Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties 1960-1969: Blast from Your Past! (Black & White - Book 2) - Softcover

Rochelle, LinDee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1545599440 ISBN 13: 9781545599440

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Blast from Your Past!™ 3-book series is a twenty-five-year tribute (1954-1979) and legacy to those pioneering behind-the-microphone icons of our Golden Days of Rock & Roll Radio—the deejays who brightened our mornings and capped off our nights. Book 2, "Rock & Roll Radio DJs ~ The Swinging Sixties," continues the fun and frolic of several disc jockeys' stories from the 1950s (Book 1). Cousin Brucie, Doctor Don Rose, Ron Riley, and Jim Stagg, are just a few who keep the turntables spinning through 1960s musical history. You'll also meet a couple dozen more DJs who earned their microphone wings and took us flying high throughout the decade. Joey Reynolds, Tom Donahue, Ed Sciaky, and Shotgun Tom Kelly helped change the course of music and radio broadcasting. History, quotes, dozens of vintage pictures, and nostalgic song references will have you humming down Memory Lane. And of course, you'll learn how, when and where, the "Original Rock & Roll DJ," Wolfman Jack, learned to hoooowwwwlll! C'mon along, let's have some fun and Rock & Roll All Night Long! Book 3, The Psychedelic Seventies due in late 2018.

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The Blast from Your Past! series is a perfect example of an oft-repeated phrase, “Timing is everything.” It came in an “Aha!” moment for author, LinDee Rochelle, in 2008 as she spoke with her favorite Rock & Roll Radio DJ, Bill Gardner, then in Phoenix. They lamented the “good ol’ days” of radio that planted a Rockin’ seed in her mind. But she would have to go back ... way back ... and retrace a long and winding road. Rochelle admits to a country-gal-gone-city upbringing, infused with varied eclectic music and creative tastes, influenced by her eccentric, dance instructor/artist mother. As a ‘tween, a healthy respect for classical (ballet) and jazz (tap and modern) soon gave way to a lifetime love affair with Rock & Roll. But for her, all music soothes the soul and lifts the spirit. Rochelle came of age in the 1960s and Rocked her way through the ’70s, much of it in administration at UC Berkeley. A fortuitous trip to SoCal led her to spend the 1980s surfing through San Diego, with her hangin’ ten twin boys. It wasn’t until the ’90s that Rochelle discovered she could make a living with her love of writing and editing. Published in regional magazines in Arizona and California, she eventually worked with a couple of small press book publishers before “retiring.” It took nearly a lifetime to finally pair her two loves, Rock & Roll and writing, to leave a legacy in Blast from Your Past! Whenever possible Rochelle refreshes her muse in adventures along the ocean’s edge, and boating, as far out to sea as the moment allows.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1545599440
• ISBN 13: 9781545599440
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214