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Alan Freed  Radio Disc Jockey. He is known as “The Father of Rock and Roll” for his efforts to promote that music style. Coining, Alan Freed, The Righteous Brothers, 1950s Music, 50s Music, Chuck Berry, British Invasion, Disc Jockey, Rhythm And Blues

Radio Disc Jockey. He is known as The Father of Rock and Roll for his efforts to promote that music style. In March 1952, as an emcee of a television program on rhythm and blues records for TV station WXEL in Cleveland, Ohio, he referred to the new music sound as rock and roll, thus being the first to coin the term. ...

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“…When disc-jockey Alan Freed put the needle to Todd Rhode’s ‘Blues for a Moondog’ (aka ‘Blues for The Red Boy’) on Cleveland radio’s Station WJW, something special happened…. Freed made raucous rhythm & blues accessible to the teens who dared tune in to this forbidden ‘race’ music… Some say this… was the birth of Rock […] Alan Freed, Tragic Hero, Rock Around The Clock, American Bandstand, Take Money, Chuck Berry, Disc Jockey, Black Music, Rhythm And Blues

“…When disc-jockey Alan Freed put the needle to Todd Rhode’s ‘Blues for a Moondog’ (aka ‘Blues for The Red Boy’) on Cleveland radio’s Station WJW, something special happened…. Freed made raucous rhythm & blues accessible to the teens who dared tune in to this forbidden ‘race’ music… Some say this… was the birth of Rock […]

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