Listen to the Lambs

by Johnny Otis

$225 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: W.W. Norton, 1968. First Edition. An obscure American popular music autobiography, wherein Otis relates his integration as a Greek-American musician into the Watts Negro community of the 1930s and 40s, as well as his adventurous life beyond that time. Otis was one of the most successful bandleaders of his era, a rhythm and blues pianist, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader, and impresario, who wrote and popularized

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