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Alan Freed has secured a place in American music history as the first important rock 'n' roll disc jockey. His ability to tap into and promote the emerging black musical styles of the 1950s to a white mainstream audience is seen as a vital step in rock's increasing dominance over American culture.
Mar 27, 2018 · In his short life, Alan Freed was many things. A beloved disk jockey, a proponent of early integration, a television personality, a controversial figure, and a songwriter. But if there’s one thing Alan Freed is most remembered for, it’s being the “father of rock ‘n’ roll.”
Alan Freed was the most effective proselytizer rock and roll has ever known. Spreading the word from a radio pulpit that kicked off nightly to the strains of Freddie Mitchell’s “Moondog Boogie,” Freed kept time to the music by smashing his hand on a telephone book.
Alan Freed did not coin the phrase rock and roll; however, by way of his radio show, he popularized it and redefined it. Once slang for sex, it came to mean a new form of music. This music had been around for several years, but Freed’s primary accomplishment was the delivery of it to new—primarily.
Oct 14, 1999 · Mr. Freed -- whose real name was Aldon James Freed -- was a Cleveland D.J. playing mainstream music in 1951 when he eavesdropped on a group of black and white teen-agers who were dancing to a...
Freed is commonly referred to as the “father of rock ‘n’ roll” due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase “rock and roll”, in reference to the musical genre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s.
Albert James “Alan” Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc jockey. He also produced and promoted large traveling concerts with various acts, helping to spread the importance of rock and roll music throughout North America and the world.
Alan Freed, originally an announcer of classical music, became a pop music deejay in Cleveland in the early 1950s and was known to his listeners as “Moon Dog.” His audiences at first were largely black until white teenagers began to hear and like what he…
Despite his personal tragedies, Freed’s innovations helped make rock and roll and the Top-40 format permanent fixtures of radio. Alan Freed died on January 20, 1965. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
Jan 12, 2010 · Radio 2 tells the story of American DJ Alan Freed, including how he coined the term 'rock and roll' and his spectacular fall from grace in the 1960 payola scandal. Show more
