MBHOF Books
 Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces
By Arthur Singer and Ron Goodman
The history of downtown Boston movie theaters and movie going over the past 120 years is chronicled in a new book by author Arthur Singer and photographer Ron Goodman. Through compelling images and fascinating stories, Singer and Goodman take the reader through decades of Boston movie going, recalling the golden era of Boston’s Washington Street movie palaces, world premieres, road shows, and the sheer enjoyment of “going downtown to the movies.” This is a book for those who remember those days and for those interested in this major piece of Boston history and the history of motion pictures.
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 Radio My Way
By Ron Della Chiesa
With Erica Ferencik
With a voice as smooth as a Charlie Parker alto saxophone solo, Boston broadcasting icon Ron Della Chiesa has brought music and musical legends alive for over thirty-five years. These are the inside stories of Della Chiesa’s career in radio. Discover Boston's vibrant music scene as only Ron can tell it: through his interviews with everyone from opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, to jazz artists Dizzy Gillespie and Dave McKenna, beloved song legends Rosemary Clooney and Bobby Short, composers David Raksin and Andre Previn, the brilliant raconteur Jean Shepherd, to his close friend, musical legend Tony Bennett.
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 Boston Radio:
1920-2010
By Donna L. Halper
Boston’s radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America’s first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service. Nationally known bandleaders like Joe Rines and Jacques Renard were first heard on Boston radio, as was one of the first weathercasters, E. B. Rideout. The city has been home to a number of legendary announcers, such as Bob and Ray, Arnie Ginsburg, Dick Summer, Dale Dorman and Charles Laquidara; talk show giants like Jerry Williams and David Brudnoy; and sports talkers like Eddie Andelman and Glenn Ordway. Many Boston radio personalities, such as Curt Gowdy, “Big Brother” Bob Emery, Don Kent and Louise Morgan, found fame on television but first established themselves on Boston’s airwaves. Since 1920, Boston radio has remained vibrant, proving that live and local stations are as important as ever.
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 Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio and the Life in Between
By Steve Elman and Alan Tolz
At the peak of his influence on WRKO Radio in Boston in the mid-1980s, when he helped repeal a seatbelt law and ran a one man wrecking crew against Michael Dukakis’s presidential campaign, Jerry Williams was dubbed “The Dean of Talk Radio.” What few knew was that Jerry wasn’t merely the Dean, he was also arguably the Inventor. It was in 1957 that the Brooklyn-born talk show host first put listeners on the air at the old WMEX in Boston-after primitive time-delay technology made it possible to bleep callers’ naughty words. From then on, while guys named King and Limbaugh were cutting their teeth at the microphone, Williams set standards for the form. He stood up for civil rights when such talk could get you killed, questioned Vietnam long before Walter Cronkite, savaged Richard Nixon while forty-nine states were reelecting him and put frank talk about sex on the air when Howard Stern was still a DJ.
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