This numbered limited edition museum quality coffee table book will have over 400 hundred pages.  Plus it’s own interactive app per page experience for iPhone and Android users, giving you the reader an opportunity to see some of the original movie trailers, movie posters, synopsis, cast and crew. It is hands down a one of a kind. 

We have included transparency pages. This specially hand crafted book is the 
highest of quality with many design details, making this a real classic and an
original piece of work.

Various highlighted sections in “Black Film Tracks,” the book, feature 2 foot and 4-foot gate-fold-out sections displayed throughout the book. Before each 
gate fold, collector and award winning co-writers Kevin H. Donan and A. Scott 
Galloway deliver first hand, beautifully written interviews, back stories, and 
timelines on the pains and struggles of the producers and directors who made 
these films. In the same fashion, they bring to life the stories of the music 
producers and musicians that created these classic scores. Donan and Galloway also deliver pieces on the diverse movie cast, the photographers and graphic artists who made the great album covers displayed in this masterfully produced book.

OUR MISSION

A Frame of Mind Publishing Inc.'s vision is to lead the global recording industry aftermarket as, "The first source of vinyl records." We maintain one of the largest inventories of rare vinyl recordings in all categories including film soundtracks. Through the sales of our record collection and releases of benchmark industry offerings such as our 400 page coffee table book entitled "Black Film Tracks," as well as CD's and DVD's of interviews with iconic recording and film personalities. A Frame of Mind Publishing, Inc. will entertain and educate consumers of classic music worldwide. 

Scores of hundreds of album covers that may have never been seen before 
will be presented, giving an opportunity for the world to have an up close,
inside look at Black culture in the music and film arts. Above are just few of the featured soundtracks and spoken word albums in Black Film Tracks.

ABOUT BLACK FILM TRACKS

Black Film Tracks, the book, is a must have for record collectors, movie fans, DJ's, producers and ordinary music lovers period. Decades of dedicated research, using scores of rare and out of print Black music film soundtracks, has gone into making Black Film Tracks, the book, a one of a kind experience. It's attractive 12 inch album size cover, with colorful artwork from classic productions, from the 50's to the present, is simply masterful. Put this stunning coffee table masterpiece on your short list of things to buy. You, and your family and friends will rave continously about Black Film Tracks, the book. Black Film Tracks is the reference book of film and music professionals, and film and music lovers alike. Don't miss the lifetime opportunty! Buy now! 

Keith David

Black Film Tracks, the DVD.  The book’s creator, Kevin Donan, will present
“a once in a lifetime” interviews with a number of film and music legends.
 These beautifully produced interviews, on DVD, present first-hand, behind
the scenes, historical flashbacks of the personal trials and tribulations
experienced by the artists. This DVD presentation is narrated by Emmy
award winning stage and screen actor, Mr. Keith David.

A. Scott Galloway 

A. Scott Galloway is a prolific Los Angeles based Music Journalist who has
been writing about music since 1988 for magazines that include Urban
Network, Wax Poetics and the U.K.’s Blues & Soul – interviewing artists
from Max Roach to Maxwell. His specialty niche is composing liner note
essays for reissues and compilations of classic recordings for which he has
written over 300. As it relates to history in Black Film, those credits include
the 25th anniversary Deluxe 2-CD reissue of Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly,”
“The Reel Quincy Jones” compilation of the composer/conductor’s film music, “The Best of Shaft” compilation of songs and cues from the “Shaft” film trilogy, the golden era Motown time capsule “Cooley High,” a pairing of Gladys Knight & The Pips’ “Claudine” w/ “Pipe Dreams,” and the various artists compilation “Super Bad On Celluloid.” Mr. Galloway is also the Editor of the 2013 Hal Leonard deluxe coffee table book “Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.”

