NJ Hall of Fame 2008
Monday, February 02, 2009
This year's crop of inductees to the New Jersey Hall of fame were announced this morning. Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman of Weird New Jersey, who are also on the voting panel, discuss the picks.
Who do you want in the New Jersey Hall of Fame? Comment below!
Comments [32]
Frederica von Stade, Eileen Farrell, Meryl Streep, Flip Wilson, Cissy Houston, Sarah Vaughan, Dionne Warwick
How about John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Shockley- inventors of the transistor. Dennis Ritchie- developer of UNIX and the C language. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson- first to hear the Big Bang. Science and Engineering in NJ has changed the world (Edison and Einstein are already in the NJ hall of fame).
Speaking of boxers who trained in NJ: During the Roaring Twenties Rock Lodge Club in Stockhom,NJ was a training camp for Jack Dempsey (and other boxers),and in 1932 it was established as a nudist club, which continues today.
For more details, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Lodge_Club
Muhammad Ali lived in Cherry Hill starting in 1971
Rupert Pupkin,from Clifton NJ the Comedian Robert Diniro played in the movie King of Comedy
to Elsie from Brooklyn
NO- a thousand times... from Camden!
John Travolta
Sarah Jessica Parker
Eddie Murphy
Glenn Miller
I nominate the Paterson punk rocker who broke my heart in the late seventies.
Also, Lou Costello raised millions for charity, and there is a children's hospital named for him in Paterson.
Peter Sagal
How 'bout Jean Sheppard... WOR host of 1960's-1970's, author of A Christmas Story... and much humor
Muhammad Ali (lived in Cherry Hill beginning in 1971)
Dorothy Parker, who apparently hated the fact that she was born in Long Branch---and moved as soon as she could to New York.
Martha Stewart---a Jersey Girl through and through, from Nutley
William Paterson
Arturo Gatti! He's from Canada but he fought his whole career in Jersey.
And of course Redman, he kept Newark on the hip-hop map all through the 90s.
Rudy Van Gelder:
as wikipedia says -- Frequently regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history,[1] Van Gelder is one of the legendary behind-the-scenes figures in jazz, recording several hundred jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics. Bringing an unprecedented clarity to jazz recording, Van Gelder has recorded many of the great names in the genre, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, and many others.
Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Also:
Danny Devito, Jack Nicholson, William Carlos Williams, Count Basie, the Four Seasons, Bruce Springsteen & Steve Van Zandt, Robert Pinsky, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Sarah Vaughan, Dorothy Parker, Ernie Kovacs, Frank Sinatra, Meryl Streep.
Stephen Colbert
Philip Roth, not only because he was born in Jersey, but because NJ figures so prominently in his work.
Mark and Mark have done more for NJ than any of those other folks!
where is Woodrow Wilson?
Max Weinburg - The Boss's amazing drummer in the E Street band!!
Martha Stewart
Annie Oakley!
Paul Robeson
jimmy hoffa (not a native, but a permanent resident).
What's the criteria here? Anyone who ever lived in Jersey? Because Walt Whitman was from NY.
Althea Gibson, sure do!
Jon Stewart if he's not in there.
Jon Stewart!
Edmund Wilson (literary critic), Philip Roth, and Allen Ginsberg.
the fugees
Patti Smith
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