As a New York-New Jersey kid, Alan Freed and Cousin Brucie still groove me. Thanks to "American Graffiti" and moving to Los Angeles in the '70s, I discovered Wolfman Jack, who held court on KDAY. Other great dee jays include Dick Biondi in Chicago, Jack Carney in St. Louis, Dan Ingram on 77 WABC, Real Don Steele on KHJ, Robert W. Morgan on WMCA, Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg on WMEX, and in the late '70s and '80s - KROQ's "Mayor of Sunset Strip" Rodney Bingenheimer. Radio Rules!
The first 2 or so minutes is from just before Valentine’s Day, 1955. They were counting down the “top 25 rock n roll” songs that day. Otherwise, it’s from early March, 1955. Rock n roll was rapidly entering the mainstream then. Freed didn’t “invent” the term-but he popularized it with a larger audience.
Love the live performance by early white doowop group The Three Chuckles ft Teddy Randazzo who hit number 20 in 53/54 with ‘Runaround’ from the Boulevard label... 👍🏼
"the rock 'n roll is just getting started" "Rock And Roll" Bill Moore 1948, "Man Eater" Jay McNeely 1948, "Rock The Joint" Chris Powell 1949, "Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949, "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown 1949, "Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones 1949, "Little Red Hen" Johnny Otis 1949, "Rockin' All Day" Jimmy McCracklin 1949, etc.
Alan Freed was the first to promote black rhythm and blues as Rock and Roll. He coined the term. It had been used before in song but never as the name for the music. Rock and Roll would not have escalated into a phenomenon without him. Rock and Roll was indeed just getting started. In the years that followed it exploded with white and black artists who were afforded the opportunities through Freed's efforts. Artists had played the Rockin' music for years, but it took a visionary like Freed to promote this great black art form to white and black audiences. He was virtually crucified for his part in influencing young people to fall in love with the music. Through his efforts he helped bridge the gap between young white and black kids which helped open the doors for the Civil Rights movement. No less a luminary as Rosa Parks cited Alan Freed as one of the great catalysts who jumped started the movement with his early crusade to bring a color blind musical genre to the youth of America.
It REALLY was just getting started, While the music itself was around years before, it was lumped in with other Black music under the demeaning and thus limited title of "race music" It was thus a niche format (even more than other niche formats, like C&W, Polka or even Jazz) before Freed pushed and promoted it. As a mainstream musical format, 1955 was the beginning.
@@garykupper8961 - Sorry, no. Yo need to check out Hunter Handcock in L.A. in 1948 and second was Porky Ched wick on WAMO 860am in Pittsburgh. Years before Alan Freed.
he was a master at “selling” live copy. I can just imagine all the people who called to order a free home demonstration of those Zenith TV sets with “Cinebeam” picture tubes.
Oh brother. How could anyone say Freed invented rock. He only discovered a faster beat being successful amongst young blacks in Cleveland. It wasn't very good music or successful ontside small circles. He probably got this fast beat music mixed up with regular songs in the black charts. However it was the fast stuff, he pressed home as Rock and roll, that was what found a audience with kids everywhere. After Bill Hayley made the first hit rock song. Freed jumped quick on rock/roll when it became popular. On this program you hear him dissing the movie credited with making rock famous. The songs here are terrible. However they show the faster beat in some songs.
That segment about teenagers still strikes a chord. It really goes to show that young people have always been looked down on by older generations for bullshit reasons.
Older Generations are dismissed by teeneagers as not knowing ANYTHING - when we've already BEEN THERE and want to help them avoid the pitfalls. You're obviously a cocky little "know-it-all" who is going to step in the same dogshit pile WE did, because you think you can't learn from those who've been there before you. You'll learn! We didn't listen to our elders either.
It depends on what decade you were born in. For me it was in the 1950s and I am old enough to remember the 1962 New York Auto show at the New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle and 59th street. The subway, Central Bronx Elevated, and the Myrtle Ave. Elevated and the city bus was only 15 cent! A pizza pie was only 1 dollar!
