Deadwax from the Vinyl House is a slice of the 1960s recording business as discovered through a hoard of record and tape masters found in a house abandoned by its owner, a sound engineer from that decade. The purchaser who was not alive in the 60s seeks out the hundreds of performers, producers, labels and memorabilia only to learn that only a handful are not dead. Co-author Vincent Mallardi is chief among them as he founded and owned the record company that represeted the largest portion of the extraordinary collection. From Neil Diamond to Renata Tibaldi, the Shirelles to Martin Luther King, and from Thomas Edison's cylinder to the silicone chip, this book is history, mystery, sociopolitics, engineering and a rare first-person insight into the lives and times of the most trannsformational decade of the 20th Century. The good artists, the bad gangsters and everything groovy in between begins and ends in the deadwax!