Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Bob Shannon's "Turn it Up"

Thanks so much to the RAMP Newsletter for posting this story today...

Radio History Comes To Life In Turn It Up

Eckhartz Press just released an updated version of Bob Shannon's awesome book, Turn it Up: American Radio Tales 1946-1996 as an e-book. Turn It Up features amazing true stories about 58 radio greats -- Lee Abrams, Jack Armstrong, Dick Biondi, Chuck Blore, Jerry Boulding, Scotty Brink, Kent Burkhardt, Al Casey, Ron Chapman, Dick Clark, Frank Cody, Larry Daniels, Rick Dees, Tom Donahue, Ken Dow, Bill Drake, Paul Drew, Chuck Dunaway, Bill Figenshu, Alan Freed, Jack Gale, Les Garland, Bob Henabery, Dan Ingram, Ron Jacobs, Tom Joyner, Casey Kasem, Murray the K, Art Laboe and Larry Lujack.

But wait! There's more! There are also stories about Bill Mack, Gordon McLendon, John McRea, Ruth Meyer, Robert W. Morgan, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Pat O'Day, Gary Owens, Dewey Phillips, Dick Purtan, Bobby Rich, Steve Rivers, Art Roberts, John Rook, Dr. Don Rose, Tom Rounds, Ed Salamon, John Sebastian, Scott Shannon, Rick Sklar, Michael Spears, Gary Stevens, Todd Storz, Charlie Tuna, Rusty Walker, Todd Wallace, Fred Winston and Wolfman Jack.

The updated Kindle version of Turn It Up is now available for only $5.99
(the paperback is $17.25) at Amazon.com. And as a special bonus, enjoy an audio feature about Dewey Phillips, the first jock to play Elvis Presley, which is posted on the Eckhartz Press website
.