From Robert Feder's column today, two Eckhartz Press authors taking center stage...
Radio legend John Records Landecker, who’s currently hosting evenings at Nexstar Media news/talk WGN 720-AM, and WXRT 93.1-FM, the Audacy adult album alternative station, are among 2022 inductees to the Hall of Fame of the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66. This year’s other honorees are Styx, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Dan Fogelberg, The New Colony Six, Jim Peterik, Dennis DeYoung and Mercury Records. The second annual Hall of Fame ceremony will be June 5 at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet. (Here is the link for tickets.)
John asked me to introduce him for his induction speech, but unfortunately I'll be out of the country. I'm bummed out about that. I was honored to be asked.
And this little nugget below is about our latest book. It just went live on the website this morning...
Highly recommended: Ike and Me: What a Time It Was, the insightful memoir of former Chicago sportscaster Rich King, is about to be published by Rick Kaempfer and David Stern’s Chicago-based Eckhartz Press. (Here is the link to pre-order.) It’s more than just an engaging collection of war stories and character vignettes spanning a golden era in sports and TV news. It’s also a remarkably candid reflection on how King overcame the culture of racism that permeated his childhood on Chicago’s South Side and a tribute to the epic friendship he forged with his intrepid cameraman and partner in crime, Richard “Ike” Isaac. After 48 years in the business, King retired from WGN-Channel 9 in 2016 and moved to Phoenix.
