Memories of Bloomfield, New Jersey

 

 

The author 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),
the fourth governor of New Jersey.

 

 

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 (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,
Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.

 

 


"You Are My Sunshine" - Memories of Bloomfield, NJ

In his book, he tells about growing up in Bloomfield from the 1940s to 1960s. He tells about trying to run away from home as 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 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 (shown in this picture)

 

In his senior year at Bloomfield High School in 1960, he began his long music career by writing pop song lyrics. One of them was written for his girlfriend he took to the Senior Prom.





Several of his early pop songs are on this limited edition AMRC CD:

 

He has an illustrated program with music available titled:

 

 

Music in Old Bloomfield:
From Church To Recording Studio

presented either in person for your group
or as an online Zoom program?

To contact Roger Hall about this program -- click here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                

 

 

Now available and sent as PDF book via email downloads
 is his book

"You Are My Sunshine": Memories of Bloomfield

and with a bonus audio file of one of his pop songs (MP3)
recorded in Bloomfield in 1965

This book and audio file 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 to the popular podcast series
led by James Gardner on "Your History - Your Story" (YHYS):

Apple
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-history-your-story/id1535889414?i=1000611257078

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mS6z5JjFwUapMnp3jk5XJ?si=lYjF4XNiT7iHmZmD7qCF9w

You Tube
https://youtu.be/aPlzapgMVkM

 

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See the other volumes by the same author
in his "Memories And Music" book series
including his latest book:

"Free As The Breeze" -
A Songwriter's Joys and Sorrows

 

 

 

 

 

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