Ted Clark

By vocation, R. Theodore Clark, Jr.—Ted Clark to his many friends—is an acclaimed lawyer who has represented hundreds of primarily public sector clients in Illinois and elsewhere since his graduation from the University of Michigan Law School. Over the years he has authored or co-authored over 50 published articles and books, including the first law school textbook on public sector labor law. 

By avocation, Ted is an avid record collector. He started collecting in 1955, the year the “Rock Around The Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets became the first Rock ‘n’ Rock” record to top the charts in both the US and the UK. The mid to late 50s were a fertile period in the development of Rock ‘n’ Roll as a major force in music in the US and elsewhere, especially in the UK, Europe, and Australia. Ted was fortunate to have witnessed this firsthand. The records selected for this book were among the records he had in his collection in the 1950s. It was his fascination with how these records were covered repeatedly by later artists such as The Beatles and the influence that they had on those artists that eventually led to this book.