Amazing Gracie!: Rock and Roll's Hidden Giant Tells His Story. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, (Forthcoming) 2014. ...

The Alan Freed Story: The Early Years of Rock & Roll.Narberth, PA, Collectables (Paperback, 2005) ...

"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson takes us inside the musical empire created by ...

"I don't make culture, I sell it" Dick Clark once remarked. Indeed, the man who reigned as host of American Bandstand for nearly four decades may not have invented rock 'n' roll, but he sold it to the American public better than anyone before or since. Before Clark, rock 'n' roll was the step child ...

Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll. Received the ARSC Award for Excellence and the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. ...