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You only rock once by Jerry Blavat "The Geator with the Heator" ; as told to Steve Oskie ; foreword by Dick Clark
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks ML 429 .B56 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blavat, Jerry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blavat, Jerry.
- Disc jockeys--United States--Biography.
- Disc jockeys.
- Popular music--United States.
- Popular music.
- Rock music--United States.
- Rock music.
- Physical Description:
- 347 p. : ill., some col., photos. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, c2011.
- Summary:
- A wildly entertaining and unfiltered story of the man whose career began at the age of 13 on the TV dance show Bandstand and became a music legend. Lifelong friendships with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, a controversial relationship with Philadelphia Mafia boss Angelo Bruno that resulted in a decade-long FBI investigation, and much more colors this amazing journey from the early 60s through today.
- Contents:
- Trouble on the home front : Louis the Gimp
- Lifeline : radio and TV
- The Bandstand years : local celebrity
- The street was my classroom
- Road manging : Danny and the Juniors
- Breaking in as a disc jockey
- The TV years
- Pied piper : going national
- The lean years : memories in Margate
- Loyalty
- Trouble with the law
- Beyond teens.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780762442157
- 0762442158
- OCLC:
- 741636973
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- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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