@@luislaplume8261 My parents grew up in the 50's and loved rock & roll, and I grew up listening to the music they always listened to, but I still never heard of any of these songs and I'd bet they haven't either.
Seems like the more memorable and popular songs were from 1956 and up... Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (The Teenagers)... 1000 Miles Away (The Heartbeats).... Please Say You Want Me (The Schoolboys)... In The Still Of The Night (The Five Satins) were from 1956... You might remember those?
@@HeavenBound1 Yes, that's true. I know all of those songs and artists. And when I saw the movies about Alan Freed I knew nearly all the songs featured in those movies. But when I listen to alot of these old radio clips, I've never heard of most of them. And I even grew up listening to alot of rare oldies and lesser hits.
I was a teen during the late 50s and was not familiar with many of these songs at the time- but thanks to youtube, if you are interested in history- every single song that was ever recorded is on youtube
This airchecks show that Alan Freed MISSED the potential of "Rock Atound The Clock", being sidetracked by the way teeneagers were portrayed in "Blackboard Jungle", of which "Rock Around The Clock" was the explosive song intro.
Could use some photos of him and the groups being played.This guy should have ended up as wealthy as Dick Clark did. Took the big fall,put in an early grave.He was the big pusher of rock and roll.The record companies made plenty because of him. It was like nothing that ever happened before.
WINS has been 24/7 all news since 1965. In fact, this month (March, 2015) is the anniversary of the change. The death knell for WINS's run as a Top-40 station was WABC, which entered the format around 1960. By 1964, WABC was top-rated in the market, and WINS was struggling (I think it even fell well back of WMCA in the top-40 ratings by then). Hence, the 1965 change to all-news.
As far as I know, WJJD-AM 1160 was the first Rock-n-Roll Station in Chicago. WLS was still the Prairie Farmer Station in 1955. WCFL didn't go Rock until 1965. WJJD was a 50,000 Watt Daytime Station, so May 2, 1960 when Sam Holman and Gene Taylor changed WLS to Rock, WJJD a bit later went Country. Think WLS did change on May 2, 1960. You can find it here online. Dick Biondi was at WLS when it changed, I like him. I also know Johnny Holliday, the last Rock Disc Jockey at 1010 WINS. In 2005, me and a crazy girl I was dating broke up, bad break up! Johnny Holliday stayed on the phone with me for a whole hour! Met another girl and married. I'm 56 as of this posting! I did have some 1010 WINS, pre news days airchecks, I'll have to find them.
WINS, WMCA, WMGM, and WABC were all rockin at the same time in the early Sixties. WINS and WMGM went out first, followed later by WMCA and finally WABC. What a time to be listening to radio in the NYC area!
The term Doo Wop did not exist until the late 60s and early 70s. Rhythm N Blues gained more widespread acceptance as a type of musical term when Jerry Wexler, a promoter at Billboard magazine used the term in 1948.
Could someone please tell me when the term Rock and Roll became popular in the mainstream? It is known that he was born in the late 40's and early 50's when southern white teenagers began to buy and dance black music r & b, but when it began to be called Rock and Roll? Since when did teenagers, adults and all over the United States start using the term Rock and Roll? What is the exact date on which the term Rock and Roll became completely popular? Please, I need this information, if someone can help me by answering all these questions I swear I will give you anything for Christmas hahaha: c
On Alan Freeds appearance on a game show, on youtube, he sits there while they say he invented the term Rock and roll and was the first dj to use it on radio 1951. Otherwise it was a term used to express partying and sometimes sex in the black circles. The term became famous with Bill haleys song becoming super famous.
