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| | Alan Freed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While Alan Freed called himself the "father of rock and roll", he was not the first to play it on the airwaves but he is credited for coining and popularizing the term "Rock and Roll" to describe a style of music. | | | Alan Freed, also known as Moondog (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc-jockey (DJ) who became internationally known for promoting African-American Rhythm and Blues (RandB) music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of Rock and Roll. | | | These sounds were heard in places such as Liverpool, England where the individuals who later became famous as The Beatles were also listening and attempting to copy the music they heard. |
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| | Freed, Alan |
| | Famous disc jockey Alan Freed was born near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1921. | | | Freed was inducted as one of the original members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | | | Freed became associated with live "rock & roll" concerts, which were often transmitted by radio. |
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| | Freed_1954 |
| | His many dances and in person shows in the northern Ohio area continue to attract record breaking crowds, and it is widely reported that at least one third of the audience at these shows are White teenagers proving the crossover appeal of the performers and their music. | | | This was the year when the sound of Rhythm and Blues moved into the country's mainstream and White teenagers across the land began to listen and dance to the "big beat'. | | | The prime mover in this conversion was disc jockey Alan Freed. |
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| | ALAN FREED |
| | In 1959, Freed was implicated in a scheme in which disc jockeys received payments from record companies to play certain songs. | | | ALAN FREED, the disc jockey credited with naming rock & roll, was born Albert James Freed on December 21, 1921, near Johnstown, PA. In 1933 the Freed family moved to Salem, Ohio. | | | One of the most important popularizers of rock and roll during the '50s, Alan Freed was the first disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll. |
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| | Adrian Freed, Research Director CNMAT. Additive Synthesis, FFT, Musical hyperMedia, Analog Synthesiszer, hitsquick |
| | Freed, A., "MacMix: Mixing Music with a Mouse", Proceedings of the 12th International Computer Music Conference, The Hague, 1986, Computer Music Association. | | | Freed, A. and D. Wessel Communication of Musical Gesture using the AES/EBU Digital Audio Standard. | | | Freed, A. Music and Audio Technology Projects to Stir the Imagination," Computer Music Journal 20(2). |
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| | "Rock, Rock, Rock!" / The Alan Freed Story DVD |
| | The dean of rock music historians, Michael Ochs, describes the innocence of the early Alan Freed concerts when 50% of the audience was black and 50% white. | | | The biggest bonus is the last half of the film is all music, when Alan Freed brings his show to the hero’s prom. | | | Veteran musician Red Holloway speaks of America’s narrow-mindedness when radio stations across the country decided to destroy records of this Rock and R&B music they considered to be damaging to the morals of American’s teenagers. |
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| | Radio Hall of Fame - Alan Freed, disc jockey |
| | In 1954, Freed moved to WINS/New York, where he featured rock and roll& early performers, including Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. | | | During a decade when radio was losing its biggest stars to television, Alan Freed revived the medium with the music he labeled “rock and roll.&; | | | Despite his personal tragedies, Freed’s innovations helped make rock and roll and the Top-40 format permanent fixtures of radio. |
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| | Alan Freed |
| | He has always been given the credit he deserves for doing more than anyone to promote and popularize the music that changed the world, music that he truly loved, our music. | | | would rapidly propel rock 'n' roll, and Freed's career, to the position of prominence in the music business that both would soon enjoy while ironically, it simultaneously focused blame for juvenile delinquency squarely on our music. | | | Tragically, the father of rock 'n' roll music died little more than five years later on January 20, 1965, heartbroken, penniless and alcoholic. |
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| | Lou Ford: Alan Freed's Radio: Pitchfork Review |
| | Though Alan Freed's Radio does feel immediately familiar-- like it "fits" somehow-- it's only toward the end of the record, when the music is winding down, that we realize that the time this music fits isn't really ours. | | | All I can say for certain about the music is that it's heavy with guitar work, and consequently, Alan Freed's Radio seems to cover a lot of musical ground in only fifteen tracks. | | | In the end, the elements that make Alan Freed's Radio such an enjoyable listen are the same ones that utterly separate it from today's music scene. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/lou-ford/alan-freeds-radio.shtml
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| | This Day in History |
