Space Age Pop has extensive notes on the composers, artists, track-selections and liner-note mavens of the golden age of bachelor-pad music.
Like pulp fiction, liner notes may one day come to be appreciated as works of literature. And when they do, it's certain that Stan Cornyn will be viewed as the Jim Thompson of liner notes. He's already scored at least one scholarly article ("The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn," Gilbert L. Gigliotti, in Frank Sinatra & Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon, Len Mustazza, Ed., Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998).
