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Bob Terrell is the author of more
than fifty books, mostly about humor, travel, biography, and gospel music. He authored J.
D. Sumner's autobiography, Gospel Music
Is My Life; the story of the Chuck
Wagon Gang, A Legend Lives On, as well as What A Wonderful Time,
the story of The Inspirations. Bob lives in Asheville, North Carolina. |
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| Bob's MUSIC Books | |
Bob Terrell has been a lifelong connoisseur of quartet singing, and as a professional writer for more than fifty years, he has approached Gospel music with the attention of one who wants to preserve its traditions. That's what he has done in this book, |
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| THE MUSIC MEN -Now in its second printing-  Bob Terrell, Mountain Church 1-57090-123-6, Biography 6x9, trade paper 332 pages.well illustrated |
Here, almost in the flesh, are those great men (and a few women) of bygone days who rode the byways of America, singing Gospel songs. Bob Terrell spent more than twenty years interviewing old-timers and gathering information on the Vaughans and the Stamps, the Blackwoods and Fowlers, the LeFevres, Speers, Listers, McCoys, and all the others who pioneered Gospel quartet singing. With this information, he reconstructed those people and finally wrote the story of Gospel music, s true Southern American folk music. |
In these pages, these
people come alive, for this is a people book. Terrell chose not to write a textbook style
about organizations and agencies, but to write about the people, showing their attributes
and sometimes their warts, their ingenuity and their humor -- and above all, their ability
to sing and their tremendous desire to do so. |
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| WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME The real story of our first 35 years 'Looking at America through the windshield of a bus' |
 Bob Terrell, Mountain Church 1-57090-096-5, Religion 6x9, hardback with dust jacket, illustrations, 300 pages. |
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| Bob's SPORTS | |
 Bob Terrell, WorldComm® 1-56664-094-6, Biography 6x9, trade paper 224 pages, well illustrated |
The fantastic story of Charlie "Choo Choo"
Justice and the football team that put North Carolina in the big-time. The most
comprehensive book ever about a sports legend and the teams he played on. Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice - all-Southern, all-Service, all-American, all-everything—was arguably the greatest football player ever in the South a half-century ago, and his story has finally been told by Bob Terrell, a sports writer who actually covered games Justice played, in a book titled ALL ABOARD! Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice. |
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fantastic high school football career ever; Charlie's tremendous gridiron accomplishments
in the navy during World War II; his four years of All-Southern and two years All-American
at the University of North Carolina, plus his career with the Washington Redskins. All this by a football player whose weight never exceeded 170 pounds! Justice tells the story of those great years on the gridiron when football made its transition from the days of leather helmets and high-topped shoes to the streamlined game it is today. He also reveals how he was a puny child who missed the first two years of school because of ill health, and of how his family’s physician, Dr. Joe Sevier, said in the late 1930s that Charlie would never be able to play football like his three older brothers, Jack, Joe, and Bill, who had starred for Asheville High School, and his younger brother, Neil, who was coming along. But so intense was Charlie’s desire to play that he overcame his physical difficulties, and as a 150-pound tailback, slashed through the 290-pound professional behemoths in service football to become the most valuable player for Bainbridge (MD) Naval Training Station for two undefeated seasons. His high school career produced records that probably will never be exceeded. As a triple-threat tailback in the single-wing formation, he was the big punch as Asheville High ground out undefeated seasons in 1941 and ’42, battering 20 opponents. In the latter year, Asheville played a schedule that included Knoxville and Kingsport, TN; Columbia and Greenville, SC; Tech High of Atlanta; and even a junior college team, Brevard (NC) College, and Charlie led the Maroons to an undefeated nine-game season in which Asheville scored 44 1 points and held the opposition to six, those scored on an Asheville fumble at the goal line. Asheville