Talk:Alan Freed

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message: Who did coin the phrase "Rock and Roll"?
PMelvilleAustin 11:37 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
I've heard that there is a connection between Freed's "Moondog Coronation Ball" and the musician Moondog. Does anyone know more about this? McGravin 00:00 Mar 3, 2004
Yes this correct.  Freed used the name Moondog after he used a piece of music called Moondog Symphony by the street musician Moondog as his repeated opening music for his radio show.  Moondog subsequently sued Freed on grounds that he was stealing his name.  Since Freed was no longer allowed to use the term Moondog he needed a new catch phrase.  After a night of heavy drinking he and his friends came up with the name "The Rock and Roll Party" since he was already using the phrase "Rock and Roll Session" to describe the music he was playing on his radio show.
It should also be noted that it was in fact Freed to coin the phrase "Rock and Roll" to describe a form of music.  It is true that the phrase appeared in many songs before Freed but this did not describe a type of music.  Freed is also credited with popularizing the phrase through his show "The Rock and Roll Party".
--Manik52 08:15, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point and a useful source; OK, have revised the content, mentioning this 1946 use of rock and roll. Note: Alan Freed did not coin the phrase rock and roll; however, by way of his radio show, he popularized it and redefined it. Once slang for sex, it came to mean a new form of music. This music had been around for several years, but… https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Freed Peter K Burian (talk) 22:54, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: "Rock and Roll" and "Moondog"

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & References

message: I find the article a bit confusing. I am sure the Moondog name can from the NY musician but while Freed was on WJW his theme song was "Blues for the Red Boy" by Todd Rhodes (King Records), not the Moondog Symphony. The law suit came after he moved to New York which is not clear at all from the text. 
I listened to the WJW show nightly after he got a free plug from another DJ in Cleveland, Bill Randall. Not sure how to go about verifying the theme song issue.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Russbo (talk • contribs) 21:35, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WJW as opposed to WINS 

message: The article now says "Freed was born to a latin (sic) father...and Welsh-American mother...." I had always been under the impression that he was of Jewish extraction, but even if he wasn't, "Latin" is too broad a descriptor. It needs to be changed. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 03:26, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick Google Books search should convince anyone that Freed was half-Jewish through his Russian immigrant father (his mother was Welsh).  I cannot find any evidence of Latin descent.  Levdr1lp / talk 19:38, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 03:19, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heritage? 

message: Pleeze reformat this section into a table by years.  As currently formatted, information is almost impossible to find.  Also, what happened with the 1959 Christmas Jubilee?  There's only a title.
108.18.136.147 (talk) 14:25, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: "who" is not the appropriate relative pronoun for a store.  If you mean Mintz, put this phrase after his name.  If you mean the store, talk to a teacher of the English language and find out what relative pronoun to use.
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message: Change  "Laraine Newman played the role of Carole King." 
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"Laraine Newman played the role of Teenage Louise, a character modeled loosely on Carole King." 
Zoetmb (talk) 19:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct - done.  Thank you.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:47, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
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