Jason Hill
Let me say a few words about who should really take credit for this bookand the two volumes that will soon follow it.It all began over twenty five years ago when I was looking for some way toenhance 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. Igot to thinking about the many performers and technicians who madethem and were still around at that time. Why not call them up, talk withthem and then play the results on the air?To make a long story short, I developed a sort of Hollywood and New Yorkunderground and managed to get access to some hard to come by phonenumbers. Much to my surprise, those folks were all more than willing totalk 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 overeighty 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 ittogether.
