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Books by Boston-area Radio Personalities

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Have any Boston-area radio personalities written books?

73s
 
Too many to post here.

The late David Brudnoy's bio is available, he was on BZ radio.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385482760?v=glance

WRKO's Hooey Carr's biography of the Bulger Brothers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446576514?v=glance

You can pick up Carr's bargain basement tome on eBay for under ten bucks
http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/...action=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search

heck, my 45 RPMS fetch more money on eBay than his new book.


Carter Alan has 2 - he's MD of WZLX
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,46400.msg318011.html#msg318011


lots more - especially the Boston Globe writers all seem to have books out from McGrory to Boston Globe
radio critic clea simon
http://www.cleasimon.com/books.html
 
Here's a few to get you started:

Carter Allen- U2: The Road to Pop, Outside is America: U2 in the US & Life on the Road: The Incredible Rock and Roll Adventures of Dinky Dawson (by Dinky Dawson and Carter Alan).

Howie Carr- The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

Joe Castiglione - Broadcast Rites and Sites, Revised Edition: I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox

Dan Shaughnessy -Ever Green The Boston Celtics: A History in the Words of Their Players, Coaches, Fans and Foes, from 1946 to the Present, Reversing the Curse: Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox

Lance Norris - Ask A Bitter Man: The Best of 1984 - 1999 Vol. 1, The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) (with John O'Leary-Hawthorne)

Lori Robertson - Boston Breakup.(host and producer of WBUR radio talk show)(Brief Article): An article from: American Journalism Review

Steve Buckley - "Best Boston Sports Arguments: The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Boston Fans" (with Jim Caple)

George Carlin - When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? , Brain Droppings , Napalm & Silly Putty, George Carlin: 2007 Day-to-Day Calendar, Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George, George Carlin Reads to You

Michael Holley - Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion

David Brudnoy - MASS. BAY MENUS A Guide to Restaurants in Boston, the Suburbs, and Cape Cod, 1976-1977, The conservative alternative (Viewpoints) , Gurus of gab: talk radio stars are changing America.: An article from: Policy Review (with Raoul Lowery Contreras, Blanquita Cullum, and Marlin Maddoux), Life Is Not a Rehearsal: A Memoir .

That should get you started. Can you tell I’m bored on a rainy day?
 
I feel stupid for asking a question which may be common knowledge, but, was George Carlin a Boston radio personality?
 
Wow, I'm impressed..... In the Miami and Palm Beach markets,
companies like Clear Channel and Salem pretty much killed
local non-brokered talk radio years ago. Now it's mostly
syndicated.

I can only think of one such book, by an extremist brokered
talker, although retired deejay Bob Gordon wrote a great
autobiography.

Thank you to all....

I was just trying to think of David Brudnoy's name the other day,
after I saw Cato Instiitute's David Boaz on C-SPAN the other day.

73s
 
Thanks Lucy.
You learned me something today!

I will add the following book:

Nirvana, The Chosen Rejects by Kurt St. Thomas/Troy Smith (St. Martins Griffin 2004)
 
Also, check out:

Jack Gale's very amusing book "Same Time, Same Station". Jack was probably the most well -known "Fenway" on WMEX circa 1964:

http://jackgaleradio.com/thebook.html



Larry Lujack's book qualifies, too. He was "Johnny Lujack" on WMEX when he was here for a few months in about 1967:

"Superjock: The Loud, Frantic, Nonstop World of a Rock Radio DJ with Daniel A. Jedlicka NTC/Contemporary Publishing (October 1975) ISBN 0809283026 SKU 199692172"



Both have a few words to say about the notorious Mac Richmond. Well, at least all the stories match so far!
 
I heard Gregg Jackson from Pundit Review Radio on WRKO has a book that just came out. I don't know much about it but a quick search on Amazon and it appeared.

I also think Colonel David Hunt, sometime radio fill-in, wrote one also.
 
Yes, I found it:

Col. David Hunt - "If You Clear Your Throat Before You Speak, The Terrorist Win!" - Phlem Press 2006
 
At the risk of being redundant for 954, [EDIT] here ya go:

this writer has authored a book of, uh, non-heterosexual poetry
entitled NEW CHANGES which TV 3 allowed me to tape but refused to air! Isn't that a violation of the First Ammendment? The fact that the station was run, at the time, by a Born Again whacko ("I can sin because I'm saved" he said as he oogled the girls he videotaped...OK...., i guess...) was rather skewed. Like, HE WANTED TO HEAR THE GAY POETRY like some voyeur but refused to air it!

In addition: working on a book about Lou Reed's 1973 RR Animal tour and a Hendrix book with Buzzy Linhart (my co-author played vibes on Hendrix's "Driftin'; played drums on a live version of "Like A Rolling Stone" with Al Kooper on keys) -

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,45794.msg318044.html#msg318044
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and you can go to the library to read any of the 7 books I've contributed to, published by Backbeat/
United Entertainment Media.

oh yeah, and there's the book of short stories THE SALT WATER SUMMERS


This posting is solely for the benefit of Mr. 954. My apologies to everyone else (well, not EVERYONE else, just the nice people here) for having to post this twice.

[EDIT=ad hominem attack]
 
954 said:
Have any Boston-area radio personalities written books?
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Donna Halper, New England's premiere radio historian, Instructor at Emerson, and frequent guest host on Bob Bittner's "Let's talk About Radio" on WJIB 740 (before Bob pretty much stopped doing the shows) has written several books about radio. I don't recall the titles, but I have hunch that a search at Amazon.com would reveal them. One her books is on women in radio.
 
I paid $17 via amazon to get my hardcover copy of Brothers Bulger, and a free autograph from
Howie when he appeared at the Paper Store in Beverly.

By the way if you're in the Northampton area and tune to 103.3 you won't get the distant sound of
WODS, but THESE guys...tuned in and heard Pearl Jam; also a live band performing; Hank Williams doing
"Settin' the Woods on Fire", and more. Signal did pretty well for an LPFM WXOJ-LP, Florence, MA:

http://pacificanetwork.org/radio/content/view/77/42/

(haven't heard their political shows yet but I'll be they consider Air America to be far right wackos :)
Sorry, couldn't resist!) I was passing thru that area today (Dr Seuss Sculture Garden, Springfield
Museums; Basketball hall of fame, Theodore's restaurant, etc., all in Springfield. No, not the one
the Simpsons live in...)
 
Globe radio critic Clea Simon and Globe contributor Brett Milano wrote a book back in the 1980s
about Boston Rock & Roll personalities (including, oh, I dare not say...as Bernard said: buy their book to see my video or something...)

http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Rock-T...ef=sr_1_2/103-5962306-9992665?ie=UTF8&s=books

It's going for $66.00 to $105.00!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0933341237/ref=dp_olp_2/103-5962306-9992665?ie=UTF8


Boston Rock Trivia (Paperback)
by Clea Simon, Brett Milano



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