DJ AIR CHECK ALAN FREED "WINS NYC"

A 90 minute air check (poor quality) of The Alan Freed Show on WINS, New York City in April of 1955. WINS eventually became an around-the-clock Top 40 rock and roll radio station, and would remain so until April 19, 1965, long after Freed left and three months after he had died—when it became an all-news outlet. Earlier, in 1956, Freed had hosted "Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party"

DJ Air Check "Alan Freed, excerpts"

 

Here are several edited excerpts of Alan Freed on the air in the early 1950s. At the end you will hear his brief farewell to fans following the payola scandal of that time. Alan Freed was not the one individual responsible of accepting “payola”, however he was among the many most visibly linked to the promulgation of rock n’ roll. Alan Freed has been credited with being the first to popularize the title Rock n’Roll in relation to this specific music style. On November 20, 1959, WABC fired Alan Freed over the payola scandal, which effectively ended Freed’s career as a DJ and force in the record business. On May 19, 1960, Freed and seven other radio figures were arrested and booked at a police station in Manhattan and charged with receiving a total of $116,850 in payola.

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DJ air check "Alan Freed WINS"

 

A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in September of 1954.. The following January he held a landmark dance there, promoting black performers as rock and roll artists. Within a month, the music industry was advertising "rock and roll" records in the trade papers.

ALAN FREED "1950"

 

Brief show introduction from 1950 of Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965). 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. WVJS (1420 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Owensboro, Kentucky.

DJ AIRCHECK ALAN FREED WJW

 

Alan Freed, the Cleveland DJ credited with coining the very phrase "rock 'n' roll." A 1954 WJW Cleveland recording of the opening of one of the Moondog Shows. (Two minutes). In the late 1940s, while working at WAKR, Freed met Cleveland record store owner Leo Mintz. Record Rendezvous, one of Cleveland's largest record stores, had begun selling rhythm and blues records. Mintz told Freed that he had noticed increased interest in the records at his store, and encouraged him to play them on the radio.

Still under the non-compete clause with WAKR, Freed moved to Cleveland in 1951, having already joined WEXL (channel 9) in the middle of 1950 as an announcer. However, in April, through the help of William Shipley, RCA's Northern Ohio distributor, he was released from the non-compete clause. He was then hired by WJW radio for a midnight program sponsored by Main Line, the RCA Distributor, and Record Rendezvous. Freed peppered his speech with hipster language, and, with a rhythm and blues record called "Moondog" as his theme song, broadcast R&B hits into the night. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freed