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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.
Volume One:
"You Are My Sunshine" - Memories of Bloomfield, NJIn his first volume, 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.
Volume Two:
Free As The Breeze - A Songwriter's Songs and Sorrows
This book is titled after one of his jazz songs from the 1960s which was recorded in Bloomfield.In the book he writes about the many difficult and frustrating 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 a few songs, like "Dream World" and
"Frauleins From Frankfurt."After he was discharged from the Army, he returned to Bloomfield and began writing more songs like "The Soho Serenade." This song began with just the words written after a vacation in London in 1963 when he first heard music by The Beatles.
His song was later recorded in a music studio in Bloomfield in 1965 and here is the record cover:
"Free As The Breeze" and "The Soho Serenade" and
are on this limited edition AMRC CD:
He has an illustrated program available titled:
Music in Old Bloomfield:
From Church to Recording Studiopresented either in person for your group
or as an online Zoom program?Contact Roger Hall about this program -- here
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are both volumes (Volumes One and Two) of MY MEMORIES
and with two of his early pop songs (MP3) from the 1960s
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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=1000611257078Spotify
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See the other volumes by the same author
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