Selected Bibliography - Anthony Buccino

1974-1998

plus collected works

1974

11/14 Rock Review - Poco Concert Disconcerting, (Belleville Times/News)

1975

1/30 Record Review - A new Dylan: A new album (BTN)

2/20 Rock Concert Review - Sha Na Na delivers the goods (BTN)

3/6 BRN Rock Concert Review - David Bromberg; playing, feeling (BTN)

3/20 Record Review: Lennon's latest lacking (BTN/IP/GRP)

4/3 Concert Review: Virgil Fox's 'Heavy' Bach/Bach by Fox (BTN IP/GRP)

4/24 In Father-Son Reading Poet Ginsberg: 'Keep on breathing'

Anthony Hears the Ginsbergs (BTN IP/GRP)

5/22 Let's Get Away For A While (IP/GRP)

5/22 "Blood on the Tracks" For Bob Dylan fans (IP/GRP)

5/29 "Dumptruck on gravel," John Prine reviewed (IP/GRP)

6/12 Dick Gregory's Bible (IP/GRP)

6/12 Album Review: John Prine's Riddles Rhyme (BTN)

6/19 "Comedy Collage" Excites (IP/GRP)

7/17 Cain & Abel (lost by-line) w/photo (IP/GRP)

7/24 Rock Review: Bump the Night Away w/photo (BTN)

8/7 Album Review: Ex-Byrd band: Lots like nothing (BTN)

8/21 'Raceway Park' (BTN)

9/4 Feeling Like Quasi Modo Again (IP/GRP)

9/4 "The Basement Tapes" Bob Dylan and the Band (IP/GRP)

9/11 Album Review: 'The Basement Tapes' (BTN)

9/18 Rock Concert Review: Edgar Winter Group pounds it out (BTN)

9/25 Loud, Louder, Loudest - Edgar Winter Group (IP/GRP)

10/75 Show Review: Nothing is sacred (BTN)

10/9 "National Lampoon Show" A review (IP/GRP)

10/16 Chapin's lyrics heart of Portrait Gallery(IP/GRP)

10/30 Overwhelmed by "Labelle", (at Bloomfield College) (IP/GRP)

11/6 THE MUSIC SCENE: Labelle overwhelms; Chapin lyrical (BTN)

11/6 Paul Simon crosses bridge to Montclair (IP/GRP)

11/13 Dealing with a real pro - Jean Shepherd talks (with Dawn)(IP/GRP)

11/20 CONCERT REVIEW: Simon: a 'delightful' performer (BTN)

11/20 Lori Anne, a poem, (IP/GRP)

11/26 ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW: 'What you don't see on the radio' (BTN)

12/11 Album Review: Carlin is four for 14, (BTN)

12/11 'KEEN OBSERVATIONS...FROM THE GUTTER' (IP/GRP)

12/25 "An Evening with Judy" (Independent Press of Bloomfield/The Glen Ridge Paper)

12/31 CONCERT REVIEW: An evening with Judy Collins (BTN)

1976

Days You Knew Me poetry chapbook

1/15 Job Rock In Prose (IP SDMF)

1/22 'Crisis? What Crisis? Eared to Supertramp (IP)

1/29 ALBUM REVIEW: Rankin's 'Inside': heaven to the ears (BTN)

1/29 Kenny Rankin - INSIDE (IP)

2/12 DYLAN'S DESIRE: From 'Hurricane' to Emmylou (BTN)

2/12 HERE IT IS! Anthony Review Dylan's "Desire" (IP/GRP)

3/4 Peter Pan Superstar - A review (GRP)

4/15 ROCK REVIEW: 'Queen': give them a chance (BTN)

4/22 "A Night at the Opera" Hard Rock by Queen (IPGRP)

4/29 'Magic Show' makes splash at Montclair State (BTN)

5/6 Reviews "Live Bullet" (IP)

5/13 Doug Henning (IP)

5/20 Tubes/Seger (IP/BTN)

5/27 Cocker review (IP/BTN)

6/3 Talkin Bout My Generation (IP)

6/17 Louden Wainright (BTN)

6/27 Generation 2, (IP)

6/27 Louden Wainright (IP)

7/1 About My Generation (IP)

7/1 Carpenters review (IP)

7/8 Generation (IP)

