University
Tales From The Crypt [comic book]
Talking Heads
Jeff Tamarkin
The T.A.M.I. Show [film]
The Tao Of Steve [film]
Tavares
Chip Taylor
Television
The Temptations
Joe Tex
That Thing You Do! [film]
Lloyd Thaxton
Them
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl [radio series]
Three Dog Night
Johnny Thunders
Toots & the Maytals
The Tourists
Town Without Pity [film]
The Toys
The Traits
The Trammps
The Traveling Wilburys
Trouser Press magazine
The Andrea True Connection
The Twylight Zones
Tracy Ullman
Uriah Heep
Utopia
Ritchie Valens
Van Halen
Little Steven Van Zandt
Varesé Sarabande Records
The Velvelettes
The Vibrators
The Village People
Gene Vincent
The Vogues
Rick Wakeman
War
Anita Ward
Andy Warhol
Jim Weatherly
Cynthia Weil
West Side Story [film]
White Plains
The Who
Wicked Cool Records
John Wicks
The Wild Ones
Hank Williams
John Williams
Larry Williams
Robin Williams
Van Williams
WMCA Good Guys
The Wonders
Stevie Wonder
Woodstock [film]
Link Wray
Frankie Yankovic
The Yardbirds
Yes
John Paul Young
Frank Zappa
The Zombies

Some of the references are complimentary, some a bit less so. Many of these are but passing mentions, and some are used as specific historical or contextual points of interest or comparison. Some may not even make this theoretical index, while many more could be added to the index...if there is an index. 

Time will tell. More than 81,000 words written, only 23 chapters left to write. Stay tuned.

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