You Only Rock Once : My Life in Music

by Blavat, Jerry; Clark, Dick

• ISBN13: 9780762442157
• ISBN10: 0762442158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-26
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The long-awaited autobiography of entertainment icon Jerry Blavat, You Only Rock Onceis the wildly entertaining and unfiltered story of the man whose career began at the age of 13 on the TV dance show Bandstandand became a music legend. Lifelong friendships with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, a controversial relationship with Philadelphia Mafia boss Angelo Bruno that resulted in a decade-long FBI investigation, and much more colors this amazing journey from the early 60s through today. Now, some 50 years after his first radio gig, Blavat puts it all in perspective in this uniquely American tale of a "little cockroach kid" borne out of the immigrant experience who lived the American Dream.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 13
Acknowledgments	p. 14
Prologue	p. 16
Trouble on the Home Front: Louis the Gimp	p. 17
Lifeline: Radio and TV	p. 21
The Bandstand Years: Local Celebrity	p. 35
The Street Was My Classroom	p. 55
Road Managing: Danny and the Juniors	p. 76
Breaking in as a Disc Jockey	p. 101
The TV Years	p. 167
Pied Piper: Going National	p. 186
The Lean Years: Memories in Margate	p. 223
Loyalty	p. 265
Trouble with the Law	p. 271
Beyond Teens	p. 310
Index	p. 348
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