7/8 Nazareth

7/8 Carpenters (IP/BTN)

7/15 The Glasses (IP)

7/15 Wednesday Night Live IP/GRP

7/22 Memories of Brookdale Soda (IP, AFP )

7/22 Everybody's Trying To Get Into The Circle (IP)

7/29 Newark is No Place (IP,SDMF)

7/29 Rod Stewart, review (IP)

8/5 Beach Boys, review (IP)

8/12 Beatles review (IP)

8/19 Armatrading review

8/19 Rod Stewart/Beach Boys (IP/BTN)

9/9 C & C, Furey, Armatrading, Dion IP,BTN

9/16 My Generation

9/16 One Night at the Town Pub (BTN/IP, AFP)

9/23 Belushi review, (IP,BTN)

10/14 Let's Have A War, Ozark Mtn. (IP)

10/21 Havens, Scapino, (IP)

10/28 The Rose Tattoo, review (IP)

11/4 Circus review, Havens, Walker, Ozark (IP/BTN)

11/11 Ajaye, Circus photos (IP)

11/18 Fiddler review, music poll, Black Sabbath (IP)

11/25 Jewels at Thanksgiving (IP, SDMF)

11/25 Baez review (IP)

12/2 Long May You Run, (IP)

12/9 Cher, R. Pryor, Andre Kole, (IP)

12/16 Leo Sayer, Doobies, (IP)

12/23 Last Minute Gifts

12/23 Don't Forget It's a Birthday Party (IP, SDMF)

12/30 Best Pop of 1976

1977

1/6 Black Sabbath/F. Ajaye/Schwartz article (BTN/GRP)

1/20 J. Baez, Stills Young/Mainstream Jazz (BTN/IP)

1/27 John Prine: Dump Truck on gravel, album review (IP)

1/27 Best of 1976

The History of Coffee (By Mike Cleveland, Herald News)

2/3 Subject Was Roses, theater review (IP)

2/10 You Never Heard of Uncle Floyd? (IP)

2/17 West Side Story, theater review/Sat Night Live, album review (IP)

2/27 Uncle Floyd taping & pics (IP)

3/3 Uncle Floyd/K. Carnes, Brubeck/ View From A Bridge, theater review (IP)

3/17 Uncle Floyd Welcomed (IP)

3/17 Dream City, play review

3/17 Zoning Board Meeting (Charms!), (a news story)

3/17 Milton Voodoo /JBN

3/24 Trivia Contest, Symph. (IP/GRP)

3/31 Oklahoma, theater review (IP)

4/7 America (IP)

4/14 George Harrison, Trivia Contest Results (IP)

4/28 Joan Armatrading, review (IP)

5/5 Lani Hall (IP)

5/12 Italian & Polish Roots (w JBN) (IP)

5/12 Pablo Cruise - album review, Stop the World - theater review (IP)

5/19 Guys & Dolls - theater review, Dr. Hyde (IP)

6/2 Disco Disappointment, live performance review (IP)

6/9 Anson Williams (IP)

6/23 Kenny Rankin, (IP)

6/23 Our Anthony Walks The First Mile, wedding picture (IP)

7/7 Lofgren, Seger (IP)

7/14 Letta Mbulu, Woody Guthrie (IP)

7/28 Piper, Soundtracks (IP)

7/4 Supertramp (IP)

8/11 Andy Fairweather Low (IP)

8/18 Gary Wright (IP)

8/25 Elvis (w, JBN) (IP)

9/1 Jesse Winchester (IP)

9/15 When You Coming Back, Red Ryder, play review (EJ)

9/22 Van Morrison (EJ)

9/29 Brothers Johnson (EJ)

10/6 Marshall Tucker (EJ)

11/3 Better than the rest - Uncle Floyd (EJ)

11/10 Joan Armatrading (EJ)

12/1 Cat Stevens (Essex Journal)

12/22 Married to a Christmas Nut (IP, AFP)

12/29 Chekhov Christmas - live theater review, Bloomfield College (IP)

12/29 Debbie Boone, Gino Vanelli, Michelle Phillips

1978

4/6 Alice Cooper, Essex Journal

1983

July - A Gift For Jesse (AFP) Bloomfield Life

10/27/83 How Many Hammers Are Enough? (AFP) Bloomfield Life

1984

Last of the Old Time Kiddie Shows - Herald News, Aug. 8

1985

April - A Hare-Raising Story (AFP) NJ Monthly

1986

8/26 Archetypal man of the eighties (AFP) Bloomfield Life

1987

8/13 I Came To Laugh (AFP) Bloomfield Life

1989

New Jersey Art Directors' Club - Award for copywriting.

1990

January (Named) Belleville Times editor:

A Father's Place (essay)

Just Another Day On Police Beat

Hello In There

Day Trips

Plus, many, many additional news stories and editorials.

1991

A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection published

1992

November - Ornamental Disaster (Married to a Christmas Nut), New Jersey Monthly

New Jersey Art Directors' Club - A Father's Place, Certificate of Excellence award.

1993

4/93 Major Improvements in size, safety & services, $700 trillion debt could mean tripled tolls

            --  (NJMTA Bulletin) (a humor article for April) RR

11/93 "Perfecting a Piece of the World," book review (NJMTA Bulletin)

11/4 Who is Brother, Uncle Bim? (BP/NJ)-SDMF

11/11 Grandpa Andy bid farewell (BP/NJ-SDMF)

12/22 Lardier's Fountain on the way to school (Belleville Post/Nutley Journal)

1994

5/12 Belleville vs. Nutley: comparison of twins continues (BP/NJ)

10/13 Jesse James used a gun, not a pay phone (BP/NJ)

1995

January - Abie's Libby Valentine (NJ Federated Sportsmen)

February - Fishing Time's Coming and so are the catalogs (NJSFS/AFP)

7/20 'Baby Boomer' marooned on endless highway in cyberspace (IP/GRP/BP/NJ - RR)

8/31 School bus nine 'rules', but there were no heroes (IP/GRP/BP/NJ - SDMF)

9/21 Me cat, they mice, Cub Scouts all (IP/GRP/BP/NJ - SDMF)

1996

Sister Dressed Me Funny, essay collection published by Cherry Blossom Press

6/20 Author selected as managing editor Worrall Community Newspapers, Bloomfield office

6/20 Not really heroes, editorial (IP) = [Won second place in Annual Awards of NJ Chapter of Professional Journalists, weekly newspapers category]

6/27 New Editor found imprisoned in Belleville

7/3 Labrador competition heating up outdoors

7/11 What more can I expect from the sidekick?

7/18 Midnight fax from there to hear to my ear

7/25 And so we trust - for the grace of God

8/1 Tax dollars at work causes us concern

8/8 It's not where you fish, it's the bait you use

8/15 Keep remembering to call me Mr. Memory

8/22 Sister Dressed Me Funny, (SDMF)

8/22 Not a summer without visiting Sun Tan Lake

8/29 The chimney sweep saved my family's life

8/29 As school starts I forget sisters last names (SDMF)

9/5 I Remember Grandma's house in country (SDMF)

9/12 Dad and daughter have very special bond (AFP)

9/12 Childhood wonder leads to reality too soon

9/19 How I unwittingly bought the $110 light bulbs

9/26 Long ago joyrides near scary Monk's Castle

10/3 I Pushed Ginger Rogers around Las Vegas

10/3 An old Brookdale soda bottle rekindles refreshing memories (AFP)

10/10 Ever to paint lilies of the valley on ladder (AFP)

10/17 Sorry ladies, this husband is not for hire (AFP)

10/24 Remembering the Jersey kid one year later

11/7 You're from New Jersey, what area code?

11/21 Long parenting tradition has no Saturday off

11/28 Thanksgiving treasures from a simple bird (SDMF)

12/5 A test? Where are you tonight, Peggy Sue?

12/5 Ordinary folks risked all saving strangers (A Debt to Honor)

12/19 It's time to wake up and smell the egg nog (AFP)

12/27 Working for a living is very highly over-rated (AFP)

12/27 Peter Pan Superstar flashback (GRP)

1997

1/9 We thought we knew our cable channels

1/16 This handy dad is householdly challenged

1/23 Old Labrador knew dead wood by its bark

2/6 Watch out, Ms. Stewart, skating's contagious

3/6  Who knows how many hammers are enough (AFP)

3/13 Were dentists overcharges part of the drill?

4/24 The freshman play was more than a stage

5/1 Alas, this Yorick can suck up a bowling ball

5/8 The 25-year reunion trepidation has arrived

5/15 Cost of ethnic freedom is constant vigilance

5/22 Who are the doggies in your neighborhood?

<<5/29 Hounds howl at rambling writer's omissions (unpublished/online) >>

5/29 Holocaust survivor tells teens of tragedies (Belleville Post)

6/5 Wonder of wonders, canned soup in a jar

6/12 Everything in there was magical, top drawer

6/19 Real reasons men, women cry at weddings

6/19 School's out, summer's in

6/26 Writing the books is really the easiest part

7/3 Lawn labors lighter by more power musing

7/10 Summer peaches and gardens of tomatoes

7/17 Is there a time we'll stop missing our folks

7/24 Alas Wildcat Lake is now Catfish Pond

7/31 If you're meant to drown, you won't hang

8/7 Air raid drill memories from under the desk

8/14 Dad bought back his shoes while I napped

8/28 Boy Scouts built traditional New Jersey icon

8/21 Alas, the perfect cure for today's headache

9/4 School cafeteria crackers offered an unparalleled taste

9/11 Scenic Nutley is captured in Demmer book, book review

9/11 Martha Stewart doesn't live here - anymore

<<9/11Haunting Dar Williams songs are stuck in my head (unpublished/Online)

9/18 Remember the pretzel vendor on Saturday

9/25 How we find peace in the lawnmower's roar

10/2 'Yo, Donald Duck, hit the hay! X-ray! X-ray!'

10/8 My cousins scared me out of sleeping over

<<10/16 My Great-grandfather was a pumking (unpublished/Online) >>

10/23 It doesn't matter where or when you laugh

10/30 No parallel parking in the parallel universe

12/4 Breaker one-nine, it's time to surf the Web

12/97  Remember the children Christmas morning 

1998

October: After The Titanic

11/11 My Great-grandfather was a 'Pumking'

12/8 Family Histories Preserved In Old Photos

12/22 The Road To Hell Is Paved With Parkway Tokens

Days You Knew Me  poetry chapbook. (1976)

A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection Stories about family life, the father-son-dilemma, father-daughter dilemma, day trip vacations in New Jersey, Brookdale soda pop, too much coffee, pets, friendships and more!  (1991)

Sister Dressed Me Funny Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear. (1996)

Summer Peaches And Tomato Gardens  chapbook (1998)

Yellow Cracker School Days chapbook (1998)

Householdly Challenged chapbook (1998)

Retrieving Labrador Days chapbook (1998)

Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time Life and Growing Up In North Jersey - This collection of Buccino's essays are written from the heart and the hearth about family and surroundings. (2002)

Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom, the second edition includes more information on Belleville in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWW II, Korea, Vietnam and peacetime casualties. (2004)

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom, fourth edition, available in print or as download. (2004)

VOICES ON THE BUS -  Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.  (2008)

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY - Poems written along the Hudson River Walkway, Grundy Pier, Goldman Sachs (can of Coke), and the Colgate clock in Jersey City, N.J.  (2008)

AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty Working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey  (2009)

RETRIEVING LABRADOR DAYS dog tales in prose and verse

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

CANNED  - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY A Poetic View of Nutley,
Old and New

Paperbacks

Abbreviations:

IP/GRP - Independent Press/Glen Ridge Paper

BP/NJ - Belleville Post/Nutley Journal

BTN - Belleville Times-News

EJ - Essex Journal

Belleville!

Also, the following designations indicate the essay was later reprinted in either collection:

SDMF - Sister Dressed Me Funny

AFP - A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection

Additional Notes:

In 1977, many rock review articles were co-written with John B. Narucki.

In 1/76, The History of Coffee by Mike Cleveland of the Herald News was written based on a letter I had sent him.

The 11/75 review of Jean Shepard was co-written with Dawn Vincenti.

Additional Author's Notes

Most of the Rambling Round columns written from June 1996 to December 1997 were collected into the book.

There are more articles and stories than listed here, particularly while editor of Belleville Times, and managing editor at Worrall's four Bloomfield office newspapers.

NOTE: This is really long, didn't you have anything better to do than read all the way to the end?

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