beat Hickory (NC) High, 94-0, that season, and the Hickory coach afterward said, "Shucks, I was pulling for ’em. I never saw a team score a hundred points." Justice carried the ball 128 times that season for 2,385 yards, an average per carry of 18.63 yards. He was a triple-threat tailback who ran, passed, and punted, and his most amazing statistic came from two of those areas. In 1942, he punted 19 times for an average of 42.74 yards. He scored 27 touchdowns and averaged 41.37 yards per touchdown run. Thus, his punts traveled one yard, 13 inches farther than his average touchdown. Duke University, one of the great football powers of that day, recruited the entire starting eleven to see what they could do together in college football, but World War II prevented that from happening. After a brilliant three-season career playing service football, which was tantamount to pro football, Justice enrolled at the University of North Carolina and led the Tar Heels to three major bowl games, the Sugar Bowl twice and the Cotton Bowl once, the only times until then that the Tar Heels had played in a major bowl. Carolina’s record during the Justice years was 32-6-2, third best in the nation, and 22 players off the Justice teams played in the National Football League. Bob Terrell—a leading sportswriter for decades—actually covered Justice games. Charlie was first team All-American twice and was twice runner-up for the coveted Heisman Award, losing to Notre Dame’s Leon Hart after the 1948 season and to SMU’s Doak Walker after 1949. Even after a half-century, old-timers in North Carolina still talk about the "Justice Era." Justice’s career with the Washington Redskins was outstanding though not spectacular. He became the Redskins’ third all-time leading rusher, but after 14 seasons his heart was not entirely in football, and he quit after the 1954 season and hung up his spikes. George Preston Marshall, owner of the Redskins, put Charlie to work in the broadcast booth, working with play-by-play man Jim Gibbons, and Charlie became the first "color man" to help announce games from the television booth, paving the way for John Madden, Lynn Swann, and a hundred others who are gainfully employed by networks today. The Justice story is inspiring, tailored to fit the minds of the youngest generation as well as those of older folk. Kids will be able to see how this puny youngster overcame tremendous difficulties just to play the game, and then to see how his great heart carried him to the uppermost heights. |
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| Humor by Bob Terrell | |
Haw! Haw! Haw! |
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| By popular demand Bob Terrell brings you another book of humor, designed only to make you laugh; his first such in fifteen years. Rib ticklers and belly laughs. Some are old stories, some new; Terrell has selected his favorites, those that have kept him laughing for many years. Trade paperback, 260 pages, 6x9. | |
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| LOCAL HISTORY by Bob Terrell | |
Historic Asheville |
Asheville, North Carolina was once a
frontier town as tough as Tombstone or Dodge City. It had Indian fights, scalpings,
shootouts, street brawls, hangings, cattle drives, wagon trains, saloons, and other
unsavory elements. Turn back the hands of time and relive this exciting part of Carolina
history, indeed a mirror of America's pioneer past. |
$10.00 plus $2.50 S&H |
The Will Harris Murders
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night of November 13, 1906, Asheville, North Carolina was as tough as Tombstone and Dodge
City rolled into one as a murderer ran amok. A Charlotte outlaw shot and killed five men,
including two policemen. The murder spree took place on Pack Square and Eagle Street,
involving several other citizens in the gunfire. A well-written, factual piece of North
Carolina law enforcement history. |
| WESTERN NOVELS by Bob Terrell | |
Diamonds in the Dust |
An exciting story of honor fulfilled |
Bob Terrell,
Alexander Books™ |
Yale man John Quay faces a tangled spiderweb
trail of lies, deception, and death. |
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On the run from a poker game gone bad, Tecumseh Catring stops and deals with his enemies, leading him to accept the job of Town Marshal. He quit running in Lone Pine and reluctantly accepted the lawman's star to deal with hired killers and a budding range war. |
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Spud Pomeroy was one unlucky cowpoke, and things go from bad to worse! He couldn't shoot, had an unlucky streak a mile wide, and had to deal with one of the meanest men in the West, a hired killer. |