I thought this was common knowledge but in any event, Rock N Roll is a term that black society used as slang for sex and the terms rockin and rollin were quite common in music during the late 40s although it wasnt the type of music that was true Rock N Roll. Freed took the commonly used phrase in the early 50s, and attributed it to the black race music he was playing so that there would be no stigma on the white youngsters who were starting to buy and enjoy this music. The best guess as to when Rock N Roll was firmly established as an accepted term, and became mainstream, in the music business and the culture was probably 1955
This is not what they say. Freed was given the credit but he admitted it was really a jewish record store owner he was closely associated with who decided to use the term for the music. In black circles the term was vague and could be partying or sex. its just about moving around quick. like rocking the boat. its wasn't a stigma. thats left wing propaganda. it simply was black music was no good . if it was it entered the normal charts. lots of blacks were famous in music. it was all error however. The rock and roll only was for the fats beat music. not the regular R/B. Everybody was mixed up.
@@MrRobertbyers Utter nonsense. Blacks were almost always better at R&B than white imitators. The only reason hacks like Pat Boone ever got better numbers than legends like Fats Domino is because radio DJ's would discriminate against black records simply by virtue of race. Time is a fair judge though, which is why those imitators have been lost in the dirt while the true innovators names will ring throughout history forever.
my god
I don't believe I'm hearing this
I was 11 and listened every night.great.
Alan freed, cousin Brucie, wolfman jack. Classic and historic.
As a New York-New Jersey kid, Alan Freed and Cousin Brucie still groove me. Thanks to "American Graffiti" and moving to Los Angeles in the '70s, I discovered Wolfman Jack, who held court on KDAY. Other great dee jays include Dick Biondi in Chicago, Jack Carney in St. Louis, Dan Ingram on 77 WABC, Real Don Steele on KHJ, Robert W. Morgan on WMCA, Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg on WMEX, and in the late '70s and '80s - KROQ's "Mayor of Sunset Strip" Rodney Bingenheimer. Radio Rules!
Thanks for sharing this.
Just to think that my favorite actor , James Dean, who died in September 1955 was still alive when this aired. Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! I have some of him in Cleveland. I didn't have any WINS. I've got some of him at WABCat DAY. He was an innovator.
miss THE KING RB RR MAD DADDY LATER ALAN BEFORE CLEVLAND💯💯💯
Never really heard Freed before. Thanks for sharing this historic recording. The music still rocks!
I was only 6 years old!! Amazing!!
Alan Freed :) Thank you so much for put out this great video !!
The one & only DJ....
Awesome!
The man who brought the sound to town
I would love to hear more air DJ classics shows from the 50's
A bit before my R&R teeth were cut..but a pioneer of R&B..
R&B and doo woop is the true rock and roll
The first 2 or so minutes is from just before Valentine’s Day, 1955. They were counting down the “top 25 rock n roll” songs that day.
Otherwise, it’s from early March, 1955. Rock n roll was rapidly entering the mainstream then.
Freed didn’t “invent” the term-but he popularized it with a larger audience.
Love the live performance by early white doowop group The Three Chuckles ft Teddy Randazzo who hit number 20 in 53/54 with ‘Runaround’ from the Boulevard label... 👍🏼
"the rock 'n roll is just getting started" "Rock And Roll" Bill Moore 1948, "Man Eater" Jay McNeely 1948, "Rock The Joint" Chris Powell 1949, "Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949, "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown 1949, "Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones 1949, "Little Red Hen" Johnny Otis 1949, "Rockin' All Day" Jimmy McCracklin 1949, etc.
Alan Freed was the first to promote black rhythm and blues as Rock and Roll. He coined the term. It had been used before in song but never as the name for the music. Rock and Roll would not have escalated into a phenomenon without him. Rock and Roll was indeed just getting started. In the years that followed it exploded with white and black artists who were afforded the opportunities through Freed's efforts. Artists had played the Rockin' music for years, but it took a visionary like Freed to promote this great black art form to white and black audiences. He was virtually crucified for his part in influencing young people to fall in love with the music. Through his efforts he helped bridge the gap between young white and black kids which helped open the doors for the Civil Rights movement. No less a luminary as Rosa Parks cited Alan Freed as one of the great catalysts who jumped started the movement with his early crusade to bring a color blind musical genre to the youth of America.