| | Alan Freed, disc jockey of the popular radio show Rock 'n' Roll Party, produces his first rock and roll dance concert in New York at the St. Nicholas Arena. | | | The self-dubbed "King of the Moondoggers" (who actually preferred classical music) spoke to listeners as if they all belonged to a hip kingdom, united by their affinity for the same music. | | | The Moondog had to stop using his popular moniker in 1954; he had borrowed it from the song "Moondog Symphony," recorded by a blind New York City street musician who won a court battle with Freed, which stripped Freed of the ability to use the name. |
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| | ALAN FREED ~ "On The Record" |
| | Listen for Freed's famous trademarks - ringing a cowbell, pounding on phone books, and his enthusiasm for the music - singing along with the records. | | | I have listed the recordings which I own, and others that I know of, that were taken from Alan Freed's radio broadcasts. | | | The music is different, too, much closer to "mainstream rock and roll" - the watered-down vanillafied caucasian establishment version of "what teenagers ought to listen to" - than to his old "blues and rhythm" format. |
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| | Paula-Abdul.net Mr. Rock N Roll - The Alan Freed Story |
| | Nelson stars as the controversial Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, the man credited with introducing rock 'n' roll to white audiences. | | | When disc jockey Alan Freed began playing a | | | Pic begins production in Vancouver today (Aug 16) and is scheduled for broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 17. |
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| | Alan Freed |
| | It seems Alan Freed was always faced with controversy, he was given the opportunity to host a T.V. dance show similar to Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" but when Frankie Lymon danced with a white girl on air, it caused the cancellation of the show. | | | In 1951 he hosted a show sponsored by a local record store owner Leo Mintz, it was here that he coined the phrase "Rock 'N' Roll", trying to lessen the opposition to RandB or "race music" by white audiences. | | | His trademark introduction was "Hello everybody, how y'all" and later to the sound of the cowbell "This is Alan Freed, King of the Moondoggers". |
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| | ALAN FREED - Los Angeles CityBeat |
| | It certainly helps to have some broadcast support, but we are in an age where people have the power in their own hands to go explore and acquire music. | | | A former webcaster at pioneering Internet dance station GrooveRadio.com, Alan Freed is the music director for three of XM’s four dance channels, as well as an on-air host and news segment producer. | | | CityBeat: How does dance music survive without the support of FM radio? |
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http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1803&IssueNum=93
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Alan Freed |
| | Freed had a high school band called the Sultans of Swing but as a DJ he would eventually become one of the pioneers of the rock and roll movement, even being credited with turning a minor phrase in black slang into an accepted part of the English language. | | | In the late forties 45rpm vinyl discs began playing and radio stations created a new job the Disc Jockey (DJ) | | | Alan Freed may not have caused the change in music but he was at the right place at the right time and in tune with the changes that were occurring in American music. |
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| | Tower Records - Alan Freed's Rock Rock Rock |
| | Legendary DJ Alan Freed hosts the prom in the film, which also features appearances by Frankie Lyman, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, LaVerne Baker, and the Johnny Burnette Trio. | | | That's the plot of this musical relic, which showcases many of the early faces of rock 'n roll. | | | Tower Records - Alan Freed's Rock Rock Rock |
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| | XMFan.com :: #1 Fan Site of XM Satellite Radio :: Alan Freed: Like or Hate ? |
| | That may be fine for Top 40, where most of the songs and artists are known anyway, but for dance, I WANT artist info, and facts since they are hard to find; I don't want a bunch of endless pop-culture drivel by some deep voiced, ultra slick, hokey, full of himself typical dj. | | | They do do a good job at this, but you never hear anything about the music or artists they play. | | | My suggestion was quit listening and stop bitching if you hate him that much. |
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| | Alan Freed |
| | Known as the “Moondog”, he played the songs of the African-American artists and not the more popular white covers of the music. | | | His career took a violent turn for the worst when Congress launched an investigation of bribery within music broadcasting. | | | The famous Moondog Coronation Balls, begun by Freed, were huge among the youth who got to see all of their favorite artists live, including the Dominos. |
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| | LookSmart Oldies - Best results for "Alan Freed" |
| | One of the most popular and influential pioneering radio disc jockeys&; Alan "Moondog" Freed helped make Cleveland&; an early hotbed... | | | List of Those Freed From Death Row Innocence: List... | | | Slang Movie Quotes Dead People Elvis TV Westerns Go To MOONDOG'S CORONATION BALL Listen to Alan Freed! |
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| | "Mr. Rock and Roll: The Alan Freed Story" |
