memoir, Bands, Brands, and Billions, “As I told the Jordache brothers, their name was all over the news that night.”

“Music and Emotions in the Brain: Familiarity Matters,” lead author Carlos Silva Pereira and his collaborators write that familiarity is a “crucial factor” in how emotionally engaged listeners are with a song.

particular countries; the precise color of eye shadow a performer should wear in different Asian regions, as well as the hand gestures he or she should make; and the camera angles to be used in the videos (a 360-degree group shot to open the video, followed by a montage of individual close-ups).

Two more boy groups, Take 5 and C-Note, failed to chart.

In the late 1940s, the record industry began to promote these groups under the label “rhythm-and-blues,” a term invented by a white Billboard

writer, Jerry Wexler—later a partner in Atlantic Records—to replace the derogatory trade name “race music.” (He later regretted he hadn’t called the music “R&G,” for rhythm and gospel, instead; such R&B staples as falsetto singing and hand claps derived from gospel music.) R&B was, as Stuart Goosman points out in his 2005 book Group Harmony, a

“Only Girl (In the World)”

1959 Drifters hit “There Goes My Baby,” thus inventing a

“My Prerogative.”