Roger Hall has had a long and distinguished career as a songwriter, music teacher, radio host, cable television producer, film music critic, and lecturer.
He is now the Director of the Center for American Music Preservation (or CAMP) and Album Producer for the American Music Recordings Collection
(or AMRC), helping to preserve music from America's past.
For his many distinguished accomplishments in music, he has been listed in the International Who's Who in Music and
Who's Who in America
See his list of entertaining music lectures, webinars and workshops some of them available on the web. Here is one of them:
"Goin' Home" - Remembering Songs From Your Past -- go here
In his first volume, You Are My Sunshine - Memories of Bloomfield, NJ, he tells about growing up in Bloomfield in the 1940s and his favorite song heard on the radio recorded by both Gene Autry and Bing Crosby.
Then later in the 1950s his interest in rock n'roll led to him following the career of Elvis Presley on records and in movies, like KING CREOLE, and he is holding the LP album from that film in the above picture.
He attended Center School (now demolished)
and Fairview School (shown in picture), and then went to the beautiful Bloomfield Junior High School (now sadly abandoned and decaying).
In his senior year at Bloomfield High School in 1960, he began his songwriting by writing several song lyrics.
The second volume, Free As The Breeze - A Songwriter's Songs and Sorrows, is titled after one of his jazz songs from the 1960s. He tells about the many difficult times trying to get established in the music business with his songs.
During his U.S. Army service stationed in Germany in the early 1960s he wrote songs like "Dream World" and "Frauleins From Frankfurt."
After he was discharged from the Army, he returned to Bloomfield and began writing more songs and produced several 45 RPM records, such as "The Soho Serenade"--
"The Soho Serenade" and a few other early songs are on this AMRC CD: