TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ JOEY CARVELLO # 147 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA

Author / DJ Joey Carvello unboxes his book, “The Boston Hustle: The Hairspray, the Cologne, the Disco & the Betrayal“ right here on True House Stories.

In this first-hand account of disco history, learn how Joey Carvello rode the cultural explosion of disco, and how record labels conspired to destroy disco’s independent power. But over the past three decades, Joey helped to reshape themusic landscape in a number of ways. Carvello got his start as a DJ in Boston where, along with jocks like John Luongo, he put the city on the map as one of the most important disco centers outside of New York City. He then transformedthe sound of Boston's radio dial when he took over as program director of KISS 108 in 1980.

It quickly became the city's highest-rated Top 40 station,introducing a dancer sensibility to the airwaves.

In the late ’80s Carvello moved on to Atlantic Records, overseeing a dance department that had a string of hit records from the likes of Little Louie Vega, Marc Anthony and Robin S. Moving on to hip hop, Carvello then joined up with Priority and TVT in the ’90s and ’00s and played an instrumental role in the careers of Snoop Dogg, Lil Jon and Pitbull. Nowadays, Carvello is a resident DJ at New York City’s Mobile Mondays – a party where the selectors only play 45s from their collections. We’ll be teaming up with the crew there when we come to New York later this month with Bobbito Garcia, Amir Abdullah and our very own Chairman Mao also set to play. (More details here.)

You will hear him promoting his book "The Boston Hustle" which is about his first part of this life in the music business. He describes it as a wild ride and I believe you will as well.

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