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Memories of Bloomfield, New Jersey
The author shown in the above pictures:
(left) at Bloomfield Town Green as an infant in 1944
(right) at the same location in 1986 standing behind the stone
commemorating the man the town is named after --
Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823).
Roger Hall has had a long and distinguished career as a songwriter, music teacher, radio host, cable television producer, film music critic, and music preservationist.
He is now the Director of the Center for American Music Preservation and Album Producer for the American Music Recordings Collection, helping to preserve music from America's past.
For his many distinguished accomplishments in music,
he has been listed inInternational Who's Who in Music,
Who'sWho's Who in America,
and Who's Who in the World.
"You Are My Sunshine" - Memories of Bloomfield, NJIn his book, he tells about growing up in Bloomfield from
the 1940s to 1960s. He tells about trying to run away from homeas a very young boy and only making it
as far as the Bloomfield fire station.
Also his traumatic experience getting stuck in what was once
the Morris Canal in the early 1950s.Later on, he tells about listening to rock n'roll and following
the career of Elvis Presley and he later worked for theCleveland disc jockey who introduced Elvis
on national TV in 1956.
He recently did a webinar about
that TV debut.
To read about it-- click here
He was an early fan of Elvis on records and in movies,
like KING CREOLE (his favorite Elvis film).
Here he is holding the LP album from that film in 1958
He early education was
at Center School (now demolished)
and then at Fairview School(entrance shown in this picture)
In his senior year at Bloomfield High School in 1960,
he began by writing pop song lyrics.
One of his song lyrics "Bright Eyes"
was written for his girlfriend
he took to the Senior Prom (see picture).
Several of his early pop songs are on this AMRC CD:
Now available and sent via email attachment
are his two PDF books with stories about Bloomfield
and both have been updated with more pictures:
"You Are My Sunshine"-
Memories of Bloomfield, NJ"Free As The Breeze" -
A Songwriter's Joys and Sorrows
also a Free bonus audio file of a song by the author
for each book ordered.
Each PDF book is available for only $11.95!
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You can listen to how Roger Hall's career developed
from high school in Bloomfield and
how he later became an American Music Preservationist.
Click on any of these links to listen tothe popular podcast series with James Gardner
on "Your History - Your Story" (YHYS):
Apple
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-history-your-story/id1535889414?i=1000611257078Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mS6z5JjFwUapMnp3jk5XJ?si=lYjF4XNiT7iHmZmD7qCF9wYou Tube
https://youtu.be/aPlzapgMVkM
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