It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll

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Summary: So, Who was Louie Louie???
Review: Ahhh the memories, i grew up going to dances put on by Pat O'Day, and attended many of the events in the book. Pat has managed to capture those times to the tee! If you are a native Seattlite and a baby boomer, this book is required reading.

Even more important, if you are a "transplant" as most of my friends are, and continually bewildered by groups of "locals", teary eyed, sing Louie Louie--over and over. Or if you get a scoffing pathetic glance when you shamefully admit that you do not know who Bill Muncey was. Then this book is your life saver, your oasis in the desert of the "newcomer"

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Summary: All Just Rock & Roll
Review: As a baby boomer this is an enjoyable story of a guy who did it all in radio and Rock&Roll. It is filled with funny tails and alot of laughs and tells how the business really worked in the 60's and 70's. Highly recommended to anyone between 30 and 70!

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Summary: It Has It's Moments, But....
Review: As someone who was introduced to rock and roll by KJR and Pat O'Day in 1963, I wanted to like this book. And parts of it, especially the photographs and recollections of KJR and its air
staff in the sixties, I did. However, it is also poorly organized, over-long, and simply needed an editor, not least for grammatical errors. Most appalling was the number of factual mistakes, from misspelling of proper names (Peter "Noonan" instead of Noone; Celine "Dionne" instead of Dion; "Sun" amplifier instead of Sunn). O'Day begins every section with the name of a song, artist and year--many of those years are wrong (one by the better part of a decade). The author has a great story to tell, but he doesn't tell it very well.

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Summary: It Has It's Moments, But....
Review: As someone who was introduced to rock and roll by KJR and Pat O'Day in 1963, I wanted to like this book. And parts of it, especially the photographs and recollections of KJR and its air
staff in the sixties, I did. However, it is also poorly organized, over-long, and simply needed an editor, not least for grammatical errors. Most appalling was the number of factual mistakes, from misspelling of proper names (Peter "Noonan" instead of Noone; Celine "Dionne" instead of Dion; "Sun" amplifier instead of Sunn). O'Day begins every section with the name of a song, artist and year--many of those years are wrong (one by the better part of a decade). The author has a great story to tell, but he doesn't tell it very well.

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Summary: B.Howard must have been in a band that Pat turned away!
Review: I am incapable of putting this book down. Pat, thank you for sharing your life with me. My parents went to the Spanish Castle. I went to the Lake Hills Roller rink. (not sure if you still handled the Lake Hills gig when I went in the 70') I laugh outloud every time I think about the Tony Orlando story.

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Summary: Please hire an editor next time!
Review: I grew up in Seattle during the Pat O'Day era and really enjoyed a lot of the background stories, but the book was ruined by the massive number of mistakes that even a mediocre editor/proofreader could have fixed. It's really unforgiveable. I would have done the job for free.

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Summary: Should be titled, "It was all just Pat O'Day."
Review: I read this somewhat windy book to revisit my teen years in Seattle during O'Day's heydays. And while there are some amusing stories and anecdotes, O'Day's substantial ego gets in the way of many making the book a laborious read. His "everything was so much better back then" perspective is a song I hear from many of my generation who have not been able to make the leap to e culture, or accept the incredible offerings of todays rockers and their music.
I recommend waiting for this one to show up on garage sale tables as it is certainly not worth the hard cover retail price.

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Summary: This Book Is Great
Review: If you lived and grew up in Washington and the Northwest in the 60's, this book is for you.
I picked it out, read it, and it brought back so many memories of the 60's and 70's for me. It took my back through my youth, my high school days and the fun we had.
I listened to KJR faithfully until they changed their format and then I was so sad and went to another station. Now I'm back though and ...........read the book then put in you review here.

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Summary: O'Day In The Life
Review: In the '60s and '70's radio station KJR ruled Seattle's airwaves, and disc jockey/general manager Pat O'Day ruled KJR. For those of us who grew up in this milieu, Pat is as much part of our family as J.P. Patches, Stan Boreson and Dick Balch. Pat's influence, both locally and -- thanks to his Concerts West booking agency -- nationally, is probably immeasurable.

And he knows it. This is not the story of a modest man with modest dreams... no, it's a grand story full of entertainment's biggest names, with O'Day up there on the podium. You name it, Pat was probably there. He tells hilarious anecdotes about musicians and the music business of course, but also harrowing tales of those wonderful/horrible times. O'Day has an almost Tony Robbins enthusiasm for life, and his story is entertaining in roughly the same way that an avalanche is persuasive.

As a memoir of a man, it is almost too jam-packed to be believable. As the memoir of a whole generation -- of turbulent times and unprecendented changes in the world, witnessed by millions who today make up [shudder] Adult Society -- Pat proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was, afterall, just rock 'n roll.

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Summary: O'Day In The Life
Review: In the '60s and '70's radio station KJR ruled Seattle's airwaves, and disc jockey/general manager Pat O'Day ruled KJR. For those of us who grew up in this milieu, Pat is as much part of our family as J.P. Patches, Stan Boreson and Dick Balch. Pat's influence, both locally and -- thanks to his Concerts West booking agency -- nationally, is probably immeasurable.

And he knows it. This is not the story of a modest man with modest dreams... no, it's a grand story full of entertainment's biggest names, with O'Day up there on the podium. You name it, Pat was probably there. He tells hilarious anecdotes about musicians and the music business of course, but also harrowing tales of those wonderful/horrible times. O'Day has an almost Tony Robbins enthusiasm for life, and his story is entertaining in roughly the same way that an avalanche is persuasive.

As a memoir of a man, it is almost too jam-packed to be believable. As the memoir of a whole generation -- of turbulent times and unprecendented changes in the world, witnessed by millions who today make up [shudder] Adult Society -- Pat proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was, afterall, just rock 'n roll.