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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 Song For Grace)"
with beautiful lyrics by Susie Coffman.
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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 actress 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 had added pictures and music.
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 chose 10 songs to write about from Hoppy western films
for the "Hopalong Cassidy Song Series" in the HOPPY TALK newsletter.
All of them are now included in the 3rd edition of the book.
His Hoppy Song Series began with this film title:
Comments from satisfied customers from earlier editions of
"Following The Stars" on CD-ROM:"Really enjoyed it!" -- 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. 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).The first and second editions of the mutlimedia edition on CD-ROM
of "Following The stars" are now Sold Out.Third edition is now available!
The expanded third edition is available as a PDF book and now includes over 100 pictures.
It includes the "Following the Stars" lyrics from the first Hoppy film plus a new song
"The Angels Handed Me A Rose (Hoppy's Song for Grace) with lyrics by Susie Coffman. and music by Roger Hall.
Also in this 3rd edition are pictures from the Hopalong Cassidy Statue dedication in Cambridge, Ohio in June of 2016. Here is one of the pictures:
Order your copy of the 3rd edition here...
"Following the Stars" -
Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
by Roger Hall
(PineTree Press, Stoughton, MA)It is available only as a PDF book
and is for personal, non-commercial use only.
It will be sent directly to you by email attachment
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and it is readable on any device used to read PDF books.
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with over 100 pictures
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See the other personal stories
by Roger Hall, in his
MEMORIES AND MUSIC (MAM) Series
Go to: Hopalong Cassidy Music
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