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Steve propes
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</noinclude>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 and doo-wop enthusiast George Carlin. He was one of the first to write a collectors' bible listing the monetary value of rock 'n' roll records. 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 
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