| | Freed was one of the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but was seemingly black-balled by other DJs in the 60s? | | | He was an American pop music icon who was drummed out of the business for his liberal social views. | | | I think it's incredibly ironic, but I'm also very happy that posthumously, at least, he was recognized for his great contribution to American pop music/culture. |
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| | ALAN FREED |
| | Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Freed first attracted attention in 1951 as a WJW, Cleveland, disc jockey specializing in the latest RandB recordings. | | | Although his large broadcast audience constituted a major source of power within the record industry, it paled next the near-monopoly enjoyed on television by Dick Clark’s American Bandstand or the king-making positions of a select group of record label executives and producers. | | | For example, he steadfastly refused to play cover versions of rhythm and blues originals on his radio programs in the 1950s. |
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| | "Mr. Rock and Roll: The Alan Freed Story" |
| | And I hope that this project can help raise the awareness of how important Alan Freed was to the development of American pop music and culture. | | | We had that incredible music blasting through the speakers, and I'm up there at the microphone asking the kids if they are ready to Rock and Roll! | | | The best part was when we were staging the live shows, and we had 300 people in the auditorium. |
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| | Alan Freed's grave |
| | Was the first DJ to use the term "Rock N Roll" and played the new music non stop. | | | DJ who popularized Rock N Roll through his radio show and will always be remembered for that. | | | I have recently moved Alan Freed's ashes to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio from Ferncliff in NY. |
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| | Rolling Stone : Alan Freed Rock, Rock, Rock! : Review |
| | Home : reviews : CD Reviews : Alan Freed Rock, Rock, Rock! | | | Intro-Hosting The Moondog Show (track not available in Rhapsody) | | | Vote for your favorite Rolling Stone 'Hot' Cover! |
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| | RT40RR - The Dave Saviet Collection! |
| | The music on this aircheck is rarely heard these days. | | | You'll hear him use the word "original" more than once - a reference to cover versions by white Pop artists that were getting airplay on more traditional music stations of the day. | | | It was also common for Freed to identify the label of each record he played. |
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| | Rock pioneer Freed's ashes on display at rock hall |
| | Freed, who died in 1965 at age 43, popularized the term “rock 'n' roll&; as a Cleveland disc jockey and the city staked its claim to the rock hall on his legacy. | | | Freed was part of the first class of rock hall inductees in 1986. | | | An urn containing his ashes is on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. |
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| | BIG BEAT LEGENDS 1950s - Buy the DVD! - ALAN FREED "THE BIG BEAT" 1957 |
| | A very nervous Bobby Darin takes over the hosting duties for Alan Freed on Freed's NYC-based teen, music dance show (in the tradition of American Bandstand.) Multi-racial teenagers dance and hold hands. | | | The history of rock and roll on television. | | | Host Herb Sheldon MCs this NYC-based teen dance TV show. |
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| | XMFan.com :: #1 Fan Site of XM Satellite Radio :: Alan Freed... |
| | What you see as a "dork" I see as someone with a passion for the station and music he programs. | | | Check out our hands-on review of XM's newest portable radio with MP3 features and 50 hours of XM music storage! | | | XMFan.com :: #1 Fan Site of XM Satellite Radio :: Alan Freed... |
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| | music "rock and roll." He was born Aldon James Freed December 21, 1921. | | | Alan Freed is the disc jockey and promoter, that was said to be credited with naming a new | | | In 1986 Freed was among the original inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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| | Fifties Web looks at Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball |
| | He wanted a concert to celebrate the new teen music. | | | Alan Freed wanted to reward his loyal listeners, his Moondoggers. | | | Neither Lew Platt (the actual promoter) nor Alan Freed nor Rendezvous Records, his radio show sponsor, had any idea how many people would come. |
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| | RWonline - RW Special Report |
| | The event included a catered reception, ribbon-cutting ceremony with Freed's daughter-in-law and looped playback of classic Freed broadcasts. | | | It coincides with a new exhibit on the life and career of the legendary rock and roll broadcaster. | | | After a swift ribbon-cutting ceremony, Freed strode into the studio and pushed a button on the console, launching a montage of broadcasts made by the self-proclaimed "King of the Moondoggers" and played over the sound system throughout the museum. |
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| | Alan Freed's Radio - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | LOU FORD are: Alan Edwards, Chad Edwards (vocals, guitar); John Morris (Hammond organ); Mark Lynch (bass); Darrell Ussery (drums).Magnet (1-2/01, p.98) - "...This is the indescribable, sadly soothing, almost-familiar music that's fallen between the cracks of everything else....the kind of deceptively simple music that lost its audience 20 years ago, back in the... | | | Alan Freed's Radio - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | CouponMountain.com: Free Dell Coupons, discount codes and more. |
