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Early Elvis...
[Picture of Elvis Presley on "Stage Show" March 24, 1956
from elvispresleymusic.com/au]
and the Cleveland disc jockey
who helped make Elvis famous...
[Picture of Elvis Presley and Bill Randle, Nov 23, 1956 from scottymoore.net]
The Pied Piper of Cleveland:
A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey
(left to right): Bill Randle and Tommy Edwards, Scotty Moore (not shown), Elvis Presley, Bill Black, at Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn, Ohio, October 20, 1955
The above picture is from the handsome book:
1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards
by Christopher Kennedy, Kent State University Press, 2011.
The Bill Randle Chronicles -
From Electric Elvis To The Shakers
by Roger Lee Hall
Popular Cleveland disc jockey, Bill Randle
© PineTree Productions
Read more about this computer disc with files, music albums and more -- click here
Praise for The Bill Randle Chronicles--
- "I've read the article. Fantastic info for ALL Elvis fansl!!"
-- Mark Lee Pringle, popular Elvis impersonator
- "I must say it is an impressive collection. I was glad to see the original Time Magazine article on Randle reprinted as well as other documents, like Col. Parker's telegram, and was especially interested in the interview with Alanna Nash.
-- Allen Wiener, author of the book,
Channeling Elvis: How Television Saved the King of Rock n' Roll
The Bill Randle Chronicles:
From Electric Elvis To The Shakers
by Roger Lee Hall
available on a disc readable on your computer,
with articles, music album, audio files
including an interview with Bill Randle,
a picture gallery, and
video clip of Elvis national TV debut in 1956.
For orders outside the USA,
see "AMRE Title No. 9" at the
To order the computer disc,
click on the button below:
Why isn't Bill Randle
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Disc jockey Alan Freed (1986), TV host Dick Clark (1993), and other early non-performers are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yet the influential WERE radio host, who in the mid-1950s was one of America's top disc jockeys and helped promote major rock stars like Bill Haley & The Comets, Everly Brothers, and Elvis Presley is still not in the Hall of Fame.
If you would like to join the campaign to install Bill Randle, send your email request to:
Rock and Rolll Hall of Fame
(Cleveland, Ohio)
AMP Related Links
- Early Elvis (home page)
- Popular Songs - From The Civil War to Cold War
- Song Hits 1956
- Song Hits 1957
- Song Hits 1958
- Song Hits 1959
- Song Hits 1960
- Song Hits 1961
- Song Hits 1962
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