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Memories of Bloomfield, NJ
The author in two above pictures:
(left) at Bloomfield Town Green as an infant in 1944
(right) at the same location in 1986 by the stone
commemorating the man the town is named after --
Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823),
the fourth governor of New Jersey.
Volume 1:
"You Are My Sunshine":
Memories of Bloomfield,
New Jersey
Volume 2:
"Free As The Breeze":
A Songwriter's Songs and Sorrows
Roger Hall has had a long and distinguished career as a songwriter, music teacher, radio host, cable television producer,
film music critic, and musicologist.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, 1950s, and 1960s.
In the 1950s his interest in early 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 this picture --
He attended Center School (now demolished)
and Fairview School (shown in the picture),
In his senior year at Bloomfield High School in 1960, he began his long music career 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 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 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" written after an earlier vacation in London and recorded in Bloomfield --
Hear this song sung by Ethel Regan from the 1965 record -- click here
"The Soho Serenade" and a few of his early songs are on this AMRC CD:
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in the Memories and Music book series
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