Life in the Past Lane - Volume One - A Look Into Media History Through the Eyes of Those Who Made It! - USA) Hill - Bog

Let me say a few words about who should really take credit for this book
and the two volumes that will soon follow it.
It all began over twenty five years ago when I was looking for some way to
enhance my radio show which I called Life in the Past Lane.
At the time I was doing much the same thing that many others have done.
I was simply replaying radio shows of the past and talking about them. I
got to thinking about the many performers and technicians who made
them and were still around at that time. Why not call them up, talk with
them and then play the results on the air?
To make a long story short, I developed a sort of Hollywood and New York
underground and managed to get access to some hard to come by phone
numbers. Much to my surprise, those folks were all more than willing to
talk at length about their careers and their lives.
It went so well that I decided to expand the project and include theatre,
movies, early television and some fine musicians.
The end result was that, over a two year span I was able to record over
eighty extensive interviews with some of the people who made media history.
Therefore-they are the ones who wrote this book. All I did was pull it
together.