Cousin Brucie!: My Life in Rock 'n' Roll Radio

by Cousin Bruce Morrow, Laura Baudo, Bruce Morrow

"Cousin Brucie's life and this book have been as much fun as doing one of my dances. I loved reading it, and you'll love reading it."...Chubby Checker This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688066151
• ISBN13: 9780688066154
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Beech Tree Paperback Book
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Reading

If you are into the Doo wop era music and would love to read the stories on the groups and the sounds and the styles of the late '50's to early 60's on cars and other nostalgic memories, this is the book for you.

A great story

I was looking for this one.... Cousin Brucie the legendary man of radio did it again. Nobody knows about Rock and Doo Wop better than Cousin Brucie. I am a fan of his and I love his radio show. What a guy! This book is a treasure. Get your copy, Maria, Suzie, Yvonne and all of you.

Radio Had Personality Once

As a New Yorker, I grew up with Cousin Brucie on the airwaves. I would flip back & forth from WABC to WMCA's Good Guys. WABC had Dan Ingram & the Cousin. The Good Guys had Harry Harrison, Dandy Dan Daniels, Gary Stevens, Billy Mitchell Reed (BMR) and eventually Frankie Crocker. Over at the other end of the dial, 1010 WINS, there was Murray the K and Mad Daddy. Decades before Rap & Hip Hop, Mad Daddy would do his entire show in rhyming heroic couplets. It was a world of submarine-race watchers, sure shots, long shots, and hits. These are the people who broke the Beatles back in 1963 (Christmas week) and had minute-by-minute news of Beatlemania as the Fab Four hit New York. Over at WINS, Murray the K was playing songs by an unknown band he predicted a great future for - "they have hair that make the Beatles look like crew cuts." That band was the Rolling Stones. Cousin Brucie's book brings it all back to me - the radio and personalities that made me fall in love with rock & roll. Even a couple of years ago, I would still tune in to hear Cousin Brucie on WCBS-FM, the official "oldies" station. Then, one day, all the Dee Jays were fired. The call letters were changed. And something named JACK took over. No Dee Jays. No need for people. Just a playlist & commercials. Sad, isn't it? Read this book & remember how it used to be. Or fantasize about radio & what it could be. Despite the Top 40 format and the 3-minute 45 RPM limit, these early pioneers broke barriers, launched legendary groups, took chances. Could you imagine how exciting it was when the Good Guys played 5 minute long "Like A Rolling Stone"? Probably not.