Start talking with Colin Larkin, editor of the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music," and free association kicks in.
Anything, anyone, might come up. Dave "Baby" Cortez, for example.
And that's exactly what Larkin intends.
"The whole point of the EPM is to enthuse people," says Larkin, whose own obsession with pop over a half century has evolved into a full-time business.
The 4th edition of the reference work, now expanded to 10 volumes encompassing 3.
5 million words in 27,000 entries, will go online in mid-2007, enabling scholars of doo wop, bebop, hip hop and space age bachelor pad music to gambol from topic to topic as their curiosity leads.
The print version, published this month in the United States, is priced at $995 until Dec. 31.
In Europe, the print version will be published in November, with an introductory price of $1,037.75.
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