Music Appreciation

ificandream

(10,745 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2024, 03:21 PM Dec 15

On 12/15/21, DJ Alan Freed was born.

He's reportedly the man who coined the phrase "rock 'n' roll."

This compilation audio from Freed's "Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party" from 1957 features Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, The Cadillacs, The Platters, Chuck Berry, The Penguins and Bill Haley and the Comets. Many of the performances sound like they're live.

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On 12/15/21, DJ Alan Freed was born. (Original Post) ificandream Dec 15 OP

As I understood it, Freed popularized an already existing term, rock and roll, Aristus Dec 15 #1

Sounds very likely. ificandream Dec 15 #2

He Got Shafted Over Payola ProfessorGAC Dec 15 #3

Aristus

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1. As I understood it, Freed popularized an already existing term, rock and roll,

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Sun Dec 15, 2024, 03:25 PM

Dec 15

an R&B euphemism for sex, and applied it to the rising new form of music.

ificandream

(10,745 posts)

2. Sounds very likely.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 03:27 PM

Dec 15

ProfessorGAC

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3. He Got Shafted Over Payola

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 05:25 PM

Dec 15

It may have been unethical, but wasn't illegal when he got involved with it.
The conviction in 1962 was pretty close to ex post facto, because the money involved between '60 & '62 was a pittance.
I cut him far less slack on his attempts to give himself songwriting credit for tunes he had nothing to do with.
Drank himself to death at a very young age.

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