Kevin H. Donan

Owner of “As The Record Turns” a rare and collectable vinyl record store, twenty five years on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA. Over the years he has purchased, collected and sold tens of thousands of albums. Travelling around the world with his wife, Monet, Kevin would continually discover and return rare, American-pressed vinyl albums back to the U.S. In keeping with this passion, Kevin currently owns one of the largest vinyl record collections of rare out-of-print, mint condition, Black film and theatrical musical soundtracks and Civil Rights recordings in existence. It is a natural off-shoot of Kevin’s passion to produce and release this upcoming, 400 plus page book entitled “Black Film Tracks”, and the other genre books that will be upcoming.

Kevin has always given back to the community. He has completed many projects for the City of Los Angeles and had received special commendation awards from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, as well as from the Federal Government's Department of Commerce for his writing, directing and camera work on various interviews. At sixteen years old Kevin was a drummer as an opening act with "Hypersolmystics" for hit legends "The Dells", "The Ohio Players" and "George Clinton’s Parliment Funkadelic". As a music consultant and archivist he has received credits on many platinum and Grammy award winning albums, hundreds of movies, dozens of television/cable network shows and hundreds of CD and Vinyl re-issues. Throughout the years, Kevin has also received many letters of acknowledgement and gratitude from entertainment luminaries such as Dick Clark, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, James Brown, 

Dr. Dre and Quentin Tarantino to name a few for his exemplary services. 

To date he has completed writing two new upcoming action/thriller novels ‘Mama Don’t Cry’ and its sequel “5 Blind Mice” to be released fall of 2014 and spring 2015. 

Black Film Tracks, the Record Vinyl Album You can have your name credited in our exclusive CD music production. (See Producers Perks) The record will consist of a select number of the great songs and themes from the classic movies pictured in “Black Film Tracks,” the book. Re-mastered from original, and out of print, audio analog, studio master tapes, these rare selections reflect a historical perspective of songs and artistic styles germane to Black film soundtrack productions, dating from the ‘50s to the present.

Black Film Tracks, the CD.  You can have your name credited in our exclusive
CD music production. (See Producers Perks) The CD will give the reader more
than an hour of pure listening pleasure. It will seductively introduce songs and
themes from classic Black movies, re-mastered to digital CD, from a selection
of original,and out of print, audio studio, master tapes from the ‘50s, to present
day Black Film Soundtrack productions.

DVD of  the book will be edited from hours of various interviews of known Producers, Directors, Actors, Music Producers, Writers, Artists and Celebrities that will be used for our "Black Film Tracks" film series on the colorful history of the Black Cinema world, its' place in the American culture and the world. The DVD will later be promoted worldwide along with the soundtrack.

  

Black Film Tracks, has proudly collaborated with world class graphic design artist Ronald "Stozo" Edwards who's astro electric funk art is best known for his record album cover art and posters with the monster group of P-Funk, George Clinton's, Parliament Funkadelic, Boosty Collins, Fuzzy Haskins, Parlet, Roger, Zapp, Fishbone and others during his tenure as one of the art directors at Warner Bros and Casablanca Records. Get your Limit Edition Now!

Poster Design By Ronald "Stozo" Edwards
Model: Crystle Deaza

James Brown, The Godfather of Soul

Over the years, Kevin Donan has received many letters of acknowledgement and gratitude from entertainment luminaries such as Dick Clark, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, James Brown and Quentin Tarantino to name a few for his exemplary services. To date he has completed writing two new action/thriller novels ‘Mama Don’t Cry’ and its sequel “5 Blind Mice” to be released fall of 2013 and spring 2014.

Kevin Donan & Dr. Dre (The  Chronic LP)

Kevin Donan & The Man Mr. Quincy Jones

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Kevin & Monet Donan

Below are just a few of the many great projects that we have provided
vinyl albums and album covers that were needed for lost masters,
artwork, music and sampling for films, CD’s and Vinyl re-issues. This has
led to decades of our humble credits on many platinum albums
including Grammy and film awards.

As The Record Turns is a rare and collectible vinyl only record
store located on Hollywood Blvd for the past over 25 years.
In these rooms is where it all began....