Song writers
Early Elvis
cowboy songs
 
 

 


 

Here he comes... 

Hopalong Cassidy!

 

 

 

Read the personal memories of Roger Hall which include his story as a very young devoted Hoppy fan who met his cowboy hero in person for a magazine photo shoot in New York City in 1950.

       

Years later, Roger celebrated Hoppy in his writings for the Hoppy Fan Club in Cambridge, Ohio, where William, Boyd grew up as a youngster before moving to California. Roger also wrote the music to a new song, "The Angels Handed Me A Rose (Hoppy's Songs For Grace)" with lyrics by Susie Coffman.



© PineTree Press

Picture taken at the Hopalong Cassidy Festival
in Cambridge, Ohio in 1995.

From left to right:

Frank "Junior" Coghlan (a child actor with William Boyd in silent films)
Grace Bradley Boyd (the lovely actress later known as Mrs. Hopalong Cassidy)
Roger Hall (songwriter and author of the book)

 

 

The title of the book is from the song in the first Hopalong Cassidy film in 1935, sung by Jimmy Ellison:

The first edition of Roger's book was published in 2005 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first Hopalong Cassidy film.

The second edition with added pictures.

The third edition from 2015 was expanded with more pictures.

The author, Roger Hall, is a singer and songwriter and a former music teacher.

As a very young fan, he met Hopalong Cassidy in New York in 1950 for a
LOOK magazine shoot.

Years later, he met Grace Boyd, on the 100th anniversary of William Boyd's birth at the Hopalong Cassidy Festival in  Cambridge, Ohio in 1995. She read Roger's book and
said she enjoyed reading it. She told him she was in New York with Hoppy when Roger met him in 1950.

In 2009, Roger was invited to speak about his book and about music in Hopalong Cassidy films at the Hopalong Cassidy Festival in Cambridge, Ohio.

The "Following the Stars" book, is available as PDF and illustrated with many pictures.

Included is Roger's personal fond remembrance titled: "The Day I Met Hoppy."

 

Also Included in the book is an illustrated magazine article by Roger Hall about the first Hopalong Cassidy movie from 1935 in this popular magazine:

 

Over the years, Roger Hall has written many articles for the HOPPY TALK Fan Club Newsletter, assisted by Associate Editor, Fred Romary, with Laura Bates as the Editor - she is shown here with Roger --

Roger's complete "Hopalong Cassidy Song Series" is included in the book
at no extra charge. His Song Series began with this film title:



 


Comments from satisfied customers from earlier editions of
"Following The Stars" on CD-ROM:

"Really enjoyed it! Especially the Hoppy story record." --
Allen from Maryland

"I've really enjoyed reading your book" -- Judy from Utah

"I truly enjoyed each page, reading and viewing photos,
some I've never seen" -- Scotty from Wyoming


Review of the 2nd edition:

"FOLLOWING THE STARS: MUSIC AND MEMORIES OF HOPALONG CASSIDY" is by Roger Hall, the boy who met Hopalong Cassidy in 1950. The disc is a memory scrapbook of Hoppy material: songs in Cassidy movies, Hoppy children's albums, list of music composers and musical groups in Hoppy films, sheet music covers, hundreds of graphics and photos. A nice supplement to the two current HC [Hopalong Cassidy] books with material not contained in either."

-- Boyd Magers, Western Clippings #90 (July/August 2009).

 

 



Order your copy of this book and save money!

"Following the Stars" -
Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
by Roger Hall
(PineTree Press, 3rd edition, 2015)

It is available as a PDF book
and is for personal, non-commercial use only.
ands sent directly to you by email attachment.

To order your copy, click the button below.

 

 


 


"Following the Stars"
Music & Memories of Hopalong Cassidy

PineTreePress

You can receive your copy of this PDF book
for the price of only $9.95

payable by your Credit Card
to PineTree Productions,
through safe and secure PayPal.

To order click this button:




 

Hopalong Cassidy Statue Dedication, Cambridge, Ohio, 2016

Laura Bates and Roger Hall


 

For any questions or comments about the "Following the Stars" book -- click here

 

 

See the other personal collections
by songwriter, Roger Hall, in his
MEMORIES AND MUSIC (MAM) Series

click here

 

 

 

Go to: Hopalong Cassidy Music

 

 

 

 

Return to top of this page

 

 

 
       
   

   
 

© 2006-2023 PineTree Productions. No images to be reproduced without permission.
All Rights Reserved. Contact: pinetreepro@aol.com