Alan Freed and some doo-wop
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2008
- Alan Freed was probably the best known disc-jockey of the 50s. His biggest success was in NYC. He also promoted and MC'd several live concerts. Most of these shows had concert programs that you could buy. These are very hard to come these days. I borrowed several covers to these programs from the official Alan Freed website for this slide show.
the good ol days of rock and roll!!!!!!!!!!!!
brings you back to a better time,great sounds,cars and attitude and people talked to eash other.
My dad still has his Alan Freed programs!
Second song is Mine All Mine by Bobbie Smith and The Dreamgirls from the BigTop label
1. Alone In This World - Five Trojans
2. Mine All Mine - Bobbie Smith and The Dreamgirls
3. Guardian Angel - Camerons
4. Should I Cry - Concords
5. Come On Baby - Cordovans
6. Continentals - Fine Fine Frame
Brooklyn Paramount and The Time Square Fox
The 50s What a time to be a teenager!
I was lucky enough to go to the show that the first program depicts. Pretty sure it was the Labor Day show of 1959. I was 10. Wish I could have gone to some of the others.
Thanks very much for putting these posters up, and for the very cool sounds. Thanks also to my uncle for bringing me to the show.
Love it Love it Love it!! I wish I could of been alive back then!! thanks for posting :)
The voice of my youth was certainly Alan Freed
It Would Have been Wonderful, had he waited until 1969 for the great Rock & Roll Revival Period (1969 thru 1973). It would been an unprecedented comeback for him !!!
God Bless "The Father Of Rock & Roll"............May He Rest In Peace in Rock & Roll Heaven !!!
ALAN FREED COINED THE PHRASE ROCK N ROLL . HE WAS THE BEST DJ
Skvělý člověk,průkopník rock and rollu!!!!!!! Thank
Right, right, and right...My grasp of musical history is very strong...Are you afraid of the truth?
I don't believe this site I still have these programs from the shows.Wow 12 or 15 acts plus a movie and cartoons for 5 bucks those were the days
True and true.
Freed the greatest
Now thats Music unlike the crap of today.
HELLO, second song played is caled "mine all mine " Bobbie Smith and the Dreamgirls - Bigtop Records it was also done same version by the Royal jokers -Atco records- she's mine all mine if you search you tube youcan find both versions in full great song by the way !!!!!
ERIK VONDERLIETH
LOL! Exactly!
AF was THE man
johnandlat - you are so right. Loved those days. And, the shows at the Brooklyn Paramount were fantastic! I, too resented the attempt to use white artists to cover the good stuff. Hard to believe it was so long ago.
I heard that when Alan freed came to LA he wanted to promote rock ‘n’ roll shows with the radio station he was working at in allowing to Bad
Well don't sacrifice a vital organ lol, but I can tell you that I was 16 years old when I went to see my first Rock n Roll show at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. It was Alan Freed's Christmas Show. I also listened to him as a younger teenager on WINS Radio in New York. You can watch a movie right here on You Tube in multiple parts from 1956 called Rock Rock Rock with Alan Freed and many of the acts from the 50's in that movie. ua-cam.com/video/_XSOMTg3ZTQ/v-deo.html Enjoy :)
Hardly. Alan Freed was just an opportunist who happened to capitalized on a growing tend. He claimed songwriting and publishing rights on things he never did, he took advantage of singers and situtions for his end. He was a classical music man who saw money being made hand over fist in the devolping R & B industry. There were many DJs all over the country that played and promoted R & B. I've studied music history and have written about it for 40 years, I've studied this subject a lot.
@nepatsaz Freed did NOT coin the term "rock and roll". That term had been around in music LONG before Alan Freed. There were also many other DJs across the country who played R & B and early rock and roll music at the very same time as Freed. Freed was just a good opportunist and knew a good thing when he saw it and took advantage of it.
Sometimes it takes an opportunist to make great things happen. Alan Freed made great things happen, even if he made a few mistakes. There was a bad curse on the great rockers of the 1950s. Army Elvis, Buddy and Eddie dead, Chuck in jail, LR to the Lord and JLL in disgrace. Freed went down about the same time.
We don't want to go into the phrase "rock and roll" and describe what it's an adjective for, do we? ; )
there were so many one hit wonders during the great doo wop era. Alan Freed was the great hero who saved us from Pat Boone and Frank Sanatra forever,lol he also saved black artists from having their songs always being covered by white artists
Freed was an early promoter of the early Moonglows. IMO Porky Chedwick had a better taste in music.
The term "doo wop" is revisionist history. Alan Freed NEVER used the term. It was known as ROCK 'N' ROLL.
He was a disc jockey of the Fifties but sociologically, he did more to promote racial equality and usher in the radical changes of the Sixties than any of his contemporaries- a shame he died a broken man.
I never said that Alan Freed had any power to keep white artists from covering black records. Alan Freed stopped playing covered songs on his radio show. Please read comments and stop seeing what you only want to see
"He saved black artists from having their songs always being covered by white artists" sounds a lot like you think he had control over the music industry. Freed had no problem, early on, with playing white acts. He played Bill Haley in 1953, but by '56 stopped playing him. Why? It was still rock and roll. Wasn't that what he was supposed to be about? Or was it because he couldn't get his hooks into music writing and publishing from the white acts, like he could with the black ones.
Wrong, wrong and wrong. Your grasp of musical history is astoundingly weak.