Blast from Your Past! Rock & Roll Radio DJs: the First Five Years 1954-1959 (Blast from Your Past! (3-book series) 1)
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Blast from Your Past! Rock & Roll Radio DJs: the First Five Years 1954-1959 (Blast from Your Past! (3-book series) 1)
Welcome Boomers! Coast to coast, border to border, DJs, disk (disc) jockeys, deejays, announcers, jocks - whatever term you remember them by - what fun memories swirl around our energetic keepers of the music world.
In BFYP ... the First Five Years 1954-1959 you'll reminisce about hanging out with your friends, a tinny transistor radio blaring, and your favorite DJ shouting out what songs to listen to, what records to buy, and when the next sock hop will happen. They were our buddies, mentors, and confidantes in an era ripe for rebellion.
As a social network of unparalleled music-lover unity, live radio is quickly fading in today's automated programming and weak online substitutes. But in the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s, wherever you were, whatever radio station you listened to and whichever DJs brought you the music, you loved it, lived it, or lambasted it while it was happenin'.
We can all look back at it now with a lopsided grin and a knowing wink. We were THERE.
Blast from Your Past! Rock & Roll Radio DJs: the First Five Years 1954-1959 is just the beginning of author Rochelle's Blast from Your Past series. Here, you'll meet 15 DJs who were there in the beginning of it all. Rochelle's intro offers a capsule of Rock & Roll's evolution and weaves nostalgia, trivia, and personal anecdotes around the unadulterated fun of the DJs' stories.
Large and small radio markets throughout the country - WIBG/Philly, WINS/NY, KCBQ/San Diego, WOKY/Milwaukee, KIOA/Des Moines, KAFY/Bakersfield (CA), WCYN/Cynthiana (KY) and many more - provide backdrops that will amuse and amaze. Read behind-the-microphone stories from Cousin Bruce Morrow, Ron Riley, "Louie, Louie" producer Ken Chase (Mike Korgan), Dr. Don Rose, "Frosty" (Forrest) Mitchell, and more!
"BFYP ... the First Five Years" (ebook & print available) is a terrific read on its own - and it sets the stage for the 25-year edition, "Blast from Your Past! Rock & Roll Radio DJs who ROCKED Your World! 1954 ~ 1979, Vol. I," coming soon.There you'll delight in the continuing sagas of the first 15, and meet another 26 DJs (41 total). For a different perspective, three bands in the 25-year edition attribute a significant amount of their success to a friendly DJ.
Foreword by Lonnie Napier, Wolfman Jack's 25-year friend and business VP; Special Introduction by Bill Gardner, DJ extraordinaire.
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