It REALLY was just getting started, While the music itself was around years before, it was lumped in with other Black music under the demeaning and thus limited title of "race music" It was thus a niche format (even more than other niche formats, like C&W, Polka or even Jazz) before Freed pushed and promoted it. As a mainstream musical format, 1955 was the beginning.
@@garykupper8961 - Sorry, no. Yo need to check out Hunter Handcock in L.A. in 1948 and second was Porky Ched wick on WAMO 860am in Pittsburgh. Years before Alan Freed.
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@@deaddog5344 Porky Chedwick!!! 👍🏻😃
he was a master at “selling” live copy. I can just imagine all the people who called to order a free home demonstration of those Zenith TV sets with “Cinebeam” picture tubes.
Anyone has a HD link to the Bill Parnell - A Million thanks at 12:54 ??
Alan Freed not only invented the term "rock 'n' roll," he INVENTED the music.
Far from it. The music existed since the late 1940s
Show me a rock 'n' roll song recorded in 1949.
Neither.
Oh brother. How could anyone say Freed invented rock.
He only discovered a faster beat being successful amongst young blacks in Cleveland. It wasn't very good music or successful ontside small circles. He probably got this fast beat music mixed up with regular songs in the black charts. However it was the fast stuff, he pressed home as Rock and roll, that was what found a audience with kids everywhere. After Bill Hayley made the first hit rock song.
Freed jumped quick on rock/roll when it became popular.
On this program you hear him dissing the movie credited with making rock famous. The songs here are terrible. However they show the faster beat in some songs.
Show me a rock 'n' roll song recorded in 1949. "Rock The Joint," Chris Powell, "Rock That Boogie," Jimmy Smith, others.Richard Koenigsberg
That segment about teenagers still strikes a chord. It really goes to show that young people have always been looked down on by older generations for bullshit reasons.
Older Generations are dismissed by teeneagers as not knowing ANYTHING - when we've already BEEN THERE and want to help them avoid the pitfalls. You're obviously a cocky little "know-it-all" who is going to step in the same dogshit pile WE did, because you think you can't learn from those who've been there before you. You'll learn! We didn't listen to our elders either.
I grew up in New York City and never heard of any of these songs.
It depends on what decade you were born in. For me it was in the 1950s and I am old enough to remember the 1962 New York Auto show at the New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle and 59th street. The subway, Central Bronx Elevated, and the Myrtle Ave. Elevated and the city bus was only 15 cent! A pizza pie was only 1 dollar!
@@luislaplume8261 My parents grew up in the 50's and loved rock & roll, and I grew up listening to the music they always listened to, but I still never heard of any of these songs and I'd bet they haven't either.
Seems like the more memorable and popular songs were from 1956 and up... Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (The Teenagers)... 1000 Miles Away (The Heartbeats).... Please Say You Want Me (The Schoolboys)... In The Still Of The Night (The Five Satins) were from 1956... You might remember those?
@@HeavenBound1 Yes, that's true. I know all of those songs and artists. And when I saw the movies about Alan Freed I knew nearly all the songs featured in those movies. But when I listen to alot of these old radio clips, I've never heard of most of them. And I even grew up listening to alot of rare oldies and lesser hits.
I was a teen during the late 50s and was not familiar with many of these songs at the time- but thanks to youtube, if you are interested in history- every single song that was ever recorded is on youtube
This airchecks show that Alan Freed MISSED the potential of "Rock Atound The Clock", being sidetracked by the way teeneagers were portrayed in "Blackboard Jungle", of which "Rock Around The Clock" was the explosive song intro.
Could use some photos of him and the groups being played.This guy should have ended up as wealthy as Dick Clark did. Took the big fall,put in an early grave.He was the big pusher of rock and roll.The record companies made plenty because of him. It was like nothing that ever happened before.
The man who died for Rock and Roll's sins...................
is this Feb 2, or March 2, 1955?
1010 wins is now a 24/7 news
WINS has been 24/7 all news since 1965.
In fact, this month (March, 2015) is the anniversary of the change.
The death knell for WINS's run as a Top-40 station was WABC, which entered the format around 1960.
