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.

When Beck visited he found only Eli Freed, a 79-year-old farmer who moved to the area from Chicago.

Freed of the stigma of " adults only " but deprived of advertising income, the Barb went out of business within a year and a half.

Freed both adopted this name and used a recorded howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character.

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.

Alan Freed had originally called himself the Moondog after hearing the name used by an experimental street musician in New York City.

In 1954, he won a case in the New York State Supreme Court against disc jockey Alan Freed, who had branded his radio show, " The Moondog Rock and Roll Matinee ", around the name " Moondog ", using " Moondog's Symphony " ( the first record that Moondog ever cut ) as his " calling card ".

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.

On a trip back to New York in 1958, he met Alan Freed who advised him to change his name, so Johnny Ramistella had the Baton Rouge attorney Arthur J. Cobb

Alan Freed came up with the name " Little Anthony ".

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.

Born Adele Eleonore Freed in Reykjavík, Iceland, under the stage name Valda Valkyrien she was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet.

Freed used an African-American accent and with a Rhythm and Blues record called " Moondog " as his theme song, broadcast R & B hits into the night,

*" Make ' Em Laugh ," considered an original song, but bearing close relation to Cole Porter's " Be a Clown ", used in another Freed musical, The Pirate ( 1948 ).

Guitarist Audley Freed, formerly of Cry of Love, joined prior to the recording of By Your Side but was not included in the recording sessions.

* Rick Burnett's TwinCitiesRadioAirchecks. com Site has an old 1980's recording of KBEM's weekend disco format with Alan Freed, as well as other historical recording a nd photos of Twin Cities radio stations.

Freed, Diablo offered a potion to the Thing that would turn him halfway into a human, and in exchange for Ben's services for a year, he would give him the other potion that would finalize the change.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

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.

* Big Beat Heat ( Alan Freed and the early years of Rock & Roll ), by Jackson, John A.

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 ' 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.

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.

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.

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.

Among its early and famous personalities included disc jockeys Alan Freed and Murray " the K " Kaufman.

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

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

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

Freed from the constraints of a small budget, Stanley effectively utilized atmospheric locations in Namibia to merge plot and character with sound and vision.

The first actor to portray Columbo, Bert Freed, was a stocky character actor with a thatch of grey hair.

Fresh off her role in The Asphalt Jungle, Hagen read for the part for producer Arthur Freed and did a dead-on impression of Holliday's Billie Dawn character, which won her the role.

" 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.

Freed from his addictions, Manuel was initially in his best shape since the " Big Pink " era.

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 ).

I had an awful feeling that I was a tremendous flop " but the picture did well and, in the face of much internal resistance, Arthur Freed of MGM picked up the other half of Kelly's contract.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

Freed from his obligation in the east, Napoleon then went back to the west, as the French Empire was still at war with Britain.

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.

During the inauguration ceremonies, however, neither Freed nor Pei was recognized for their role in the project.

) In 1939, Freed was hired as associate producer for the film Babes in Arms.

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.

It opens by saying " This one's for you Alan Freed " and then states "' Cause the things they're doing today would make a saint out of you ," implying that Payola corruption is bigger now than it was in the ' 50s.

Cleveland lobbied hard to be chosen, citing that Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed is widely credited with promoting the new genre ( and the term ) of " rock and roll ", and that Cleveland was the location of the first rock and roll concert.

Freed from its military function, Pamplona could lead the process of industrialization and modernization in which Navarre was involved during the 20th century, especially during its second half.

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

With the birth of rock and roll and its promotion by disc jockeys such as Alan Freed, a new interest was taken in the unrestricted superpower airwaves that were available in Mexico.

Freed legally to release albums, Black Flag was re-energized and ready to continue full steam ahead.

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.

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.

The Jordans were featured on several Alan Freed stage shows and were mainstays on all the important East Coast TV programs, especially in the Tri-State area. Their biggest hit, in 1966, was " Gimme Some Lovin.

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

Freed was born to a Jewish father, Charles S. Freed, and Welsh-American mother, Maude Palmer, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.