Steve Propes is a Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 record collector, disc jockey, and writer whose oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

/rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 radio show on KLON

KKJZ

KKJZ is a non-commercial public radio station in Southern California broadcasting from the Long Beach State campus. The station is one of several public radio stations in Southern California presenting jazz and blues....

 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

Joe Turner

Joe Turner is the name of:* Big Joe Turner , blues singer* Joe Turner , jazz/stride pianist* Joe Lynn Turner , rock musician* Joe Turner , English footballer...

 and Lowell Fulson

Lowell Fulson

Lowell Fulson was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom...

 to Hank Ballard

Hank Ballard

Hank Ballard , born John Henry Kendricks, was a rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s...

, Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...

, Ike Turner

Ike Turner

Isaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...

 and Gary U.S. Bonds

Gary U.S. Bonds

Gary U.S. Bonds is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer. He is also a prolific songwriter.-Career:...

 and doo-wop enthusiast George Carlin

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....

. He is known for his collectors' books listing the monetary value of rock 'n' roll records. He currently is heard on www.wpmd.org and rockitradio.net. He is currently working on Old School for Create Space. He is also a reporter and community scanner columnist for the Long Beach Beachcomber, www.longbeachcomber.com, a community bi-weekly.

Books

• Those Oldies But Goodies: A Guide to 50's Record Collecting, Macmillan
  Macmillan Publishers (United States)
  Macmillan Publishers USA, also known as Macmillan Publishing, is a privately held American publishing company owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than 30 others....
  
  , 1973
• Golden Oldies, Chilton, 1974
• Golden Goodies, Chilton, 1975
• What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record (with Jim Dawson
  Jim Dawson
  Jim Dawson is a Hollywood, California-based author and self-proclaimed "fartologist" who has written three books about farting, including the best-selling 'Who Cut the Cheese?'-Biography:...
  
  ; introductions by Dave Marsh
  Dave Marsh
  Dave Marsh is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host. He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on...
  
   and Billy Vera
  Billy Vera
  Billy Vera is an American singer, actor, writer and music historian.-Life and career:Vera was born in Riverside, California. He began his singing career in 1962 as a member of the Resolutions. He went on to write several songs throughout the early 1960s, writing for the likes of Barbara Lewis,...
  
  ), Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
  
  , 1992
• Merry Christmas Baby: Holiday Music From Bing to Sting (with Dave Marsh
  Dave Marsh
  Dave Marsh is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host. He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on...
  
  ), 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
  Jim Dawson
  Jim Dawson is a Hollywood, California-based author and self-proclaimed "fartologist" who has written three books about farting, including the best-selling 'Who Cut the Cheese?'-Biography:...
  
  ), Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, 2003
• The Hobo Diaries by Clarence Bernard Propes (with Stephen C. Propes).