By 1964, WABC was top-rated in the market, and WINS was struggling (I think it even fell well back of WMCA in the top-40 ratings by then). Hence, the 1965 change to all-news.
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could any one tell me what the first rock and roll station was in the chicago area and the year it started.
As far as I know, WJJD-AM 1160 was the first Rock-n-Roll Station in Chicago. WLS was still the Prairie Farmer Station in 1955. WCFL didn't go Rock until 1965. WJJD was a 50,000 Watt Daytime Station, so May 2, 1960 when Sam Holman and Gene Taylor changed WLS to Rock, WJJD a bit later went Country. Think WLS did change on May 2, 1960. You can find it here online. Dick Biondi was at WLS when it changed, I like him. I also know Johnny Holliday, the last Rock Disc Jockey at 1010 WINS. In 2005, me and a crazy girl I was dating broke up, bad break up! Johnny Holliday stayed on the phone with me for a whole hour! Met another girl and married. I'm 56 as of this posting! I did have some 1010 WINS, pre news days airchecks, I'll have to find them.
WINS, WMCA, WMGM, and WABC were all rockin at the same time in the early Sixties. WINS and WMGM went out first, followed later by WMCA and finally WABC. What a time to be listening to radio in the NYC area!
The king of payola was playing more blues than rock and roll
🌛MOON DOG🌜🌕
Ho Hum songs
the first music was doiwoop harmony and rhythm and blues
The term Doo Wop did not exist until the late 60s and early 70s. Rhythm N Blues gained more widespread acceptance as a type of musical term when Jerry Wexler, a promoter at Billboard magazine used the term in 1948.
So typical of rock and roll that Freed disses the movie that will actually make famous rock and roll with bill haleys song.
friendly frost is long time gone and so did alan freed. he died in 1966
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He died in 1965 in Palm Springs. I saved the obit from the LA Times.
this is a spliced show.....you can buy the complete disc a Bennie Dingo`s Rockit Radio!
Could someone please tell me when the term Rock and Roll became popular in the mainstream? It is known that he was born in the late 40's and early 50's when southern white teenagers began to buy and dance black music r & b, but when it began to be called Rock and Roll? Since when did teenagers, adults and all over the United States start using the term Rock and Roll? What is the exact date on which the term Rock and Roll became completely popular? Please, I need this information, if someone can help me by answering all these questions I swear I will give you anything for Christmas hahaha: c
On Alan Freeds appearance on a game show, on youtube, he sits there while they say he invented the term Rock and roll and was the first dj to use it on radio 1951. Otherwise it was a term used to express partying and sometimes sex in the black circles. The term became famous with Bill haleys song becoming super famous.
I thought this was common knowledge but in any event, Rock N Roll is a term that black society used as slang for sex and the terms rockin and rollin were quite common in music during the late 40s although it wasnt the type of music that was true Rock N Roll. Freed took the commonly used phrase in the early 50s, and attributed it to the black race music he was playing so that there would be no stigma on the white youngsters who were starting to buy and enjoy this music. The best guess as to when Rock N Roll was firmly established as an accepted term, and became mainstream,
in the music business and the culture was probably 1955
This is not what they say. Freed was given the credit but he admitted it was really a jewish record store owner he was closely associated with who decided to use the term for the music.
In black circles the term was vague and could be partying or sex.
its just about moving around quick. like rocking the boat.
its wasn't a stigma. thats left wing propaganda. it simply was black music was no good . if it was it entered the normal charts. lots of blacks were famous in music.
it was all error however. The rock and roll only was for the fats beat music. not the regular R/B.
Everybody was mixed up.
@@MrRobertbyers Utter nonsense. Blacks were almost always better at R&B than white imitators. The only reason hacks like Pat Boone ever got better numbers than legends like Fats Domino is because radio DJ's would discriminate against black records simply by virtue of race. Time is a fair judge though, which is why those imitators have been lost in the dirt while the true innovators names will ring throughout history forever.
Rock 'n' roll was INVENTED by Alan Freed. Everything else you read hear is bull-shit. I was there when the music began.