Roger Hall has had a long and distinguished career as a songwriter, music teacher, radio host, local 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.
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 Bloomfield Junior High School (now sadly abandoned).
In his senior year at Bloomfield High School in 1960, he began his songwriting by writing 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" which was recorded in Bloomfield in 1965 --
"The Soho Serenade" and a few of his early songs are on this AMRC CD:
Here is a sample, "Free as the breeze" -- click here (for listening only)
After you have made your payment,
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My Memories - Volumes 1 and 2
See the other volumes by the same author
in the Memories and Music book series
click here
See his list of entertaining music lectures, webinars and workshops some of them available on the web.
One of his lectures:
"Goin' Home" - Remembering Songs From Your Past
Contact: pinetreepro@aol.com
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