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| | ALAN FREED'S TOP 25 CHARTS |
| | They thus reflect his own tastes and prejudices at least as much as his listeners' preferences. | | | It must be remembered that Freed was able to "create" whatever "Top 25" he chose, despite his claims that they were the results of a "survey" of requests and of record sales, as the lists were not subject to any kind of oversight. | | | When Alan Freed was reigning as the "King of Rock 'N' Roll" on WINS radio in New York, he published weekly "Top 25" lists, five of which appear on this Web site. |
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| | Payola |
| | Clark, with more to lose, quickly gave up all his musical interests when ordered to do so by ABC-TV. | | | He paid a small fine and was released. | | | Freed who refused to deny involvement wasn't so lucky. |
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| | Alan Freed MP3 Downloads - Alan Freed Music Downloads - Alan Freed Music Videos |
| | Alan Freed MP3 Downloads - Alan Freed Music Downloads - Alan Freed Music Videos | | | Before the payola scandal brought down his empire, Alan Freed was rock & roll's first superstar DJ, hosting his own TV show, starring in numerous quickie film musicals, and wielding enormous influence within the R&B and rock communities. | | | He's often credited with coining the phrase "rock & roll." Freed's name appears on many various-artists collections from the genre's early years, and he even... |
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| | The Alan Freed Story: Mr. Rock 'n' Roll - 1999 (TV) |
| | Eventually, he went into the big time - New York, and he decided to dub this music "ROCK & ROLL". | | | However, Freed believed that it's the next wave, so he fights to have it played on the air. | | | Notify me of updates to The Alan Freed Story: Mr. |
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| | VH1.com : Alan Freed : Artist Main |
| | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Before the payola scandal brought down his empire, Alan Freed was rock & roll's first superstar DJ, hosting his own TV show, starring in numerous quickie film musicals, and wielding enormous influence within the R&B and rock communities. | | | Add a link to your "Alan Freed" fan site on VH1.com! |
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| | Alan L. Freed Associates Non-partisan Public Policy Workshops since 1976 |
| | Over 400 "Washington Insiders" have made presentations in the past 25 years. | | | Alan L. Freed Associates Inc. specializes in the design and development of Public Policy Seminars for senior managers and executives from the federal government. | | | Since 1976, Alan L. Freed Associates Inc. has specialized in the design and development of non-partisan Public Policy Seminars for the senior managers and executives of the federal government. |
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| | AMCTV.com SHOW - Don't Knock the Rock |
| | Real rock stars of the day - including Little Richard, who performs Tutti Frutti," and Bill Haley and the Comets, who perform the title track - conspire with a local DJ (Alan Freed, playing himself) to prove to the town that rock 'n' roll poses no threat." | | | A successful rock star (Alan Dale) wants to return to his hometown, but the adults in town pass laws to prevent any musical ruckus. | | | AMC Movie Camp: Make a movie in a week! |
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| | BuddyHolly.com The Official Community of Buddy Holly |
| | Alan Freed was the quintessential Rock and Roll disc jockey of the era. | | | Born on December 15, 1921 near Johnstown PA, he began his first broadcasting job in 1942 at WKST in New Castle, PA. In 1945, Freed became a local favorite at WAKR in Akron, Ohio, playing hot jazz and pop recordings. | | | In 1954, Freed was hired by WINS radio in New York where he promoted Rock & Roll artists of all colors. |
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| | Alan Freed (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Alan Freed, XM Satellite Radio disc-jockey and Music director (2005) | | | This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name. | | | Alan Freed, 1950s disc-jockey called Moondog heard on WINS, New York and other stations |
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| | Alan Freed, Jr. |
| | "Alan Freed Jr." is a con man, a scam artist, who preys on the good-hearted folks of San Francisco. | | | You told me a story of who you were and the deal you were proposing. | | | His scam is conning people with a story of having a really nice car, usually filled with sandwiches he makes to give to the poor and homeless, which is in a parking garage he can't pay for. |
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| | Shaken Baby Syndrome/Vaccines/Yurko Project |
| | Alan's detailed recounting of events and emotions surrounding the birth and death of his son | | | Alan's Ohio Parole Situation after his Florida prison release | | | On this site are varied presentations of the baby Alan story, a glaring example of what |
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| | But there were other places where the sound of the harmonizing groups held forth. | | | The most famous date there was the first Alan Freed show after he came to New York's station WINS. | | | I remember St. Nick's as a big old barn and heard that it was the site of many professional prize fights over the years, but that magical night in January of 1955 it was the center of the universe. |
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