As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

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

Freed from smoke and dirt, the living room thus began to serve as an area for social functions and increasingly became a showcase for the owner's wealth.

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.

Freed from the traditional and more-restrictive judging rules of the late 1960s, corps began making innovative changes such as the use of multi-valve horns, wide-ranging tempos, intricate asymmetric drill formations, elaborate guard costumes and props, and the use of stationary orchestral percussion instruments.

Freed had to apologize and stop using the nickname " Moondog " on air, on the basis that Hardin was known by the name long before Freed began using it.

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.

Freed from external disputes and career guidance, he began to fully indulge himself and his core fanbase with a variety of projects.

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.

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

Because the honking tenor saxophone was the driving force at those shows and on many of the records Freed was playing, the authors began their list with a 1944 squealing and squawking live performance by Illinois Jacquet with Jazz at the Philharmonic in Los Angeles in mid-1944.

According to liner notes in the CD reissue of the film's soundtrack, Freed and Minnelli sought input from black leaders before production began on the film.

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.

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 musical sound of the Doo-wop vocal groups and the rockabilly singers who emerged in the 1950s.

Freed up, she began to write about her family, abuse, sex, focusing on the work not the audience.

Freed of the masks and now under management of former referee " The Godfather " Teddy Long, Doom began to prosper.

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.

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.

His primary interests at the time focused on baseball, American history and rhythm and blues, his musical interests being influenced by his early friendship with Alan Freed.

Alan Freed, a former American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music, signed them for two movies, Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock and Roll.

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

In their introduction, the authors claim that since the modern definition of rock ' n ' roll was set by disc jockey Alan Freed's use of the term in his groundbreaking The Rock and Roll Show on New York's WINS in late 1954, as well as at his Rock and Roll Jubilee Balls at St. Nicholas Arena in January 1955, they chose to judge their candidates according to the music Freed spotlighted: R & B combos, black vocal groups, honking saxophonists, blues belters, and several white artists playing in the authentic R & B style ( Bill Haley, Elvis Presley ).

A hint of what was to come came in 1958 – 1959, when for a time legendary rock and blues disk jockey Alan Freed hosted a daily evening show on WABC which was formatically ( sic ) and musically like the early rock shows he had gained fame with on WINS.

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.

Freed also made a practice of presenting music by African-American artists rather than cover versions by white artists on his radio program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 character of Columbo had previously been played by Bert Freed in a single TV episode and by Thomas Mitchell on Broadway.

Freed one year later, he played a prominent role, as vice-chairman and acting chairman of the illegal Executive Committee of the SDAP, and as a prominent participant in secret interparty consultations.

While Freed was in high school, he formed a band called the Sultans of Swing in which he played the trombone.

Freed wore a rumpled suit and smoked a cigar to play Columbo, but played the part with few of the familiar Columbo mannerisms.

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.

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.

In 1956, Weld played the lead in Rock, Rock, Rock, which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette.

The previous year, Bobby Spencer had written the " My Boy Lollipop " pop song shuffle for Barbie Gaye, which was played by Alan Freed and secured Barbie Gaye a spot in his 1956 Christmas Show opening for Little Richard.

In the rock and roll movie Go, Johnny, Go ( 1959 ), Vigran played an assistant to promoter Alan Freed and performed dialogue scenes with rock legend Chuck Berry.

Edie's racist feelings are revived by Ray, with whom she had committed adultery, and he convinces her that Wharton played her for a " chump ," and that she can make up for her past infidelity to Johnny by contacting Beaver Canal club owner Rocky Miller ( Bert Freed ) and telling him about Johnny's death.

In this movie, he played alongside Freed, Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, and The Treniers.