In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

It was also the year in which Pei's firm changed its name to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, to reflect the increasing stature and prominence of his associates.

Arthur Freed, the producer of the film, also wrote and performed one of the songs.

Radio DJ Alan Freed was also initially buried in Hartsdale until his ashes were moved to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

In addition to singing, Baker also did some work with Ed Sullivan and Alan Freed on TV and in films, including Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock & Roll.

Albert James " Alan " Freed ( December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965 ), also known as Moondog, was an American disc jockey.

Facing increasing scrutiny, in the summer of 1978, Jones also hired noted JFK assassination conspiracy theorists Mark Lane and Donald Freed to help make the case of a " grand conspiracy " by intelligence agencies against the Peoples Temple.

Nelson wrapped up the 1990s with another urban gangster thriller, Light It Up ( film ) ( 1999 ), which featured an ensemble cast including R & B singer / actor Usher Raymond ( in his first leading role ), Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker, and Vanessa L. Williams ; he also played Alan Freed in the latter's life story, Mr. Rock ' N ' Roll: The Alan Freed Story ( 1999 ) opposite Mädchen Amick and Paula Abdul.

He also wrote all the music for The Hollywood Revue of 1929, as credited in the closing credits of the production, with the exception of " Singin ' in the Rain " with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown.

The arena was also the site of the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert on March 21, 1952, organized by Alan Freed.

This brought her to the attention of choreographer Robert Alton – who had also discovered Gene Kelly – and soon she joined the Freed Unit at MGM, where she became the resident MGM ballet dancer.

The film was an immediate follow-up to the earlier Rock Around the Clock, which had also starred Haley and Freed.

The band also began to use another long-time friend, Wes Freed, to produce the band's signature style with his cover art and posters.

Whitty is also an actor, having appeared in New York productions of plays by Amy Freed, including The Beard of Avon and Freedomland, as well as small roles in the films Garmento, Lisa Picard is Famous, and a cameo in Shortbus.

He also provides the in-game voice for the characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol, as well as Freed Velez in Battle Fantasia.

He also appeared on New York City's " The Big Beat " with host Alan Freed.

The original version also serves as an unofficial tribute to the history of rock and roll, as at the beginning of the song, it has an archival sample of Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed introducing his show on WJW, The Moondog Show before suddenly seguing into the intro to " Cleveland Rocks ".

Freed from a small Chinese fan, also sent by Tasuke's father.

At one point he owned the rights to the phrase " rock and roll " itself, which had become widely used after its use by Levy's friend, Alan Freed, and was also known to add his name as songwriter to the credits of many of the artists recorded on his label.

Craft also introduced them to the DJ Alan Freed, the man who first coined the term " rock and roll.

Since 2005, ILUGD has also been organising Freed. in ( formerly " FreeDel ") to popularize FOSS tools and philosophy.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

The story of a girl being groomed to be a courtesan by her grandmother made Freed doubt making it as a straight drama would be acceptable to the American censors, so they " cleaned it up " and turned it into a musical.

Around 500 Freed Jamaican slaves made the journey to Freetown in 1800 through the Sierra Leone Company.

Freed from the geographical constraints of the mountains, the Reds made rapid progress, capturing Chelyabinsk on July 25 and forcing the White forces to the north and south to fall back to avoid being isolated.

" From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel ; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools ; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest ; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil ; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history ; made possible the settlement of a continent ; and ultimately Freed our country of foreign domination.

The film is jokingly regarded as the first ( and only ) M-G-M musical made at Paramount Studios since Roger Edens was the producer, Stanley Donen was the director, and quite a few of the staff members under the Arthur Freed Unit at Metro ( including Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger, and Skip Martin ), along with Astaire and Kay Thompson, were brought over to Paramount to make this film.

The Freed family made several improvements, including the installation of new dressing rooms and a general overhaul of the swimming pool in 1949, a rebuilt fun house and the introduction of the " Dodgem Cars " and the " Lakeshore Express " miniature diesel train in 1951, and a new Ferris wheel in 1953.

In 1954, he starred in the TV series Mayor of the Town, in 1959 starred in 39 episodes of the TV series " Glencannon " and in the early 1960s originated the stage role " Columbo ", later made famous on television by Peter Falk ( Bert Freed played the part on live television before Mitchell portrayed Columbo on stage ); Columbo was Mitchell's last role.

Breck made his debut in a film produced by Bert Freed that was eventually released under the title The Beatniks.

Washington Post critic Benjamin Forgey highly praised the Pei Cobb Freed design when it was first made public.

The novel was made into a movie in 1954 starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and featuring Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Bert Freed, Moroni Olsen, Gladys Hurlbut, Madge Blake, and Walter Baldwin.

Arthur Freed, producer of musicals at MGM, was impressed by Edens and soon made him integral to his production team, which was rapidly growing and featured many of the greatest talents, recruited by Freed himself.

Freed built a cabinet around himself, and in the early 1940s made Edens associate producer.

Freed had been given part of the writers ' credit by Chess in return for his promotional activities ; a common practice at the time.

Freed helped to promote the group during their early years and, in a common practice of the day, often took a co-writer credit as compensation for his efforts.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

Rock music has a long and honorable radio tradition going back to DJs like Wolfman Jack and Alan Freed, and as a result variations on rock radio are fairly common.

Rock music entered the mainstream during the 1950s because of controversial white DJs such as Dewey Phillips, Alan Freed, Dick Clark and Wolfman Jack with an appreciation for black music.

* 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term " rock and roll " and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it.

Before the efforts of Freed and others, black music was taboo on many white-owned radio outlets, but artists and producers quickly recognized the potential of rock and roll.

Freed began referring to the rhythm and blues music he played as " rock and roll ".

Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit " You Were Meant For Me ".

To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R & B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as " Jocko " Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's " Dr. Jive " ( Tommy Smalls ), the " Moon Dog " Alan Freed, and Nashville's " John R ." Richbourg, who later became his mentor.

Disc jockey Alan Freed had played a role in the transformation of black rhythm and blues into rock and roll music, and originally called himself the " Moon Dog " after New York City street musician Moondog.

Freed not only adopted the name but used the recording of a howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character since he was featuring African-American music that was getting a great reception from America's White teenagers.

Rock and roll music was first identified as a new genre in 1951 by Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Alan Freed who began playing this music style while popularizing the term " rock and roll " to describe it.

They wrote the screenplays for Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway ( which reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ), and then adapted On the Town for Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, scrapping most of Bernstein's music at the request of Arthur Freed, who did not care for the Bernstein score.

He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an " architect " and a " key inductee " along with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed.

* July 11 – Disc jockey and music promoter Alan Freed broadcasts his first Rhythm and blues radio programme from station WJW in Cleveland, Ohio.

Freed uses the term rock and roll to describe R & B, in an effort to introduce the music to a broader white audience.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock ' n ' roll " due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll ", in reference to the musical genre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s.

In the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock, Freed tells the audience that " rock and roll is a river of music that has absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, rag time, cowboy songs, country songs, folk songs.

Musicians credited with playing the music for the film are Ben Freed on banjo, Mieczyslaw Litwinski on Jew's harp and guitar and yodeling by John R. Crowder.

In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase " rock and roll " to describe the music.