" Moondog never actually got off the ground and Quicksand became the band he would front.

Moondog would transition into the more metal-oriented post-hardcore band Quicksand.

The music of Moondog of the 1940s and 50s is said to have been a strong influence on many early minimalist composers.

Several modern musical acts have named themselves after this old-time phenomenon, including Old Crow Medicine Show, Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band, Blues, funk rock band " Moondog Medicine Show, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, and MV & EE Medicine Show.

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 ".

He was most known for his time in the WWF as Moondog King where he teamed with Moondog Rex and won the WWF Tag Team Championship ( then WWWF ) from Tony Garea and Rick Martel in Allentown, Pennsylvania in March 1981.

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.

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

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.

Moondog had an idealised view of Germany (" The Holy Land with the Holy River "— the Rhine ), where he settled in 1974.

The music of Moondog of the 1940s and ' 50s, which was based on counterpoint developing statically over steady pulses in often unusual time signatures, had a strong influence on many early minimalist composers.

Slaughter before selecting Moondog Spot as a permanent replacement, and explained his absence stating King had been hit by a car.

Other composers for viols include Moondog, Kevin Volans, Roy Whelden, Toyohiko Satoh, Roman Turovsky, Giorgio Pacchioni, Michael Starke, Emily Doolittle, and Jan Goorissen.

Eventually, a young German student named Ilona Sommer ( birth name: Goebel ) helped Moondog set up the primary holding company for his artistic endeavors and hosted him, first in Oer-Erkenschwick, and later on in Münster in Westphalia, Germany.

Moondog visited America briefly in 1989, for a tribute in which Philip Glass asked him to conduct the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, at the New Music America Festival in Brooklyn, stimulating a renewed interest in his music.

For ten years no new recordings were heard from Moondog until producer James William Guercio took him into the studio to record an album for Columbia Records in 1969.

The original Trimba is still played today by Moondog's friend Stefan Lakatos, a Swedish percussionist, to whom Moondog also explained the methods for building such an instrument.

These include " Moondog " on Pentangle's 1968 album Sweet Child and " Spear for Moondog " ( parts I and II ) by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff on his 1968 Electric Funk album.

* " Spear for Moondog ( parts 1 and 2 )" by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff on his 1968 album Electric Funk

While in Gorilla Biscuits, Walter went on to sing for the band Moondog.

* In 1973 the Canadian-American rock group The Band recorded " Promised Land " for their sixth studio LP Moondog Matinee.

In the April 2000 by-election in the federal riding of St. John's West, Newfoundland, " Sailor King Moondog White " — a former World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) wrestler — stood as an independent candidate for the Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party.

The Band recorded a version of Henry's trademark song " Ain't Got No Home " for their 1973 album Moondog Matinee.

Frontman / guitarist Walter Schreifels, the main creative force behind the Gorilla Biscuits and bassist for Youth of Today, assembled the band's lineup from his dissolved Moondog project.

He also recorded songs and stories for children, for example, with Julie Andrews ( and music by Moondog ) in 1957, " Songs of Sense & Nonsense-Tell It Again, and a recording called Arabian Nights ' Entertainment.

Moondog inspired other musicians with several songs dedicated to him.

Formed in 2002, the label has released such critically acclaimed compilations as its London Is The Place For Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after the Second World War ; also collections of British folk, Port Of Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx, Jamaican dancehall ; and retrospectives of artists including Moondog, Maki Asakawa, Bettye Swann and Cedric Im Brooks & The Light of Saba.

One of Freed's fans was Bob Smith, a disc jockey who also adopted the Moondog theme by calling himself Wolfman Jack and adding his own sound effects.

In 1947 Hardin adopted the pen name " Moondog " in honor of a dog " who used to howl at the moon more than any dog I knew of.

In an RF Video shoot interview with Eadie and Darsow, Eadie claimed that Colley was replaced because he was recognizable to the fans as the man who previously performed as Moondog Rex.

There, they were taken under the wing of disc jockey Alan Freed, who renamed them " The Moonglows " after his own nickname, ' Moondog '.

In January 1987, Eadie returned to the WWF and formed the tag team Demolition with former Moondog Randy Colley, who wrestled as Smash while Eadie wrestled as Ax.

Burnett was able to secure the rights to the songs by Kenny Rogers and the Gipsy Kings and also added tracks by Captain Beefheart, Moondog and the rights to a relatively obscure Bob Dylan song called " The Man in Me ".

Smith's adaptation of the Moondog theme was to call himself Wolfman Jack and add his own sound effects.

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

Prior to " Moondog ", most R & B music was covered by white artists as most radio stations did not feature African-American artists.

Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin ( May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999 ), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments.

The track " Stamping Ground ", with its odd preamble of Moondog saying one of his epigrams, was featured on the sampler double album Fill Your Head with Rock ( CBS, 1970 ).

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.

Sailor White's campaign slogan was " Parliament needs a Moondog.

Colley was later replaced by Barry Darsow as Smash, after it was discovered that too many people remembered him as Moondog Rex, the character he previously portrayed.

Moondog Spot and Terry Funk's match was next.

" Ed " White ( May 18, 1949 – August 25, 2005 ) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known as Moondog King of the Moondogs when he joined the World Wrestling Federation ( now WWE ) in the early 1980s.

His motto was " Parliament Needs a Moondog ".