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Rockin' Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio (From Jack the Bellboy to the Big 8) | 
| Author: David Carson
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 865008
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1879094622
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.540977434
EAN: 9781879094628
ASIN: 1879094622
Publication Date: October 1999
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Detroit Music May 20, 2007
I love this - love all the old info - I lived in Detroit 1953 - 1964; nostalgic!
Very Good January 11, 2007
Being in my mid 50's this book brought back many memories listening to radio in Detroit,Michigan back in the late 1950's and the 1960's. Very easy to read and a book that keeps your interest.
Detroit radio for the connoisseur May 16, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book deserves the most enthusiastic of accolades. Hopefully, five stars says it all. And I'd like to add that this superb look at Detroit radio is not only for rock and rollers. Detroit's enormous rock-guys are all represented, of course, but so are the pre-rock guys. The book has tremendous appeal for anyone who grew up in the Detroit area during the period. And, it was a hell of a period. The radio of 1950 was WAY different from that of the mid-Sixties. I was there in '50, listening to Don McLeod and Paul Winter playing Frank Sinatra, and I was on the air in Detroit in the mid-Sixties--with Don McLeod and Paul Winter, I'm proud to say--playing the BeeGees. I was only an insignificant peon, but I was there, and I was paying attention. David has done a real good thing with this book: a first-class creative effort, historically accurate, and evocative of the feel of the times. Casey Casem says on the jacket, "I read it in one sitting." It's just that compelling. Detroit radio deserves a book like this, and David Carson has given it to us. Thanks, Dave.
Amazing Book On This History of Detroit Radio April 6, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book. I loved it. I am a 35 year student of Detroit radio. I have been a radio station Program Director (WWWW) and Sales Manager (WWJ). I picked up all kinds of facts, context, connections, and progression of events I never knew. When it covered a subject matter I really know (the WKNR Keener 13 story, for example), I was amazed at how accurately David Carson nailed the story... not only the facts, but right down to the nuance of the story. Detroit Radio is honored by this book. If you are interested in the subject matter, I highly recommend the book!
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